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If this great man were still with us he would distain the ex president trying to squirm out of his trials. He would distain the Supreme Court for their flagrant disregard of the rules. He would really distain trump for wanting to destroy the constitution and his desire to become a dictator like his heroes Putin and Kim. He would stand for Biden because they have the same ideals about America.
A few years ago I saw a picture of about half a dozen or so of these in storage somewhere. They were former Chalks planes but had their original piston engines on them and not the turboprop crap they were flying. Like to see a collector get one to fly in air shows.
“I only did what you told me to do.” Sounds vaguely familiar, given 20th Century German military expositories from Nuremberg: Any of the high ranking Nazi Officers: “I was not a Nazi, but I only followed my orders.” Robin Olds must not have known of this historical conundrum.
It's interesting how it can run while stationary, not needing air pressure into the inlet to charge the combustion chamber. The exhaust blast must create suction or scavenging that draws a fresh charge of air past the front vanes. The simple design is deceptive, concealing the engineering that must go into calculating the chamber size and shape.
This is beautiful stuff and important part of American history. Thank you for allowing Staff Sgt Edwards to tell his story so that he and his comrades will not be forgotten!
Thanks for sharing this excellent video with its beautiful music. As a former USAF instructor/flight examiner in the Air Training Command, it would have been a thrill to have used the S.211 as my flight trainer aircraft.
Wonderful work. Am pretty certain I saw one of these fly at the CAF airshow at Harlingen in the 80s. I think it touched down early, but for the life of me I can't recall.
Wonder if they still have any Cessna O-2A parts. Would love to get my hands on some original parts to put on mine to assist in the restoration. My O-2 came out of Pima in the early 90’s and was lost for years. Till I found her 3 years ago and started the restoration.
what is the crap? write in capital letters that the plane is to be sold but you don't give a price and you don't name a price in the video either? that's annoying.
This plane and the X-15 are principally responsible for me becoming interested in aerospace engineering (them and my Dad being a Rocket Engineer out at Cape Canaveral in the 50's/60's/70's). I had both models hanging from my bedroom ceiling as a young boy in the 60's/'70's. I was good at math and a good athlete and wanted to be a fighter pilot but was told that my vision had to be 20-20 uncorrected to get a pilot contract out of OCS so I switched my plan to AE (a recently retired A.E./C.E. from America's largest defense contractor).
The folks in Ukraine need your help- ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mt1_EoHhQ20.html They’re trying to make bug bombs in mass to send over the Russian troops to overwhelm air defense
Very cool my dad flew F4’s three tours in Vietnam when I was just a little kid no more then seven or eight years old I remember the planes well looked just like that one I built a model F4 and painted it to look just like the real thing love the F4 super cool looking plane
It is sad that the Wright Patterson Air Force Museum has sealed Robin's service ribbons away in the archive, never to be seen again. Perhaps due to the PC police? The museum apologizes for dropping nuclear bombs on Japan, that saved countless lives Japanese and American either. Just saying.
I know it's a boneyard but do you think they could put up a taller fence around the base? Maybe a g pain control with two security personnel with machine guns, would be a nice touch to discourage anyone from copying the older models and making a short leap to reverse engineering the newer model of the same, just asking🤔
I would love to see that. Amazing. When you think how many man hours went into each plane to keep it flying. Then to see them just laying here. Incredible.
