This is the sign off I remember as a kid from KVVU TV 5 in Las Vegas, NV in the early '80s while it was owned by the Carson Broadcasting Company. Ahhh, the memories. I have been searching for this video for over 20 years, THANK YOU for posting it, and for using all the footage as it was aired, not just the portion of the poem from takeoff.
This was the sign off for channel 9 in northern Virginia/Washington dc area.my brother and I couldn wait till Friday and Saturday night because it wasn't a school night we were allowed to stay up to see it.
Same I remember this version and the older T-38 version....Born at Providence Hospital lived in DC, Arlington & Alex...that saudade nostalgia and longing.
I don't remember seeing this as part of a station signoff. I just remember reading part of the poem in a Bloom County comic strip. Opus didn't have much luck trying to fly, as I recall.
@@pegbars What did you want Snoop dogg or something? This is sound adds to the era. I used to sit in F-4s and the new F-16s in maintenance because my dad was in in charge of it Can't do that now with the F-35s or in the last 25 years.
EricEbac22 Robert Conrad was also Pappy Boyington in "Baa Baa Black Sheep" and was a team captain in the old & silly "Battle of the Network Stars" back around 1981 or so.
@Great8Earthquake Have to bear in mind, the P-51 was flying against a highly trained German air force with top of the line equipment, with a very large fleet at that. The F-15 was up against poorly trained third world air forces who couldn't hit the broad side of a barn, and don't fare quite so perfectly in exercises against well-trained opponents.
great upload. thanks. does anyone know which style of music this is, title name, artist, who wrote it, who put it together? any info is welcome. thanks again.
My favorite High Flight version. The late 70s feeling is so nostalgic 💗
Beautiful. And. Nothing. Could compare. To. This. Wonderful. Poem johnny
This is the sign off I remember as a kid from KVVU TV 5 in Las Vegas, NV in the early '80s while it was owned by the Carson Broadcasting Company. Ahhh, the memories. I have been searching for this video for over 20 years, THANK YOU for posting it, and for using all the footage as it was aired, not just the portion of the poem from takeoff.
This reminds me when I was a kid in the early 80s and I would see this just before the cartoons started on Saturday Morning
William Conrad had an amazing voice.
The best narration of this poem is the T-38 version!
This version of High Flight was used as part of the sign-off of KCRA-TV in Sacramento, CA.
The Su-27 can't mess with this!
The wouldn't even dare 😉😎
I have a 35mm print of this William Conrad version. We used to run it at our drive-in theatre at intermission.
still have it / for sale?
I've always wondered when things like these would be shown. Its propaganda like stuff. I've just was curious. Thanks
Is that really him? lol
This was the sign off for channel 9 in northern Virginia/Washington dc area.my brother and I couldn wait till Friday and Saturday night because it wasn't a school night we were allowed to stay up to see it.
Same I remember this version and the older T-38 version....Born at Providence Hospital lived in DC, Arlington & Alex...that saudade nostalgia and longing.
Awesome aircraft.
BLESS YOU FATHER, LORD
Cool plane.. thanks 👍🇳🇿
I don't remember seeing this as part of a station signoff. I just remember reading part of the poem in a Bloom County comic strip. Opus didn't have much luck trying to fly, as I recall.
流れてる BGM好き
my dad did not see this. as he was not american, but i like it because of its 80s feel despite its realise in 1979. a year near the 80s
Oh the beautiful Eagle
Sounds like inspector Cannon from the tv show
Or Jason Lochinvar McCabe from the other tv show 🤣😁
Hey this is Luke AFB ,I sure wish the '15's were still around
I was there in the 80s to early 90s
The music was God Aweful!! love the T-38 version when i was a kid
1979... it reflects the contemporary commercial music of the time.
@@pegbars What did you want Snoop dogg or something? This is sound adds to the era. I used to sit in F-4s and the new F-16s in maintenance because my dad was in in charge of it Can't do that now with the F-35s or in the last 25 years.
Awesome 1970s music.
this is narrated by william conrad who also narrated the opening credits on the first season of the "buck rogers" programs
Don't forget playing Jim West in the TV version of "Wild Wild West" back in the late 60s and early 70s.
EricEbac22
Robert Conrad was Jim West, not William Conrad. William was "Cannon" and "Jake and the Fatman".
Captain Ned Ah; I had no clue about that.
EricEbac22
Robert Conrad was also Pappy Boyington in "Baa Baa Black Sheep" and was a team captain in the old & silly "Battle of the Network Stars" back around 1981 or so.
Captain Ned"Baa Baa Black Sheep"; never heard of that before, though I have heard of a miniseries called "Black Sheep Squadron".
@Great8Earthquake Have to bear in mind, the P-51 was flying against a highly trained German air force with top of the line equipment, with a very large fleet at that. The F-15 was up against poorly trained third world air forces who couldn't hit the broad side of a barn, and don't fare quite so perfectly in exercises against well-trained opponents.
Used as early Sunday morning filler programming (probably to satisfy weekly Public Service requirements) in the early-mid 80s on WJZ-TV Baltimore.
The WUSA Channel 9 Washington DC version only picked up after 2:49
I remember both this one and the T-38 version followed by Meditation and finally the Star Spangled Banner then sign off... doesn't seem so long ago.
Pre-flight sounds like '70's porn music.
@Great8Earthquake You, Sir are, are completely, irrefutably and exactly correct.
This must be a 49th TFW F-15A. See the 'HO' tail marking at 0:44?
It doesn't deserve one yet ;)
great upload. thanks. does anyone know which style of music this is, title name, artist, who wrote it, who put it together? any info is welcome. thanks again.
@Great8Earthquake f-15 was fight with only 3-th generation aircrafts as had support as AWACS...
F-22 Raptor version!
@Great8Earthquake F-15 obviously.
They tried the same thing(video)of an F-117,for the '90's,but it sucked!
F-100 PW 100 Engine Unified fuel controls and AB blow outs every day.
....part of the KCRA 3 Sacramento signoff. RiP Bill Conrad (Cannon, the Fatman!)
William Conrad.
High Flight National Broadcasting Company - 1996
Hardly. This was produced by the DoD.
02:55 ✈️👍
Just skip to 2:14.
what a way to totally screw up a wonderful poem!!
That's horrible music.