Project Have Blue - Lockheed's First Stealth Fighter

[@novat9731]

Wait what? Machinists went on strike, so the managers just did it themselves? Actual competent managers?

[@frankpinmtl]

Boeing take note...

[@EnFuegoDuo]

All of the good managers, the ones that actually had to be competent at the work they managed, disappeared once someones skin color or their gender took precedence over their competence levels.

[@Thermalburn]

for real. my managers would have just had a panic attack not accomplished anything...

[@user-kv5lq9xm8c]

In defense contracting, the managers are usually techs or machinists, etc. who were promoted due to experience. Even then it doesn’t guarantee them being competent so this team was legitimately badass for that

[@troncrash7912]

"Fine, ill do it myself"

[@spiff8862]

Back in 1985, I lived in Van Nuys, just west of Lockheed in Burbank. Every Friday night around midnight, a C-5 Galaxy would fly over my house as it made its final approach into Lockheed. Around 2:30 am you could hear it take off. You couldn't mistake its distinctive droning sound of the engines. At the time people who lived out in the Palmdale area (where Lockheed had its testing facilities) would report of seeing or hearing strange aircraft flying over in the dead of night. A friend of mine who lived near Lockheed in Burbank said that all the streets surrounding the airport were closed off to traffic and you couldn't get anywhere near the airport before the C-5 landed or took off. We knew something was up. Not until the Nighthawk came out, did we put two and two together and realized that they were flying in parts and flying out nearly completed jets. Even though you didnt know what was going on, you knew something was...

[@thudthud5423]

That reminds me of the "Aurora" sightings I used to hear about.

[@mariannwatt2678]

The building is now gone it was b6 360 the airport was blacked out until c5 depart feds every where

[@usurpist7032]

Dark docs dedicated to aircraft? Oh hell yes. Thank you.

[@right2barearms718]

bsharrard // back to third grade at your Madrassa, bonehead

[@quisqueyanguy120]

@bsharrard LMAO, they won't use stealth aircraft to bomb local insurgency, that's what drones are for.

[@blacksupra001]

Effn-A

[@hyenasfan2668]

Oscill8 check out their other channel, Dark Skies!

[@usurpist7032]

@opugilist hell, that's the least I could do lol!

[@teddy.d174]

Kelly Johnson.....aviation pioneer and godfather of the SR-71 Blackbird, the baddest aircraft ever made (in my opinion).

[@tysoncott7402]

No, the F-15 eagle/strike eagle owns that spot.

[@rifleshooterchannel208]

Tyson Cott Convair Super Hustler

[@thudthud5423]

@@tysoncott7402 Flying fast and high is cool, but facing the enemy head on and destroying just about every opponent you face and flying home every time to tell the tale is a lot cooler.

[@nadtz]

I share that opinion. Fighters might get all the love but the Blackbird is just a thing of beauty in my eyes.

[@right2barearms718]

badtz maru // I’m with you badtz. It’s the “Habu” first in my book. I was excited every time I saw one taxi out, take off, and come home again. They had the three hangers about fifty yard to the left of our end of the flight line at a place near the South China Sea from 1967-1974. They hadn’t even acknowledged its exsistance in 67. The only one I know we lost was a crash and burn landing one night on the runway about ten or so ..the pilot made it out and we saw him heading perpendicular out across the grass. I was an aviation electronics guy out on the launch assist truck for some of our tanker takeoffs that night and we headed in his direction but got cutoff by several Marine jeeps while another truck from their area shot out to pick him up. The base fire trucks were already only a few hundred yards from the fire site. We turned back to “our” area and watched it burn out. There must have been substantial magnesium involved from the way it burned. Our six tankers took off a little after 11 on the other runway and by then there must have been fifty from their detachment sweeping and collecting anything that didn’t burn after the trucks had hosed things down. I know the pilots weren’t military and I know theirs was the only part of the flight line that had marines guarding it. And that included the tactical nuke bunkers on the far side of the line with the fighter sad.

[@h.cedric8157]

Up next from *Dark Skies:* Stealth Blackhawk: The helicopter that helped kill Bin Laden

[@thudthud5423]

That would be nice, but I think details on that aircraft are still pretty classified, I believe. We only know it exists because the helicopter that crashed landed on a wall with its tail hanging over one side where the Seal Team couldn't burn it with incendiaries. I remember seeing the first photo of it (from Pakistani sources) when it was described as a "Blackhawk helicopter". I remember looking at the tail rotor and thinking: "Uh...that's not a Blackhawk. That's got to be some sort of classified helicopter."

[@h.cedric8157]

@@thudthud5423 it still would make for a great content though, but what astounds me to this day is the speed of how a totally new helicopter was made in so short a time. As an enthusiast, I know how long ittakes for an airframe to mature from pure design concept, to an operational vehicle. What we dont know is if this heli was already built up or already in development for a long long period of time and OP Neptune Spear was the opportunity the airframe was waiting for.

[@h.cedric8157]

​@oneviwatara *Whatever troll*

[@h.cedric8157]

@oneviwatara *You're*

[@NeutronSplitter]

@oneviwatara You're*

[@billirvin9057]

I was assigned to the "Senior Trend" project from 1986-89, at Tonopah Test Range. I was presented an American flag that was flown aboard the first daylight flight in Nov 1988, at my retirement in 1989. Awesome video!

[@billirvin9057]

@@globaltrend3739 To get into the operations area, you had to have a l restricted area badge with your picture, do a hand scan, and have a personal ID number. To get into the area I worked in (communications/computer center), another hand scan (for fingerprints) to ensure you were allowed in that building AND a digital code to enter our work center. I thought the hand scans worked really well and looking back at the technology we had in the late 1980's, pretty cool, too.

[@davidgretlein9384]

Fun fact - from Kelly Johnson’s book, titled the same “Have Blue”, they knew they were on to something with the coatings when Kodak developed the aerial photog equipment. Story goes Kodak wanted to snap a picture of the plane with their ultrasonic range finder camera (autofocus), simply would not focus.

[@chetkasper5680]

With my Kodak camera I took a picture of my wife standing in front of one in the museum in Dayton, and when the film was developed, all I could see was my wife and maybe a faint outline of the F-117 behind her. The flash was diffused enough not to capture the plane, even though I'm sure all the 'secret stuff' was removed before it was displayed.

[@Kradle]

I got to witness a B-2 fly over my house a while back. It sounded and looked like nothing I've ever heard or seen before. It rumbled like no other engine I've ever heard. Seeing the thing in person really cements with you just how advanced the technology really is.

[@dante001ish]

Dark Docs sent me here....Sure he said there would be ice cream

[@xXm619killaxX]

I heard pizza

[@ianmacfarlane1241]

I was told I'd be safe to leave my house.

[@ben-jam-in6941]

Beer was what I was told.

[@ABrit-bt6ce]

Blackjack and Hookers.

[@suluturnip]

Two scoops????

[@GOWvMatchstick]

“Hey guys” “Yeah joe?” “I saw Star Wars yesterday and something stuck with me” “You getting a cinnamon roll haircut?” “No Dave the ships, we’re making the ships”

[@GOWvMatchstick]

@@spacemaniii1460 hahahaha

[@patrickstewart3446]

“Lockheed and Northrop raced against each other...” You could say that for most US combat planes of the last 30 years. :)

[@M0rmagil]

Proud to have played a small part of this. 👍🏻🇺🇸❤️

[@Bramon83]

Kelly Johnsons Lockheed was such an amazing powerhouse of engineering. Kudos boys

[@mypl510]

I remember when one crashed in the Kern River and it was reported as a regular Military Crash. Months later I met and Air Force officer who told me it was really an F-117 and even gave me a pin of a Stealth Fighter! Wish I still had the pin! Cool new channel, looking forward to what else comes out!

[@davidsilk3764]

When I was really little, there was an airshow across from my aunts house in Maryland, an F117 crashed at the show into a house not far from my aunt's. Black SUVs and Suits were everywhere!

[@keagannelka5137]

@@davidsilk3764 thats kinda scary

[@duncanmcgee13]

@BC Bob you seem like the type to call everything fake because you didnt get to experience it. Jealousy leads down a very dark road.

[@imtoooldforthisstuff]

I remember that. I lived in Porterville at the time and the road from California Hot Springs over to Lake Isabella was closed for several weeks. CalFire said it was because of a brush fire that happened around that same time, but the fire was closer to Ponderosa than the road over that pass.

[@GregHakes]

Only 1 F117 was lost during that war and that was due to Pilot error. No F117 crashed into any river, that is a fairy tale.

[@BradiKal61]

I remember playing the Stealth Fighter video game on my dad's PC. The graphics of the plane were based on a concept drawing, but after actual images of the real plane were released you could swap the graphics files so your 117 looked correct.

[@jeffmeyer9587]

I don't know if it's still visible, but in the early satellite pics of Area 51, you could see the scorch mark of the first Have blue crash near the end of the runway.

[@orangecat3021]

Jeff meyer link?

[@jeffmeyer9587]

@@orangecat3021 I'm sorry, I have no link, I saw it on a documentary on stealth , years ago. I'll look around and see if i can find it. if I do I will send it to you. The documentary era was around late 90s early 2000s if you want to look.

[@lawfulldick4158]

Jeff meyer: scorch marks? And the supposed video of the crash at 8:31 with huge flames, B.S. Out of gas, at most fumes in empty tank will give explosive result but not flames as shown. Don't let them blow smoke up your keyster by believing every video you see.

[@terrain7879]

@@lawfulldick4158 Chill he just made a small mistake, you're acting like it's the middle of the Cold War and he just launched a nuke against the U.S.S.R.

[@lawfulldick4158]

@@terrain7879 Just pointing out the obvious to the ignorant (ignorant - as in believing every insane babbling lie the a'hole in Washington oinks daily). As an outside observer, it is hugely interesting (entertaining) to see the Ununited Staes of America tear itself to pieces , the shortest empire to have existed, history at Mach 3.

[@leviquintero1000]

"At a low cost" *Laughs in F-35 Program!*

[@777jones]

The F-35 was the opposite in every way of this program. It was designed by lobbyists on K street, specifically in order to cost as much as possible, enhancing the career of the lobbyists.

[@tacticalmattfoley]

@@777jones it’s been a disaster.

[@Apollo-tj1vm]

F-35 wasn't a complete failure. Onboard electronics are hightly advance compare to older aircraft. RCS is also lower than F-22. Sure it's shit at dogfight, but then you wouldn't need to be in one if the enemy can't see you. I wonder what the new performance will be for the F-35 when they start changing into the XA100 engine.

[@theundead1600]

Skunk works brought the two test beds in at 34million. For 2 planes.

[@Apollo-tj1vm]

@@theundead1600 R&D cost money too

[@roblockhart6104]

In 1962, Boeing built a stealth model concept, the '853 Quiet Bird', which achieved a RCS lower than anything that preceded it. They manage to do this without supercomputers or Ufimtsev mathematical equations.

[@jwdickinson643]

in its early days, the Nighthawk was also know as The Wobbly Goblin.

[@jwdickinson643]

Daniel Rodriguez I believe (and know) you are incorrect. The F-117 program originally started as the Have Blue technology development program where two smaller test aircraft were built for flight test. Both articles were lost due to software bugs in the flight control avionic. Later, under the production contract with Lockheed, two more full size F-117’s were lost (crashed) also due to additional yet undetected s/w bugs. The moniker “Wobbly Goblin” refers to the inherent aerodynamically unstable stealth design, aka “the hopeless diamond”. The F-117 IS aerodynamically unstable requiring redundant on-board flight control computers to effectively manage the aircraft. As a former Skunk Works and Lockheed Martin employee who has worked BOTH programs, I learned all this on the job. The “Shadow Hawk” to which you refer may be a reference to call sign or an aircraft pseudoname in a video game like Call of Duty or something.

[@jwdickinson643]

gaba chi not directly....I was a bean counter (financial analyst)

[@williamduffy1227]

It was nicknamed the 'Wobblin' Goblin'.

[@daltonv5206]

@@williamduffy1227 that was my handle in Jane's ww2 fighters 🤣

[@williamduffy1227]

@@daltonv5206 😅😝

[@josephsmith2561]

This plane flew over our garage low and slow in the 70s while classified near Chicago. Nobody believed me when I saw the black triangle. Flight tests were recorded in that area back then.

[@naysaykiller928]

I'M SO EXCITED FOR THIS CHANNEL!!!!!!!!! Dark Docs is already one of my favorites, and as an avgeek, this is all I could ever ask for!! I feel like this was made just for me!!

[@dylanwhite3383]

The f-117 night hawk is one of my favorite jets

[@nitehawk86]

Mine too :)

[@Angel.Feather7]

It's my absolute favourite.

[@KennethKustren-lr6tg]

Ahhh ..so your spelling error ... Nighthawk ... was an error.

[@Diamond_Tiara]

yes, it's really the peak brutalism design, too bad it was actually garbage.

[@dylanwhite3383]

@@Diamond_Tiara yea too slow and not enough weapons

[@jorgevasquez6966]

Love dark docs and dark skies

[@jvh1309]

What about dark 5

[@cutchdoggw1776]

I have aways been proud to have played apart in this airplane’s existence and success! No matter how small!!

[@xenophagia]

Congrats on the new channel. Ive been here since the early days of Dark5. Its been awesome to see your growth and evolution into one of the best set of channels on YT. Thanks for your hard work.

[@zachogdahl210]

as an aerospace nerd i love that you did this! your narration is what keeps me coming back to these channels

[@endutubecensorship]

6:40 Presenting: Starfox for Nintendo 64

[@jl.7739]

R starfox First Mission music starts playing in my head.

[@andrewlaco1776]

Goddamn Slippy should've never been their test pilot.

[@thefoxygamer1536]

It looks like a fancy paper airplane

[@justonemori]

3:44 is Tacit Blue, a subsequent developmental craft. It's currently on display at the National Museum of the USAF in Dayton, Ohio.

[@Protonneutronelectron]

Yugoslavia : Sorry we didn’t know it was invisible .

[@luckyhazard156]

Neutron one time long time insult.

[@wino0000006]

Oh Yugoslavia did know it was stealth. But it didn't matter since they had obtained the exact flight plan of that F117. They simply knew when and where it was going to fly over. Without that super preperations they wouldn't have achieved the only time the F117 was shot down.

[@quisqueyanguy120]

Stealth doesn't mean invulnerability. Also you are underestimating the expertise of the serbian air defense forces. Serbia is not Irak.

[@quisqueyanguy120]

@@wino0000006 This.

[@xxZerosumxx]

@@wino0000006 How did they obtain the info?

[@williamtell5365]

These partial failures so often have such important roles. The F117 birthed the B2, the F111 bithed the F14 ... sometimes we need to see the learning achieved in these aircraft play out in subsequent aircraft.

[@ekoden]

Here from Dark Docs. Great content as always. As an aerospace aficionado, I feel like you guys made this new channel just for me. Can't wait to see what stories come out of this! Here's to expanding and good luck!

[@dragonsystems5973]

Have Blue has always fascinated me...

[@hckyplyr9285]

I have to pick a few nits: Lockheed Martin did not exist until 1995. At the time of the XST effort it was just Lockheed. Douglas ceased to exist in 1967 as a separate company, as it was acquired by McDonnell Aircraft Company. McDonnell Douglas resulted from the merger. Northrop Grumman did not exist until 1994. Prior to that it was just Northrop.

[@JN-vp1mx]

Dark5, Dark Docs, Dark Skies - the best channels on the tube. Absolutely amazing content. Thank you for all you do

[@johnnyyen4910]

Don't forget dark footage and dark photos as well!

[@mattfoss1652]

You guys do fabulous documentaries. Any thoughts on doing one on the Aurora/Astra hypersonic spy plane that supposedly flew in the early nineties?

[@erinpitt580]

in beginning of this video, ABSOLUTE PERFECT speed of speach! man.. I watched this entire video this time.

[@TheMadhatter2561]

You didn’t mention that the F-117a was actually first used in Operation Just Cause in Panama predating the Gulf War

[@aaronisgrate]

He also didn't mention the F117 used a companion aircraft that's still classified.

[@gooner72]

@@aaronisgrate you are correct my friend.... it'll be very interesting to find out what it was. Maybe the F-22 or something equally phenomenal.

[@aaronisgrate]

@@gooner72 might be F23 related actually. Like but before the yf23s time.

[@johnl9894]

@@aaronisgrate Elaborate?

[@aaronisgrate]

@@johnl9894 on what? Search F117 companion and do some digging. Some think the companion was one of the early losing competitors to the F117 that continued on being developed. Some think it's an early bigger YF23 type plane. The rumor is they went in ahead of the F117 and lit up enemy air defenses and lazed targets for the approaching f117s

[@jspark7359]

My father, Bill Park, was given the D-ring from his ejection from Have Blue. I still have it!

[@TheTeehee11111]

I heard they're tring to turn them into drones now. It would be a good explanation as to why they're still seen flying around.

[@jaytaylor9232]

The frequency of adverts on this channel are are major factor in me avoiding this channel or bailing out after the third ad.

[@gaveintothedarkness]

5:45 Play spot the manager. Everyone is working had and reviewing technical drawings. Guy at 5:45 inspecting his hat.

[@blackcountryme]

Hats lives matter

[@WRX7182]

I love that they are still flying now and then. Such a cool aircraft.

[@unitedspacepirates9075]

Lol, humans are funny.

[@kimbalaystrattick4977]

Great "Doc-ette". Thank you Dark 5 for adding on another wing to your channel. (pun unintended until i realized it was a good pun) Your channel's are the best!

[@ixm2unvrz]

The F-117 is still one of my favourite and in my personal opinion the coolest military aircraft ever flown. Yes it was shot down in Yugoslavia and in Iraq iirc, but it's still one of the coolest aircraft with the XB-70 Valkyrie and the F-15C Eagle as well as the F-14 Tomcat siting in 2nd, 3rd and 4th

[@lordsidos]

This is an excellent video, showcasing some really great footage! I recently just finished the book Skunk Works by Ben Rich and I recommend everybody read it, it's such a good book that describes all of this plus so much more!!

[@Silver_o]

I'm currently reading that book. About 80 more pages to go.

[@nicholaswouters1203]

The first stealth aircraft actually arrived in world war two.. not by design, but due to shortages of metal a few planes were build using wood, with a side effect that the planes were radar invisible :)

[@maverick2678]

The Time when they got all their works in film now everything is a secret

[@dawadsonsurong834]

This channel's contents are so good that even a guy from one of the most remote area in India like me got hooked quite sometime now.Thank you I appreciate this.

[@pleonic]

Well, here's another channel I'll be addicted to.

[@Iskelderon]

Absolutely loved Ben Rich's book Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed telling the voyage from the SR-71 to the B-2.

[@gapratt4955]

I suggest you find Kelly Johnson's biography. Fantastic read!

[@right2barearms718]

KJ...an amazing mind set free by an amazing time.. thank God the “cake eater suits” didn’t stuff him into a cubicle somewhere..wonder if he ever got a presidential medal of some sort.. SiFi to runway in amazingly unheard of time. I was lucky and honored to work with some of his finished masterpieces in the real world.

[@MBSill]

This officially seals the deal. I now have absolutely no reason to subscribe to any channels outside of the "Dark 5 Family"! Thanks for all the hard work you folks put in every day. These new channels are freakin' awesome! Rock on!

[@johnnyyen4910]

Dark 5 Universe: Dark 5 Dark Docs Dark Footage Dark Photos Dark Skies

[@deanpratley125]

I must say, that of all the documetary announcers I have heard. You are bye far the best. I like your style, tone and construction of speach. I t is refreshing. Plus your info is very interesting.

[@DarkOperationman]

Narrator is taking too fast. I have to play at .75 to listen clearly.

[@loveunderlaw]

WE TALK THAT WAY IN NEW YORK ALL OF THE TIME😂

[@timandshannon03]

The F-4 Phantom proved that if you could put enough thrust into it, you can make a brick fly.... The F-117 proved that if you put enough computers in it, you can make any shape fly.

[@Luke..luke..luke..]

You need to keep pumping this content out mate. With YOU as the narrator. Your voice makes this and why would you want to give money to another person anyhow!?!? ♥️♥️

[@Bearak_]

PROBABLYBECAUSEHETALKSTOOFAST. ANDUSESUNNATURALPAUSES. ANDTHATMAKESHIMDIFFICULTTOLISTENTO.

[@Luke..luke..luke..]

@@Bearak_ lol

[@DoomFoxofDeath]

The stealth capabilities of the F-117 are so effective that players of Ace Combat 7 are unable to see it in the aircraft menu. Although some Yugoslavian players claim to have seen it.

[@majorborngusfluunduch8694]

This comment hurts my soul. XD

[@roberthill3207]

New channel couldn't sub quit enough. Thumbs up stay awesome aviation history buffs/nerds.

[@thecandyman9308]

Still remember being in about 2nd grade in '88 and seeing the headline on a newspaper at the grocery store confirming "undetectable stealth aircraft exist" or something to that effect w/ my mom, thinking it was cool, then walking down the strip mall to the Blockbuster to look at movies about fighter jets.

[@sprtplt]

Even a third-tier adversary detected it and shot down.

[@ljessecusterl]

One was spotted last month flying through the Star Wars Canyon.

[@chekaschmeka4283]

They are using some in Red hat exercises to simulate stealth drones from China, Iran and others.

[@SinisterCity]

Always loved anything SkunkWorks touched.

[@nosatisfaction2278]

Awesome Btw the YF-23 should of also been built to take over the role of F-117.

[@Diamond_Tiara]

more of an interceptor than a ground attack/mini-bomber, which is the role of the BRRT anyways.

[@atomictraveller]

okay HERE'S ONE - white triangular aircraft about 20-25 feet long. about a dozen of them parked in the desert west of ajo, AZ (goldwater test range) visible on google maps c. 2009. they're wider, maybe a 40 deg. point, parked individually in bunkers or on dirt landing strips. never seen anyone id these

[@AtheistOrphan]

atomictraveller - I will take a look at that. Thank you.

[@Capt_JD]

When I m trying to learn something ads are like my friends trying to stop me.

[@speshul7525]

The engineering is incredible. These people are heroes

[@malcolmhardwick4258]

I'm here !!

[@PapiDoesIt]

I landed in California and got to see one inside a hangar. Quite a thrill, considering that Desert Storm had just ended and it had performed so well.

[@fridaycaliforniaa236]

US : our plane is invisible Yugoslavia : hold my TV antenna...

[@kyle857]

Yugoslavia: "I don't feel so good..." Breaks up.

[@EtzEchad]

I heard a story about the first radar tests on the Have Blue model mounted on the test stand. The radar operator said that the radar wasn't working because he wasn't picking up anything, then said "there it is!" But, when they looked at the model with a telescope, they found that a bird had landed on it. The STILL weren't picking up the aircraft - only the bird. :)

[@sprtplt]

B.S. It WAS detectable, and was shot down easily.

[@EtzEchad]

@@sprtplt The model was never shot down, because it never flew. You have a very high opinion to knowledge ratio.

[@Freesoler01]

@@sprtplt The Have Blue XST was never shot down. It was purely an experimental research aircraft. You are talking about the F-117 Nighthawk. While both planes were built by the Skunkworks, they are distinct aircraft, with a number of differences, including size, and shape. The Have Blue was smaller, with a higher angle of sweep on the wings, a different tail configuration, and a differently shaped nose and canopy. Have Blue also had no weapons or sensors, as it was purely a demonstrator.

[@DarthHippygaming]

Ah my first and latest nerd passions together, why yes I will please and thank you.

[@Alurpal80]

Darc Docs for airplanes is the greatest gift of 2020

[@Mutlap]

2019 test being used to develop other planes, a testbed for future planes I'm sure

[@GAMESTERVISION]

This feels like Discovery channel or history channel. You got it. Keep going

[@CallMiLito]

I love this stuff!

[@jacobcastro1885]

Awesome. I didn't know this much footage of Have Blue existed.

[@hemlocksalad5383]

this is really cool i love planes maybe do a video on the yf-22 vs the yf-23 contract for the f22

[@patelivid1637]

We have a secret squadron of upgraded YF-23s 🤫

[@xxZerosumxx]

@@patelivid1637 Oh wow! Is this true? I liked the YF-23 over the YF-22.

[@CMFL77]

This channel is pretty much perfection for my preferences. If I had to pick a favorite topic / medium it would definitely be dark aviation related stories. You are really killing it on the channels lately D5!

[@85MasterV]

"Have Blue" pronounced 'hay-vv blue'.. don't ask me how I know.

[@iridiumcaptain]

You correct.

[@robhudson5533]

How do you know?

[@gapratt4955]

​@@robhudson5533 It is a play on an acronym.

[@right2barearms718]

Same reason I knew about Rivet Amber and Rivet Ball. Way back in the CW days. I think the coolest part of the Recon chain was that by the time any project was even talked about in the public domain, it’s replacement was already operational an flying..so it goes to this day I imagine. And ufo sitings make for a fascinating diversion and have since the fiftys. Go Air Force!

[@robhudson5533]

@@right2barearms718 Trust me, I know ALL ABOUT the Ball!!! I spent many cold nights out in Shemya!!! Hell in '69 the Ruskies (unofficially) shot down tail # 4137 lost all 19 souls on board! Never recovered any wreckage or bodies, all lost at sea! Guess we'll never know! 🤷‍♂️

[@chriswilliams2652]

Test pilots have titanium balls no doubt! Kudos Gentlemen 👍

[@internetrules8522]

I CANT TURN ON THE NOTIFICATION BELL WHAAAATTT. why does it say its made for kids?

[@bigjulie3714]

The music is louder than your fantastic voice. Silence is golden.

[@Penguin_of_Death]

2:01 'Grunman'..? GRUMMAN! You talk too fast to get your words out clearly

[@jamstagerable]

Set playback speed to .75x

[@jamstagerable]

He sped it up to fit within a 10 minute video

[@nerradus]

Would have more time, if there weren't so many Ads

[@AridersLifeYT]

@@nerradus i have addblock. have not seen an add in years

[@thekidfromcleveland3944]

Same quality as Dark Docs.......superb👌👍

[@TobotronPrime]

this guy talks unnecessarily quickly, it’s stressful just listening - although good video!

[@That_Awesome_Guy1]

You think he talks quickly?

[@scott_hunts]

He’s probably a southerner, they take forever to get out a sentence.

[@cahg3871]

Kelly Johnson and Ben Rich were aeronautical and organizational geniuses.Both men never let anything or anyone get in their way.

[@aurorajones8481]

I need this tech to cover my motorcycle! LOL i seriously wrote to a company to secure some RAM paint but they never got back to me. Meh...

[@endutubecensorship]

Aurora Jones: I've read the iron ferrite absorbs radar 😉

[@bobthompson4319]

@@endutubecensorship your kinda right. But you have to use a magnetic field to get the iron and some other material to make the correct kind of shape. So you have to mix your paint with it and probably sprinkle it on top and then use a huge magnet to make the field while the paint drys.

[@endutubecensorship]

bob thompson: icing sugar sifter 😃

[@mred8002]

Were you planning to paint yourself and your leathers with it, too, or just the bike?

[@bobthompson4319]

@@endutubecensorship maybe lol. There a little bit about it in a video on the record cannon ball run. There's a guy who was the radar nerd and he talks about something that works but he had problems with it corroding and then not being stealthy

[@Progamer-jk6lm]

The aircraft that started a series of stealth aircraft

[@aurorajones8481]

Please do the TRB3 Astra!!!

[@nova1726]

Aurora Jones thaaaaaat doesn't exist....

[@Alienvisitor007]

Thats what they all say

[@nova1726]

John Snow shut up conspiracy theorist

[@nova1726]

John Snow why would it still be classified if we already got a fuck ton of pictures to prove it's existence

[@Alienvisitor007]

They havent announced it to the public and its still top secret. If u ask the military about it they will tell you it doesnt exist.

[@ChristopherJ655]

Ill never forget the huge black triangle i saw once. It was AWESOME. it had 3 circular white lights and a small red light in the center. It was completely silent. Was a really cool aircraft not sure what it was called though. It could hover silently too.

[@coolfight2229]

"And one was spotted flying in January of 2019" That defeats the whole purpose the plane😂😂

[@pigeonpoo1823]

Wasn't that Clarkson and May?

[@AquaticPro-xu5lx]

Love your content. Excited for the new channel

[@notebook2876]

That's where all the UFO sightings came from 🤔

[@johntaylor-lo8qx]

Hard to imagine a day where American business was so patriotic they were willing to take a loss for the better of the Country and not Shareholders. I pray we get back there someday. Great Doc. ❤

[@regalsteel7074]

The narrator sounds like he's being held at gunpoint, and the guy holding the gun to his head is ordering him to make his best Tim Pool impression of Tim Pool making a Ben Shapiro impression

[@beauslim]

The "Harvey" codename is hilarious. Loved that movie when I was a kid.

[@dellawrence4323]

Are these the same "stealth" aircraft of which 2 were blown out of the sky by Serbian AA teams using 60's era Russian SAM missiles? asking for a friend.

[@daveanderson3805]

I don't know wether it were two but yeah certainly one F117 was downed by Serbian air defence teams

[@dellawrence4323]

@Dordek 41 I googled it, Neva AKA SA-3 from 1961, it looks like the American taxpayers have been taken for a ride.

[@peterson7082]

@@dellawrence4323 They were modernized systems. The _F-117A_ mind you was an antiquated aircraft by the time.

[@ZedNinetySix_]

Awesome new channel!!! We Salute you, Dark! One of the greatest KZbinrs of all time

[@talalzahid2241]

why this guy talks like hes about to cry

[@JazzbLu]

This is one of my favorite looking aircraft! Never new it was so unstable though.

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[@runways_railways]

Your Dark channels are excellent. Many thanks