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The YB,-60 simply was a unique airplane. Convair was teetering with the XB-36 "Peacemaker" fuselage, but modified it with large "swept back" wings and the tail plane assembly. It was to be powered by eight P&W J-57 turbojet engines, pairs of two underwing just like the B-52. Boeing was already developing the B-52 "Stratofortress" to replace the existing B-47s. Only two YB-60s were ever built. One of the two was used for flight testing while the other airplane was for ground testing. I must say, this was a quite an impressive design that did not succeed, unlike the B-52, which was mass-produced and excelled all the way to this very present day.

Damn thats cool

Completely badass. Born too late.

One of the more unusual airfields in my logbook - 1976, flew low (ish) level from Perth to Woomera - it's a long way.

I was in an f4 squadron on Forrestal

No wait this was an F16 i saw this video

Bernard we sure shall miss that man as kiespijn

What year were the Essex carriers converted to angle deck? utilizing side elevators etc

About a dozen A4s still flying but the rest, long gone, indeed some of these didn't even get to get Tri-Service Designations. But oh my, can you smell the future? Just think, 10 yrs earlier these carriers had F6Fs F4Us TBDs etc.

I was on 1982 cruise VF-103

There was no A-4D Skyray. When he says it, it is showing a Skyhawk. This guy keeps mixing up the two different planes, the A-4D Skyhawk and the F-4D Skyray, showing videos of each randomly alternating. Again, they were two DIFFERENT planes.

The Cutless aka Gutless was a death trap. I believe it killed 25+ pilots (test and regular).

crazy to see that A-4B out there when all the rest are absolute museum pieces now. Skyhawks still goin strong👏🏼

I think the second Phantom II prototype still exists. It's marked 142260. It's the F-4 airframe that set the ultimate speed record for the type in 1960. It flew over 1700mph, or about Mach 2.62 It's supposed to be part of the San Diego Air & Space Museum collection. It's in storage waiting to be restored for display. I imagine that plane has NOT been worked on for over 40 years now! It's in the island annex location, not the main SDASM building in Balboa Park. The original Phantom II prototype was destroyed during a test flight in 1959. The A-models (45 built) and the second prototype were retired by the mid-1960s. They were never going to be deployed as frontline planes and they were surplus to requirements. They had so many B-models in service and the Navy started receiving J-models by 1968(?).

My god how many terrible aircraft other than the Skyhawks can you have on the deck at once. Run for your life everyone!

thank you so much

The Navy could only land the Phantoms on a carrier so many times due to structural fatigue, then they gave them to the Marines.

Carrier is the late USS Forrestal CVA-59. MARDET 06/05/1965 - 09/14/1967...Semper-fi !

The Navy had a lot of unsuccessful jets in the 50's.

Today is the 69th anniversary of that first flight

Kind of the American mosquito

My father was an industrial engineer at the GE ,Fort Wayne, Indiana bomber engine plant who was heavily involved in turbo-supercharger division Production

Looks like they were using both water injection judging by the black smoke and Jato (the white smoke trail)

The "Gutless" didn't get the engines it needed, but it did ultimately influenced the plan form of the wonderful F/A-18. Likewise, the Demon and the Phantom. I knew two guys who'd flown Demons before they got F-8 Crusaders. As much as the F-8 was an "adventure" to trap at 150+ kts, they preferred it by far to the F3H. I knew several others who'd flown the Ford and loved it. Ed H. =knew= airframes.

The best!

Gutless..

I stood about 50 meter west of the last camera position. The Spitfire disappeared into the clouds within seconds after it left the formation.

Odd how everything works better on paper

Music added to these films is like a bad David Niven movie.

If The Demon had 2 engines it would be awesome.

A beautiful oddity!

July 13, 2020----Thanks for the video. I'm sure many have heard/seen photos of Germany's Luftwaffe '46 aircraft. Let's say the over heating problem and getting a higher speed were solved. This would make a counter point, calling it a Army Air Force '46 scenario.

1:43 "the armament consisting of six 37mm compensated cannon..." probably lucky for the Wehrmacht & the IJA/IJN that McDonnel didn't get it quite right!

Interesting background music. A common type for that era. You can now understand why that generation went batshit crazy when rock and roll came out. Like going from meat and potatoes to Mexican.

was für eine Shit-Qualität einem zugemutet werden kann. Zuerst habe ich geglaubt,dass meine Brille angelaufen ist. Aber NEIN ,es war das Video selbst ! Besser nichts ,als sowas.

Army Air Force back when the air force used to have balls

Beautiful!

The F4D and the F8U used the same engine. The F4D Skyray was built for one purpose: to launch off a carrier deck and get to altitude quickly to intercept a Soviet bomber. It did this and still holds records. It was the only Navy aircraft that could climb vertically while accelerating. It was retired because the Navy could no longer afford single mission aircraft. The F4D and the A4 were both designed by the Douglas genius, Ed Heinemann.

No hard points? What’s this things BR?

Couldn’t they have found a better music score

Music sucks

Neat.

Oh, for God's sake, who picked the music?

The sr71 prototype shape, take a good look at it from the front!!

June 21, 2020---Thanks for the video, but wondering about modelers and 3D printing. I know there was a vaccuform kit of this aircraft made MANY years ago. Then at least 5 years ago on a modeling website, saw a guy who 3D printed a 1/32 scale V-1. Yeah, everyone not only oohed and awed, but wanted to know how much he'd charge to print them one. When I saw it, I knew 3D printing would have a major impact for a lot of modelers. Imagine someone 3D printing this aircraft in 1/72nd scale, but with EVERYTHING as part of the printing. Separate canopy, interior, etc. I'm 67 and TRYING to learn 3D CAD and to those saying it's easy to learn, they're LYING!

Beautiful aircraft, just at the end of it's era. We have worked all the bugs out in the systems! Now lets scrap the whole thing and start with these new jet engines.

IT HAD LONG RANGE, BUT EVERYTHING ELSE WAS SUB-PAR Maximum speed: 405 mph (352 knots, 650 km/h) at 25,000 ft (7,600 m) Cruise speed: 270 mph (235 knots, 435 km/h) Range: 2,385 mi (2,074 nmi, 3,837 km) Service ceiling: 37,400 ft (11,400 m) Rate of climb: 2,600 ft/min (12.7 m/s) Wing loading: 53.4 lb/ft2 (260 kg/m2) Power/mass: 0.12 hp/lb (0.2 kW/kg)

Too bad it was a blowtorch. On paper, it had great potential. Imagine this coming at you with 6 63 mm cannons or 12 50 cal mgs. Awesome. Burned like a firecracker!!!

One VERY cool item on this bird: Counter-Rotating Props. No torque effect. Brilliant. A'la P-38. Bet it was a great flying plane.