Nellis Airshow 1959

[Ken from PG]

Nellis Airshow 1959

[Skyracer]

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Awesome Ken, thank you so much. Where did you find that?

OK gang, how many could you name on first pass (in order of appearance)?

F-100 Super Saber
F-101 Voodo
F-102 Delta Dagger
F-104 Starfighter
F-105 Thunderchief
F-106 Delta Dart
KC-135 Strato Tanker (W/B-52 in trail)
B-47 Stratojet
B-52 Stratofortress
B-58 Hustler
C-130 Hercules

[taglialavore]

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THANK YOU VERY MUCH KEN FROM PG!!
All my favorites when young, and I´m afraid they still are.
Anyone remember a TV serie called "Steve Canyon", who flew the Convair Deltas?, never lost one episode, how I liked it!.
very nice video

[Len Ashburn]

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No KC-97s. Oh, that's right. They were all at their home bases or on Reflex deployment pulling SAC Alert!

[supercub]

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I bet there's more people at the airshow nowadays, then lived in Las Vegas in 1959........thanks for sharing the tape....very kewl.
Brian

[Skyracer]

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No KC-97s. Oh, that's right. They were all at their home bases or on Reflex deployment pulling SAC Alert!

It's 1959!!! Why would the Air Force be "showing off" those old prop jobs? (No C-119's, C-123's, or C-124's either.)

[drmull]

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Too bad there aren't any Sidewinder launches and napalm drops at today's airshows! Not exactly safe...but fun to watch.

[deepsky]

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That is a great video, thanks for posting it.

[Bob]

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Amazing.
I have never seen a B-58 fly before, thank you

Bob

[Skyracer]

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Amazing.
I have never seen a B-58 fly before, thank you

Bob

One of the most AWESOME sights I've ever seen was a B-58 go around at night! At about 50' AGL the burners came on, long blue flames from all four engines, jet noise echoing off the hangars, and the Hustler climbing out at .something Mach. Gone in sixty seconds...Ha, more like gone in sixteen seconds.

Have a picture of a much younger me, somewhere, standing in front of that same airplane. Hmmm...will have to dig into the archives and see if I can find it.

[AAFO_WSagar]

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Nellis Airshow 1959

Holy carp! While I'd say that would certainly outdo anything we've seen "WOW" produce out of Nellis over the past few years... some of the live fire stuff, almost certainly, has to have been at, what was then called, (or maybe more recently, "Capstone" or even more recently, "live fire demo") held, not at Nellis but, rather out in the middle of "BFE" (translation, only by PM)...

Nevertheless... STELLER historic Nellis chit!
Super huge thanks Ken from PG!!!

[Jason S.]

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Speaking of the Hustler here are a few cool vids.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8gedUtdyNw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hcp0n_Aipo&feature=related

[GRNDP51]

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Awesome video. That b-58 is sweeet. Thanks for posting.