A Tour of the Air Force's Super Sonic Jet Trainer 

I flew it 52 years ago, when it was all steam gauges and J-85 engines. Everyone who ever flew it loved it - and still do. Crisp salute for the POW mission. That's awesome.

Maybe it's because they're training jets instead of highly advanced (and classified) modern aircraft currently in service but I love that you let the people totally nerd out about how the entire thing operates. The pre-flight cockpit orientation and walkthrough all the way to the end of the video was just absolutely amazing to watch.

I grew up in Northeast San Antonio and spent my youth and teenage years getting to watch the T 37‘s and T 38’s doing flight training out of Randolph. I know it was mostly work for the instructors but for me, every day was an airshow. Thank you for your service, sir.

I always loved the F-5 family of aircraft

Back in the 70s, I was kid at the beach in Puerto Rico, I heard plane engines whine over me. I looked up and it was the Thunderbirds flying the T-38s out to sea for a practice run. They were performing that weekend. I just sat on the sand and watched. I've always loved the lines and look of that plane.

1990 - I went from Lackland AFB to Sheppard for 10 weeks of tech school. Watched the T-37s and T-38s fly patterns all day on the weekends. Also watch the tactical wings layover and refuel on their way to the east coast to take the long hop to Saudi Arabia during Desert Shield. When those 10 weeks were up, I PCS'd to Laughlin AFB to watch those Tweets and Talons run the pattern.

I live near Beale. I love seeing and hearing the T-38's fly over- like little supersonic darts through the sky.

I had a model of the F-5 when I was growing up and I always loved that and the T-38 shape. Working at NASA now I get to see the T-38’s fly over work and my house. Thanks for sharing 🙏🏼

I love the T38 but can't wait to see the T7 replacement which is way over do !! Thanks for the great tour Hasard...

Most don’t realize the T-38/F-5 with more powerful engines, thus twin tails, became the YF-17 which lost a fly off to the F-16, but later became the F-18 Hornet.

That's some craziness with the cable engagement on the gear door! As an F-16 crewchief with civilian GA experience, I got to be the TA guy when we had some T-38s come in. Air start is a bit of a hassle but otherwise not a bad jet to deal with

I flew this back in 1991. Beautiful aircraft and quite fast for a trainer. No HUD or UFC back then.

Wow! Thank all of you for your service. That was one of the best videos I've seen on this aircraft. The T-38 has always been one of my favorite jets. And the story at the end was very cool. Thats amazing they get fky and tell there stories thats the best history lesson you can have. I had an opportunity to sit at the table with 7 Tuskegee airmen and listen to there stories it was truly amazing!.Again thank you to ALL who served. ✌

great vid all around.👍👍 loved the extra info on the t-38 and it's roll in training. will be 56 this year and wish i could go back and at least tried to get into flying military aviation in some form but life came on hard and strong early for me, took me down a different path. will have to live vicariously through guys like you. great thanks❤❤

Awesome video man! Thanks for sharing. I was ATC at SPS in the late 90's til 2001 and still work them occasionally at GGG. Always loved this jet

I recently got to fly the T-38 Flight simulator at Randolph AFB. I work in the flight simulator business as a civilian contractor but also have a commercial/instrument pilot license. Loved flying this thing! I was doing high speed flights down the runway and even some aerobatics. As a side note I was also an Air Traffic Controller in both the USAF and FAA and controlled a lot of T-38s during that time. One dark night I was working a student T-38 on a Ground Controlled Approach Radar (GCA) to Tinker AFB, OK. The final course came over a lot of open ground so not a lot of ground lights. I received the handoff and started looking for the target on final but could not find him. I finally saw something on a very low course just barely over the ground clutter on the radar. I asked the student what his altitude was and when he told me I told him to climb immediately to 1,500 ft. He had descended to the wrong altitude and is lucky he didn't plow into the ground in that dark terrain. Lots of memories like this.

As usual you produced another outstanding episode. A sincere thank you!

What a great mission to have reunion flights and bar talks with POWs! Very cool, thanks Hasard.

5:27 "The wings don't produce much thrust" 🤣

I live in San Antonio and I love seeing T38's overhead. That ripping paper sound...I look up and there will be a flight of 2 or sometimes 4. I just love it.

I work at the 12th Maintenance Group there at Randolph! Such a great mission! The instructors are fantastic!

This was an amazing video. I’d love to see more with similar formats

We see them over Canyon Lake every once in a while. There'S one flying very low over our house at the lake once in a while also. FREAKING LOVE IT!

Beautiful plane… the training and development process of the USAF (and USN) is just top-notch. It’s great to see older aircraft such as this being successfully used to teach modern and advanced fundamentals for the newer aircraft also.

Happy birthday my friend. Very incredible indeed. I'm Brazilian, and by the way, this aircraft is very similar to our "F-5/M". Happy birthday MY FRIEND MAY GOD BLESS ALL OF US ALWAYS AMEN.

I am in deep love with flying. Thank-you Sir.

Great insight and documentary, the USAF is the finest air force on Earth! Huge respect from your humble NATO partner - Bulgaria Without the US, after WW2 Europe would have still been in rubbles. Many europeans should show more respect and gratitude to the US! Thank you for your service!

I've only just found your channel but I already believe it's one of the best for insight into military flight. Thankyou! From England 😁

A great video, thank you so much for sharing and creating this channel.

Thanks Hasard for bringing this priceless experience to us ^^

It's so awesome to see how knowledgeable the pilot is on this aircraft.

Awesome! Thanks you all!

I worked these for 5 years, loved these

Your Channel grew amazingly great work

We gotta save these aircraft. They’re perfect for Museums because of their size. So small!

Loved flying the T38 at Vance (class 69-04). Most of us at that time (1968) were pipelined for Viet Nam. Our aircraft block after graduation was anything from the F4 all the way down to the O1 FAC aircraft.

I got to fly in the t-38 simulator at Williams AFB in a high school field trip. Was a really fun experience.

It was an honor to work on the J85 engine at Laughlin AFB powering the T38

The Kawasaki T-4 we use in Japan is like a baby F4 Phantom. It goes about mach 0.87. Currently under evaluation for a replacement.

Excellent video!

Thank you for that great stuff!

Dude! You should do a video on the IFF squadrons! It would be cool to show what T-38 grads go through right after UPT before their B course. Just finished at the 49th in KCBM.

I live in Saiint Louis, I get to see the new T7 flying with a Draken leased A4, Pretty neat!

Love the video by the way . . .Thanks!

That is awesome that they do that for the Vietnam POW guys..... great job fella's

Awesome vid.. first time I seen a barrier on a runway 👍

I’m gettin a model T-38 soon but I’m gonna do NASA Decals,Great video

I live right under the flight path of those RA tail coded T-38C's. I enjoy seeing and hearing them fly. I'll be a little sad when they get retired.

I like the Vietnam era camo paint scheme on that T-38.

I was a USAF brat. Born in 1967 love your videos

Representing Vance AFB in Enid, OK! Can't wait to see the new single engine T-38's (less maintenance & cost; definitely the way to go) flying over Oklahoma. That's unfortunate that the T-38 is still difficult, and dangerous, to land. The previous T-37's were very difficult to land. We had a lot of half roll-overs landing on the canopy upside down, in Enid more times than it should've happened. I get it. The joy is designed to be unstable, like the F-16's, but there's gotta be a workaround or a fix. Were losing too many to these unfortunate half barrel rolls at 15ft off the runway

Reminds me of the F-5E Tiger. Saw a lot of them at Bergstrom AFB in the '80s. They were so cool. It seemed like the raised the nose gear on take off but my memory is fuzzing. :) I also saw the Northrop F-20 at Suwon in Korea a day before it crashed and killed the test pilot.

Wow. Wood floors. Nice job on the PIT vid.

UPT class 85=01 Reese Air Force Base, Nov '83 - Nov - '84. That thing was a total thrill to fly!

Did aetc ever start doing formation touch and gos again at Randolph.? I noticed the wing landing in the video. They stopped these in the late 90s for a while when some general lost his nerve. I was on the tweet side and we hated seeing these go because they were great training, unique, and of course fun. My favorite time of my whole aviation career was at Randolph. Salute to you guys!

Great video Thanks 🙂

Love it Sir!

Amazing footage hasard! Great video, what about a tour on your f35 squadron??

Very interesting!

C W Lemoine and The ready room both not to long ago found out their reserve gig flying T38's would be no more. Both Gonky and Mover posted FINI videos on their channels and actually in the FINI they flew together.

Saw those at Sheppard while attending tech school in the 80's!

Despite the negatives to the T-38, it sounds like an aircraft that's a blast to fly. I remember when Williams AFB in Mesa, AZ, now decommissioned and presently a civilian airport, trained fighter pilots. Their flight line was mostly T-38s.

Good to see ya all gown up FOD. Miss the McDozen days.

Good job man!

The upgraded, C-model T-38s are much safer jets than the old A-models. They have glass avionics, GPS, and most importantly, they have REAL ejections seats that can save a pilot during a takeoff or landing accident. I still cannot believe that the USAF has some of our pilots flying older A-models, when REAL, MB seats are available for this jet. As a long-time taxpayer, I think we owe it to all of our people to give them seats that will actually save their lives.

Never underestimate the power of "a little inattention!!"

That birdstrike story about taking out an engine but still having one left begs the question what do pilots think of the new advanced trainer having only 1 engine? Good video btw 🤙🤙

'AOA will vary a bit between each jet depending on how ''bent'' it is, amount of times it has been over G'd' I was a bit shocked by this but these babies have the best care and maintenance on Earth, they're not made to fill a CEOs paycheck or flown until their wings fall off.

Live near Columbus AFB and see T-38 flying around from time to time.

The TJ Magna 'Bird of Prey' is a seriously underrated Aussie sleeper (and cheap to buy)...fastest front wheel drive at the time and they sound seriously good at speed. The ralliart version with full body kit is quite radical.

awesome

I believe that's the "Mig-28" from the original movie "Top Gun".

The T-38 is great, but its time has passed. Time for it to pass the mantle on to the T-7A Redhawk

I live next to Randolph, I see these fly over my house all day.

ah the "Sheep Jet." I knew the old Crewchief Moe. That guy took pride in 8191.

Interesting video!

Epic ⛳

I live just a couple miles from Randolph and ever since i subscribed, I'll drive by the base (daily) and be like "hmmm... i wonder if that's Hasard.." lol

Great video. Maybe I should subscribe! I guess that Tacan Fix - to - Fix navigation is no longer required😢 I know that formation landings are no longer in the UPT syllabus, after fatal mishaps in 2019, and then just recently in November, 2021 (formation approach), but I see some footage here in your video of wing landings. Is that just at PIT? As I recall, it was the final turn that has caused several fatal accidents in the T38, but don’t have actual statistics.

Dudes who fly planes are so epic.

Hello from Torrance California 🤙🏽

aww i remember my days at vance

This was a great video! I enjoyed this and was wondering the differences between the F-5 in DCS and the T-38? I would like to be a fly on the wall in the bar listening to the stories of my heroes!

Hey, guys. Question for whomever: Is getting assigned the CV-22 on drop night common? Are there any more specific requirements because it’s AFSOC?

Great video/

nice!!!👍👍

"This is Arthur P. Decker on Guard. I've taken bird strikes in both engines, and it's shooting feathers at me. Bailing out!"

T-38 has served well, but the T-7 is MAJORLY overdue. The number of incidents and accidents with T-38s in the last few years have shown it really isn't a good training aircraft with all it quirks, especially considering the different characteristics of modern fighters vs what it was designed (such as Century Series) to train for.

LOL!! Using Thrustmaster Warthog throttle for the sim.

The BEST little jet the US Air Force never wanted. Now the Air Force and Navy can't find enough of them... I bet you, it out lives it replacement.

I'm curious what was your ACT Score and an average fighter pilots

Keep those Vietnam/P.O.W. stories alive and forever immortalized on that wall of heroes!!

How do your ears feel when you do an unrestricted climb in a jet like does it feel like they're gonna burst due to pressure changes. Or is the cockpit pressurized well enough to where that won't happen?

Amazing stuff, the T38. A few months ago I saw (I think) several up and around Hill AFB. My buddy freaked out and thought they were MiGs! Would it be possible to tour the Air Force Academy? Get an overview of the whole fighter pilot learning curve from street to seat, as it were?

Awesome video per usual, Hasard! Big thank you to Mark for showing us all around the T-38! Interesting to see that nose-high attitude on landing he was talking about. How does flying the T-38 compare to flying the F-35, if at all?

Knowledge bomb 💥

Cool nice 😎 👌 👍

That must be pretty cool for the students to have an F35 pilot go up and train with them. Hasard my question to you, is do you ever show off a little bit? :P

Well, Dog My Cats ... the Flight Instructor at the beginning of this Video proudly says the highest he's been in aT-38 is Flt Level 390 [39, 000 feet] ... on the West Leg of my return from my Solo "Out & Back" from Moody to Columbus AFB, ATC put me at Flt Level 420 [42,000 feet] ... and THAT, Friends, was REALLY 'Getting High' ... Bart, Columbus AFB Class 73-06 ...

Good luck