T-38 Talon: The World's First Supersonic Jet Trainer

The T-38 Talon is a twinjet supersonic jet trainer produced by American aerospace and defense company Northrop Grumman, and it first flew in 1959. The company built 1,187 T-38 twinjet trainer aircraft, and more than 72,000 USAF pilots have flown the T-38 since it entered service in 1961 when it was the world's first supersonic trainer. The aircraft was developed as a supersonic trainer to prepare pilots for high-performance fighter jets, and it quickly proved to be an effective platform for advanced flight training.

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[OutOfYourMind]

The great aircraft I think. no matter how smart a pilot of sophisticated fighter jet like F-22 Raptor must have ridden this aircraft. Didn't it?
Is the pilot here? What you think?
I think out of your mind.

[larryrobertson]

I flew the T38 jet trainer in 1970 during UPT and believe me when I say what I was able to do in it still blows me away. I'm sure every pilot that trained in it have their own stories. Of the many 'there I wuz' stories we all have, wuz the time I flew a solo cross country to Williams AFB (Phoenix) from Lorado AFB in Texas, to visit my grandparents. These are people that were born in the 1800s before the first flight at Kitty Hawk. They saw the evolution of airpower, the automobile, and the space race that put men on the moon. And now they are seeing a sleek T38, piloted by their grandson that grew up on an Indian reservation, landing right in front of them after a trip around the pattern, taxing up, and me climbing out to greet them. They were so, so emotional they couldn't even articulate their feelings or what they thought.

Grandpa had the last word though when I left. I asked for an unrestricted max AB sub sonic take off with a climb out to 40, 000 feet on a clear day. I sucked the gear up halfway down the runway to .9 Mach and pulled the nose up. I was told later as my T38 climbed out of sight to them it seemed vertically, my grandpa turned to my grandmother and aunt and said "Showoff." Man, what they must have thought...

[SR]

There is an error in the narration. The seat configuration is the standard 'tandem' configuration, not side by side. The T-37 "Tweet" is side by side.

[davenc]

The T-38 and the 747 are the two most beautiful planes ever designed.

[gerardmoran]

Flying the T-38 was a blast. Unlike your statement at 2:09 it didn't feature "side-by-side" seating.

[Madmaxx]

I graduated from UPT in April of 1991… I still fondly remember every ride I took in the -38…what an awesome airplane to fly…

[duaneronan]

The engines are not in the wing root. They are at the aftmost of the fuselage. Ahead of the engines, are the inlet ducts, which are in the wing roots.

[MichaelNehring-pv]

Really good video, glad to see Vance AFB, Enid, Okla. represented in the video. My hometown. Always ey watching those T-48 fly.

[MinhNguyen-nlgm]

Không quân Hoa Kỳ rất mạnh mẽ và hiện đại. Không quân Mỹ vượt trội đối thủ 🇺🇸👍

[WilyRelic]

It's basically a stripped down F-5 Freedom Fighter

[abubaca]

Crazy to see the same planes that I've worked on multiple times.

[Will-llgv]

Amazing piece of American made dominance

[ISOTT]

Can´t wait to handle this Jet in DCS. Comes soon as FREE module to learn fly a super sonic jet trainer.

[MikeUSA]

Isn't "side-by-side configuration" where a pilot and a co-pilot sit next to each other and share the instruments? Like in a commercial wide body?

[TheFlyWahine]

You will lower all the other sounds in the video so the voice we should be lisening to can actually be heard properly and not drown it out.

[JamesBono-nvhb]

My name is James Southern California retired Navy. T 38 is nothing more than a hot rod you’ve got to love it or hate it but I love playing up in simple. She’s a friggin hot rod

[PabloCruz]

I am not familiar with a T-38 variant with a side-by-side cockpit (i.e. F-111) configuration as stated at 2:09. I'm assuming that was just a mistake. I have only seen them in a tandem cockpit configuration. Unless I have missed something somewhere (which is possible).

[mno]

In UPT at Reese 78-98 we called it a White Rocket.

[MinhNguyen-nlgm]

Mỹ là một nước siêu cường về không quân cũng như hải Quân. Mỹ rất tuyệt vời hi 🇺🇸👍

[haroldreardon]

Never saw a T38 with side by side seating as the guy mentioned.