Northrop T-38 Talon
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Sep 22, 2026
GonkyHOST
But even if it's not,
C.W. LemoineHOST
there is an argument to be made for volume, if it's quality.
C.W. LemoineHOST
Now, I'm not saying go send up a bunch of T-38s, but I am saying having newer jets.
C.W. LemoineHOST
And that was the other piece, too, that we've always run into is, It's not that the F-16s that we have now aren't good because they've been upgrading them as they go.
C.W. LemoineHOST
The problem is they've got so many hours on them.
James CarrawayGUEST
So there's a lot of complexities to that that A lot of that we do discuss at length during training and at times they will try to inject a scenario like that into our simulator training where they will simulate a flight attendant calling into the flight deck and saying we have this scenario going on in the back and the captain needs to make a decision.
MikeHOST
So can you remember your first commercial flight? Obviously, I'm guessing you probably know your first F-22 and Typhoon and T-38 flight.
MikeHOST
But can you remember your first 7-3 flight and where you went?
James CarrawayGUEST
I do remember, yeah, it was a flight at night from Miami to LaGuardia, and then it was a two-day trip, so overnight in New York, and then we flew the next day from LaGuardia to Miami to Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, and then back to Miami, and that was the trip done.
Ryan BodenheimerGUEST
so pilot training itself is a little over a year and then there's a cap off course right at the end if you get a fighter slot it's about 10 weeks where you're doing more fighter pilot oriented stuff in that t-38 jet so i flew t-37s that was an old like cessna built jet and uh old school man looks like the apollo space capsule inside of it like you look at it and i remember looking at it being like wait you guys want me to fly that like there's no chance right that's what your brain tells you at the beginning So you got to fight through that.
Ryan BodenheimerGUEST
But now they're flying the T-6, which is like a turboprop aerobatic aircraft.
Ryan BodenheimerGUEST
And then the T-38 is the supersonic jet.
Ryan BodenheimerGUEST
And now there's a replacement online called the T-7 that's going to replace the T-38.
Ryan BodenheimerGUEST
But there's still T-38s operating up there.
Mike RitlandHOST
Yeah.
Mike RitlandHOST
So once you make it through all of that, at what point did you get your assignment for what you were going to fly and where you were going and all that?
Ryan BodenheimerGUEST
Yeah, so T-37s, I mean, side story, in T-38s, I actually lost my best friend.
TowerHOST
That puts it in the performance envelope of a military jet trainer.
TowerHOST
A Hawk, a T-38, think about what that means for an intercept crew.
TowerHOST
With the piston-powered variant, you had time.
TowerHOST
The target was slow enough that older surface-to-air systems, modified Soviet-era missiles, even guns could establish a firing solution.
David MooreHOST
The helicopters include the OH-13, the helicopter you've seen in the series MASH, the UH-1 Huey, the AH-1 Cobra, and the OH-6.
David MooreHOST
After flying with the Army in Vietnam, he joined the Air Force, where he flew the T-37, the T-38, the RF-101 Voodoo, and then the RF-4 Charlatan.
David MooreHOST
After flying with the Air Force, he went on to fly with the airlines, flying the 727, 737, 757, 767, as well as the Airbus 319, 320, 321, and 330.
David MooreHOST
Clyde has more than 42,000 flying hours, which I think is a record for any of our guests on the podcast thus far.
GonkyHOST
I just, I just don't know.
GonkyHOST
From everything I hear, it's, the T-45 today is in the same boat as the T-38, as in we need a replacement yesterday.
GonkyHOST
And if that's the case, I don't know if clean sheet design's the right answer, but I don't know.
GonkyHOST
That's just my opinion.
Tail DraggerHOST
Airframe 2 was flying a formation photoshoot organized by General Electric.
Tail DraggerHOST
The idea was to photograph the Valkyrie flying alongside five other aircraft powered by GE engines, an F-104 Starfighter, an F-4 Phantom, a T-38 Talon, and a YF-5A Freedom fighter, a publicity arrangement meant to show GE's engine technology across aircraft generations.
Tail DraggerHOST
Al White was in the left seat, Major Carl Cross was co-pilot, NASA test pilot Joe Walker was flying the F-104.
Tail DraggerHOST
The formation came together cleanly, the photographer got his shots, and then, in a moment that no one could fully reconstruct from the wreckage, Joe Walker's F-Nut 1-4 rolled upward and over the right wing of the Valkyrie.
Gary WolfGUEST
And, um, and, uh, uh, that did not go as easily as the T-37.
Gary WolfGUEST
And, uh, that was probably the most challenging part of pilot training for me was the T-38 stage.
Gary WolfGUEST
And back then, you know, you wanted to get fighter qualled-
John WatersHOST
Right
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Gary WolfGUEST
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Gary WolfGUEST
in the Smurf jets.
Gary WolfGUEST
You know, the blue T-38s.
John WatersHOST
Yeah.
TowerHOST
The T-38 Talon has been flying since nineteen sixty-one.
TowerHOST
Sixty-five years.
TowerHOST
Fighter pilots trained on it before the Vietnam War, before the first moon landing, before most of the aircraft those pilots would eventually fly were even drawn on paper.
Tail DraggerHOST
The XB-70 at the center, as a kind of flying advertisement for what their turbine technology could accomplish.
Tail DraggerHOST
The five aircraft were XB-70AV-2, a B-58 Hustler, an F-4 Phantom II, a T-38 Talon, and a NASA F-104 Starfighter.
Tail DraggerHOST
The F-104 was piloted by Joe Walker, a former X-15 pilot and one of the most experienced high-performance test pilots in America.
Tail DraggerHOST
The formation photograph was taken, all six aircraft together, the white Valkyrie dominating the frame.
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