Fort Worth Aviation Museum Aircraft Display Museum Tour

Jim Hodgson gives us a tour of the aircraft on display at the Fort Worth Aviation Museum. This place is really cool, you get to go right up to the planes and touch them.

[@justforfunaviation6342]

I had no idea this was in my backyard. I definitely need to plan a visit. Thanks for sharing !!!

[@ErikJohnston]

You should!

[@robbyowen9107]

Thanks Erik! Always love going out to the Fort Worth Air museum! Hopefully you’ll be able to do an update video when YF-16 #2 goes on display.

[@gunndish]

Great job Erik. Learned quite a bit about some legendary airplanes. Flew in an O-2 once, while in Fallon, spotting my Royal Mace brothers as they dropped Mk76's. Always thought the OV-10 Bronco was a very bad ass aircraft. I spent 14 years of my Navy career as an Ordnanceman in A-7E squadrons (both Enlisted & Commissioned) and though that was many moons ago ... I somehow recall (though I no longer have access to the TAC manual) that a max load of Mk82 bombs (500 lb. high explosive, general purpose, thermally protected and thermally coated) was limited to 28 bombs, as memory serves. In all my days I never loaded one up to that capacity, nor did I ever see one loaded ... except in the photo of a VA-86 Corsair flying over Jacksonville, FL carrying a max load of inert Mk82 bombs that were painted to appear as though they were live. (That's another story altogether) We once loaded 4 each, Mk84 (2000lb bombs) on one ... I don't know if the pilot miscalculated the weight, or if they F/D crew didn't pump enough steam and didn't provide enough end speed off the catapult ... but, at the end of the stroke, off cat 3, that Corsair sunk out of sight! My sphincter puckered hugely, as I watched intently over the angle ... though rudder shaker had kicked in ... that tough old bird managed to stay aloft and climbed back up to altitude. He later trapped, Winchester. The driver ... one of my best friends to this day, told me after he had recovered, "Gunner, at the end of that cat stroke, I had one hand on the stick and the other on the ejection handle." God that aircraft was an ordnance haulin' mofo!!! Thanks again for the memories ... "The Very Last West Pac Corsair Gunner"

[@msromberg]

Very interesting / well done walk-around tour. Makes me want to visit

[@airmanfirstclass3535]

Wonderful presentation, Jim. All the aircraft we've only ever read about now coming to life. And pristine camera work too

[@davecrupel2817]

The T-37 looks like it could be a cozy little private plane today! I love how low to the ground it is.

[@robw3027]

Great tour- thanks. Excellent narration. You have some wonderful aircraft there. In particular the RF-8 Crusader, A-7 Corsair II Vietnam Vet, the two seat F-102 and the Vietnam Vet Sea Stallion helicopter.

[@scotabot7826]

Very informative, Thanks. Never knew that about the F-111. Very interesting.

[@powellriver100]

What an enjoyable video !

[@Xynudu]

The guide did a great job. Nice camera work too.

[@fw1421]

xynudu Very knowledgeable gentleman. Thank you for your enthusiasm. I live in Fort Worth and have never been to your museum. I plan to remedy that soon,once the wet weather goes away.

[@n7565j]

Wish those planes could talk... Outstanding video, thank you all for preserving our Aviation History!!!

[@capablanca5611]

This host knows a lot, great presentation, very fun thank you.

[@notthatdonald1385]

I spent a lot of time building up/installing/rigging throttles on F-14 motors. Got to work the F-111 a few times as well when it became the EF-111. OV-10 Cal. Fire version is next on my modeling bench. Excellent presentation.

[@vinniemoreno704]

Great job pops.I love to see these great veterans.

[@Vekurus]

Man, I have to visit this place! Living in Keller for the past 5 years and never knew this was there.

[@kiereluurs1243]

Nice to watch this virtual tour of almost the entire collection. I could even follow it in Google Earth, though planes were positioned differently. Funny to see it is a 1 housing block yard.

[@ibrahimbo880]

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[@reecedarwin7956]

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[@c130lm7]

Great presentation Jim, thanks!

[@mattdaugherty7865]

Would love to visit this place someday! Very cool!

[@tedk2814]

very cool, thanks a lot. I grew up at Warner Robins AFB and always enjoyed looking at war planes.

[@angelabennett-engele1977]

Hey, everyone! Yes, please come visit us! We are at the south end of Meacham Field (3300 Ross Avenue Ft. Worth); we have so much to see! Due to COVID, we are only open on Saturday's from 9-2; but please make time to visit! Thank you for sharing our videos! We've been thinking out-of-the-box during COVID and decided to do bi-weekly videos, so we drop new videos via Facebook Live, and then load them onto You Tube, every Wednesday and Saturday at noon. Look us up and follow our You Tube channel and our Facebook page! FORT WORTH AVIATION MUSEUM! Thank you so much! Angela Bennett-Engele President, OV-10 Bronco Association

[@ponz-]

Great video! I’m not from the area so it was cool to see what you guys have at one of your museums

[@stevenozias9294]

I was with VA 72 in "69-70" the A7 only carried 32 bombs on the MER racks .. The reason was that the inside bombs on points 3&4 did not have bombs on the inside points cause they might eject into the side of the plane.. Really nice display.. Keep up the good work

[@anthonybennett3434]

thank you for a very informative tour i really enjoyed it

[@victorbailey6233]

Have lived in the Fort worth area for over 30 yrs and didn't know about the air planes

[@codered5431]

Thank you 😊 for great video

[@altonwilliams7117]

Thank you sir. That was great 👍

[@GoodMemoriesToRemeber]

thank you

[@shaykarls]

cool. I learned so much!!!!!!!!!

[@haroldmclean3755]

HAPPY NEW YEAR ! Great job 👍

[@dang25272549]

Outstanding !

[@IrishManJT]

Fantastic !

[@retirementfund3487]

I could have sworn Carswell had a B36 on display at some time, but it was taken apart and was at your museum at Meacham.

[@fw1421]

Karl Clark That must be the one that General Dynamics volunteers restored. Unfortunately they couldn’t find a place in Fort Worth to display it and it was given to the Planes of Fame Museum in Arizona. It should have stayed here.

[@LockOnNow]

Thank you for the nice and informative video about those lovely war birds ☝️ of the 60ths and early 70ths. What I don’t understand is why they always have to rip off the components like the ejection seat 💺 and cockpit in general and then cover the cockpit glass with some foil same goes with the engine, seems like there’s no engine in some planes it hurts to see those beauties being defaced 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ like that unbelievable. It's like there's just the blank volume left.

[@dylangreen9819]

my dad served as a doorgunner in the Marines in ch53e and Ds. he also flew in a few hueys and ch46s

[@rickeymitchell8620]

Wonderful tour that is informative and relaxed. Two questions, any history on the T-33, duty stations and tail number. I worked on 33's at Shaw AFB In the 1970's. From there i went to RAF Upper Heyford and worked on the F-111E. Do you know the tail number of your airplane? I served with the 20th OMS working on 79th Tiger Squadron airplanes or yellow C section.

[@AtomicSquirrelHunter]

I wish they still made OV-10's (without armor floor plate, ejection seats) for the public to buy. Then upgrade the engines (T-76's) to the modern equivalent, boosting HP from 715 to something like 1200. Add modern six-bladed composite props. I'm not trying to sound like Mr. Knowitall but I was a Crew chief on Bronco's in Korea back in the seventies, and I think these changes would make it a World class airplane. If you like aviation history, look up 'Bob Hoover OV-10 1972' and you'll see what the Bronco can do.

[@darylrocks2753]

No dislikes....AWSOME!

[@davidstumer3360]

Is this whole thing outside?

[@richardpehtown2412]

The dual-branded A-7 might have caused some confusion on the flight deck. I can picture two plane captains fighting over whose plane it was, lol. Rich P., VA-147 O-Level AT in 1972-1973 (A-7E)

[@godfreygrima5819]

Very interesting tour. Thanks. I have a question about the B58 Hustler that was preserved at Fort Worth Meacham Field back in 1990 when I was training there. Then, it was positioned under a tent near a building which was also used a motel for students. Where is it now?

[@FtwAviationMuseum]

It went to Galveston and was damaged in a hurricane there. It has since been moved to Little Rock where it is today.

[@michaelhodgkins9186]

Very Cool.

[@overbank56]

the older aircraft are my favourites

[@mikelafferty9506]

Let's see a complete walk around of the Thud - please?

[@ErikJohnston]

Mike Lafferty Already did one. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eKO0qmh_e9itsLM

[@mr16ga]

A7s can only drop 32 bombs using Myers because if you load the inboard stations the bombs will hit the wheel doors, plots did not like that to happen. The A7 shown is an a or b model the c, d, and e models had a m61a1 20mm gatling gun that had its firing port on the lower port (left) side. The a nab b models had one Colt 20mm machine gun on each side of the intake. VA122 (A7 Es), VA128 (A6-As), and ships company CV-43 (AIMD APQ92 search radar.)

[@michaelargenta3856]

Why not paint two purple hearts on that beautifully corsair>???

[@Wildcatt1]

Well done salute

[@needmorecowbell6460]

Why don’t y’all try and get the b36 city of ft worth bomber … its in a museum in Arizona i think? Bring it home… Please! We never should have allowed it to get hauled off

[@hillbillyb4u]

I understand the A-7 was a very accurate bomber throughout it's service life.

[@impulse1021]

Fun fact: Only three countries own the Vought F8-crusader and those are the USA, France and Philippine and only Philippine has the crusader in whole continent of Asia if i aint mistaken

[@israelguilnet2115]

Good

[@jmayala1227]

What in the world was he saying about the F-14? I don't remember any of that. In fact, that looks like an F-14D with the dual chin pod with TCS and IRST. Only senior pilots can fly? Nuggets were flying them in the 90's. What is this guy saying? LANTIRN was on a pod carried in one of the weapons stations.

[@FtwAviationMuseum]

This particular airplane had hidden maintenance problems and over the course of its career squadrons limited who could fly it. Had hydraulic and fuel leaks its entire career that were never solved.

[@AvengerII]

It's definitely a Delta-model. He's mistaken here -- that's NOT a LANTIRN pod unit. It's real obvious. The LANTIRN is narrower and more spear-like. And he IS pointing to the dual chin pod with the IRST and TCS unit. The TCS unit is flat with the lens protector; the IRST is the bulbous black thing. The LANTIRN pod would have been carried under a wing on one of the missile rails, not between the engines in the tunnel area -- the tunnel was used for the TARPS pod, bombs, Phoenix missiles, and Sparrows. The under-wing station is really the only place the LANTIRN COULD be carried on the F-14. Of course, the chin pod is empty and what's left is the casing for the TCS and IRST. All the sensitive/classified equipment was removed when the plane was retired ("demilled") and whatever electronics could be reused were cycled back into the fleet. There were core computer parts the F-18s used as well. The F110 engines themselves were sold to the Air Force from what I understand since the F110 model used by the F-14B and F-14D is not much different from the F110 models used by the F-16C/D Block 30, 40, and 50 planes. The Tomcat F110's could at least be used for spare parts if not installed as replacement engines. (like the RAF Harrier II's were scavenged to support the USMC Harrier's left in service). If Christine is the Tomcat I'm thinking of, it was in service for about 27 years. It was one of 18 A-models converted to D-model before the funding ended for the conversation of A's to D-model Tomcats. They only ever built 55 D-models and of those only about 50 were active duty, full-up D's. At least 2-3 of the planes used in the D-model program had TF30 engines. At least 2 planes for sure were NEVER bailed to frontline because they were test planes and considered too modified with instrumentation to use in the fleet. They were designated NF-14D.

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[@markebones5083]

Yeah . I was watching that Top Gun flick . Went out to puke after all the Bar B.S. And when I came back . I was trying to figure out what the hell Tomcats were doing . Shooting down F-5 s . Well I'd feel sorry for "W's" EWO Just hope the F-8s don't land on the wrong Carrier ...

[@CT5555_]

Anyone else cringe at him calling a sea stallion and "airplane"?

[@schreiermeister34]

F-111 made the F-14 possible. Navy wanted the 111 originally but it was too big and heavy for a carrier so they shrunk it down and gave you the tomcat. Ya'll really REALLY should paint that pig, it looks hideous. I don't know the first thing about it but I'd even come up there to do it for you and learn how in the process.

[@Funk1199]

bahms

[@donkeylong7707]

Need to bring the b-36 “city of ft worth” back home to ft worth.