Lloyd's of London said the flight deck of an aircraft carrier is the most dangerous workplace in the world. I believe it, and have nothing but respect for those who work on them.
@raywhitehead730
19 күн бұрын
The very first night, at Aviation Officer Candidate school, we were treated to popcorn and crash films. Occasionally, someone would drop out that same night as a grim reality sank in. USN Aviator, retired now for 30 years.
@petephelan969
Жыл бұрын
I love US Navy aircraft. They're so cool, and they're built like a tank.
@ronaldtartaglia4459
Жыл бұрын
I love this navy narrator guy
@70supertube
Жыл бұрын
5:08 Didn't look like it was time to punch out, the Skyhawk kept flying...
@kellywilson8440
Жыл бұрын
You got to go with what your given but im so glad i wasnt in A-7 squadron , F-18's all the way and much easier on the crew , AO 1984/1988 VFA-131 Wildcats Cecil Field fla .
@frankhonma7586
Жыл бұрын
there a few versions on youtube but this is for sure the original one, thanks for the upload
@talk4dews
Жыл бұрын
"I think I forgot my water" "Eject while still in the envelope."
@stevenrobinson2381
6 ай бұрын
"If still out of control @ 10,000 AGL-EJECT".
@prillewitz
2 жыл бұрын
“The film quality is not outstanding”, that’s the understatement of the century.
@timebong8366
2 жыл бұрын
Boot camp film
@johnwelch4117
2 жыл бұрын
Blue shirt on the Rosie Cva 42 fly 2. Flight deck is dammed dangerous.place, no place to have your head up your ass, got.to pay attention at all times
@leiag201
3 жыл бұрын
they need to retire this video
@yellowlabdavis7170
3 жыл бұрын
The sluff had some hellacious gear!!!
@skooter2767k
3 жыл бұрын
3 -985s, all 3 built by Steve Wolf Samson Gee Bee R-2 Wolf Cyclone
@radsdad1
3 жыл бұрын
We once had an unusual noise/vibration in the engine room reduction gears and it turned out to be a F14 in the prop.
@allgood6760
3 жыл бұрын
Much respect to these guys... you need 3 balls to do this.👍
@duartesimoes508
Жыл бұрын
Hence the Meatball. Makes three... 😀
@billhudson1923
3 жыл бұрын
Been there, done that. Green shirt. V2, A/G...CV-43. Lifetime ago for sure!
@jhollie8196
2 жыл бұрын
MarDet USS Coral Sea from 77-80. Great ship
@billhudson1923
Жыл бұрын
@@jhollie8196 "SAS TEMPER!....SAS TEMPER!....SAS TEMPER!" Never sure what that meant, but learned to make a hole & get the hell out of yalls way when I heard it on the 1MC👍
@jhollie8196
Жыл бұрын
@@billhudson1923 😆. Been awhile since I’ve heard that. It sounded the alarm that someone was trying to access the weapons storage area that was classified. When that sounded, it was the most critical alarm that we responded to and did not mess around. We were in the PI in 79 when a Filipino yard bird set off that alarm and the lights were out. We heard a hatch open and lucky for him the lights came back on. Those lights saved his life. The sailors would throw water on the mess decks next to our guard shack when that alarm went off. Running from our berthing area and hit the mess deck with water, we would slide on our 6! Such good memories and good times.
@billhudson1923
Жыл бұрын
@@jhollie8196 Dang mess cooks! 😳 Spent my 18th & 21st birthdays in the PI. Truly a lifetime ago
@DaveGIS123
3 жыл бұрын
Who was the narrator? He sounds like Harry Morgan.
@Popesontour
4 жыл бұрын
I remember at ABH-A school we saw all the flight deck awareness videos and the one that really scared the shit out of me was the "snapback" vids where the arresting wire breaks. You could see the guy's topple in half as they were cut in half by the wire. Or the leg fly off to the side. This was scary thaughts also the "ramp strikes" where the jet is too low and crashes into the "round down" at the aft of the angle. They don't call it the most dangerous work space in the world for nothing! Smooth sailing to all my AB brothers and sisters!! "Flight quarters, flight quarters!!
@vondumozze738
4 жыл бұрын
This video needs to be remastered. It's blurry and the sound is muddled. I've seen it a couple of times but now it looks and sounds as if the projector is falling.
@princessmiriam6911
4 жыл бұрын
Originally Hellenic Air Squadron
@billhuber2964
4 жыл бұрын
These mishaps can ruin your whole day !!!
@fog1962
4 жыл бұрын
Watched this in 1979 while in the navy
@Artessnow
3 жыл бұрын
I remember watching this during a safety stand down back in 1999 after we had a flight deck mishap on the JFK!
@steveschierholz5272
5 жыл бұрын
We were always told that the F4 is proof that with a big enough engine a brick will fly
@briancooper2112
2 жыл бұрын
2 bricks one for each engine.
@williamlarson3623
5 жыл бұрын
At 5:22 an older version of the A-3D (Skywarrior), No. 10 with large black radome, is shown taking fatal nosedive off angled deck during botched recovery. Date, carrier, and squadron not given. Due to poor quality of video, logo behind cockpit and tail identification also uncertain. Now wonder if this wasn't the A-3(D?) whose remains showcased in Bermuda Triangle documentary recently shown on TV? I served as an AE-3, c. 1967-68 in the Tonkin Gulf, when VAH-4 was then flying the KA-3B tanker version, having sloped or angled radome, and by necessity, without twin 20mm canon mounts on tail (like version shown here.) Appears to me this accident may have occurred sometime during early ops, c. 1955-63, perhaps even during Cuban missile crisis/blockade in the Atlantic. Without ejection seats and ditching like this, the three-man A3 crew in those days mockingly referred to designation of the A3-D as 'all three dead.' The open cockpit hatch (required on take-offs, recoveries) would only flood the plane, making its descent into Davy Jones Locker all the faster.
@companymen42
5 жыл бұрын
My right ear enjoyed this audio
@jhnstn1
5 жыл бұрын
Someone, please restore this and give us a clean copy.
@baero5
5 жыл бұрын
I love the nostalgic Navy aircraft.
@baero5
5 жыл бұрын
5:03 Go Skyhawks!
@tungstenkid2271
5 жыл бұрын
"Where do we get such men? They leave this ship and they do their job. Then they must find this speck lost somewhere on the sea. When they find it, they have to land on its pitching deck. Where do we get such men?"- Rear Admiral George Tarrant in "The Bridges at Toko-Ri"
@patricia2645
5 жыл бұрын
Anybody notice the Hero, at very end of video, in and surrounded by flames pulling the pilot out of the wreckage? He even takes his helmet off to get to him
@GsCConcrete123
5 жыл бұрын
👍👍👍
@williamarden5441
5 жыл бұрын
I hated rigging the barricade
@TheTruthKiwi
5 жыл бұрын
Sounds easy!
@dennisfox5651
5 жыл бұрын
My squadron VR-24 out of Sigonella Sicily on the C-2 (COD) served in the gulf war in the early 1990s. I was an aircraft mechanic, whats called an AMS. Let me tell ya its really something else landing on an aircraft carrier in the middle of the ocean. The ship litteraly looks like a dot a couple miles out. The naval pilots in the US Navy are the best in the world ! Its hard to believe how great our American pilots are at there jobs. True American hero's ! I myself had the honor of landind on the USS Forestall in the Mediterranean ocean on her last mission during the gulf war in the early 1990s. I served my country with honor ! My whole squadron served with honor ! It was sad when VR-24 was decommissioned in 1992 and all the personnel was reassigned to different squadrons. The Navy didnt just decommission our squadron, they broke up a family. So sad to say but on 9/11 our commanding officer of VR-24. Commander Punches was promoted to full bird captain and was serving in the Pentagon lost his life when one of the hijacked airplanes struck the pentagon. Mr. Puches was a great man and served his country with honor and lost his life in the process. He was more than our CO. He was like a father figure to his sailors and will be greatly missed. Rest in piece Mr. Punches ! You have been properly relieved. Now go fly high with the angels ! A true ! American hero !
@griesTheGries
5 жыл бұрын
A4's..... A7's....makes you wonder.....
@ronduncan9527
5 жыл бұрын
Love the suspenseful music!
@jimsweikata5571
5 жыл бұрын
My brother Arthur was on the Big-E with VA-66 in the early '60's. At the time they had A4D Skyhawks..
@lenyfreeman3807
5 жыл бұрын
The A-7s here are from VA-125, my squadron from 70-73. I was an AMH3 assigned to either the Air Frames shop or the flight line troubleshooters. I like troubleshooters the best but on land. I hated being a final checker on the cat. Exciting but too dangerous.
@carlwycka8299
5 жыл бұрын
I loved the F4 Totally bad ass back in the day. They cost four million each in 1966 - in todays money thirty million dollars.
@photo7839
5 жыл бұрын
This video brought back memories. I was a IC2 working on the Meatball system back in the 70's. We had a station in the Air Tower as well as we changed the glide slope for each aircraft. I had a great time on the USS Independence. Our TV cameras in the flight deck did not like the pounding they took. They were similar to the cameras at TV stations from the 60's. Pilots were some great fly'ers.
@jimschmidt510
5 жыл бұрын
Hi. I worked Pri-fly on Independence from 1970-72. Jim.
@photo7839
5 жыл бұрын
@@jimschmidt510 Hello Jim ,, and thank you for your service. I didnt see PriFly until, Late 72 and 4 years latter. I was on a LHA latter on, but nothing beats a carrier launch and recovery. Nothing taken away from AV-8 harriers, there just a different launch and recovery cycle. Slower,,
@jimschmidt510
5 жыл бұрын
Hey, thanks for the reply. I came to Indy as a private pilot, first working on the flight deck as a blue shirt for two months before the pri-fly job opened. I was with the aircrews in spirit the whole time. My chance of a lifetime came in Oct '70 with a ride in an A-3 tanker. Wow!
@Sha362
5 жыл бұрын
My uncle died landing his Hellcat on uss independence August 1944 cvlgn41
@x-man5056
5 жыл бұрын
If it was easy, everyone would be doing it. And then there's that war thing.
@patring620
5 жыл бұрын
VA-12 Clinchers - Ubangi Ubetcha - NAS Cecil Field, FL...About 1985 or 1986 AT shop (after some A7 training at VA-174). Had to pump up the radios to pressurize them. lol. The primary maintenance activity for the Aviation Electronics Technician? Solvent to clean all of the hydraulic fluid from antenna lines, wave guides, and cannon plugs. I've inadvertently inhaled a metrodome's worth of Tri-chlor and zinc chromate. I could probably still fill out a VIDS MAF for corrosion control. Then, A6s at Oceana in Virginia Beach where we combined with the AQs. N 036490 W 076020. A good time was had by all.
@carlosborbolla1204
5 жыл бұрын
Ah yes, VA Beach.NAS Oceana, I was an AME with VA35 Black Panthers. Fun stuff, ejection seats and who could forget LOX.
@patring620
5 жыл бұрын
@@carlosborbolla1204 We chewed some of the same dirt. I was in VA-36, an instructor at VA-42 (after C school at NAS Memphis) from about 89 to 92, then VA-65 when I got out.
@clark748
5 жыл бұрын
Maybe one day they'll have automatic landing systems. On all carrier aircraft.
@alexriesenbeck
5 жыл бұрын
Incredible collection of mishaps in this video. Thanks
@Seamus322
5 жыл бұрын
I was a sub sailor- had an XO who was an Aviation Boatswain's Mate before he went to Annapolis- he said the most dangerous working environment in the military was the flight deck of an aircraft carrier- at least one death per deployment...
@MJLeger-yj1ww
5 жыл бұрын
Yes, if you make an error, you can go into the drink! It's NOT easy for these super-fast fighter jets to slow down enough to land exactly and hook a cable. If they are not right "on the ball" (the "meat-ball on the port side of the carrier) lined up with the green lights, they won't tail-hook properly and they'll have to "bolter" which means take right off again (the aircraft is at speed anyway so you just add power and lift off). They make about 32 passes on ground in training, then do it in the dead of night, and then go on to become part of the fleet and go to the carriers and "ball-fly" on them. You have to be right ON the center line and ball-fly at an angle to line up just right. It's not easy to do at night! There are usually 4 arresting wires on the carrier. Landing on the first one (too low is bad) or the 4th one (too late) is not good. You want the 2nd or 3rd wire, preferably the 3rd.. It's that precise! When catapulted in takeoff, It takes about 3 seconds to go the 300 feet and takes off at 115 to 125 mph. An airport runway is about 16 times longer than the carrier deck. The optimal landing area is about 90 feet wide, and you must get it down right on the center line. This is where you either make it happen or get a DQ (did not qualify)! We really hand it to these carrier pilots, it is NOT nearly as easy as it looks! Imagine trying to return to a carrier after you've been shot at over enemy territory and have problems! Horrors! But it's what they have to do, an air base may be too far away for them to make it there! It's difficult to imagine the fear they must feel in that situation. Bravo, pilots, and keep safe!
@davidbuschhorn6539
5 жыл бұрын
My dad flew A-4s in the Navy and was a flight instructor so he had to keep current on his carrier landings. He did the *_MINIMUM_* necessary because he said they were terrifying. 5 per month or something. When I was just out of college, in 1993 I saw on Discovery's brand new website, that NASA had chosen a guy about my age, to captain the shuttle. IIRC, he had two Ph.D.s in like Aeronautics and Mechanical engineering. I'd just finished my second Bachelor's. He was also something like a Captain in the Navy. What made my dad put down his paper when I told him about the guy was that he had over *_2,000 NIGHT_* carrier landings. Dad went pale and said, "You're SHITTING me." "I shit you not."
@rwthomas1
5 жыл бұрын
Foobar Maximus needs to get a fucking life, and shut the fuck up.
@michaelbodine6142
5 жыл бұрын
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