WHITE BIRD

[luvchoclabs]

You forgot the AVRO ARROW.

[Crashman2]

@luvchoclabs If you think it is necessary - MAKE YOUR OWN VIDS THE WAY IT PLEASES YOUR TASTE.

[Crashman2]

I have a soft spot for it myself. BUT....Just WHY would an Edwards and Patuxent test pilot roll a 104 low over a heavy in flight, though? Bad enough a 104 is just a J-79 in a tube with a seat and 2 razor blades (literally) on it, has the wingspan of my car- and there he is in the tip vortices IN FORMATION....zooming OVER...THE Heavy of the DECADE...WTF??? We ALL paid- the Russians, too. No more Mach 3+ Aluminum Overcast Lifting Body... and later NASA's renting TU-144s for some work... jeez...

[Cass48]

@Crashman2 I believe he got sucked into the wingtip vortex. When they're doing testing like that it's all business. He just got too close

[Crashman2]

@Cass48 Well, that was an unnecessary multi-type PR display flyby (which is why we have so much film of it), and WHY would an ASTRONAUT-RATED TEST PILOT fly his F-104 Starfighter SO LOW ACROSS THE TOP OF THE XB-70? THIS IS A MYSTERY THAT NO AMOUNT OF PONDERING CAN SOLVE. YES, YOU ARE 100% CORRECT... BUT WHY? Why didn't he stay in formation back with the f-86 Sabrejet?? This crash doomed a good man and a great Program. Some ppl. even say that's why the FABULOUS Boeing SST never got built!

[1PossumJenkins]

The Valkyrie is the most awesome piece of machinery ever built. It brought a tear to my eye.

[Crashman2]

@1PossumJenkins Thanks- but all the credit goes to the pilots, the designers... and the musicians... It goes together well, I thought.

[preluki]

Tu-144 a massive failure

[CoolasIce2]

Great song and a great plane is the XB-70 Valkyrie. I'd like to see Crashman do a vid with the music just on the XB-70.

[Crashman2]

@CoolasIce2 - Thank you sir- I've been lazy, but now I have a LOT of new footage... see also my "anything goes" site at .livevideo.c*m/Crashman (*=o) View with caution... but you're a man too.

[fernfeyes]

@ 4:02 looks like the contractor got there first to check out how his baby is.

[Crashman2]

LOL! It's axiomatic in ALL crashes- the only guy who always beats the crash trucks to the scene is the guy with the can of white paint to paint out the mfr./ airline's logo... That was the F-16's 1st formal Rollout Flight and he couldn't get the gear down- and nobody knew how that big airscoop would behave gear-up on turf, either. Watch him work the elevators- Beautiful job!

[JetMechMA]

@Crashman2: Beautiful job!

JM: Neil Andersen. Sold enough F-16s with his flight demos to make everybody rich at GD. He made the whole west side of Fort Worth there rich. 

[martluth]

I agree with TheCleaner001 it has probably been a year for me also and again great clip and even greater song.

[Crashman2]

Thank you, I work only to please the discriminating gentlemen of such tastes as ourselves. I try to make every vid a "Keeper".

[FlightLevelHeaded]

Video: 9

Music: 2

[eyetheskies]

At 3:30 (3 minutes 30 seconds) a jet crashes and you can see the pilots use the rocket seets to eject, but then the plane fuel catches fire and they are parachuting into flames.

Good g*d, that is the worst shit that could happen to a pilot.

[Crashman2]

That was the first unplanned ejection from an F-14, and BOTH pilots lived and were OK & fine afterwards, their chutes were lifted up and away from the flames JUST ENOUGH by the hot updrafts even if you can't see it in this film..

[ltschmidt02]

I think you are wrong on this one. Those two parachuters are a quick cut from a B-52 crash that is not included here. In the early 90s, a B-52 at an airshow tried to take a hard left with the plane completely 90 degrees on its side. The crew bailed out and landed straight into the flames.

I saw the full clip in USAF officer school. It was terrible. It was a lesson on never to violate the flight plan.

[Crashman2]

@ltschmidt02 I respectfully disagree. I have both clips, and the B-52 jock had NO survivors, whereas this F-14 with hydraulic control falilure did make it home to the wifies. Sure glad real hot air goes UP....

[CoolasIce2]

@Crashman2 I concur.

[Crashman2]

@CoolasIce2 - wish I had more 2 make a pure Valyk-Vid, and this vid got made because I had: inside cockpit at TO clip, First-flight famous "locked flaming brakes landing" clip (where they dropped the L gear with a paperclip, and the F104 formate crossover . Chuck was there, but it's not fun to see her like that, w/ Carl Cross in there. Hoodooed at the start, w/ Ironpants LeMay wanting a Mach 3 BOMBER, in era of hi-alt SAMs. & WHY Joe Walker put his 104 in wing/tail tip vortices of a heavy??

[CoolasIce2]

@Crashman2 "WHY Joe Walker put his 104 in wing/tail tip vortices of a heavy??"

THAT SON OF A BITCH!

[Crashman2]

@CoolasIce2: wish I had more 2 make a pure Valky-Vid, and this vid got made because I had: inside cockpit at TO clip, First-flight famous "locked flaming brakes landing" clip (where they dropped the L gear with a paperclip, and the F104 formate crossover. Chuck was there, but it's not fun to see her like that, w/ Carl Cross in there. Hoodooed at the start, w/ Ironpants LeMay wanting a Mach 3 BOMBER, in era of hi-alt SAMs. WHY did Joe Walker put his 104 in wing/tail tip vortices of a heavy???

[Crashman2]

Yep, that's the first F-14 ejection in 1970, several views. Their controls froze as they tried to get it home. You can see him give it throttle to stop the nose dropping, but that wasn't good enough. Doesn't look like it, but they both survived, the fire's updraft actually lifted their chutes clear of the main flames. Cool!

[Crashman2]

Yeah, and that was its initial rollout flight before all the brass! Couldn't get the gear down and nobody knew how that huge airscoop intake would act on the turf - but he never gave it a chance to dig in. Watch how he twitches the elevators just so...

[doffincodger]

Seems absurd, we've lost Concorde now. The Valkrie also looked a fabulous aircraft,similary the TSR2 are no longer airborne..

[gustavrea]

I loved this song, who was the original band

that played this song in the early 70's?????

[Crashman2]

please folks - READ ALL COMMENTS BEFORE ASKING ABOUT MUSIK... Sure is a beautiful day outside, isn't it? Naming musiK often gets vids tossed from SueT00B.

[va85buckeye]

The a6 that lost its landing gear was from my squadron around 83-84. I was assigned to VA-85. Both Pilot/BN made it out ok

[Crashman2]

Great! Always glad to hear from a man who was there..

[Crashman2]

@va85buckeye Small world! Thanks for writing- you were the guys that DID IT, I just play with this computoy... I''m not surprised, but happy to have their non-injury confirmed by an authority. Navy gear are WAY strong, and that's where the crash-enegy went, preserving fuselage and ejection capability integrity...

[Vegetanthony]

sweeeet

[ramairgto72]

Can anyone comment on the stories of these wrecks?

[Crashman2]

Really too much to put in 500 chrs- the XB-70 was hit midair by that F-104 you can see crossing over it FAR too closely, and the Russ Tu-144 came apart in a WAY-overstressed hard dive-recovery at the Paris Airshow, 1973. The rest is just misc White Birds, last being the first F-14 ejections. Those 2 men ejecting survived OK, despite what the film shows. Hot updrafts from the fire blew their chutes clear of it.

[simoneywymney]

its a valkilrey aircraft

[martluth]

Who does this remix version? I would like to have it.

[Crashman2]

Read the comments below. It's Vanessa Mae.

[kaveman6618]

OK what is the deal with the silver/white tires on the XB-70? I noticed them at Wright Pat???

[Shazee083]

I think the they are replace with an another space craft one 8 engines wow.

[BenFranklinlives]

Great video and history

But whoever sampled the original song..

Vanessa Mae or Christina Aquilera or Britney Whatever??

Its was song in 1960s by group

Its A Beautiful Day with David LaFlamme

[BenFranklinlives]

For those who have'nt a clue - this song

orig. song by "Its A Beautiful Day"

" Yes, the original version of that FM oldie "White Bird" is included on this CD. Formed in 1967 by former symphony violinist David LaFlamme, this popular group plowed through all of the San Francisco Sound's clichés"

[AngeloatBat]

Cool video- absolutely gay song. How does this even fit the video?

[goodelmer]

Who does this version of the song? I would

like to know

[TomMinderson]

re: "what version of song" - I think its a Vanessa Mae version.

[Crashman2]

You are correct, it's the oldie from David LaFlamme "It's a Beautiful Day" band given new life by the incomparable Vanessa Mae.

[EASYTIGER10]

Great footage. I think mixing the footage of the Valkyrie and the TU 144 at the beginning may confuse some though - the way it's cut makes it look like it's one plane, and they are "vaguely" similar looking for the uninitiated.

I've always thought the plane in the film "Firefox" was based on the XB-70 (yes, I know it was black in the movie) Anyone agree?

[SmiertSpionem]

yup

[supressorgrid]

One pilot survived, the other augered in with the plane after his ejection pod failed to function properly.

[muetter]

did those two pilots who ejected and landing in the firey wreckage survive?

[Crashman2]

Yes. The fire's updraft carried them to one side of the burning wreckage.

[muetter]

wow, lucky them

[madken]

flying off my tits. get with the beat baggy!

[higgrobot]

I was expecting a big boom with all that fuel spraying about, i had to do some unclenching

[SmiertSpionem]

Is there no existing footage of the moment the F-104 strikes the wing and tail of the Valkyrie?

[Crashman2]

No, only stills and I've been looking for 2 years. see check-six dot c0m and punch "Crash Sites" then look for our White Bird and Joe Walker's Starfighter. The stills are amazing, you can see the Valkyrie holding formation with no vertical fins at all left...

[SmiertSpionem]

Tragic really. Both good pilots killed by freak turbulence. Took out a brilliant experimental bomber too.

[Crashman2]

Looks like a faulty drogue or even probe here - supposed to disconnect cleanly even if unplanned separation occurs, not rip the hose in two.

[kinshasaAPP]

absolutley awesome

[behnubi]

just like concord :D

[scalawaggywakyman]

Why isn't that the legendary North American XB-70 Valkyrie. and of course rhewllwyd, they didn't steal enough of the Concord design because it was made earlier in the 50's.

[Defender78]

OMG at 3:45 do those F15 pilots clear the flames>?

[Crashman2]

Yup! The fireball created an updraft that blew their chutes clear of the rapidly developing forest fire.

[jakobole]

Thats an F-14

[kyrkbymannen]

cool!

[rhewllwyd]

Obviously didn't steal enough of the Concord design.

[Crashman2]

Or sneezed while pulling on those forward canards. Bad idea.

[youarthurhu]

It was a photo shoot for General Electric jet engines - F-104, B-58, B-70, F-4. After this debacle, the AF said no to publicity shots like this.

[Crashman2]

Lol - your taste is yours. You're the first person to have caught that quick shot of the 104 crossing

the Valkyrie's aft fuselage (just before the wreckage footage)- after which control was impossible for both airplanes. I think he was rolling around, playing in the huge vortices coming off those giant vertical stabs.

[dannyhigham]

Not sure about the song. lol

But I've always been under the impression that the the mid air collision was'nt the F-104's fault, but infact a vortex created at the rear of the XB-70 when in flight. All the pilots in the formation were experienced and it is to be believed that the pilot of the Valkyrie lost reference to his position in relation to the other aircraft.

Anyway, cool aircraft!

[docwatson1938]

To this day the XB-70 is the most powerfull aircraft ever built. It was an outstanding aircraft that was a success in every facet of its design. The crash that summond the end of the program was due to a chase pilot in an F-104 colliding with the XB-70. As for the B-1 being a grat airplane?? WTF? Out of date and out moded before leaving the blueprint stage. At least the XB-70 could out run all known weapon systems of the day, the B-1 was and is a death trap.

[ssfoga]

I'm unclear what you mean by "powerful". The XB-70 can hit Mach 3, but the X15 is clocked at Mach 6.72 and it is also manned. And the Aurora can hit Mach 10.5 although that is denied. It powered up over LA and caused such a loud (and unfamiliar to them) sonic boom that it was mistaken for an earthquake.

But I admit I'm not that well-versed in aviation. This video was amazing for its artistry most of all.

[imnazhole]

it was a valcari air force bomber. has a tragic history.

[fRANK0380]

when as this aircraft made??? becuz it suck hahaha not the video the plane..........stupid song for the stupid plane....

[ssfoga]

Uh, Frank. Frank. Your comment is senseless. There's no capitalization, typos (I hope) and unclear meaning. The word "stupid" is overused/redundant and it is also personification of the subject because inanimate objects (those not LIVING) cannot be "stupid" objectively speaking.

Man, I"m outta here.

[zooooooooozebeeeeeez]

holy shit when the fuel line fails the jet fuel going into our atmosphere is not good if someone takes one breath their fuckin dead b-cuz its extremly toxic

[Batou2U]

You're nuts. It's glorified kerosene.

[ssfoga]

Sure is. And frankly not all that glorified. For every intelligent comment I find here, there are fifty spams, filthy sayings, flaming wars and idiocy. That's why I am so very very rarely here.

Also....are we still teaching spelling in the public schools? I want to smack someone when I see crap like "b-cuz" or an entry with no capitalization.

I should just leave the country.

[faisal555]

shit american crap

[BarrykeNL]

anyone got X303?

[Alexvideoclip]

I'm not agree, that's an Ax32uyt11ebdnds79525 prototype.

[Crashman2]

No, No! That's the XB-70AB29XXF NNS-1 55RG22SB-T2 Ejection Capsule Crashing in Flames Test Model... see the little ears and sensor legs? It worked! But you sure know your airplanes, pal! :)

[rusbp]

I just Saw a RUSSKI TU-144.

[Crashman2]

You sure did. And an XB-70, some A-6 Intruders, an F-18, some F-14s ... all sorts of airplanes! But they all can crash....

[MilitaryMovies]

That is the WORST plane ever made, then they made they made the B-1B Lancer, the best bomber ever made (My opinion).

[seth1700]

I don't think you can compare them.

B1: Maiden Flight 1974-12-23

XB70: Maiden flight 1964-09-21

B1 was built 10 years later but

still cannot beat XB70's performance

And I bet you that there are records set by

XB70 that B1 never broke (or any other plane yet...)

[merlin1093]

That F-18 that went down on the run way was at the El Toro Air show I was there for that.

[greenhornet59]

outstanding...Vietnam Vet here in helicopters...Ive seen this stuff in real life...it is surreal when you watch it.

[XaeroGMP]

qual nome da musica???

[SpartaG]

Most excellent video! Thw music adds so very muchto the clip . . .I,too, have walked under the Valkerie at Dayton,and I agree with atom - Talk about Kahunas! Again, thganks for a most entertaining piece . . .

[CoolasIce2]

I knew about the Valkyrie before, but after watching the vid and listening to that great music, I can't stop thinking about it! The Valkyrie was to be a Mach 3 bomber. Look at the plane. Where would it carry bombs?

[KurtGnu]

Another interesting video.. I'm trying to build up the courage to get in an aeroplane and fly one day.. your videos doesn't help matters one bit.. but they are worth watching!!

[Crashman2]

Aw don't be deterred - you're much safer in any plane than driving on the highways. Just remember - the pilot doesn't want to crash either. :)

[KurtGnu]

Judging by your videos I thought they loved nothing more.. than jumping out of aircraft, watching them explode on impact.. :D :D

[atom2009]

Well I would stay away from car crash videos if I were you!

[KurtGnu]

Ha ha ha.. I already do!!

[supressorgrid]

That was the XB-70 Valkerie proto type bomber for USAF

[markels65]

NIce video and great sounds thanks.

[atom2009]

I seen the Xb-70 at Dayton. Whoever walked up to that and flew it for the first time had some major Balls!

[KurtGnu]

I agree!!

[ATFSCrash]

Great Video, I like how you made the video fit the music.

[ansonchappell]

Only one left now, I'd love to go to Dayton and see it. Must be impressive in person.

[ATFSCrash]

It is a big museum, you can rush though it in about two hours, but if you're a hard core aviation buff you might want to spend 2 days. If you never been through it you might want to go through fast, so you know how to pace yourself on a second slower pass.

2 or 3 main hangers, and aircraft outside.

[bulldragon1]

The White Bird looks to be the ill - fated Tupolev T-144? and the programe was stopped aftre the Paris Airshow crash in about 1973. It was based on the Concorde, and designs of the Concorde were leaked to the Russians during the development phase.

[saigonnais]

The Tupolev in question was nicknamed CONCORDSKI because the KGB was able to put its hands on the Concorde plan during the early phase of its design.

[seth1700]

no this is XB-70A Valkyrie

[saigonnais]

The White Bird looks like a Concorde. When was it manufactured ?

[seth1700]

September 21, 1964, until February 4, 1969

well before Concorde (First flown in 1969)

[televisionremote]

the xb-70 i mean. my grandpa was on the commission to design her

[televisionremote]

beautiful aircraft. absolutely stunning. The result of that program a shame

[NikitasGuitars]

I agree, I've always thought the xb-70 was about the most gorgeous aircraft ever constructed. theres just something about it.