Discovery Wings: Combat Aircraft of the Future

Discovery Wings: Combat Aircraft of the Future

[@TralfazConstruction]

Very stirring theme music. I always believed that the Wings theme was so close to Alexander Courage's work on Star Trek: The Next Generation especially when I was trying to whistle one or the other. I once recorded a Wings Marathon centered around the 4th of July holiday in the late-'80s. Of all of the lost VCR treasures I wish I could recover it would be these five or six tapes to convert to digital.

[@rmandiou1]

I use to watch this show religiously as a kid. Like how middle aged women would watch Oprah, I would watch Discovery Wings.

[@rjs1jd]

Nice to HEAR!! 👂👍👍👍👍🤙🤘👋👏👊

[@randybaumery5090]

Exactly!!

[@marcuscorder]

oh man, a look back to my childhood.

[@ryansanico6539]

Miss watching this on the Discovery Channel Channel 25 my child hood.❤🇺🇸👏👍🤘🤙⭐⭐⭐⭐🇺🇸

[@BigDaddy-yp4mi]

Channel 14 fr me. TLC was 36.

[@rjs1jd]

At 8:17 dont you love that techno new wave 🎶 MUSIC!!!!!📀📀📀📀📀📀📀📀📀📀📀👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@andrewlambert7246]

What supprises me about Saab was that they didnt know that the aircraft industry had moved on to creating aircraft with the help of computers. They got a chock when they saw what the British could do on their computers regarding design of aircraft.

[@FN_FAL_4_ever]

If Congress back then only knew what laid ahead with the F-35 program, they wouldn’t have complained so much about the B-2 program costs.

[@Booyaka9000]

If Congress back then only knew what laid ahead with the F-35 program, you'd have WAY more F-22s.

[@FN_FAL_4_ever]

Booyaka9000 I have nothing to counter that argument, nothing.

[@felix25ize]

@@Booyaka9000 Craptor

[@theenchiladakid1866]

Thy did know, thy had just bought a Yak-141 and given it to Lockheed

[@russell7852]

Its funny seeing the osprey in this vintage video and today it's got a belly mounted minigun

[@kimfutrell4994]

love it when a 45 minute video starts repeating odd slices of itself 20 minutes in...

[@printer1105]

The guy uploading this is a total ahole.

[@zyoungson]

this is the real back to the future.

[@therichardking4242]

This is a video version of a book from the mid 80's I remember reading as a kid.

[@uttammahatta3293]

What is the name of the book?

[@ranchoth]

@@uttammahatta3293 Likely Bill Gunston's "Future Fighters," by my guess.

[@RedLP5000S]

I loved this series!!!

[@truonghthe]

or warn them not to halt the F-22 production.

[@Booyaka9000]

@@Nighthawke70 they didn't destroy them. It's all been disassembled and stored.

[@Nighthawke70]

@@Booyaka9000 That's a relief. That makes it far easier to restart production if the need arises. The F-22 will be around for decades.

[@codycampbell4728]

a little late butt highly doubt they destroyed em. waiting for congress to make it legal to sell f22s.( Which likely wont be until we have an aircraft that makes the 22 obsolete) all to recoup f35 costs lol

[@digranni128]

Obrigado por postar o vídeo.

[@proREFbrder]

Such a great episode!

[@davep5227]

I wish I could see the day when they make a vectored thrust F-16! But I know i won't at 52 year's sort of hanging in there 🤣. I won't see it. Would beat anything though, block 70 tech

[@machstem6390]

Miss this show. The f16xl shoulda got built. But noo.. i really think they killed it cause it looked to mich like European fighters

[@andrewlambert7246]

Why that F16xl was never put into manufacture was/is a mistake.

[@ojthesimpson35]

I wish I could go back in time and warn somebody not to dump our countries entire future into the failing JSF project.

[@johnstevenson1709]

It's had problems but it is developing into a superlative aircraft a genuine world beater I'm glad the UK bought in at the ground floor

[@deetjay1]

I'm seeing one of these above my house, in the future...Drone tech? If they develop scale size "Hellfire", and "Amrams" to go with it...better start ducking now...

[@Joelontugs]

Fly by wire the future lol

[@marcs990]

Hate it going to ads them popping up in a totally different subject🤬

[@marcs990]

Jacob Zondag I will thank you now. Cheers mate

[@RedLP5000S]

Fast forward to the end, then hit replay. All ads disappear.

[@caitgems1]

This is ancient technology.

[@mrmudskipperaf8971]

Did they know about the SU-47

[@AvengerII]

No, the Su-47 wasn't even started until the mid-1990s. This program was produced in the late 1980s or early 1990s. By then, the US and its allies knew FSW was NOT the way to go. FSW's are a pain the butt to build. They have to be built precisely or the wing will catastrophically tear itself apart in the air. They couldn't build a supersonic FSW for years because nobody figured out how to do it without the aircraft being horribly overweight! Metal would just not work and would rip apart at high speeds. There was at least one FSW business jet built but it was nowhere near as ambitious as the X-29 was in performance. There's controversy about how well the X-29 really performed. In general, it seems like it was more efficient with the FSW BUT the flight computer dampened the performance of the X-29 (roll and pitch under normal flight) so much that it really wasn't that much better (it appears) than most fighters of the time. The fact of the matter was that they modified an F-16 and an F-18 to do high angle of attack tests and maneuvers well beyond the norm. That pretty much helped destroy the case for building an FSW fighter if conventional/swept wing planes were reaching fantastic high angles of attack and doing abnormal maneuvers without "reinventing" the wing. That F-16 and F-18 had thrust vectoring nozzles but that actually came later after the YF-22 was planned to use them. The YF-22 design (which had vectoring nozzles like the production F-22A) was frozen around late 1986/1987 but the first experimental thrust-vectoring plane (F-15 SMTD/STOL) didn't fly until 1988! By then, the only thing that benefitted the YF-22 team was finding out thrust reversing nozzles were NOT worth the additional effort. The experimental F-15 had miles of cooling pipes to cool down its nozzles (to keep them from melting!) and it was simpler to build a bigger speedbrake in the YF-22 to meet the runway landing requirement than use thrust reversing. In any case, they never retrofitted or built an F-16 or F-18 in service or made them new on the production lines with thrust vectoring because they found vectored thrust was of limited use in most of the plane's performance envelope. Thrust vectoring nozzles add additional weight and complexity which is generally not worth it except in extreme situations which pilots are trained to stay out of!

[@Booyaka9000]

Ooh, so close. The Su-47 program was actually started in 1983. The West didn't hear about it publicly until a few years after the wall came down (around '95/'96).

[@Booyaka9000]

Simple reading and comprehension is still beyond you, huh, Foobs? Ask a responsible adult to read it and then explain it to you. I guess it's the only way you'll learn...

[@fragmaka]

I guess Russia didn't exist when this video was made

[@babylynpenaranda2873]

Too many airplane designs. Not enough enemies to warrant economical production of all of these. F-16 and F-15 forever. Let them illuminate the enemy planes and then F-22 and F-35 will shoot them and they'll never know where it came from.

[@terrybigler3690]

who the hell provides the lame background musuc

[@VassilliHD]

This came out in 88-89. Pretty high tech for the time

[@FN_FAL_4_ever]

DeWolfe music library

[@joeg5414]

watch something different if it bothers you that much