A short film about 1st time carrier Qualifications

Nice video. Although, as an Air Force guy, I never went to the "boat," seeing these youngsters in their T-45's brought back distinct memories of me as a young UPT student strapped solo to a T-38 with a tank full of gas and a whole MOA north of Phoenix as my playground. Good times!
 
...a T-38 with a tank full of gas and a whole MOA north of Phoenix as my playground...
A full bag in a T-38 could be an exciting 0.5 or a boring 1.3 ;):D

Nauga,
with stories to tell
 
A full bag in a T-38 could be an exciting 0.5 or a boring 1.3 ;):D

Nauga,
with stories to tell

That is certainly true. But that 0.5 was a whole lot of fun!
 
That is certainly true. But that 0.5 was a whole lot of fun!
I only have a few handfuls in the the back of T-38s but I remember most of them fondly and two quite vividly. :hairraise:

Nauga,
who didn't see it coming
 
I only have a few handfuls in the the back of T-38s but I remember most of them fondly and two quite vividly. :hairraise:

Nauga,
who didn't see it coming

can you get a tumbling departure in that thing like the T-2 could? Did it have the inertia coupling probs of the century series jets?
 
can you get a tumbling departure in that thing like the T-2 could? Did it have the inertia coupling probs of the century series jets?
:hairraise: I don't know anyone who's departed a T-38, maybe Sluggo does? I know it's not cleared for anything but stalls and it's not something high on my list of things to try. It doesn't have much of a stall break, just a *lot* of buffet up to full aft stick, but we never did anything aggressive up there. It didn't really seem to have enough roll authority at lower speeds/higher AOA where inertia coupling might be a problem - it was fast and low AOA where the roll perf was head-banging.

Sluggo?

Nauga,
ham-handed
 
:hairraise: I don't know anyone who's departed a T-38, maybe Sluggo does? I know it's not cleared for anything but stalls and it's not something high on my list of things to try. It doesn't have much of a stall break, just a *lot* of buffet up to full aft stick, but we never did anything aggressive up there. It didn't really seem to have enough roll authority at lower speeds/higher AOA where inertia coupling might be a problem - it was fast and low AOA where the roll perf was head-banging.

Sluggo?

Nauga,
ham-handed
It's been a long time since I've flown it, but I remember it being extremely resistant to departing/spinning. Like you said, not something I'd like to try. The stall was typically benign, with most IPs referring to the progression as feeling like "mice on the wing" at first, progressing to "elephants on the wing" when fully stalled. You would get some oscillation in roll, and a fully stalled -38 would just "falling leaf" itself out of the sky until you recovered.

You are right about the roll performance at low AOA. Unloading the aircraft and mashing the stick to the side stop would get you about 720*/second roll rate. In fact, I think there was a prohibition to multiple aileron rolls with more than 3/4 stick travel.
 
Good shots of Goshawks coming aboard in that. I remember taxiing out of the LA, knees shaking after that first trap thinking "What the hell did I get myself into..." But it was a lot of fun by the end of the second day.

I always wondered who would win in T-38 v T-45 BFM. T-38 sure looks cool though.
 
Good shots of Goshawks coming aboard in that. I remember taxiing out of the LA, knees shaking after that first trap thinking "What the hell did I get myself into..." But it was a lot of fun by the end of the second day.

I always wondered who would win in T-38 v T-45 BFM. T-38 sure looks cool though.

T-38.....T/W is no comparison, and the -45 doesn't fight well slow like the Hornet does so it sucks one circle too
 
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