NATO Ministry of Information video thread

Hangar Flying
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Yeah, I only ever saw 2 or 3. And that was just briefly, maybe a week or three.

Holloman at the time (late 70’s, early 80’s) saw all manner of things. Nothing like Edwards or within the NTTR I’m sure, but the combination of several LONG runways; a chip shot to huge land & airspace areas (the USAF did LIFT/IFF there for a bit; I got my first T-38 ride then).

From A2A missile tests; "MIG"s from Nellis; F-117’s (at night only, disguised as 'A-7’s); SR-71’s sometimes; rocket sled test facility (that looked like fun!); space shuttle; etc. Only in retrospect did I appreciate how much military aviation ‘stuff’ I saw there (and other places) during that time.

It was one of those 8-shades of brown places. It grew on me.

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1894

They also tried the Rolls Royce Dart Turboprop engine in the Cavalier Mustang. The engineers behind that idea should be prosecuted!

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1895

I think…if the above would’ve had conventional gear they might have done it - tail-draggers weren’t sexy enough? And things with prop’s were so 1940’s that it wasn’t going to ‘fly’. Most likely a financial turf war tween the Army and Air Force, with the latter winning.

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1896

Several topics within one video but this sub-section was fun:

New channel to me.

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1897

Wash your mouth! Nothing sexy ever flew WITHOUT conventional gear!

(Well maybe the F104. But only “maybe”)

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1898

I put a gif in outraged response.

But i like you Eric. So I’ve deleted it :joy:

Even though you are wrong…

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1899

The SAAB J 35 Draken, with a nosegear AND tailgear…!

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You have been corrected.

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1900

Ah heck. I can handle the occasional gif. So long as it’s not from The Office.

(Queue the Dwight Schrupps)

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1901

not a good couple of weeks for th RAF

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1902

Me catching that LITENING pod like

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1903

Yeah, I know it’s war thunder but- hear me out…

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1904

Note - from Chris Bolton’s twitter feed

Boeing NB-52A launching an X-15. The oldest B-52 in existence, this is the third “A” model built. This is one of two B-52s modified to carry the X-15 rocket plane.

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1905

Man, there’s some memories of growing up on SAC/USAFE bases. Swap those eagles for 135’s and it’s a dead ringer.

1906

Have y’all seen today’s F-35A crash video yet?
(Edit: happened in Alaska)

Glad the pilot made it out. I have not seen such a weird crash yet. It looks like it came down vertically, tumbling, gear out. I have no clue what might have happened. Reportedly that was after the break turn or something. Maybe FCS fail.

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1907

Hope that’s not the one dcs is simulating :grinning:but in all seriousness it’s good that the pilot got out ok …and that it crashed in open land with nothing near

1908

Yeah, that looked weird… Seems to me that the jet is falling from above the parachute? May be an illusion, but it could mean that it flew on upwards after the pilot ejected, and then stalled out and went in… It does look like it’s in a spin or superstall or such. Going to be interesting to hear what this was about.
And yeah, good thing it was just the hardware that got bent.

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1909

It looked to me that the plane was above the parachute too.

Wheels

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1910

Eielson AFB news conference about it.

1911

Not sure if this has been posted before, but incredible.

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1912

Spin testing the Viggen in the 70’s.

First part is narrated in Swedish, but you can forward to 14:50 to see the SAAB video, narrated in English.
Some pretty cool shots of a Viggen model in the NASA Langley spin tunnel too…

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