1959, TIME WILL TELL, Major Joseph W. Rogers, F-106, Speed Record
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- As an Air Force test pilot, Major Joseph W. Rogers brakes a Soviet speed record in 1959 when he flew an F-106 Delta Dart at 1,525.95 miles per hour over Edwards Air Force Base. The record, verified by national and international aeronautics agencies, has never been broken.
Thank you for posting this, Joe was my dad. He went on to have a decorated career; commander of the 317th in Alaska, director SR71 test force at Edwards, flying in Vietnam. Saw this almost 60 years to the day of the speed run.
Joe Rogers
You and many others like you are the reasons why this is so gratifying. So often these films feel so hollow until somebody like you comes along and gives it some life. Thank you so much now we know a little bit about your dad other than just for this film tells us. Thank you for watching
Now that is cool.
A proud heritage indeed! We salute your Dad and your family!
Thank you for posting this. My dad worked for G.D. Convair up in Palmdale on the F-102 and F-106 programs. He installed the Hughes radar and fire control systems. He spoke fondly about that day when Major Rogers broke the record as his aircraft was one that he worked on. The Six is still one gorgeous aircraft.
Thank you for sharing about your dad and his experience and memory of this aircraft.
I worked the MA-1 system for 8 years at Griffiss AFB.
My father worked at Convair San Diego, up in Palmdale and at Edwards. He worked on all the Delta Wing projects, starting with the XF-92. That was all after flying on PBYs in the Navy Including time as Radioman, Gunner and some flying time too! Thanks for posting this History - the 106 is a magnificent aircraft!
Thank you for sharing.
It really should be understood by moderns how much FUN it was and is to be involved with military aviation. I doubt anyone recorded an F-106 hit burner on takeoff with decent audio equipment but the sound was glorious (due the the ignition method). I didn't get to wrench on them since by the time I enlisted they were gone from Active service but was fortunate to see (and hear) a few.
what's amazing is this is only 14 years after the end of WW2. We're farther from 2005 than they were from WW2 when this was made.
It's incredible what the country did in the blink of an eye back then. America got shit DONE. Today, all our politicians do is create our own roadblocks to progress. As you say, 14 years from WW II to this, and the F-4. By comparison, today the military is still flying largely the same aircraft that they were when I went to my first airshow in 1986. Missions of other retired platforms have been consolidated down into the F-16, F-15, and F-18s. Yeah, we have the Raptor and sorta have the F-35 which took 30 years to materialize. But, our mainline is the same as 30 or 40 years ago and well passed middle age.
This was on December 15,1959....
over 60 years ago.
The Wright’s First Flight was on December 14,1903...
right at 52 years.
Why so little progress since?
The Stagnant Quo.
@@j.griffin , I don't think there's been little progress. The SR-71 pretty much reached the limits of what can be done material wise with velocity in manned air breathing aircraft. The advances in stealth technology plus the incredible increase in avionics tech are what we should be looking at in terms of military aviation progress.
Whats crazy is that the we went from a speed record of 220 to 2200 in 40 years
With SAGE and BUIC, the F106 did not need any pilot to do its job shooting down Soviet bombers. The F106 had a specialized auto-pilot system that allowed it to be flown like a drone. Each F106 fit into a real time 3D display of the battle field over Canada. If the pilot could not or would not function correctly, the aircraft was taken over automatically and flown as a drone. The visor of the F106 pilot's helmet was a specialized material that would go black with any nuclear flash. Pilots demanded, and got, space suits and sealed helmets to fly in because they feared canopy blow off at 50,000 feet or more from nuclear explosion on targets.
I have to say, growing up in the 50s, the F-106 was my favorite of all the Century series fighters. I so wanted to be a fighter pilot growing up but alas it was not to be. I instead became a Marine Grunt. The F-104 was my second favorite. Built many models of both including the other century series planes. C'est la vie... Still love aviation.
Im with ya Marine
And he did that with the spare, unprepped aircraft. I also believe that the attempts were made with B model aircraft, as they were more aerodynamic. The B model was the 2 seater, as opposed to the single seat A model.
Hello,
Thank you very much for posting this video of the beautiful “Six” breaking the world speed record!
Cheers!
You’re very welcome I have a video posted here of the Grim Reaper‘s!
Thanx to Alexander Lippisch, Convair poeple in San Diego built this.
I like the bird flock at take off.
I bet the pilot didn't. Getting few of them sucked into the engine at that critical stage of flight is deadly.
I remember seeing these on the way to the shore off of Tilton Td. in Pomona, NJ. I think the NJ Air National Guard replaced them in 1988 with F-16s.
I’m STILL amazed that a plane of this nature could recover from
a flat spin unaided and then land ALONE in a snowy cornfield,
with the engine still running.
That would be amazing for any plane...
but for a 1,500mph Fighter?
Look up “The Cornfield Bomber”
if you haven’t heard of it.
(Yeah,it was a FIGHTER Interceptor,
not a bomber.
Blame the media,not me)
“The damage to the aircraft was minimal;
indeed, one officer on the recovery crew is reported to have stated that if there were any less damage he would have simply flown the aircraft out of the field.”
-Wikipedia
Yes I saw that on another youtube video about the 106
The famous 'cornfield bomber' it's at the USAF museum - Wright Patterson AFB
"Like, uh...cool, man!" Weird, they said this 61 years ago. That would fit right in today, in 2020.
Lol man, the beatniks were talking like that in the 50s. That’s where most of the jargon came from. Try to find some old episodes of Doby Gillis and you’ll see what I mean.
Опасно взлетел майор, прямо в стаю птиц!
I remember the speed record for the Piper j3 cub. 71 mph
If my math is right, that's an average of 23.6 sec for each 10 mile run.
We should of listened to Gen. Patton, and Gen Mcarthur, and just take the world!!!!!
Instead it looks like the world is trying to take us from within.
@@OfficeofImageArchaeology Indeed, IT SURE DOES!!!!
Record of under Mach 2 has never been broken? There must be some kind of mistake.....
Official record, under specified conditions and with international observers present. Many SR-71 and MiG-25 flights were faster, as likely were a few others.
record for a single engine aircraft
@03:25 ..... except on 9/11
Those weren't incoming military aircraft.