Mootality The Flying Heritage Collection while it doesn't have a large collection of V1 and V2 stuff it does have the standard V1 and the prototype manned version. They also have a Me. 163 "Komet" and one of only four flyable A6M Zero's left in the world.
I went to Wright Patterson AFB today, and I saw Sue talking to some people outside of the museum. Recognized her from this video, but I wasn't able to talk to her because I didn't want to interrupt her conversation with the other visitors. I was also able to go to the Presidential and the Research and Development hangars. It was a first for me (even though I've been to the museum at least 3 times, I've never had the chance to go on one of these tours), and it was awesome seeing the XB-70 Valkyrie(it is in my top 15 list for planes).
I was stationed at WPAFB in the early eighties, and there was an Atlas on display at the public entrance to the museum. One weekend the pump failed, and the missile nose crumpled over. A sad sight. I had no idea they still had one. Excellent video.
Went down there today! Actually just got back from the museum not even thirty minutes ago, and I must say, it was an amazing experience. There are over 300 aircraft inside of the entire museum and they are all restored to look brand new. It's simply a must see if you're a true aircraft fanatic. One of the most amazing portions was the hangar that had the F 22, the Boeing Bird of Prey, the Photo Reconnaissance Reaper, and the fully armed Reaper. The A-10 and the Bird of Prey were my two aircraft that I loved the most.
Thanks for all the details inside the Restoration hangar. My wife and I were there in 1997, but weren't able to get inside the restoration hanger. It was interesting for me to see the tail gunner section of the Memphis Belle. My Great Uncle, a German immigrant, was a tail gunner in a B17 during the war. He always said the rheumatoid arthritis in his hands was the result of bombing what might have been his own relatives. He did serve 25 missions to return home. Anyway, it was nice to see the tiny position he manned during that war, and how constrained it was. With nothing but a thin sheet of aluminum between you and the Messerschmidts and Fockewolfs trying to shoot you, it had to be a scary place to be. On one mission he watched in horror as his best friend's B17 was shot down. He was so close that he could see his friends eyes when it happened. I hope the world never sees such a conflict again.
This THE BEST military aviation museum in the US. Better than the Smithsonian collection, even. The Smithsonian, btw, gets dibs on the most historic aerospace vehicles but the USAF Museum actually has quite a few notable planes in the collection and a very good space artifact section with an example of each type of manned American capsule and one of the Shuttle crew cabin trainers which was incorporated into a full-scale mockup of the space shuttle. It's NOT a flight vehicle BUT it's built to give the experience of touring a real space shuttle and you see more of the vehicle through the walkthrough exhibit than you will ever of ANY shuttle flight vehicle. You actually walk through most of the display. The flight vehicles you'll only see from the outside; the only people who ever get to go into an actual shuttle are museum staff/conservationists. The USAF Museum did bid for a shuttle but lost out. The trainer was the consolation.
I just love looking at planes being restored. Mostly because ever since I was born, I've always be fascinated with how things work. For example, When I was about three, I asked for a screwdriver and disappeared into my room and for four hours was very quiet. My mother came to check on me to find a large portion of my toys taken apart, organized by what they were and perfectly neat. :P
Glad you did these videos, I recommended them to my Facebook group involving the 81 Tactical Fighter Wing that was stationed at RAF Bentwaters, Suffolk, England.
I lived in a suburb of Dayton (Kettering) for a bunch of years, and then 3 years after my military service, and I never knew that the WPAFB Museum had tours of the restoration hangar(s). I was there a few years back and the only special thing was the bus trip to the annex, which was in the base's security zone. (Which is now, completely in the new hangar 4) As I've said in my previous post, I'm going back for the May 17, 2018 addition of the Belle. I'd love to see if it is possible to get a guided tour of the restoration projects.
This makes me want to go see an air show now, lol. Last time I went to one, they had a show called "Tora, Tora, Tora" in which they re-enacted the events of pearl harbor (without the destruction of the Arizona) and had various Japanese (including the infamous zero) and American Aircraft that would have been there at the time put on a nice dogfight demonstration. Its always fun seeing these old planes up close and even better when you find them still in decent condition.
I really really enjoy these museum videos. Otherwise I would never ever see anything like this. I've been to the Imperial War Museum in London but that is as far as it goes. So keep up the good work Jingles,
if you haven't been there yet save you money and go there. I strongly advise you to go there is so much more on display than jingles actually showed I went there last week and it was amazing
Update: the Titan IVB rocket is on display at the USAF Museum’s new fourth hangar, where the X-planes, presidential planes, spacecraft, and some cargo aircraft are on display. The Memphis Belle is on display now, but the Shoo Shoo Baby has been placed in storage to await transfer to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, while restoration on the Swoose has largely been stopped to work on other projects. Both the MiG-23 and MiG-25 remain in storage, along with the O-46, the V-1, and the Wasserfall (the museum has a Ford-Republic JB-2 Loon (American copy of the V-1) painted to look like a German V-1 in the WWII gallery).
I remember when I was 8, my grandparents took me to the museum, where we got to enter the plane JFK used as airforce one, as well as the plane his body was transported on after he was assassinated. Ill never forget that moment, my grandparents both remembered that day, and told me this plane, and the people who stood in it, made and changed history
Nice vid Jingles one thing though wasn't the Mosquito just as fast as the hawker tempest & capable of shooting down V1's, loving these vids keep em coming & please go on holiday again soon!
Mr. Jingles, you can go on a photo-recon mission on a B-17 (Yankee Lady), based at Willow Run Airport Michigan (about 10 miles west of Detroit Metro Wayne (DTW) airport.
Jingles, sorry to burst your bubble, but that white thing next to the MiG-23 was NOT a WW2 V2 rocket (if that's what you meant). Here's a picture of a REAL V2 next to a crowd of people: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket#mediaviewer/File:Antwerp_V-2.jpg
I have seen the Aluminum Overcast in person and flying over a number of times. You can buy rides on it for several hundred dollars. I have been tempted since my grandfather was a supply staff sergeant in England at a B-17 base.
I guess you have heard this before, but the rocket is the Wasserfall, or American Hermes. It is much more interesting than the Mig 23, and much more rare. Thanks for the nice video though.
crashchaser then you need to lock at it again... he clearly said V2. and it is not a V1... they did not have that shape at all... they where more like a robot shape. launched of a ramp and slide system.
An awesome series of videos. Really enjoyed all of them. If you ever find yourself on the West coast of the U.S. near Washington state, I would suggest visiting Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's Flying Heritage Collection just a bit north of Seattle. An amazing collection of aircraft and some armored vehicles with most being fully operational.
Jingles you should see the Canadian warplane heritage museum in Hamilton Ontario, then check out the only remaining tribal class destroyer in the world, the HMCS Haida, also in hamilton
She kind of forgot the B-17 called sentimental journey. That B-17 flew to my hometown and was offering rides. Never mind, didn't hear "WWII combat veteran"
I was at the Boeing Museum last year in seattle and a dream came true. Got my picture next to a B17 called Boeing! In the video she says it was a death trap but it was able to take massive damage and i seen pictures to prove it. This thing could still fly with half its tail missing. It is one of the most beautiful aircraft. Read the book guys A Higher Call. Ill never forget my experience there i also visited the luftwaffe museum outside berlin will post pics to jingles page on fb. I think Ohio will be next on the cards.
Jingles, I just don't believe you have never seen a V-2 before. They are quite a bit bigger then that. That is actually a Wasserfall. A German SAM based in some respects on the V-2. It is quite a bit smaller then a V-2 and has wings in the middle that the V-2 didn't have. Very cool looking rocket, damn shame they haven't gotten it restored yet.
Now there is a video of an American engineer that helped to assemble a MiG-23 and he said its absolutely not a copy of Phantom and the intakes have a different pattern, he actually said its a state of art Jet, considering when it was designed. TomCat Pilot said this thing would outrun a tomcat, infact it felt like there was no speed limit...Didnt require afterburner staging, push and go...if you want to see those videos, il send you the links
A little hint Jingles, great job restoring some of the audio, but to make it sound a little "nicer" and marginally more understandable, if you add some more dry mix in (i.e before the noise removal effect, or the original audio on a second track around 10-30% (slightly more noise than you feel comfortable leaving in) you won't make sues lovely voice sound like she's talking through a tube, enough so that the "space" between her words isn't pseudo silence, and if your going to be doing more of this you should look into a full sacele audio editor like audition, saves a lot of time over hacking things together with audition and infinitely more powerful, might be useful for recording in sync audio too as you can load the video file into a reference track and record away!
During the B-17s combat operations in the Philippines the Japanese actually managed to capture 3 intact B-17s (2 B-17Es and 1 B-17D) there actually pictures of each aircraft by themselves and at least one picture of them all flying in formation near mount fuji, theses aircraft were test flown by the IJAAF Koku Gijutsu Kenkyujo (Air Technical Research Laboratory) at Tachikawa for some time but after the war the aircraft could not be located and nobody has a clue as to what happened to them.
Okay Jingles, all of this was well and good, but where the hell was the XB-70 Valkyrie during all this? Unless I am very much mistaken, it resides at this museum!
Dam Jingles a Cobra ride next video, I had a cobra and Huey at my airshow but the cobra ride was $500 for 15 min and $700 for 30, so i settled for the Huey which was $60 but the Huey took 7 people up at a time, did you get some special RUclips discount on the Cobra ride because if you did i want to know how you got it lol.
I never really realized how big the Saturn V was, holy hell. I knew it was the largest rocket ever made but damn did it dwarf the others. It's crazy that its first stage burnt like 15 tons of fuel per second. 'Murica!
I've seen a Saturn V standing vertical myself. It's along the interstate in Huntsville Alabama. I even took a photo with it, but we were too close to fit even a quarter of it in the photo. It dwarfed the nearby trees easily.
There's these models of german planes made by some czech company, think of a real fancy airfix kit. Anyway they come with an actual piece of that plane. So an FW 190 model comes with a hunk of metal from one of the thousands of crashed/salvaged Fw190's. They're pretty expensive but neat to own, my dad has one.
Epic Ham Very. You can find one abandoned on a beach or in the desert, and just take the thing. But then there's transporting it, and if you want to restore it (if that's even possible) You're going to be in for a seriously dangerous case of sicker shock. If you don't mind Russian history, you can snag an old L39 jet for about 200k, though.
Funny thing is that in the original maintenance inscription on the V1 at 9:49 there is a letter missing. It says "abwechelnd" instead of the correct "abwechselnd". :D
My uncle was a navigator on a B17 during the war. He had signed up for the duration which meant there was no discharge date in your hitch. If the war went on for 10 years, you served for 10 years. But the bomber crews had a contract at the time that said if you survive 25 missions you were done. He had got to 23 missions and the Air Force was losing so many crews they changed it to 50. He flew on the Buckeye Belle. How did you like Ohio Jingles?
There is one more combat veteran B-17C "Swamp Ghost" now on display at the Pacific Aviation Museum Ford Island Hi. Shot up and ditched in New Guinea recovered from the swamp.
Jingles that's not a V2, go to the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, KS They have several one of a kind items from the space race including a real V1, a V2, several Russian space capsules, an SR-71, and the Soviet moon probe.
The white rocket isn't a V2 purely because a V2 would be the same size as if not bigger than the MiG and it also has fins on the front whereas the V2 didn't.
I have never saw an B-17 on display/flying, the nearest military aircraft that is "close" to the size of a B-17 in Portugal in display is a Junkers Ju 52
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That was no V2, it was an experimental AA rocket from Werner von Braun. Used by the USAAF after the WW2. (Wasserfall - first build 1944)
yeah a V2 would be a little bit bigger than the mig, saw one in berlin
Simon Doge Yeah I've seen one to. The Flying Heritage Collection has a restored one and it's not exactly small. At least 30ft tall.
Nat Crichton The biggest museum is in peenemuende, www.peenemuende.de/index.php?id=42&L=1 - there is a lot of V1-V2 stuff. :D
Mootality The Flying Heritage Collection while it doesn't have a large collection of V1 and V2 stuff it does have the standard V1 and the prototype manned version. They also have a Me. 163 "Komet" and one of only four flyable A6M Zero's left in the world.
Simon Doge
He said that and I looked over and my 1/16 scale V2 towering over my Tiger I of the same scale. 14 meter tall, or 45'.
I went to Wright Patterson AFB today, and I saw Sue talking to some people outside of the museum. Recognized her from this video, but I wasn't able to talk to her because I didn't want to interrupt her conversation with the other visitors.
I was also able to go to the Presidential and the Research and Development hangars. It was a first for me (even though I've been to the museum at least 3 times, I've never had the chance to go on one of these tours), and it was awesome seeing the XB-70 Valkyrie(it is in my top 15 list for planes).
Sue is a treasure to the museum, I was there in September of 2021 and she gave me a personal tour through much of the modern era hanger.
I was stationed at WPAFB in the early eighties, and there was an Atlas on display at the public entrance to the museum. One weekend the pump failed, and the missile nose crumpled over. A sad sight. I had no idea they still had one. Excellent video.
Went down there today! Actually just got back from the museum not even thirty minutes ago, and I must say, it was an amazing experience. There are over 300 aircraft inside of the entire museum and they are all restored to look brand new. It's simply a must see if you're a true aircraft fanatic. One of the most amazing portions was the hangar that had the F 22, the Boeing Bird of Prey, the Photo Reconnaissance Reaper, and the fully armed Reaper. The A-10 and the Bird of Prey were my two aircraft that I loved the most.
Thanks for all the details inside the Restoration hangar. My wife and I were there in 1997, but weren't able to get inside the restoration hanger. It was interesting for me to see the tail gunner section of the Memphis Belle. My Great Uncle, a German immigrant, was a tail gunner in a B17 during the war. He always said the rheumatoid arthritis in his hands was the result of bombing what might have been his own relatives. He did serve 25 missions to return home. Anyway, it was nice to see the tiny position he manned during that war, and how constrained it was. With nothing but a thin sheet of aluminum between you and the Messerschmidts and Fockewolfs trying to shoot you, it had to be a scary place to be. On one mission he watched in horror as his best friend's B17 was shot down. He was so close that he could see his friends eyes when it happened. I hope the world never sees such a conflict again.
I'm usually not a "plane guy", so to speak, but this collection of videos has awakened my interest. Great series, can't wait to see the next one!
Sue was the docent that’s gave us our tour back in 2014,she’s been there a very long time.👍🏻
absolutely amazing information on the B-17's, I had no clue there were only 3 flying veterans left. Thank you Jingles
Outstanding.
I just came back from two days at W-P with the full realization of how much there is to appreciate.
I'll happily spend more.
Thank you.
I live not to far from there. I am glad to see you came all that way to see the museum. cheers
Sue's knowledge of cool stuff is astounding!
This THE BEST military aviation museum in the US. Better than the Smithsonian collection, even.
The Smithsonian, btw, gets dibs on the most historic aerospace vehicles but the USAF Museum actually has quite a few notable planes in the collection and a very good space artifact section with an example of each type of manned American capsule and one of the Shuttle crew cabin trainers which was incorporated into a full-scale mockup of the space shuttle. It's NOT a flight vehicle BUT it's built to give the experience of touring a real space shuttle and you see more of the vehicle through the walkthrough exhibit than you will ever of ANY shuttle flight vehicle. You actually walk through most of the display. The flight vehicles you'll only see from the outside; the only people who ever get to go into an actual shuttle are museum staff/conservationists. The USAF Museum did bid for a shuttle but lost out. The trainer was the consolation.
I just love looking at planes being restored. Mostly because ever since I was born, I've always be fascinated with how things work.
For example, When I was about three, I asked for a screwdriver and disappeared into my room and for four hours was very quiet. My mother came to check on me to find a large portion of my toys taken apart, organized by what they were and perfectly neat. :P
That is the most amazing museum I have ever been to. Last time I was there the Memphis Belle was all in pieces. Got some great photos of it.
Great video. One of the reasons I enjoy your channel is your absolute appreciation of history. The last part about the B17's was awesome.Thanks.
Nice one Jingles, thoroughly enjoyed your museum videos, just wish I could afford to go and visit myself.
Glad you did these videos, I recommended them to my Facebook group involving the 81 Tactical Fighter Wing that was stationed at RAF Bentwaters, Suffolk, England.
I lived in a suburb of Dayton (Kettering) for a bunch of years, and then 3 years after my military service, and I never knew that the WPAFB Museum had tours of the restoration hangar(s). I was there a few years back and the only special thing was the bus trip to the annex, which was in the base's security zone. (Which is now, completely in the new hangar 4)
As I've said in my previous post, I'm going back for the May 17, 2018 addition of the Belle. I'd love to see if it is possible to get a guided tour of the restoration projects.
Thanks for taking the time to shoot and edit this series Jingles. A privilege to watch and if I can, I'll definitely get myself to Dayton someday.
Probably noted. Not a V-2. Hope they did not indicate it was. It's The Wasserfall Ferngelenkte FlaRakete (Waterfall Remote-Controlled A-A Rocket)
This makes me want to go see an air show now, lol. Last time I went to one, they had a show called "Tora, Tora, Tora" in which they re-enacted the events of pearl harbor (without the destruction of the Arizona) and had various Japanese (including the infamous zero) and American Aircraft that would have been there at the time put on a nice dogfight demonstration. Its always fun seeing these old planes up close and even better when you find them still in decent condition.
Jingles....Great stuff! I love your Museum trip videos
I live forty minutes away from this. Will have to visit sometime.
I really really enjoy these museum videos. Otherwise I would never ever see anything like this. I've been to the Imperial War Museum in London but that is as far as it goes. So keep up the good work Jingles,
The SAC Museum in Ashland, NE has a MIG-23 from Wright -Patterson
Great Video Jingles..i don't know a lot about aircraft so this is great iam actually learning something..thanks..and sue was awesome..!!
Thanks Jingles I really enjoyed watching them.
Nice video - I was thinking of going back to the museum this spring, and if I do, I will take this tour!
Great job so far, seems like you really had a good time. Thank you for sharing this with us, kinda like going along with you on the trip.
if you haven't been there yet save you money and go there. I strongly advise you to go there is so much more on display than jingles actually showed I went there last week and it was amazing
Salute to you Jingles!
Thank you for this.
Right now I cannot say more
11:17 If I remember correctly, the prototype crashed because someone forgot to remove the elevator locks before takeoff.
that sucks dont it xD
Preflight, preflight, preflight.
Update: the Titan IVB rocket is on display at the USAF Museum’s new fourth hangar, where the X-planes, presidential planes, spacecraft, and some cargo aircraft are on display. The Memphis Belle is on display now, but the Shoo Shoo Baby has been placed in storage to await transfer to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, while restoration on the Swoose has largely been stopped to work on other projects. Both the MiG-23 and MiG-25 remain in storage, along with the O-46, the V-1, and the Wasserfall (the museum has a Ford-Republic JB-2 Loon (American copy of the V-1) painted to look like a German V-1 in the WWII gallery).
I remember when I was 8, my grandparents took me to the museum, where we got to enter the plane JFK used as airforce one, as well as the plane his body was transported on after he was assassinated. Ill never forget that moment, my grandparents both remembered that day, and told me this plane, and the people who stood in it, made and changed history
Nice vid Jingles one thing though wasn't the Mosquito just as fast as the hawker tempest & capable of shooting down V1's, loving these vids keep em coming & please go on holiday again soon!
This is really nice Jingles, you do not disappoint!
God that Memphis Belle... So beautiful. Wish I could see that beauty in person
Mr. Jingles, you can go on a photo-recon mission on a B-17 (Yankee Lady), based at Willow Run Airport Michigan (about 10 miles west of Detroit Metro Wayne (DTW) airport.
Defianatly gonna wait for the next one.
Jingles, sorry to burst your bubble, but that white thing next to the MiG-23 was NOT a WW2 V2 rocket (if that's what you meant). Here's a picture of a REAL V2 next to a crowd of people: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket#mediaviewer/File:Antwerp_V-2.jpg
I have seen the Aluminum Overcast in person and flying over a number of times. You can buy rides on it for several hundred dollars. I have been tempted since my grandfather was a supply staff sergeant in England at a B-17 base.
I watched Shoo Shoo Baby fly into Wright Patt. I was four and I will never forget it.
Hopefully one day I work on one of these beasts gonna get my A&P license and try and volunteer my time there. :D Excited to start working!
I'm sure the Museum will appreciate you showing the Internet this, but thanks anyway!
Yuffo
I guess you have heard this before, but the rocket is the Wasserfall, or American Hermes. It is much more interesting than the Mig 23, and much more rare. Thanks for the nice video though.
Thanks for sharing this Jingles, very kindly appreciated! :-)
I think I love Sue! ❤️❤️
I'm afraid that is not a V2, Jingles, sorry. The IWM in London has one and it's GIGANTIC.
At what point did he say V2 all i heard was V1 witch that was.
crashchaser 8:58
crashchaser At around the time he was talking about the MiG 23 I believe.
crashchaser then you need to lock at it again... he clearly said V2. and it is not a V1... they did not have that shape at all... they where more like a robot shape. launched of a ramp and slide system.
Poor Jingles. He must have gotten confused. Looks more like a larger version of the Fritz X guided munition.
Looks to me that little Jingles got a Crush!
Sue + Jingles = FOREVER
An awesome series of videos. Really enjoyed all of them.
If you ever find yourself on the West coast of the U.S. near Washington state, I would suggest visiting Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's Flying Heritage Collection just a bit north of Seattle. An amazing collection of aircraft and some armored vehicles with most being fully operational.
Jingles you should see the Canadian warplane heritage museum in Hamilton Ontario, then check out the only remaining tribal class destroyer in the world, the HMCS Haida, also in hamilton
I'm just disappointed I wasn't back home to Dayton to meet you.
She kind of forgot the B-17 called sentimental journey. That B-17 flew to my hometown and was offering rides. Never mind, didn't hear "WWII combat veteran"
I was at the Boeing Museum last year in seattle and a dream came true. Got my picture next to a B17 called Boeing! In the video she says it was a death trap but it was able to take massive damage and i seen pictures to prove it. This thing could still fly with half its tail missing. It is one of the most beautiful aircraft. Read the book guys A Higher Call. Ill never forget my experience there i also visited the luftwaffe museum outside berlin will post pics to jingles page on fb. I think Ohio will be next on the cards.
Mighty interesting.. was overthere in 1998 okt. Just before the launch of The Shuttle with John Glenn in Kennedy Space Centre..
Thank you Curt Everson
Thanks to you .. and thanks to Sue!
Jingles, I just don't believe you have never seen a V-2 before. They are quite a bit bigger then that. That is actually a Wasserfall. A German SAM based in some respects on the V-2. It is quite a bit smaller then a V-2 and has wings in the middle that the V-2 didn't have. Very cool looking rocket, damn shame they haven't gotten it restored yet.
Great series mate
Blue Angels? Nah. Red Arrows all the way, saw them today at East Fortune airshow. A truly beautiful sight.
I think they both look outstanding in the sky!
Boo
I'm from Memphis! It's a shame I went to the museum this year but I didn't get there on a Friday so I couldn't see the belle
Now there is a video of an American engineer that helped to assemble a MiG-23 and he said its absolutely not a copy of Phantom and the intakes have a different pattern, he actually said its a state of art Jet, considering when it was designed. TomCat Pilot said this thing would outrun a tomcat, infact it felt like there was no speed limit...Didnt require afterburner staging, push and go...if you want to see those videos, il send you the links
thank you for this one Jingles
Excellent video!
You've got the comment about the V-2 completely wrong. That's a prototype for a surface to air missile,I believe it was called the Wasserfall.
B-17 Swamp Ghost has come back from the Pacific recently
A little hint Jingles, great job restoring some of the audio, but to make it sound a little "nicer" and marginally more understandable, if you add some more dry mix in (i.e before the noise removal effect, or the original audio on a second track around 10-30% (slightly more noise than you feel comfortable leaving in) you won't make sues lovely voice sound like she's talking through a tube, enough so that the "space" between her words isn't pseudo silence, and if your going to be doing more of this you should look into a full sacele audio editor like audition, saves a lot of time over hacking things together with audition and infinitely more powerful, might be useful for recording in sync audio too as you can load the video file into a reference track and record away!
Great video, very jealous, always wanted to go but probably never will (unless I win the lottery). Sue is awesome :)
During the B-17s combat operations in the Philippines the Japanese actually managed to capture 3 intact B-17s (2 B-17Es and 1 B-17D) there actually pictures of each aircraft by themselves and at least one picture of them all flying in formation near mount fuji, theses aircraft were test flown by the IJAAF Koku Gijutsu Kenkyujo (Air Technical Research Laboratory) at Tachikawa for some time but after the war the aircraft could not be located and nobody has a clue as to what happened to them.
Okay Jingles, all of this was well and good, but where the hell was the XB-70 Valkyrie during all this? Unless I am very much mistaken, it resides at this museum!
You should visit the Naval Aviation museum in Pensacola Florida.
Jingles, will you be at the Detling show for the Military Odessy later this month?
Jingles good sir don't know if you will get this but will you be doing any more museum visits and filming them as I find them really interesting:-)
I knew I should have went to the museum and air show.
Where does Jingles live? If I ever visit UK, and I will, I would love to go for a beer with this man
Superb stuff!
Dam Jingles a Cobra ride next video, I had a cobra and Huey at my airshow but the cobra ride was $500 for 15 min and $700 for 30, so i settled for the Huey which was $60 but the Huey took 7 people up at a time, did you get some special RUclips discount on the Cobra ride because if you did i want to know how you got it lol.
This stuff is just so amazing to me.
The air base by my house is having a airshow in September so I hope they have a few ww2 aircraft flying there.
I never really realized how big the Saturn V was, holy hell. I knew it was the largest rocket ever made but damn did it dwarf the others. It's crazy that its first stage burnt like 15 tons of fuel per second. 'Murica!
Murica? It was designed by a German. Its also the most powerful machine man has ever created
Kristoffer Lilja It was designed by a German, but it was made in the Alabama and operated by the U.S. So you're both right.
I know it was designed by a German. But it was in America and for America he designed it. Also we owned, operated, and launched it.
If you are in Florida and go to Cape Canaveral you can walk alongside a Saturn V. They have one lying on its side in their Rocket Park.
I've seen a Saturn V standing vertical myself. It's along the interstate in Huntsville Alabama. I even took a photo with it, but we were too close to fit even a quarter of it in the photo. It dwarfed the nearby trees easily.
:55-1:02 I laughed so hard at the traffic cone on the end of the rod. Guess it there to prevent people from hurting themselves.
That... Wasn't a V2. Which would be why you were shocked it was so small.
I was gonna comment this, but you beat me to it :)
I was going to say the same thing, its definately not a V2
yea i saw one in the RAF Museum in London and it was huge like 20 metrs long or something like that
Yep, Deutsches museum has one and around four flights of stairs to get past it and to the rocket section.
Neuttah Yeah thats where i saw it in Berlin, lovely city and the deutches tecnisches museum (hope i spelled it right) was awesome!
Maybe Gaijin should hire Sue to help them get there planes right. : )
Nice video as always Jingles.
MAN!
I wish we could buy a piece of history.
u can buy a history book for crying out xD xD
There's these models of german planes made by some czech company, think of a real fancy airfix kit. Anyway they come with an actual piece of that plane. So an FW 190 model comes with a hunk of metal from one of the thousands of crashed/salvaged Fw190's. They're pretty expensive but neat to own, my dad has one.
Nah I mean.. actually BUYING a scrapped warplane.
I mean.. some of them are just lying in the sun rusting and decomposing.
How expensive can it be?
Epic Ham
Very. You can find one abandoned on a beach or in the desert, and just take the thing. But then there's transporting it, and if you want to restore it (if that's even possible) You're going to be in for a seriously dangerous case of sicker shock. If you don't mind Russian history, you can snag an old L39 jet for about 200k, though.
Funny thing is that in the original maintenance inscription on the V1 at 9:49 there is a letter missing. It says "abwechelnd" instead of the correct "abwechselnd". :D
thanks Sue!!!
Thanks a lot for sharing.
My uncle was a navigator on a B17 during the war. He had signed up for the duration which meant there was no discharge date in your hitch. If the war went on for 10 years, you served for 10 years. But the bomber crews had a contract at the time that said if you survive 25 missions you were done. He had got to 23 missions and the Air Force was losing so many crews they changed it to 50. He flew on the Buckeye Belle. How did you like Ohio Jingles?
Brilliant Jingles!
The Memphis Belle's restoration was finished and is on display now
Thank you sir.
There is one more combat veteran B-17C "Swamp Ghost" now on display at the Pacific Aviation Museum Ford Island Hi. Shot up and ditched in New Guinea recovered from the swamp.
Jingles that's not a V2, go to the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, KS They have several one of a kind items from the space race including a real V1, a V2, several Russian space capsules, an SR-71, and the Soviet moon probe.
The white rocket isn't a V2 purely because a V2 would be the same size as if not bigger than the MiG and it also has fins on the front whereas the V2 didn't.
Jingles when are you actualli going to combat south again btw nice vid thx beautifull aircraft
Thanks, Jingles!
just a thank you for the visit vids jingles
clive
I have never saw an B-17 on display/flying, the nearest military aircraft that is "close" to the size of a B-17 in Portugal in display is a Junkers Ju 52
No, it was a C-82 Packett, also in display, 2-3 planes more far that the Junkers
the Finnish Air Force had a Mig-25 that was pushed across the border for some 5 or 6 thousand dollars - they also flew MiG 21-bis.
The V2 in Washington DC is over three stories tall. I don't think the rocket you saw is a V2.