Sono T38

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Why is it set so low?

Canada has one of only a few flyable Lancaster bombers on the planet. Based at CYHM in Hamilton Ontario and it always looks like it's never seen a day of action in it's life. Even our A-block Hornets are in pretty decent condition considering they're almost near the end of their service life and they have seen a lot of action in multiple theatres of warfare.

Thanks Brad, I have worked on both the airframe and engine on this great bird. I truly loved my work on them😊

For a time they were used as adversary aircraft at Top Gun School. They gave the F-15s and F-16s fits--often achieving a 2 to 1 kill advantage. They are much more nimble than the "F" jets and until 'stand off" missiles they were embarrassing the supposedly superior jets. This is a fighter we should still have i our inventory.

@@robertwatson818 I was one of the F-5 mechanics at VFC-13 in Fallon for 9 years. We were the squadron you are thinking of. At one time, we had 14 single seat F-5N's that we got from the Swiss and one two seat F-5F. They were such a good aircraft; simple, reliable and easy to work on. All our F-5's are gone and were replaced by 40 F-16A, B, C and D aircraft. For now, VFC-13's maintenance department is closed down while those of us that decided to transition are being retrained.

Here in Brazil we still flying them in a the last and more modern F5 model. F5EM and FM modernized by embraer.

They are not underrated in the least. Nobody badmouths the F5.

Same! Flown an old F-5 simulator, actually. True cockpit, instrument only though. Still interesting.

T38's donhave Wingtip launchers. But the Nose sure does look like a T38

F20 tigershark was a beauty, too !!!

The wing gives it away. a racked leading edge to the wing where it meets the fuselage on front edge. The T-38 has a smaller but more prominent "C" cupped air intake. Plus the F-5's have a beefier body and slightly less of a coke bottle shape to the fuselage.

I'm guessing that it's a f5 with a t38 nose cone and minus the radar. I don't know if you are allowed to have radar as a civilian.

Negative, MiG-28s lol

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@@mk6315 no one's seen em up this close before mav

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thanks! Jet Noise - sound of freedom baby.

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@@sylencecured77 look's more like a t38 tbh

@@erik33107 Correct. The *CF-5D* Freedom Fighter is the Canadian built version of the _Northrup F-5B Freedom Fighter,_ whose two-seat version uses the Northrup T-38A *Talon* airframe with slightly more powerful engines, and wingtip pylon provisioning for tip tanks or alternatively, AIM-9 launch rails. Fun fact: The single seat *F-5A* is slightly _longer_ (47' 2") than the dual seat *F-5B* / *CF-5D* (46' 4") trainers given that the dual seat B/D models use the T-38 airframe as noted above. The F-5A, F-5B, xF-5A, xF-5D *Freedom Fighters* are the predecessors of the larger and more popular F-5E, F-5F *_Tiger II_*

@@oubrioko awesome share!

F20 tigershark was sexy, too ! another relative of the F5/T38

5,342 ft! My home airport has a 12,500ft and a 10,000 ft runway! I like to remind people that pretty much anywhere you go is going to be considered "short field" when you leave HSV.

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Same here!

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Wow…haven’t heard that name since the late eighties….worked the microwave links at the end of the runway area…used watch the U2’s land with the chase cars….what site!!!

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CF-5, if I remember correctly, but that profile sure looks like a T-38 to me.

@@FighterPilotPodcast IIRC, Canadair did a few mods to the overall design. Officially, it's known as the CF-116. A models were single seat, D models were trainers. They used to be used as the lead-in trainers for the CF-188.

Canada has never operated T-38 actually. Their CF-5D is F-5B, which is basically armed T-38 with wingtip rail/tank. There's no T-38 with wingtip rail or tank, that's the easiest way to tell T-38 and F-5B apart.

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WRONG. That title belongs to the Tomcat..as the "REAL LAST Gunfighter"

@@ghostrider1827 Wrong, that title was coined by pilots of the F-8 Crusader. The F-14 came along after they reintroduced building fighters with a cannon after the brass realized leaving it off the F-4 was ridiculous.

@@johnhickman106 I KNOW when it was coined. And then came... THE TOMCAT. The last of the real analog fighters ... everything after is FBW.

@@ghostrider1827 GOOD FOR YOU. The name Last Gunfighter has nothing to do with analog though so keep going down this ridiculous path. So you have a soft spot for the F-14. The F-15 was right there with it as an analog fighter, genius. Since the F-15 first flew two years after the Tomcat’s first flight, that would make it, the last one based on your logic.

@@ghostrider1827 Nothing else from "Mr. I KNOW"?

Looks can be deceiving.

Except you probably flew the T-38. While this looks similar, it's actually a Canadian-built CF-5D.

@@FighterPilotPodcast True. Looks like what I remember from T-38's, but I'm sure these had more power.

Since the F-14 was retired in 2006 they have been entering our airspace at will. Nobody can stop them.

Is it? Wouldn't know. ...but what does that have to do with this?

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