I've had the privilge of visiting MAPS on multiple occasions. Right now (9/24) they have a P-47 Thunderbolt, F-7U Cutlass AND a F-104 Startighter awaiting restoration.

My Great Great Grandfather's Monoplane

❤❤❤❤❤ my uncle was in the 320th 444th in north Africa.he flew the A model and one X model. All short winged. Said he saw 390 in a dive. They kept a nonpainted waxed A model that would 'true out ' @340 to fly escorted to Gilbralter on the twice weekly liquor run ! Doolittle said they were the best pilots of the AAF

The Cougar was one of the first Revell plastic models I built in the mid 1950s. The first one was the Bell P-39 Airacobra in the US Army AF brown livery. I still have both and many others. I have a soft spot for those early generations of jet fighters.

Thanks for this 👍✈️

Oh wow I've actually been to your museum probably 10 or 15 years ago. I have family in NE Ohio and we go back every summer. We usually fly into CAK and one year we actually all drove over and took a tour. Was really cool

My Great Grandfather built this. Really proud of him.

Thank you for your service Brother. I know the horror you lived. 3rd Battalion 3rd Marines, SSGT 68/69 Oorah

It is very powerful listening to this interview. I can’t imagine what these men went through.

Our leaders failed us.i hope that history don't repeat

My favorite plane.

What does "torn down" mean?

No Sound ❤

My father, Wilbur Snyder told his memories of watching William Martin launching his glider down the hill behind the barn.

This was a neat video on the airframe that I worked on for the USMC and VMAQ-3 (which spawned from VMAQ-2 Det Y). However, you did get the year wrong of when VMAQ-2 transitioned over to the Prowler. You stated it was 1997, however, it was 1977.

It looks so happy

Douglas builds them to last

This video was very well researched. No glaring historical flaws or even minor ones as far as I can see. Good Job!

This video really needs to cover the phase lag aspect pf the rotor assembly. Because of the gyroscopic effect, a pitch change in the cyclic produces a force that occurs 90° later in the rotation. If you wanted to tilt the rotors forward, you would move the cyclic forward but the blades would pitch up 90° before the rear or 6 O'clock position (pitch up occurs at the 9 O'clock position or left side relative to the pilot). This causes the rotors to tilt up at the 6 O'clock position or 90° after the pitch change occurs. This may cause confusion as it isn't very intuitive, but it's still a critical aspect for flight in a rotary wing aircraft.

Among the best videos available on subject in YT.

ought to use 3-dimensional illustrations

Damn!! now i wanna build one😅😅...

Nice short history of not often mention air defense mission!!🤔 Jman

I teach Aeronautics and I want you to know that your STEM videos are great! I am using them in 2024 with my classes. These are college-level classes!

Thank you bro

Excellent. I love being in a chopper but I'd never want to fly one (maybe, okay, if I was 20 and had faster reaction time and more coordination. My math would stop me cold, however.)

Such a great and educational presentation. RIP to all those who died in Vietnam.

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My Father (Lawrence J Klein) flew the A-26 quite extensively. Here is his history for that time frame of his life: March 1952: Finished tour with the 53rd Troop Carrier Squadron and transferred to the 452nd. Bomb Group (L) A B-26 (Douglas) Night Intruder outfit at K-9 Airfield (Pusan East) Korea. On or about May 1952 the 452nd was deactivated and we were reactivated as the 17th Bomb Group (L) *Note: The “Douglas B-26 Invader” was re-designated “A-26” in 1956. Not to be confused with the Martin B-26 Marauder, used extensively in World War 2) March - September 1952: Flew 55 Night Intruder Missions. Awarded a couple of Air Medals and a D.F.C. (Distinguished Flying Cross) September - December 1952: Temporary duty to Miho AB Japan. Flew B-26 maintenance test flights.

At 14:25, the schematic is a Dehavilland Chipmunk.

😭 Promo-SM

Bill was a great guy. I visited him and his Triphound in the early 1990's on a trip to OSH from VA. We stayed in touch for some time after that.

Used to love the F-101 performances at airshows, in Canada, and the hard light afterburners.

I'm sorry but I can not find anything on the A 4 Skyhawk ever being a product of Grumman?! it is a Douglas aircraft and later McDonnell Douglas. I'm surprised there are no comments posted here about this error, perhaps they are being deleted out of embarrassment?

Nice to hear that 139947 found a good loving home! I visited the museum at Chanute in 2013 and have a number of photos of the aircraft. The museum at that time clearly could not provide sufficient care for their impressive collection. As a former USMC Skyhawk technician, it brings me joy to see that it has a new coat of paint and even the "elephant ears" panels on the upper portion of the horizontal stabilizer have been replaced! My photos of 139947 are on flickr. A simple search for the BuNo will pull them up. Thanks for the video and providing care for an aging aircraft.

Awesome explanation and graphics

Just a swinging

Thank you a lot

Still used today as a better back helicopter used all the way for the cops all the way to bed back all the way shipped to shore rescues the helicopter is number one still used today used in the movies as well still is a number one helicopter being used for lumber hauling to farming spraying is still being used in today it's part of the number one helicopter probably the number one helicopter in use for cargo to bed back to hospital er in all the way up to auxiliary Coast guard all the way up to the US Navy use for MP LP and other uses navy to day VA state police use to day 2023

The F-100 was the last hurrah for the stovepipe jet plane layout.

Though one of eight American military nurses who died while serving in Vietnam, Sharon Lane was the only American nurse killed as a direct result of hostile fire.

I was the Army company clerk at the 312th Evacuation Hospital, SP5 Robert W. Gregorchuk who had the sad duty to enter "KIA" (Killed In Action) into the hospital company's 'Morning Report'. My office sided with the hospital ward adjacent to the Quonset Hut ward where Lt. Lane was killed. The early morning rocket attack occurred about an hour before I reported to work. When I arrived at the Orderly Room office I noticed that my metal desk and the wall behind where I sat at my typewriter had been blasted by fragment damage. Timing, sorry to say did not favor 1st LT Lane as it did for me.

can I get the pressure of nose tire?

my Dad owned several pt-19s in the late 40s, he told me many times as a kid growing up, that a pt-19 would make very mournfull screams while doing aerobatics like no plane he heard before, has anybody else heard this?

I have a friend that did 2 tours in Iraq in D models. A troop 7/17 cav.

I think they have a Marine Corps version of this at MCAS Miramar. They moved it and the museum from MCAS El Toro CA

This is not 100% accurate. Because of the phase lag of the rotor blade.

Non Flyable restoration, correct?

I don't like the nose of the 8P. I prefer the earlier, non-photographic nose!!!