Tweet Rage

[rjardy]

T-37 used to effectively turn JP8 into noise

[jjjcabi]

Those are the fastest accelerating Tweets I've ever seen!!!

[crunchycrispybacon]

I like how you can take off really fast by spooling up and switching the thrust deflectors...like popping the clutch for a plane. Can you operate the thrust deflectors at 100%?

[ce550b]

Actually this was filmed at GWO, Greenwood, Ms.

[robertteuma]

I really love this model

[schildmeyer]

Wow, excitement at 250 knots LOL. Good video, I was going to rag on these guys until I noticed it was tagged "comedy". You guys are "dangerous".

[Txman1996]

6,000 pound dog whistle. Good luck with that stand-up on the Ejection EP. Something like 14 Notes, Warnings, and Cautions. Highest onset of Gs over any other aircraft except F-16.

[Txman1996]

Very Nice video!! JSUPT 03-07 "Hangrips Raise, Triggers Squeeze"

[Brimestar]

This was filmed at Columbus AFB, MS...

[MC135]

This was a awesome little trainer i worked them at CAFB MS for 4 years

[deerkillawv]

is there any way a civiallian can fly/ buy one of those thanks.

[silverbird58]

i didnt know they could launch that quick

[grazyarnie]

@silverbird58

cause it was speed up a bit...look at the gear-up sequence...way too fast

[maxsmodels]

Sweet little plane.

[kappanurse05]

My dad heard stories of students pissing off ips which resulted in the oxygen hose getting grabbed and closed lol

[U2ONE08]

YES!...I heard the same stories from my dad...My dad graduated from Columbus in 1990. He didn't have this instructor but many of his classmates did...TRUE STORY! I can understand that some trainees are conceded in the tweet program but it doesn't give the IP to jerk their air hose around! If the students continued to be jerks they would have found their way out of there anyway.

[BMWMarv]

XL is where I completed flight school in 1995, Laughlin AFB in Del Rio, TX.

[bullcurr]

every so often, I see one of these doing touch and go practices by the house with the letters XL on the tails.

[peterpilot379]

This video was inspired by another video called "Eagle Rage". The pilots at the begining were instructors at Columbus AFB, MS.

[YaBaBy5000]

those take off quick

[fighterace2688]

Loud and badass

[kuljozet]

can you tell me about the role this plane played

[skipplet]

This plane's role in the USAF was to make as much noise as possible at as high a pitch as possible.

[pheenix42]

@skipplet Well, pilots didn't call it The Converter for nothing! (converting fuel into noise)

[scarface8999]

@skipplet

Amen!

[ClancD]

The T-37 was a primary trainer. It is being replaced with the T-6 Texan II.

[soxeyer]

the t6 texan was a prop though

[ClancD]

The original T-6 of WWII fame was a standard piston engined airplane, the new Texan II is powered by an 1100 hp Turboprop (like a jet engine with a propeller on the front, instead of creating jet thrust the engine is used to turn the prop. The new T-6 is much more powerful than the T-37.

[Earlbuttle]

The reason they are switching to the Texan II is economics. The T-37 is a much older platform (1955) and is more costly to maintain. It is also more costly to fly due to the older design, out-of-production, Continental turbo-jet engines.

The Texan II uses a readily available P&W engines that get much better fuel economy and which are easier and cheaper to maintain.

While the T-37 is indeed a primary jet trainer, there was also a light attack version deployed during Vietnam: the A-37 Dragonfly.

[avionicswirenut]

@Earlbuttle The good old tweet was fairly reliable...The new T-6 has some serious engine problems......I have worked on both.....Forgot to mention the structural problems on the T-6....

[fxdwings]

F'in loud and F'in fast.  Nice video.

[nykiller23]

i am going to fly with this plane...100 knot gear down 110 knot flaps up...

[adamt1000]

Amazing how cool a tweet looks in fast forward, although the real time performance isn't so great. Just glad I got to fly it before the T-6 took over.