Too Heavy And Too Slow, But The Douglas Skyknight Still Became A Korean And Vietnam War Warrior

Now, it's electronic warfare descendant was replaced by EA-18G Growler.

I totally forgot that they used the sky night in vietnam

There is really is no end to the range of planes. Thanks again 📚🇬🇧👏

Great video 👍👍

Should Made One with Swept Wings Like the F9F Panther to Cougar.

It's interesting that picture of marine aviators packing submachine guns in addition to their sidearms.

I bet they were using the micro vacuum tubes. The last gasp of tube based electronics in the face of transistors. I have seen some absolutely tiny vacuum tubes. But at the end of the day, they just could no compete with the lighter weight and higher reliability of transistors.

But pretty much all radar systems that i am aware of use devices that are basically vacuum tubes. Magnetrons and Klystrons are mainstays of radar design, and i bet they are still used to day. Hell, most people in the developed world have a magnetron in there dwelling. (Hint: It's in your microwave)

The prowler was an amazing aircraft. Too bad it took so long to get in service. The EA-6B (IIRC) was still in service in the 90's. I know i used to see them on the decks of aircraft carriers during that time.

I was assigned to K-8 Kunsan AB as an aircraft maintainer during the '70s, '80s, and '90s.😉

ALL The Things You Said About The Skyknight In Its Career Led It To Be Called By The Pilot And Aircrews "THE DRUT" (Think Backwards!)

Fabulous, just fabulous...... an aircraft that always takes me back to the long, hot, summer of 1983. Memories of a bus ride to Croydon on a day off from my first job to get the Rareplanes vacuform of the Skyknight and a Pucara. Had I but know it I could have taken the shorter ride to Redhill, walked up Redstone Hill and knocked on the door of Gordon Stevens and bought the kits from the great man himself. Returning home I went to sit out by the pond in our back garden, only to see a snake basking in the sunshine, seeing me sid the grass snake slid away, no doubt to the relief of the frogs and newts. Saw the snake a few times over the years, my dad having made the mistake of putting a compost heap not far from the pond! I made the kit, used some markings from the Airfix Banshee and solid Microscale yellow and white decal film (cut using a razor blade, health and safety mehhhh) for the lightning bolts, in the markings of a FAWTULANT Whale. Scratching the Impression of white stencils in the blue paintwork as suggested by Geoff Prentice of Icarus fame from the late lamented Scale Models, back when modelling magazines were useful and not full of pretty pictures of made up kits. Happy Days.

I looks similar to an A-6 Intruder.

I Forgot To Mention: So Was Its Shape! 🤣🤣🤣

Was in VMCJ-2 (Marines) in 64 when we still flew them. No ejection seats, there was a slide-chute between the pilot and the RIO. Not much use in SAM country.

Grumman A-6 Intruder video soon i can almost smell it :D

'worked for awhile in an A-7 shop on CV-68 under an aviation fire control aircrewman who flew right seat in Willy the Whales during the 'Nam. He had high praise for them, and Super Connies that he flew too. 'saw a Willy Whale at an airshow in '65 once.

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You say Z like an American.
Shame that we are losing our culture and identity to them.

What a fascinating story and wonderfully told. Thumbs up and subbed!

You can see a lot of the Skyknight DNA in the A-6 Intruder. Not sure if it is accidental or on purpose.

Very good video. Thank you.

How about the Missileer fighter jet - definitely not a dynamic aircraft

It looks like a skyraider and an intruder had a baby

Excellent video, Thanks,

Very informative-I was familiar with its Korean service, but the latter Vietnam ECM role was new to me.

Thanks for this video. I have heard of the Skynight, but knew very little about it. From what you've said, the Skynight was a overlooked, yet equally important aircraft that did what it was supposed to do, despite all that was against it! It's a tribute to Douglas Aircraft that it designed an airplane that fulfilled it's role as good as it did.

Amazing channel and narration!

That’s ejection slide must have just been an actual nightmare to get into and ditch during anything but controlled level flight

"Willie the Whale" was an interesting transitional aircraft! I have always had an interest in early jet aircraft.

Douglas: giant fighters, tiny attack aircraft.

When I was in training at Pensacola, there were several of these doing different types of missions. They were ugly and slow but had a purpose. We all worried that we might get assigned to a Skynight squadron upon graduation so it made us study harder. We called it the DRUT which was TURD spelled backward. It was actually the forerunner of the A-6 Intruder. BTW, my studying paid off because I went to an F-4 squadron.

One of your best mate.❤❤❤

Very well presented, very appropriate images and video. Thank you.

There is a beautifully restored Skyknight in fighter configuration on display in a park in Lakewood, Calif. It is in the gull gray/white paint scheme and has two air to air missiles underwing.

Nothing was said of the EA1F flown by my squadron VAW-13. The only active jamming A/C used by the NAVY during the 60's and Rolling Blunder .

I would argue that when you say the F-35 is the second worst aircraft in its disregard for flight performance versus electronics, you are forgetting about the “hopeless diamond” Have Blue and F-117. It was only possible to fly through fly-by-wire technology, and its still awful stability earned it the nickname “the wobblin goblin”.

GREAT Details on a little known airplane. Built a model of one some 60 yrs ago (showing my age) Your aviation vids are SUPER!!👍🏽👍🏽

What a cool aircraft! I hope he told you all about it. All the best.

40minutes of great content all for nothing... over one F-35 hot take

When I attended USAF Fighter-Lead-In Training at Holloman AFB in late 1980, a couple of these Skyknights were parked on the ramp, I think to support some tests on the White Sands Test Range. I was surprised they were still flying!

This aircraft was the first 1/72 kit I ever made. Can’t recall the manufacturer

Too heavy and slow? Back then you made the aircraft to the specifications requested weight etc. . . It was a bid the entries tested, and then the winner decided. It's been simplified since then only the politically correct are even considered. Easy with no competition to keep the moolah in house.

Your comment on the F-35 made me laugh. Just feeding the algorithm.

At least the SkyKnight could fly in bad weather. That is more that can be said of the F-35.

Willem Dafoe ,in an Intruder, went downtown one more time , t h e n returned as sergeant Elias to obstruct Tom Berrenger's criminal behavior

People don't give night fighters enough credit, i don't think there is a common understanding of just what a difficult thing it is to do. The pilots are an elite and each kill ought to count as an automatic ace status, although it's not directly comparable. It's a different skill set. Just flying the missions successfully is an achievement, and to get a kill is icing on the cake. Multiple kills even more so. People look at the small number of kills and think they are not very impressive when the opposite is true.
As for the F-35, i think it was a mistake but from what i have seen it's not exactly unimpressive dynamically. Not absolutely top tier maybe but it looks like it can do well enough.

Korean was was a draw. And America lost in Vietnam.

Came for the video, subscribed for the snarky comment on the F-35.