I met Chuck Yeager when I was 13 at a Young Aviators of America gathering. At the time I didn’t REALLY know who he was. It wasn’t until a few years later that I realized how awesome it was that I got to meet him in person.
When I was a young Lt in the Air Force I had the honor of meeting Scott Crossfield at Maxwell AFB in AL. As he departed that day in his own private aircraft to fly home, he hit a thunderstorm in GA and crashed. RIP Scott. I’m better for having met you.
And a lot of expensive and somewhat limited wind tunnel and structural tests that can now be conducted via computational fluid dynamics and finite element analysis.
Not entirely. There were also Frieden mechanical calculators to do the simple repetitive stuff. By the mid '50s, the period this video covers, there were plenty of IBM, Honeywell and Burroughs mainframes around. Using them was pretty awkward, though.
@@hagerty1952 And even in the early '40s quite a lot could be done with a room full of punch-card machines. Feynman mentions these being in use during the Manhattan Project--at one point somebody wanted the punch card crew to stop what they were doing and immediately run his calculation--the high school kid who was bossing that operation stood up to him and made it stick--apparently they had multiple calculations going simultaneously and they would have had to stop more than one other calculation to give his priority.
25 yrs. ago, I was working at Edwards AFB and they had a Bell X-1 on static display and a couple others, I think one of these in a fenced area. With my bright green "contractor" pass, I was able to go back in the fenced area and touch all the aircraft, including the Lunar Module trainer vehicle that the Apollo astronauts trained-on. Couldn't have cameras though. That would have gotten me thrown off the base, and probably fired by the phone company. It's harder to get on that base now, if you don't have business there.
@@sim.frischh9781 When someone does something extremely brave, we generally say they have balls of steel, titanium is both harder & lighter than steel.
4:41 you state that Muroc is now Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC). DFRC was renamed Armstrong Flight Research Center several years ago, and therefore no longer called Dryden Flight Research Center. Dryden became the flight area when NASA moved most of the 800 series aircraft from Edwards to Palmdale Plant 42 in Palmdale CA.
I remember reading in a book about the Apollo program that Jim Lovell said it was bittersweet to watch Neil be the first to step on the moon. Paraphrased: "Neil was a fine pilot and a good man, we all liked him. At the same time, each and every one of us was secretly wishing it was us that had that opportunity." They had no hard feelings against Neil, but when you're an Astronaut, you have a natural Alpha-type personality.
He piloted the X15 only for the builder, to prove deliverable for flight testing by NACA/NASA. The actual test flights were flown by other pilots. Crossfield had expected that the builder would also do the flight testing. Instead, once the craft was shown to be in deliverable condition it/they were taken away by the flight testing teams who had their own pilots.
I can still remember the first time I saw Glamorous Glennis as Yeager named the X-1 and thinking about how brave the Men who were the pioneers of the Sound Barrier Research and the attempts to understand and surpass its limits on our future travels. They didn't know if they could pass Mach or if they were going to fly strait into a Unpenetrable and solid barrier and be smashed to jelly. I wish I was just 1/4 that brave and had just 1/10 the skill and opportunity.
My local community college campus has a Douglas Skyrocket mounted on a pylon in the middle of the campus. It's located at Antelope Valley College in Lancaster, CA. Sometimes, I sit underneath it on the grass and enjoy my lunch. 😊
I was very young, but I can remember sitting in front of the black and white TV in our living room, watching the adventures of "Jet Jackson and the Secret Squadron". He flew a 2-seater version of the Skyrocket from his secret base. That show was apparently a successor to Captain Midnight, which was before my time. I never drank Ovaltine or got a secret decoder ring, either. The Skyrocket is unquestionably the prettiest test plane of its generation. That it was record-breakingly fast is just icing on the cake.
ARRRRGGHHH!!! @2:23 it is NOT “Nakkuh” It is “The N.A.C.A.” Nobody spoke acronyms for initials back then. My dad was Chief Aerodynamicist for the agency. I used to play in the halls of Headquarters in the Dolly Madison House on Lafayette Square when dad would go into the office on weekends. N - A - C - A was a family like organization back then. And nobody called it anything except its initials one by one.
Cringe i think youre lying Anyways since literally anyone in the DOD and engineering field likes using initialism. Im going to say “Nakkuh” and theres nothing that will ever change my mind
That´s a place i would like to visit if i ever come to the US. One of several interesting places. Not sure whether i would visit Washington, i still don´t understand why it´s called the Washington Monument when it looks more like a tribute to Bill Clinton ;)
There was an I’m sure there still is an NF - 104 on a pedestal in front of the test pilot school at Edwards. I was there in the late 90s with my Marine Reserve squadron. Remarkably small aircraft.
Mach 2 was never a “barrier” but just another goal. Mach one might have been considered a barrier, but after that, no more. Even Mach one wasn’t considered unobtainable. The V-2 certainly went much faster, as well bullets. But it did have a nice ring to it.
The Navy had it’s own aircraft (the skyrocket) essentially to protect NACA and the their interests as opposed to that of the Air Force. It was very problematic to justify such needless duplication. It was just this idiocy that led to Eisenhower and congress to re-organize NACA to NASA in response to Soviet satellite launches.
I would have dropped to, you're sitting in a smaller aircraft attached to a really big ones that seem about to break apart. I don't care if my wings are untested, I'll see you on the ground best of luck to ya all lol
Imagine just exactly could have happened if the Navy, Air Farce, & & NASA ALL worked together under one project? Consolidation of resources, especially brain power, could have & should have happened. And remember, ALL of these feats were accomplished by using slide rulers & hand drafting. There were no computers until roughly into the Gemini Project were available. And is it just me, or does this rocketship look similar to the F-35? 😊
Not classified (besides a few design elements) and I’ve known about it since the 60s (as a kid). Just more bogus clickbait, lackluster research and miserable b-roll.
@@christophercoupe5006 it seems wrong but when you consider air temperature and density it makes sense. What I think is cool is all the scientific and engineering that went into those old analog units. Very cool and very fun.
Please, please, PLEASE! "N.A.C.A. was never pronounced "nack-a." It was an abbreviation, not an acronym. For it's entire existence from the 1920's until it was absorbed into the newly-formed NASA in 1958, it was referred to as "En-A-Cee-A." I mention this on every video you produce but apparently you don't read this, or don't care. I love your videos, but this is a serious historical error.
@@leechjim8023 - Yes, sir, Mr. Leech! I'll see you next time I'm at Afrack. What's that? Oh, it's the Armstrong (formerly Dryden, formerly Muroc) Flight Research Center. But you knew that, right?
@@Stuart-nf4rw - Somehow, I don't think it is, unless the guy sampled his own voice. And if it is, then why can't train it to pronounce N.A.C.A right? After all, the periods are right there.
I wanted to watch the entire video, but the super corny music prevented me. Not sure where you got this 80's sounding elevator music, but it was terrible. I don't understand what the music is for anyway - what does it do? Anyway, no more Dark-Series for me. 👎
when Dacron was first invented. X pilots had Airo flight suits. woven on there body. thought was they would be protected from subatomic particles at speeds that are still classified. problem , the flight suits shrank. all the bodies fluids were pushed up to the skull. the x pilots did break all speeds records, and died doing it. there head, were the size of water melons. they gave there last debriefs as they died. telling what it was like to travel faster than light. hanna hanna, yellow, white swan 1978. arura nicked named a time slider, is the fastest craft ever built by humans. plasma powered. no fuels or sound, or trail of anything.
I had the GREATEST HONOR to have met both Chuck Yeager and Scott Crossfield. What amazing pilots and heros of aviation.
I met Chuck Yeager when I was 13 at a Young Aviators of America gathering. At the time I didn’t REALLY know who he was. It wasn’t until a few years later that I realized how awesome it was that I got to meet him in person.
When I was a young Lt in the Air Force I had the honor of meeting Scott Crossfield at Maxwell AFB in AL. As he departed that day in his own private aircraft to fly home, he hit a thunderstorm in GA and crashed. RIP Scott. I’m better for having met you.
The more you know about Neil Armstrong, the more amazing it is
What is truly amazing about all these aircraft is that they were designed from start to finish using slide rules.
And a lot of expensive and somewhat limited wind tunnel and structural tests that can now be conducted via computational fluid dynamics and finite element analysis.
As well as spacecraft.
Don't forget pocket protectors. Pocket protectors and slide rules got us to the moon.🤓
Not entirely. There were also Frieden mechanical calculators to do the simple repetitive stuff. By the mid '50s, the period this video covers, there were plenty of IBM, Honeywell and Burroughs mainframes around. Using them was pretty awkward, though.
@@hagerty1952 And even in the early '40s quite a lot could be done with a room full of punch-card machines. Feynman mentions these being in use during the Manhattan Project--at one point somebody wanted the punch card crew to stop what they were doing and immediately run his calculation--the high school kid who was bossing that operation stood up to him and made it stick--apparently they had multiple calculations going simultaneously and they would have had to stop more than one other calculation to give his priority.
25 yrs. ago, I was working at Edwards AFB and they had a Bell X-1 on static display and a couple others, I think one of these in a fenced area. With my bright green "contractor" pass, I was able to go back in the fenced area and touch all the aircraft, including the Lunar Module trainer vehicle that the Apollo astronauts trained-on. Couldn't have cameras though. That would have gotten me thrown off the base, and probably fired by the phone company. It's harder to get on that base now, if you don't have business there.
lies...............all lies!..................your full of lies!
If you're a civilian, the best time to go is during an Air Show.
If you're a civilian, the best time to go is during an Air Show.
I went to a community college that had a spar x-2 motor. Reedley college, go check it out, no security
That's actually the X1-A. The original X-1 has been on display at the Smithsonian from about 15 seconds after the Air Force stopped using it.
Crossfield had balls of pure titanium.
Unlikely, they would have made the plane too heavy for the record flight XD
@@sim.frischh9781 Titanium balls are lighter than steel balls.
@@Lazmanarus But heavier than carbon-based life form ones still.
@@sim.frischh9781 When someone does something extremely brave, we generally say they have balls of steel, titanium is both harder & lighter than steel.
@@Lazmanarus but also much more brittle.
And still not as light as actual organic ones.
4:41 you state that Muroc is now Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC). DFRC was renamed Armstrong Flight Research Center several years ago, and therefore no longer called Dryden Flight Research Center. Dryden became the flight area when NASA moved most of the 800 series aircraft from Edwards to Palmdale Plant 42 in Palmdale CA.
The story about the propeller through the body of the airplane,and Neil Armstrong being in the cockpit, that's the first I've ever heard about it.
Neil Armstrong was the most competent and capable pilot. He earned the position to be the first human on the Moon.
I remember reading in a book about the Apollo program that Jim Lovell said it was bittersweet to watch Neil be the first to step on the moon. Paraphrased: "Neil was a fine pilot and a good man, we all liked him. At the same time, each and every one of us was secretly wishing it was us that had that opportunity."
They had no hard feelings against Neil, but when you're an Astronaut, you have a natural Alpha-type personality.
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Thank you for sharing this
Crossfield was one of my childhood heroes. He went on to pilot the X-15. He wasn't picked for the Mercury program because he wasn't a military pilot.
He piloted the X15 only for the builder, to prove deliverable for flight testing by NACA/NASA. The actual test flights were flown by other pilots. Crossfield had expected that the builder would also do the flight testing. Instead, once the craft was shown to be in deliverable condition it/they were taken away by the flight testing teams who had their own pilots.
The swept wing was crucial in achieving Mach 2 flight..Those test pilots had A LOT OF BALLS!!!
@12:54
You can't combine Muroc and Edwards.
They are different names of the base at different times for different reasons.
I can still remember the first time I saw Glamorous Glennis as Yeager named the X-1 and thinking about how brave the Men who were the pioneers of the Sound Barrier Research and the attempts to understand and surpass its limits on our future travels. They didn't know if they could pass Mach or if they were going to fly strait into a Unpenetrable and solid barrier and be smashed to jelly. I wish I was just 1/4 that brave and had just 1/10 the skill and opportunity.
My local community college campus has a Douglas Skyrocket mounted on a pylon in the middle of the campus. It's located at Antelope Valley College in Lancaster, CA. Sometimes, I sit underneath it on the grass and enjoy my lunch. 😊
I was very young, but I can remember sitting in front of the black and white TV in our living room, watching the adventures of "Jet Jackson and the Secret Squadron". He flew a 2-seater version of the Skyrocket from his secret base. That show was apparently a successor to Captain Midnight, which was before my time. I never drank Ovaltine or got a secret decoder ring, either.
The Skyrocket is unquestionably the prettiest test plane of its generation. That it was record-breakingly fast is just icing on the cake.
Love the synth. Got Tokyo vibes.
There is a D-558 hanging on the wall at the naval aviation museum in Pensacola FL.
ARRRRGGHHH!!!
@2:23 it is NOT “Nakkuh” It is “The N.A.C.A.”
Nobody spoke acronyms for initials back then. My dad was Chief Aerodynamicist for the agency. I used to play in the halls of Headquarters in the Dolly Madison House on Lafayette Square when dad would go into the office on weekends.
N - A - C - A was a family like organization back then. And nobody called it anything except its initials one by one.
Cringe i think youre lying
Anyways since literally anyone in the DOD and engineering field likes using initialism. Im going to say “Nakkuh” and theres nothing that will ever change my mind
@@FatherExo i got used to ppl like you decades ago. I was there when The N.A.C.A. existed, were you?
@@hifi6638 you mean nakkuh
i knew about these planes im 60 and an aircraft nut,,, thanx for the extra details
One sits at the Planes of Fame Chino, California
That´s a place i would like to visit if i ever come to the US.
One of several interesting places.
Not sure whether i would visit Washington, i still don´t understand why it´s called the Washington Monument when it looks more like a tribute to Bill Clinton ;)
Just happened to be checking.
I didn't know this about Neil Armstrong. The Balls
Mav: "Just....a little........push....."
There was an I’m sure there still is an NF - 104 on a pedestal in front of the test pilot school at Edwards. I was there in the late 90s with my Marine Reserve squadron. Remarkably small aircraft.
I had a Revell kit of this aircraft. Considering it was released in 1955, it wasn't bad. Weird scale, though. An obvious 'Fit the box' kit.
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Mach 2 was never a “barrier” but just another goal. Mach one might have been considered a barrier, but after that, no more. Even Mach one wasn’t considered unobtainable. The V-2 certainly went much faster, as well bullets. But it did have a nice ring to it.
The Navy had it’s own aircraft (the skyrocket) essentially to protect NACA and the their interests as opposed to that of the Air Force. It was very problematic to justify such needless duplication. It was just this idiocy that led to Eisenhower and congress to re-organize NACA to NASA in response to Soviet satellite launches.
Meanwhile, the SR71 resulted in all this research ❤
Plane go fast me likey
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Tangerine Dream sound track?
I would have dropped to, you're sitting in a smaller aircraft attached to a really big ones that seem about to break apart. I don't care if my wings are untested, I'll see you on the ground best of luck to ya all lol
How in he'll do you make instruments to give you accurate information on stuff that no one has ever done before? Just supersonic guessing?
You study hard, learn science, physics, maths and become an Engineer. A real one. Not the ones that fix your stove.
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Imagine just exactly could have happened if the Navy, Air Farce, & & NASA ALL worked together under one project? Consolidation of resources, especially brain power, could have & should have happened. And remember, ALL of these feats were accomplished by using slide rulers & hand drafting. There were no computers until roughly into the Gemini Project were available. And is it just me, or does this rocketship look similar to the F-35? 😊
Now I'm waiting for history of first Warp 5 starship. ;)
Not classified (besides a few design elements) and I’ve known about it since the 60s (as a kid). Just more bogus clickbait, lackluster research and miserable b-roll.
Oh look, it's the Miles M.52.
@@nmarks The Miles M.52 never existed.
Since when is 1291 mph mach 2??? (12:38) Mach 2 is 1540mph!!!!
Mach 2 is 1291mph when it's at 60,000' altitude at -86.69*f. That's when! Mach 2 at sea level and 59*f (the std. day) is 1522mph
The mach speed changes at different altitude.
@@Harley-D-Mcdonald Thank you
@@christophercoupe5006 it seems wrong but when you consider air temperature and density it makes sense. What I think is cool is all the scientific and engineering that went into those old analog units. Very cool and very fun.
Complimentary algorithm enhancement comment!😊
FIA. we know we can't win so let's make it as stupid and impossible for everyone else
Would be nice if you hired a narrator.
Love the channel but the click bait thumb nails are stupid.
Please, please, PLEASE! "N.A.C.A. was never pronounced "nack-a." It was an abbreviation, not an acronym. For it's entire existence from the 1920's until it was absorbed into the newly-formed NASA in 1958, it was referred to as "En-A-Cee-A." I mention this on every video you produce but apparently you don't read this, or don't care.
I love your videos, but this is a serious historical error.
Picky, picky, picky! Now wipe off your tears!😮
@@leechjim8023 - Yes, sir, Mr. Leech! I'll see you next time I'm at Afrack. What's that? Oh, it's the Armstrong (formerly Dryden, formerly Muroc) Flight Research Center. But you knew that, right?
It's AI audio
@@Stuart-nf4rw - Somehow, I don't think it is, unless the guy sampled his own voice. And if it is, then why can't train it to pronounce N.A.C.A right? After all, the periods are right there.
I wanted to watch the entire video, but the super corny music prevented me. Not sure where you got this 80's sounding elevator music, but it was terrible. I don't understand what the music is for anyway - what does it do?
Anyway, no more Dark-Series for me. 👎
FiRsT 😜
when Dacron was first invented. X pilots had Airo flight suits. woven on there body. thought was they would be protected from subatomic particles at speeds that are still classified. problem , the flight suits shrank. all the bodies fluids were pushed up to the skull. the x pilots did break all speeds records, and died doing it. there head, were the size of water melons. they gave there last debriefs as they died. telling what it was like to travel faster than light. hanna hanna, yellow, white swan 1978. arura nicked named a time slider, is the fastest craft ever built by humans. plasma powered. no fuels or sound, or trail of anything.
What are you talking about?
@@joeh4295It's the shrooms, dude
@@JimGeigerMusic 😆😆
not that much of difference is there between jet engine and rocket engine
Jet engines use ambient oxygen, rockets do not. Rockets use oxidizers in the fuel. I think?
Once a rocket engine is ignited it burns untill all it's fuel is exhausted.
@@nmarks Solid fuel will. Liquid fuel can be shut off and restarted repeatedly.
uh....yea there is
So very wrong