As a Geographic Information Systems professional who is into ham radio and cycling, this is the coolest freaking thing I have ever seen in my life. I came across this after reading a blurb about you in an old Mondo 2000 book. What an amazing sense of pure creativity and engineering capability.

The BEHEMOTH is one of the most baller bikes ever built. What an epic adventure! Thanks for sharing Steven K Roberts!

I remember being fascinated with this as a child. Amazing what humans can come up with.

Thank you for preserving Navy aviation history. F-14, gone but not forgotten.

Great to stumble upon this video! I was a purple hat of 2nd WOC, class in 1971 and even though I washed out after 16 hours, I'm glad to have been at Wolters and fly the "little bird 55". It was near the end of the war and many of us were held in Snowbird status, waiting to enter a flight. I always wondered how life would have been had I finished and gone to Rucker. Thanks for the memories. I can almost hear the sound of rotor blades coming out of the main heliport.

Very cool! Love these old segments showcasing your work and advancements.

WOW! TIME LAPS.

There is no plane in history as iconic as the F14 Tomcat.

cool to see. i moved to seattle oct 28 1998. i expected to stay 2 years. got involved with kalakala restoration. welded many patches and we set up makeshift foundry on car deck by bow doors to cast replacement parts. now kalakala is gone but i’m still here. go figure. great service to history to post this footage. thx!

Thanks

I went to Wolters in 1968 and was in the TH-55 class 68-35 and graduated at Rucker 68-518. In 1970 I returned to Rucker as a TH-13 Instrument Instructor, the flew a Huey as an IFE Instructor before I got out in 1973. I flew the 55 as an Instructor working for the contractor and later as a Primary DAC giving flight checks until I left in 1981 and went to work for the FAA as a Aviation Safety Inspector giving flt checks in both helo's and airplanes to include jets (B-737). I stayed in the reserves until 1994 and retired with 26 years. I retired from the FAA in 2005 as the Manager of the Orlando FSDO as a GS-15 with 37 years federal service. I continued flying as a DPE until 2017 with over 10,000 hours flight time. I would not have traded any of this for anything.

Amazing video. Thank you. I lived there from 1974 to 2008. 🌴🎶💃

The nomadic pioneer! More people should know about your trail blazing. 73! KI7ZRI

Thank you so much for preserving this demonstration! It's very informative

Your interview on the Phil Donahue Show was fascinating. You were so far ahead of your time as a freelancer and mobile technologist. Most don't realize how much of your tech then fits into a pock or small back today.

僕もショウバイショウバイの時の逸見さんが大好きだぁーーー😂😂😂

My sister sang at this event back in the day ❤

67-23, ha! Ft Polk 10Feb67, left there for Ft Wolters I guess April? Left Ft Wolters for Ft Rucker 30Sep67 for 67-503. Graduated Rucker 12Mar68 then to VietNam 1st CAV. Thanks for the fun memories.

Cool, Nature recordings on DAT, then sold on cassettes and am assuming CD. Dublin Ohio's CD factory was one of just two CD factories in the US in 1989. My wife worked there. She came home one day and told me her boss just pushed a two million dollar machine into the pond they and the Dublin Police Dept. shared at their facility on Post Rd. It's still there I imagine.

Grown up in the 80 and 90s there was a neighbor whose name was Don Eaton. He probably passed 25 years ago. Lived in Menifee, CA.

That bell is very annoying and detracts from your video.

And it's NOT pronounced "KALA KALA." It's KaLA-KaLA. Like KalakaLA............ONE WORD.

I urinated on that "L" Station!

No seatbelts, but Jesus and Mary are there. Just in case you need to pray.

The stunning look of 1080p !

Plastic Jesus ya gotta go. Your magnet's messing up my radio. Out the window plastic Jesus goes.

Pretty cool thank you👍🏽

Even by 8mm standards - thats bad.

My dad went out of his way to drive us down it when it opened.

I don't care if it rains or freezes As long as I got my plastic Jesus Sittin' on the dashboard of my car Going 90, it ain't scary Cause I got the Virgin Mary Sittin' on the dashboard of my car I'm in the back seat sinnin' Jesus up there grinnin' Sittin' on the dashboard of my car Green, white, pink or yellow I don't care cause he's my fellow Sittin' on the dashboard of my car

There it is the plastic Jesus protecting you🥰

Awwwwww

where was this calverton?

Class 71-14 TH-55 Orange Hats. Thanks for the memories !

The 2 engine plane in background a Beach aircraft? Great video!

I still cant believe the Navy used the tf30 for so long. It was a bad choice for the F-14. But it was a great engine for the F-111. Go figure. Thank you veterans for your service!!!🇺🇸

why did they retire this?

That is real cool

First try out flight and partial pressure suits OMG

When combat jets looked sexy 😂

Undoubtedly one beautiful airplane.

It looked like there was more test pilot than flight suit on the backseat guy.

Great upload thank you

...went to Rucker in the summer of 1975 for 67N school...fun watching the Wobbly candidates running/doubltiming everywhere...bout a TH 55 Attack Helicopter T shirt t H at I had for years...

Long Island The cradle of Aviation for sure

If he could rebuild the Behemoth recumbent these days. The computer system would be so small now. I remember when the Behemoth was featured in I think Bicycling Magazine. I went nuts over it. I now ride a two wheeled recumbent. But I do not have nearly the equipment on mine.

RIP Grumman test pilot Bill Miller

I don't suppose someone digitized some of the weapon separation tests from Tomcat prototypes 5 or 6? I've got the tins of the films from the Naval Missile Center but they sadly only had the bare reels inside.

I’ve been watching videos from the “한울공작소 HanOul-Workshop” channel here on KZbin. It’s nice to see the process explained.

What an amazing film, Steve. It’s a real time capsule for that period of time. Thanks for sharing it!