Cold War Air Defense

[@anchorbait6662]

Dear lord I love this KZbin channel. Thank you all soo much for the work!

[@taofledermaus]

Sadly, I don't think they read the comments.

[@stevenlarratt3638]

Such an understated channel

[@brucerobinson7295]

Nice it's great to get these stories on tape like the veterans of ww2 they won't be here forever this way they will be remembered thank you for your service stay the course Bruce

[@56hueycobra]

Thank You 🙏 USAF Captain 👨‍✈️ David Wensley For Your Service to Our Country Sir.🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@darkofc]

Thanks for this personal insight from era!

[@robinwells8879]

Never ceases to amaze me how these benign looking yet wonderful characters have such awesome tales to tell. The manned laboratory rockets that he skips lightly over were I believe top secret early spy camera satellite missions. No hint of bragging about what by anybody's standard is a wonderful career.

[@gillespiejason4554]

Thanks for recording these lectures guys!

[@philbyd]

Always a treat when a new presentation is made: thanks heaps

[@mickmckean7378]

Some good stories from Captain Wensley, back from the good old days of flying. This is such a great channel, excellent work everybody involved!

[@eatcommies1375]

Always looking forward to new presentations from Great American Patriots. Thank You!

[@johngisbourne7197]

wonderful channel, lots of great infos. thank you folks!!!

[@nhra7110]

outstanding presentation!

[@Bryan-cs9to]

Thank you for this wonderful channel.

[@viesturssilins858]

Amaizing, thank you!

[@SuperBowser87]

Awesome channel!

[@n7565j]

Wonder if this gentleman ever got to work with Mr Bob Hoover? This was the golden age of flight, speed was king, and these gentlemen were quite literally the tip of the spear! These folks are real men risking life itself for the defense of our great nation!!! Thank you to them all!!!

[@wampa56]

I flew a 180 12hr. flights out of Newfoundland in a super Connie radar plane which was an extension of the ground radar that ran from the western US to Maine, there was three lines of defense known as pine tree line, mid Canadian line, & the DEW line, we extended the east from Newfound to the Azores, a plane took off every 3 hours as one landed ever 3 hours this was every day regardless of weather. The Super Connie was a beauty loaded with radar equipment; we did visually see Russians trawlers 3 miles from shore, which was the limit in those days, however, we had a super fast plane that caught them with antennas up spying on us. I was a radar operator.

[@12gauge1oz]

Fantastic. Another great American.

[@rubenpizarro4061]

Amazing channel!

[@anchorbait6662]

Intro: 1:30 I feel sorta bad for the wonderful 3 or 4 people that are trying to do her job. I hope they feel inspired rather then degraded. I love all the people who comment. This is in my top 5 list of 'must subscribe to' channels.

[@johngisbourne7197]

so what are the other four? aircraft related channels? fire away sir!

[@SathishSathish-yv8qh]

Sweet he took us with him.

[@Ronishere]

I remember the F-86 and F-86D model aircraft. The Air National Guard Base in Fresno had them along with T-33's. I remember the Fresno Bee paper coming out with an article on the use of SAGE (Semi Automatic Ground Environment) system on the 86D. The thing I hated most about the 86D was the use of rockets. They were not guided. You shoot them and hope they hit something. Being a high school student back then I can remember B-36's coming overhead. Don't ask me about SAGE because I didn't understand much of what I read anyway.