British Couple React Greatest Attack Jet You've Never Heard Of - A-37 Dragonfly - "The Super Tweet" 

The A-37 Was Never Designed As A Fighter!! A = Attack, F = Fighter, B = Bomber, K = Tanker(Inflight Refueling), C = Cargo, E = Electronic(Surveillance), P = Patrol, H = Helicopter

The Maryland Air National Guard flew A-37s out of Martin State Airport just east of Baltimore for several years after Vietnam. They have had a wing of the A-10's flying there since retiring the A-37's..

The A-37 Dragonfly was a very effective weapon in Vietnam, and a testament to the Air Force establishment to find innovative solutions to a very unconventional set of combat conditions. But combat situations rarely repeat themselves, and military professionals need to be flexible to seek the most effective solution to the next challenge. As great as the A-37 Dragonfly was, I don't believe it would have been effective in the combat situations the US encountered post-Vietnam. (OBTW, I'm a 30-year veteran of the United States Air Force and have flown numerous times in the the T-37 "Tweet," the trainer version of the A-37 Dragonfly).

I love that y’all found this man 😂 he’s hilarious

I was stationed at an Air Force base that had the T-37, and holy cow, they were loud!

When I was a kid the ANG base in Battle Creek about 15 miles southwest of where I grew up operated theses planes. Then they got A-10s.

In Vietnam we had the Skyraider & the A-37 Both were AWESOME close Air Support BUT you sure could tell thrll the A-37 was coming ,you'd hear it 15 mins before it got there lol

Now the first two aircraft named the P47 Thunderbolt (was designed to be a high altitude fighter) and the A1 Skyraider (the A1 was designed as a ground attack aircraft) were WW2 aircraft fighting in the jet age and also devastating as ground attack aircraft.

The jet sat so low to the ground,. you got into it, like a sports car! I've been next to them and I'm 5'9", and the cockpit rim was lower than my belt! It's cockpit glass opened like a gull wing mercedes, not like an F4 cockpit.

A-37 was used for decades as a jet trainer for new pilots.

He has a video on the Skyraider as well. It's an impressive aircraft - a prop plane that shot down jet fighters in the 60s.

Our Wisconsin Air National Guard unit, the 115th Fighter Wing, was assigned OA-37s for a short time, 1979-1981, then transitioned to A-10s.

I flew the T-37B, the regular Tweet in 1981. Similar in outward appearance to the A-37, but quite different. It's like taking the frame of a regular city bicycle and souping it up with all kinds of refinements,, making it a terror on the streets.

TFE did a video on the A1 Skyraider. Since you're interested, check it out. As for other videos of his, he has many others. My favorite is about Samuel Whitmore (angry old veteran vs 700 redcoats). Other ones you might want to check out Last War Chief, World War Tree, RAF's legless Anti-hero, or America Stole a German Uboat and Stuck it in Chicago.

Fun reaction! But, James, you stopped the video before the end. Remember that TFE usually puts more at the end. This time he had a great rant in there. So let it go through the pitch for merch and the quack-bang-out and see if he has more for you. He usually does.

I'd bet a lot of those cargo plane pilots would be thrilled to death to fly a fighter even if it was a small one.

He does have a nice little short video on the Sky Raider, but I do wish he had another one for the P-47 Thunderbolt to complete the family tree.

ALL US Air Force pilots were trained on the T-37 (the trainer version of the A-37). It was called "the Tweet" because the high pitched whine of its engines teneded to eliminating the hearing of a ranged of frequencies of pilot's and tech's who were anywhere near it.

This is fairly accurate. - The A37 was primarily used as "Fast FAC (Forward Air Controller)" i.e. guys who direct close air support strikes. With a secondary strike role it was also tasked with Combat Search And Rescue (CSAR) support. - The reason it was retired was NOT because the AF wanted something more expensive like the A10; it was simply because the A37 couldn't survive in a Soviet/Russian style Integrated Air Defense System (IADS). The A10 WAS designed to take hits from AAA up to 23mm, as well as MANPADS like SA7/14, and tactical SAMS like SA8/SA9 and survive. In other words, it was designed to fix the vulnerabilities of the A37. - It is still used in Central/South America because it's easy to maintain, easy to fly and has a good loiter time (it can stay on station for quite some time) and there's no/limited AAA/MANPADS threats.

Fat Electrician: World War Tree (Operation Paul Bunyan). Sergent Recklass (Marine's Warhorse). Liquid Death (From the Fat Files)

I love watching your videos!! Absolutely enjoy every minute of your reaction!! I hope you’re both doing absolutely fabulous and that your baby is also doing great. I love the pictures. What a great touch!! See you soon.❤ love from Niskayuna, New York, USA

I was a crew chief where they had T-37A tweet trainer. It was loud. I mean uncomfortably loud. We called them the flying dog whistle. The dragonfly the A-37 dragon fly was a bit less loud. Great ground pounder,

I was in the service when there were still a few in active service, amazing little planes. 😊 I was stationed on a logistics and training base and part of my hearing loss is from the engines of the T37s (T for trainer) and F16s, a *22 million* dollar plane and basically a seat and a pair of wings bolted onto a giant, jet engine. 😊 One lesson learned and improvement in the A10 (we had those, too) was the thing that earned it the name "flying bathtub." After having pilots shot with small arms and machine gun fire during low altitude runs, they built a heavy, steel tub in which the pilot sits in the A10 and it made a huge difference. I really liked the Dragonflies but the A10 (in personal conflict with the F16) is my favorite plane. That said, we had an SR71 Blackbird on our base and which I got to look inside, they're like a Star Wars fighter before Star Wars was ever thought of. Incredible technology... From the 50s. A full speed, full altitude, 180° turn requires about 1/3rd of the continental US to complete. 😊

OK...That is one very cool aircraft. I took flight lessons 30 years ago, and flew a Piper Tomahawk. It's about the same size, and this critter scoots along. This would be an ultimate demonstration ......of Mid Life Crisis gone terribly wrong! 😂 And cheap too! Fast way to go on vacation!

The U.S. Air Force has a new low-price ground attack plane, the Sky Warden. I recommend The Fat Electricians video, "NEW Attack Plane: The Sky Warden - Better Than A10 Warthog?" The video is a short three minutes and eleven seconds long.

All those non fighter pilots would give limbs to be assigned to a fighter jet of any sort.

You got to watch "True Lies" with Arnold Schwarzenegger to get the hotel chair joke reference 🤨🤔🤯

This was great but as The Stranger said in "The Big Lebowski": "Do you have to use so many cuss words?" No, not you mates, The Fat Electrician.

You need to let his video finish. He sometimes rants for a second at the very end like he does in this one, but ya did let it finish. Other than that, love what you guys do.

Don't know where he got the info that the Air Force did not have A-1 Sky raiders but that is wrong as they used them in Vietnam for CSAR

Have you done a reaction to his A-10 video? if not it would be a good one for a quick video.

I believe that he has videos on all the mentioned aircraft, or at least most of them.

Reckless spending is why we are 34 TRILLION in debt…

The military brass hates anything that is cheap, Ballsy and effective

Check out his video about the MK19

Want dry sense of humor? React to FARGO, either the movie or the series. Hilarious, in the way that reminds me of British sense of humor. You’ll also find that upper Midwest accent interesting.

Please do "Old 666" it's long but great and because it's about B-17 bomber crew and the release of Masters of the Air the third mini series of Band Of Brothers.

Please do SSGT. Reckless

Hey I recently watched one of your videos where you were confused about gun laws so I made a video for you to watch its in vr by the way

Just look up fat Electrician sky raider it'll pop right up

About the most tame name for pretty much any American vehicle lets face it

You missed the best part. The part where he says that the next time America is giving away fighter jets, they should auction them off to the tax payers because he wants an f-ing fighter jet.

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I think you misunderstand the mindset of people in the military. The opportunity to blow something up supercedes the desire for personal safety. Especially if you are talking about pilots. It is really difficult to become a fighter pilot. Those other pilots were probably climbing over each other at the chance to do combat missions, drop bombs, etc 😂

every vid you watch from this guy gets a thumbs down

Here's a suggestion for a "Fat Electrition" reaction video. The Real Tank Genius of WW2 Percy 'Hobo'Hobart