All the mentioned incidents were rather related to basic technical issues. The problems had nothing to do with aerodynamics ! You were idiots, maybe this was the problem ?!

Maybe someone will model the aerodynamics today and establish what the problem was. Maybe a dorsal fin? Vortex generators ahead of the stabilizers? The structure I’m sure could be analyzed.

Blaming nazi DNA was funny.

You know a plane is bad when pilots resign when told they'll be flying it.

Interesting to see so many of the system concepts first used in the A-7 that ultimately went on to mature in the F-117. Those first Nighthawk pilots were training under the cover of being A-7 pilots.

looks like the Avro arrow

The biggest problems were the engines and this was in most cases. Some planes survived long enough to see engine upgrades and become something and some didn’t.

Holy Crap this is a crappy documentary!😑

Death by peaches. Apparently the O'Hare reps at all costs did not want their new runway to be scratched up by the USN.

Viggen = lightning !! Or “thunderbolt”

Voigt: in German, the name is pronounced like "fucked", only with a long "o" (or "oh") sound instead of the "u". No lie. But oddly appropriate, don't you think?

0:38 "Blistering thrust"?? Bull**** ! ! ! This is the "gutless Cutlass" you're talking about !

It's like a chibi F14, lol.

Ejecting from an airplane that later on land itself unscathed is a little bit embarrassing

Hyperbole much?

It looks great! But sometimes that is just not enough..

There is NOTHING ugly about this awesome plane.

India had decided to buy this aircraft. But later IAF ended up with Jaguars because of bribery or arm twisting on the Indian govt side. Sweden really is an understated power house in engineering and design.

I've always thought the A7 attractive, if in a slightly stumpy sort of way, while likewise the F8, in a slightly too lean sort of way. Now, if there was an A7.5, that would be drop-dead gorgeous!

Utterly moronic script. Great footage, the sounds are like listening to a noisy idiot.

The amount of misinformation in this video is simply atrocious.

SLUF Jocky. VA-56 VA-147 VA-94 Midway .. Conni .. Enterprise

Ugly? Are you blind?

This was a plane begging for canards. Among other benefits it wouldn’t need such a tall nose wheel.

I built a model of one of these around 1974.

I lasted about 3 minutes before the ghastly text > speech robot "narrator" sent me packing. 👎👎

Too bad, it looked quite cool, although I never understood the rationale behind the gigantic front wheel

I actually love the corsair 2 . Yea it was the first aircraft with HUD and packed a wallop.

Well as a Canadian I'm just embarrassed.

Imagine a country that at the time had a population of 8 million only, managed to design and manufacture such an aircraft in large quantities. We were really on top of our game back then!

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The Six never had escape capsules

@2:23, What was the range of the B-29 again? lMAO.

Like how Israel always gets their hands on our new weapons

I was in an apartment building in Alameda, CA that an A-7 crashed into. Loudest thing I've ever experienced.

Bealls out in a chair while talking about capsules

I was expecting this video to be about lightning research that used the aircraft to attract midair lightning strikes. It is a good video about the history of aircraft itself though.

I remember these are the tarmac at March AFB in Riverside in the late 1980's

"Problematic Nazi DNA" ? Really? I very doubt that was a spreading rumor in the 50's. "Problematic" in This context is a very new and Orwellian concept. 1. Aquisition of Nazi tech was still uncommon knowledge. 2.people did view it as "spoils of war". 3. There were many literal copies of Nazi designed equiptment in all branches of service. Whats "Problematic" is the ever presence of rewritten history made for sensibilities infected with socialist mind virus.

The A7 is ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL compared to the A6. I worked on both

Wow! Americans admitting that something they designed and built was actually a pile of garbage. How very, very unusual. Still, it was all the fault of the Nazis, apparently...

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The narrator sounds like an advertisement lol

A late friend of mine was the "Group Engineer" for the control systems on the F-106. His name was Björn "Andy" Andréasson, a Swede like me.

F-106 ejection seats proved fatal to the early pilots, killing all 12.

Always having the canopy open on landing is not exactly a vote of confidence, more like a cry for help.

Underpowered and straight winged fighters for the Navy and Marines put them behind their Airforce counterparts all through the Fifties until the F-4 & F-8 arrived on the scene. The Navy could have had a dominant record in Korea like the Airforce had against the Mig-15 with the Sabre if they had taken their jets at the time up powered and swept winged the Banshee and Panther. To get more Mig kills the exchange program putting Navy/Marine pilots in Airforce F-86 squadrons in Korea seemed the only recourse

This was actually pretty good always like the f-106 they were King until streak Eagle came along I sat in the cockpit of that 😁🇺🇲

Former President George W Bush flew the F106 in his younger days as Air Force officer

Our guard unit flew the A7 for years and I always thought I’d was a handsome beast.