I used to sneak into the living room at 2:00 am and quietly turn on the tv just to watch this. And years later I would be fueling that very plane T-38 00556 at Edwards AFB.
@cbeckett2787
4 жыл бұрын
Our station in Columbus Ohio played it too!
@davidmalone9022
2 жыл бұрын
@@cbeckett2787 ...and San Antonio - Randolph AFB. I was a junior in high school watching that sign-off. :)
@TEAMERICA96
11 жыл бұрын
This was the sign-off for KFDX Channel 3 in Wichita Falls, TX in the early 70s. The last thing I heard almost every night after the Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson.
@vox1138
9 жыл бұрын
America, please bring the patriotically inspirational TV sign off back. Young folks today don't know what a treat they're missing.
@1960jims
9 жыл бұрын
vox1138 I remember the TV signoffs well. When I was stationed at Ft. Devens, which is somewhat near Canada, the local TV station would sign off with the National Anthem; Oh, Canada and the "High Flight" set to music. The ironic thing is that I now play in a military band and our concert theme this year is "Flight" and guess what we're playing (among other things).
@artm1973
5 жыл бұрын
@@1960jims Ft. Devens is nowhere near the Canadian border and I don't remember any Mass TV station signing off with Oh Canada.
@1960jims
4 жыл бұрын
@@artm1973 I know exactly where Ft. Devens is (was) and let's just agree that it's closer to Canada than, say, Miami. It was a New Hampshire station. After I got married we got an apartment in Nashua.
@canndo1
4 жыл бұрын
I’m not sure they ever “sign off” now. Anyways, I wouldn’t know since I “sign off” at about 10pm, so I’ll never know - lol!
@1960jims
4 жыл бұрын
@@artm1973 It's close enough that we got Canadian TV an yes, they did sign off with both the US anthem and "Oh, Canada".
@jessvera983
4 жыл бұрын
Those were days... Loved it. I love you mom. Miss you. One day I'll have my high flight with the Angels of God to meet my family in heavens gate.
@vemundaaro7359
8 ай бұрын
This was filmed at Tyndall AFB in Panama city beach FL. Tyndall was a SAC base and there was a ATC attatchment station there to train pilots to be instructor pilots. It was filmed in 1971 or 72 (memory a little off). I was one of the AM flight crew chiefs and I was this aircrafts crew chief and three others when it was filmed. The tail number for the film crew was 61880 and they allowed the cameraman to sit in the back seat (thts where the instructor would usually sit). The 00556 plane was used because it had just been painted and looked almost brand new. I think this aircraft is at the front entrance of a base in the mid west ( I found it once but not today). One year during Christmas break a few pilots had to do some flights and I got to ride up to 20,000 feet and do some manuvers until Captain Lavender said" you better give me the stick back before you put us into a stall". We then made a couple toudh and goes before landing. Loved the ride and still think about my time in the Air Force. Former SSGT Vemund Aaro
@vemundaaro7359
8 ай бұрын
As I pondered my time in the Air Force I recalled the timing on this video, it was in 1971. I was stationed at Tyndall AFB till September of 1971 and then I was reassigned to Williams AFB untill March of 1972. So this was filmed at Tyndall AFB prior to September of 1971.
@apv92
9 жыл бұрын
I remember hearing this on TV as they're going off the air, usually followed by the National Anthem.
@rick1450
13 жыл бұрын
Back when I was a kid and T.V.didn't broadcast 24/7,I used to stay up way too late.This was the sign off after the national anthem. seeing this really takes me back
@robertcrosen6726
8 жыл бұрын
. You can go to sleep your Air Force is awake
@akarpowicz
13 жыл бұрын
Before VCRs I used to stay up late to watch this on KCRA inb Sacramento followed by Jan Peerce and "The Bluebird of Happiness" What a great way to end the evening.
@vincentsartain3061
7 жыл бұрын
akarpowicz I grew up in Stockton. I remember the sign ins and sign offs of KOVR 13, in which the "Bee" mascot of the Bee newspapers (Sacramento, Modesto and Fresno) would open up the broadcast day each morning and, at the end of those broadcast days, close. These were animated cartoons. I believe that at one time THE SACRAMENTO BEE owned KOVR 13.
@goldgamercommenting2990
10 ай бұрын
0:25 that’s a good hit on the music
@AngelOfDeath420
4 жыл бұрын
I remember this when I would sleep over at my Grandparents house and would watch TV all night long and after this played would go to bed. I miss Mama and Papa so very much. Time goes by so fast and now how I wish I could visit them like I did when I was 7 in 1978. This made me want to be a Pilot.
@phelpsmarc
7 жыл бұрын
I remember this. Watching this all the time plus the Six Million Dollar Man, I am surprised I did not want to become a Military Pilot. LOL
@AngelOfDeath420
4 жыл бұрын
I remember that too it was one of my favorite shows. I used to jump off the roof acting like Steve Austin, those were the days. I'm surprised I never hurt my self bad but I remember how he landed and I copied it and it was like a spring landing for lack of a better word.
@maja5724
3 жыл бұрын
Please leave this up so we can remember and appreciate.
@larsonbwl
11 жыл бұрын
Brilliant! This TV sign off made me to so want to be an Air Force pilot. The T-38 is one of the most beautiful aircraft ever made.
@bobke114
12 жыл бұрын
Same here...KSLA channel 12 Shreveport. One of the 3 stations we could get back in the 1960's. Gunsmoke was usually the last show on before the National Anthem and High Flight.
@carolynjohnson6130
10 жыл бұрын
I looked for this poem for ages. I remember watching this ad with my grand mother during her soaps.
@keithpopko7068
8 жыл бұрын
I did too. Then I thought maybe there would be a copy of it an an Air Force recruiting center, so I went to one and sure enough there was. They gave a copy to me and I memorized it; that was 40 years ago, and I still know it by heart.
@roberthenderson8961
9 жыл бұрын
" And so you know, the rest of the story ". Then I waited for "High Flight". Still awaiting, always striving. T-50+yrs. and counting. Freezeing the reason.
@edatomboy7711
11 жыл бұрын
Yup! Back in the mid-70's when I was a kid, I would stay up late to watch the horror movies...and saw this tribute before I went to bed. Thanks for the memories! Now, if I can only find the Star Spangled Banner presentation...
@Tyrone181
8 жыл бұрын
RIP Capt. Jeff Kuss, USMC. #SemperFi
@dominikbordacs6139
5 жыл бұрын
High Flight in Stereo!!!
@noelsolo61
11 жыл бұрын
I had to watch just to make it seem like being up very late. Funny, I am watching this at 3: 13 am.
@AngelOfDeath420
4 жыл бұрын
Lol me too
@williamturns341
3 жыл бұрын
I remember (many years ago ) this airing on a TV station (ABC Channel 6 (Central Ohio)) just before "sign off". It was wonderful then and (still is) now.
@lemwezzer63
9 жыл бұрын
thank you so so much.
@cmcycles8387
7 ай бұрын
I love this so much
@lokmanmerican6889
3 жыл бұрын
Great to see this again.
@polycarphunter2257
Жыл бұрын
after growing up listening to the sign off, never would have thought i'd be working on T-38s in 1969.
@allgood6760
3 жыл бұрын
a cool plane and a cool poem 👍✈️
@NEPatriot
14 жыл бұрын
Audio and picture...PRISTINE!!!!
@scooter5294
13 жыл бұрын
BRAVO!!!!!
@paulgerald7682
4 жыл бұрын
I remember this aviator . He trained at R. C. A. F. Moose Jaw . Flying the A T - 6 Havard trainers .
@paulgerald7682
4 жыл бұрын
This poem was written an R. C. A. F. Pilot . 1940/ 1942 . In a Canadian Air Training Base . Thank you .
@radwasoliman24
2 жыл бұрын
Hello, that's great content you have there! I wanted to ask for permission/license agreement to download and use this video in a movie I'm working on.
@jbjumpback
14 жыл бұрын
Mach 2 + ,used for astronauts private transport between the Cape and Houston. Have been known to make a big boom sound over populated areas. But that's okay they are astronauts.
@miloswanson9646
2 жыл бұрын
I've been searching to the disposition of T-38 tail number (6)0-0556 but can find no reference. Where is it/what happened to it. This coming from a guy who was a USAF Academy nominee in late '75---
@jamesfoxworthy3525
2 жыл бұрын
60 was the year of manufacture ,the others serial numbers. So the weapon system number was 60- 0566,like a v.i.n. on a car
@jamesfoxworthy3525
2 жыл бұрын
Probably in Arizona in the boneyard
@scottcarpenter9993
2 жыл бұрын
What the heck happened to us these last 60 years?!
@P00katube
3 жыл бұрын
R.I.P. Chuck Yeager 🚀🇺🇲
@GeneSteelmon
12 жыл бұрын
me too
@HDFWB
8 жыл бұрын
I was born a year latter.
@179cpv
8 жыл бұрын
Does anyone know who the narrator is for this version? That voice is very familiar.
@vincentsartain3061
7 жыл бұрын
179cpv I've wanted to know the same thing for years! There is another version of the High Flight sign-off that's narrated by William Conrad, but this definitely isn't the one. I do prefer this version over Conrad's, though, despite having high regard for Conrad as an actor and his voiceover skills (he was a staple in old time radio, portraying among hundreds of other roles Matt Dillon in the radio version of Gunsmoke; Conrad also narrated the beloved Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoons.)
@vincentsartain3061
7 жыл бұрын
179cpv But again, like you I ask, who IS the narrator of this TV sign-off? I haven't been able to find anything on the net that identifies him.
@vincentsartain3061
6 жыл бұрын
Has anyone ever learned who narrated this version of the "High Flight" sign-off? I've just listened to it once again and I'm thinking he sounds a lot like Walter Pidgeon. But that's just my stab in the dark. Who WAS this guy, anyone?
@53rdAndThird
4 жыл бұрын
I was wondering that too. I'm thinking it sounds a lot like Leonard Nimoy.
@Kramden429
3 жыл бұрын
@@53rdAndThird I think it sounds more like Nimoy, too.
@russell5078084
5 жыл бұрын
The orbital black and white version was better.
@chrisjohnston4445
4 жыл бұрын
The sound is _great,_ but the color is washed out. The sky needs to be BLUE, not dark gray.
@TheNorthernMist
3 жыл бұрын
that's how tv looked to us back then with tv antennas and no cable, the adjustment changed with every channel, sometimes there was too much snow to even watch a show
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