Cockpit footage shows a US T-38 Talon fighter jet in action at the U.S. Air Force Weapons School Weapons Instructor Course.

Since 1959, the U.S. Air Force has relied on the capable performance of the T-38 Talon as a trainer aircraft, helping hone inexperienced aviators with high altitudes and supersonic flight.

Supersonic flight means that the aircraft flies faster than the speed of sound, or more than 768 miles per hour. The last T-38 trainer units were built in the early 1970s, but the jet continues to ...