Video of the day

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[HuskyDude]

The Fight For The Sky: Our Fighter Pilots Versus The Luftwaffe In Western Europe

 

[CV32]

Historic Iwo Jima footage shows individual Marines amid the larger battle

 

[fat tony]

One of only three A/C of this type remaining in service with NASA. WB57F

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EE0rtKZJsTU

These started life as Martin Canberras.

Max. Ceiling: somewhere in the Stratosphere.

Here's the blue meany version (RB57F), circa 1978:

 

[CV32]

 

[Ganderite]

 

[Ganderite]

 

[HuskyDude]

That was informative...Thx
Besides the Tbolts used....anyone care to make a guess at the twins seen @ 7:10???

 

[7ECA]

Looks vaguely like a Cessna Bobcat - had a bunch of different designations depending on the operator/variant. The Cessna designation was the T-50.

 

[kayceel]

Curtiss Wright AT-9.

 

[HuskyDude]

Curtiss Wright AT-9.

Sounds right.

Better stick a vid in...cause it's a vid thread....
1942 CURTISS WRIGHT AIRCRAFT ENGINE PROMOTIONAL FILM

 

[7ECA]

Yep, that'd be the correct aircraft. Probably should have counted the side windows before calling it a Cessna.

 

[fat tony]

My guess : Beechcraft 18 but it is clearly not.

 

[HuskyDude]

 

[diopter]

What JDAM did to large dumb bombs. this does to 2.75" rockets.

Found out about it in a tv show about the OV-10E

 

[SHELL SHUCKER]

Me mother's mom was a young lass that survived the Halifax Explosion. Lucky fer her & her family that they were up the hillside a fair distance from the harbor.
Every house in her area lost their windows with many injuries to folks from glass shards. Grandma got a few cuts herself, but nothing serious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKcXSCzcSZ4&feature=emb_rel_end

 

[diopter]

Swiss videos.
Production P49. in German.
Production Fass90(Stgw550) in French
And
Fass57(Stgw57) in Italian, training.

https://rexco.next-cloud.org/index.php/s/9RdZeNYQxcRojT5

 

[CV32]

What JDAM did to large dumb bombs. this does to 2.75" rockets. Found out about it in a tv show about the OV-10E

Not quite. APKWS is a laser guided rocket, so a better comparison would be the laser guided Paveway series of guidance packages for dumb iron bombs.

 

[hnachaj1]

Interesting and just out today: