Discovery Channel Wings: Reconnaissance and Intelligence Aircraft

[@sourabhhirau6958]

I remember when I used to watch Discovery channel Wings back in somewhere around 2001 or 2002 when I was 9,10 years old. Discovery Channel- Wings and EXTREME MACHINES were my favourite shows in entire TV channels and shows. I first saw the F117 plane and the B-2 Bomber plane on Discovery Channel and I was so fascinated by their single wing like design, that I was inspired and decided to become a mechanical engineer in those days only. Discovery kids was also my second favourite show.

[@kerozi58]

1:30 Pilatus Britten-Norman Defender Recon AEW w/Skymaster 6:16 Grumman E2C Hawkeye 9:50 USAF EC135 from KC135 Boeing 707 11:27 E3 Sentry 14:00 E4B Boeing 747-200B JumboJet 15:45 Grumman EA6B Prowler Intruder Vers. 18:30 Grumman EF111A Raven 21:10 Grumman OV1 Mohawk Vers. 22:45 F4 Phantom II Unarmed Tactical Recon Reform 25:30 Northrop RF5E TigerEye 29:13 Harrier GR5&GR7 32:40 USAF F15E & F16 37:00 Lockheed TR1&U2R 39:10 SR71 Blackbird YF12A & A12s

[@Normal1855]

I was stationed at Alconbury, between 1988-90. They were phasing out the F-5, and getting the A-10's.

[@sourabhhirau6958]

Documentaries and science films and shows were the best on the Discovery Channel.

[@clearingbaffles]

At 9:58ish I didn’t realize that Looking Glass RC-135’s were also refueled or is that V hanging from the tail area an antenna? Thanx from the left coast near the Krapitol of California

[@allandavis8201]

A wonderful look back at the spies in the sky, if this is the standard we had during the recent years,(recent to me anyway) you have to wonder what we have available in the “sneaky beaky” arsenal of today, we all hear about drones and satellites but that is what we are allowed to know about. Most of these systems were in use during my 20+years in the RAF, and seem like the equivalent of a modern home PC, and knowing the advances that were coming into service when I retired I have to wonder what there is still to be invented. Thanks for a great upload, from a time when Wings was a real documentary/history channel, and no dam reality shows. Perhaps I am showing my age but to me these years from the sixties to the turn of the century were a different (obviously) age, an age where things were more clear cut, we knew who the enemy was and political correctness was when a politician actually managed not to lie. What I would have given for a back seat trip in an SR-71, just to experience its speed and see the curved horizon from the edge of space, alas that can never be, I bet the Blackbird pilots never got sick of seeing such a awesome view from their office window.

[@robinwells8879]

Love the guns ho period music!😂

[@AckzaTV]

at 5:00 that music is so fucking cool while they show that 1980s touch screen radar display

[@IrishMcScottish]

Let that sink in. Touch screens in the 80's lol iPhone #1 was like, 2006? Whatcha think they're playing around with now?

[@markhobson4219]

Wonderful Best of the Best.......

[@agentorange153]

Sights and sounds of my childhood! :'-)

[@feeshtacos]

I laughed so hard when he said the harrier was quiet and hard to spot ... You can hear that thing coming miles away ... d:(

[@jimbo99ful]

Much like MTV then.

[@clearingbaffles]

Damn computer voice Saviet Union no I didn’t misspell it that was the way it was pronounced by the computer but I waited just to see Maq 3 aircraft

[@rodneydaub3812]

that's a human narrator. Just very computer like

[@Normal1855]

Why would the enemy need to spy? They can just watch shows like this.

[@USNRaptor]

Check out the Great Planes - Wings database to find links to other similar videos at myplace.frontier.com/~usnraptor/Great_Planes

[@allin4395]

Music is so bad on these vids

[@AckzaTV]

bro are you kidding me? The music is INCREDIBLE! kids LOVE this shit now its 80s VAPORWAVE A E S T H E T I C

[@Onizukachan915]

I detect a millennial, possible zoomer.

[@Chirsstimson]

nonsense, I have sold many units of my port a potty 's with such music.