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wow... I would have loved to see Bob Hoover do a flight demo in a Bronco!

Liquid nitrogen was the coolant used in later 'winders.

Well now, one look at the Rockwell OV-10 Bronco and you can see why Burt Rutan stole the idea for the Adam A500. Unfortunately, Rutan's version put the suck in success and Adam Aircraft had to cease production. The "choice" between "full fuel" or "a pilot" didn't sell well.

Cool little aircraft with a lot of versatility. We still had them flying in the early 90's at New River.

Theres a privately owned one at Carson City, Nevada Airport. Loved watching it fly.

We appreciate everything you guys do at the museum to keep history alive. Well done video.

Great little documentary. Well done!

Thanks for this.. we have a GR-3 Harrier in a museum here in NZ 👍✈️🇳🇿

Nice save and beautiful restoration, sounds like she had a tough life and deserves a good retirement.

50 years! Brilliant design, and a great restoration, everybody! :)

Hi Jim. Thank you for the informative walk-around of the Tweet. I flew the T-37 as an Instructor and Evaluator from 1998-2010. Just wanted to let you know that the red-boxed pockets on each engine are access points for the fire and rescue team to place an extinguisher hose when needed. Also, the thin pieces of metal that surround the front of the fuselage are called Spin Strakes, which were added to the B-model. Their purpose is to change the pressure below the fuselage during a spin, which helped the aircraft remain in a spin for recovery training. Did you ever find a new wind screen?

Magnificent job! A fantastic tribute to a fantastic jet and the people who designed, built and flew it. Hats off to the restoration team and Congressman Granger.

Kevin, my sincere appreciation and congratulations to you (and our GD/LM colleagues) on this magnificent restoration. I know this was a labor of love, but it is also a tribute to generations of stellar USAF and industry professionals who initially designed and developed the F-16 . . . and then evolved it into a tactical fighter that has provided outstanding performance for 50 years.

Wow, the YF-16 looks amazing post-restoration! Thanks for the detailed walkaround, it's like getting an up-close look at aviation history. Can't wait to see more videos like this! Great job!

A labor of love with a magnificent result. Respect to all involved.

Nice. Well done.

I can't tell you how much I love this. I built so many models of the YF (more accurately the FSD) as a child. Countless hours staring at it's brightly colored livery. This was my childhood and responsible for my military pilot career and continued career. I look forward to seeing this in person. Unfortunately not this week, I land at noon-thirty and you guys close at 1 pm! <sigh>

Congratulations everyone. You're a credit to yourselves and your country. Much respect. From Australia.

Beautiful work of art! Got to Edwards April '75. The YF-16's were the hottest planes on the base. The red, white, and blue motif just added to the wow-factor. After a gunnery mission we got treated to a low pass from Neil (I think) from due North right at DAGRAG tower. From the top of DAGRAG (~ 40 ft) we were looking down on the jet as it came right at us. Neil pulled up with 15 ft of the tower. What a thrill and glad to play a small part in the test program. Thanks for restoring a legend that will live on...

Looks Amazing You guys did a great job on the restoration of the yf 16.I love our aircraft we have the best in the world

Clearly shares a lot of P-51D DNA. 😮

Congrats on the restoration, and thanks for your efforts. I wasn't there in the mid-70's, but I got there as quick as I could; D-day 1979. The YF-16 and F16XL are a couple of the most beautiful jets ever built.

A great collaboration of people getting together to do a fine restoration. Thank you 🙏

Absolutely beautiful!

I will never forget the day that I wandered into my AFROTC Det as a cadet and first saw this very aircraft in it's blue and white camo on the cover of Aviation Week & Space Technology. I was completely overwhelmed. That was - and still is - the strongest reaction I've ever had when seeing an aircraft for the first time. Her sister YF-16 - misnumbered as 01576 in the Monogram kit, still stands as the last model airplane I ever built. I've been a Viper addict ever since.

Wow those early F-16s are so clean, I bet that kinematically they are more capable than the current revisions

DCU Models built the nose? That's awesome. In fact, just yesterday I was flying my old DCU Dragonfly, an RC slope glider that DCU used to sell in the 90's when they were still in California making fiberglass model kits!

That's the first model plane I ever built as a kid. In that livery.

Wow! Great restoration! In 1975, I was a 12 year old airplane nut who got to spend a 10-day Summer vacation with a relative stationed at Edwards. He arranged for me to go out with the filming crew to film this aircraft performing an unrestricted take off. It was an awesome thrill. Later I got to meet the test pilot gang (Neil, Phil, and Bob). They handed me an autographed publicity photo of YF-16-1 that still hangs in my office today. Great job to the Restoration Team!

YF-16 01567 is indeed in the Hampton Virginia Air and Space museum hanging from the ceiling. I crewed F-16's for 6 years in the USAF, I miss those days, I'd love to crew one for 1 day again.

I was an air traffic controller in the Edwards AFB tower from 1975 to 1980. Talked to this aircraft many times! Beautiful job on the restoration she looks fantastic!!

This is one of the best restorations I have seen! Beautiful aircraft + dedicated knowledgable hard working people = A Master piece!

I love the Fort Worth Aviation Museum! One of the best aircraft museums in the whole state. I highly recommend it!

Absolutely wonderful work. Thank you for saving this historic and beautiful airplane. I look forward to seeing it in person soon. In the meantime I might just build a small version to have in my model hanger.

Great restoration ❤ loved the additional information. Thanks guys!

Such a beautiful airframe. I love the restoration work!

Atr their any schematics on this aircraft? Where does the fuel go? The wings already hold the landing gear.

I don’t remember a thing of what I just watched😂. Great video it just popped up on my feed I’m going to check out your channel now.

Definitely needs to be displayed indoors.

F-404: Hornet, F-412: Gripen, F-414: Super Hornet

Also worth noting that the airplanes spotted over Wichita and Amarillo were two distinct programs. Wichita bore a striking resemblance to the A-12, but it was larger and was a one-off demonstrator used as a test bed for some EW hardware that was subsequently used in another platform that is now in service. Wichita was a stab at some new (at the time) shifts in American air supremacy and data sharing between multiple nodes. Think of it as the Quarterback… Directing and calling the offense.

I still feel like we would have seen this program come to fruition is the Soviet Union hadn’t collapsed.

Greetings from Sri Lanka! Congratulations on the YF-16 restoration! Hope to see it one day :)

Thank you. I remember these when I was in the Army.

we had one at Libby Army Afld back in the 1980s. I don't think it was operational then...

I remember a magazine article as a young man. It was about a Mohawk pilot. The article was titled "eject, Mr. Kelly".

Beautiful Swift!!

That story about getting to zero groundspeed was hilarious.

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