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It seems to be the father of the VOR, isn´t it ????

My congratulations! You've done it again, another top-shelf video. You produce some wonderful content, and your graphics and explanations are wonderfully clear. You're a credit to RUclips.

Pops flew in a SB2c Helldiver during the war . His last assignment was on the FDR . On its shake down cruise . The Catapult broke , sending pops and his pilot off the bow. Seen in the Maiden Voyage of the FDR on UT.

I recently visited the USS Midway in San Diego and wondered what those "protrusions" were in the bow of the ship. Very nice. thank you

Having seeing these on the Intrepid every time I drive down the west side highway I've been wondering what these were since I was 8 years old. Thank you very much for explaining

The irony of Japanese radios not being reliable enough for use against the USA when the post-war Japanese economic miracle was predicated upon selling super-reliable Japanese radios to the USA is not lost on me ... 🤔

One million thanks for making this video!

I've always found it interesting that the use of catapults for launching planes goes back to the beginning. Those old counterweight systems were nifty.

Thank you for this great explanation of such a intricate system. Your explanation made it very easy to understand and I've always wondered how this system worked. Excellent video.

Another misinformation video. Everything in this video was first used & developed by the British, even the catchers are British, though they were deemed impractical for the Royal Navy due to aircraft type & catapult size as catchers slightly reduce the end performance & it wasn't till over powered future proof launchers were installed that it became practical. The Royal Navys future proofing was out of date allmost immediately as the Navy took the massive leap from relatively light aircraft to the heavyweights of the F4 by which time they moved to launch bars rather than bridals as the bars enabled heavier aircraft to launch from lower pressure to reduce stress on the airframes. Launch bars could not be captured.

Very interesting - thank you!

We only had one aircraft that required bridles on the Chucky V. The WHALE!

Here are some interesting tidbits for you. The first US carrier to be built without bridle arresters was USS Theodore Roosevelt. All previous Nimitz class carriers had them removed in the shipyard after the A-3D Skywarrior went out of service. It was the last bridle launch aircraft to leave active service in late 1991. USS Enterprise was scheduled to have her bridle arresters removed, but the commanding officer wouldn't allow it. He wanted them to remain to ensure that Enterprise would retain her status as longest aircraft carrier at 1122 feet.

Beautiful research. I hope you all are under-paid, under-employed university professors; rather than under-paid, under-employed adjuncts, not that it would change anything really. Either way, as one who won the liberal arts lottery, I have great respect for one and all of you. I like it.

It's good. I Iike it. Good production values.

Finally a clear explanation about the bridle system! Ive been wondering about this for ages. Thank you.

It's spelled move not mouve. Also, saying fugitives is offensive to refuges.

I can't believe I never heard of this before. The greatest generation kicked ass.

Difficult to understand narrator

Nice video 👌🏽 Very interesting well made 👍🏼🫡

YEARS. I have been interested in naval aviation since early childhood, And I currently play DCS world with the fa-18c hornet. FOR YEARS I have wondered how the hell that holdback bar works. Because everywhere you can search how the cat works. But I could never figure out how the bar lets go without an electrical signal. Dude. You just completed a childhood wonder of mine. THANK YOU!

I'm a sailor and have taken a lot of coursework in paper navigation. I can do it but it's hard. Boats are a lot slower and take a lot longer to get somewhere than a plane, so the time it takes is reasonable. Even so errors are easy to make. I can imagine a navigator in a small cockpit plane plotting courses. But a pilot alone in a Zero, both flying and navigating? I just can't picture it.

Until today, I was among the unwashed heathens who are unaware this channel exists. Lo, the RUclips video suggestions gods made this video appear before my astonished eyes. I am now among the joyful annointed ones who have subscribed. I feel blessed.

Nice to have these explained. Change in naval technology can be slow, but thank goodness for the modern steam/electromagnetic catatapults.

@x-planed >>> Great video...👍

Simple but effective...👍

@x-planed >>> Great video. Subbed...👍

At about 02:54 in this video... *BIG OOPS...😱*

The system was American. It was called YE - ZEE B, not YE - ZED B.

Great channel but just a minor but important correction. Early planes always relied on the aircraft carrier to speed at full power and head into the wind to get them into the air. I am pretty sure they still do this too as a added safety measure. They never relied on the aircraft alone lift to get into the air. Witness the Doolittle raid and the B25 as this.

Great job! Great video! Thanks :)

I always thought launch bar as the only option because of every movie showing take off from carrier closely shows Tomcats or Hornets only.

Now you just have to cover the British launch trolleys!

4:02 If I were the Japanese, just have one of my guys fly zigzag and find out a few points in the air where the signals changed, plot those lines and fit a straight line between those points, I could have a pretty good guess on where the US carrier was. Better yet, have two guys in the air doing the same thing, and drawn on map where those two lines meet. And drawn a bomb sign on it.

Sounds clever, but for one problem - the radio equipment of the period were notorious for being faulty like many US military equipments were during the early days of WW2. The most in/famous example is the Mark 14 torpedoes which had no less than 4 major flaws not discovered until after the US enter WW2 because in the 11 years it had been in production, the US Navy never once live fire tested it.

Thanx! I'm finally educated!

Interesting, but this only really applies to U.S. style carriers. The British ( who invented the modern style of carrier back in the 20's) as they did pretty much everything on a modern carrier from, angled flight decks , optical landing signals,radar(modern micrometer radar not the pre war stuff used by the U.S. Germany and Japan, they were first to land a jet aircraft on a carrier (an early mark DH Vampire) etc etc

Nice OA-4M model at 5:22! Rare bird

I've waited forever for this. Absolutely great

My dad flew Phantoms and for the F-4 there is this little red metal dubmbell looking thing that would sanp on each launch, Would love to know how that was incorporated into the bridle system.

The vast majority of catapault launches on USN carriers was of LAND-BASED Army (air corps) ferrying aircraft to forward bases.

Thank you: you’ve answered a lot of my questions

Szkoda że nie robisz filmów częściej bo są bardzo dobrej jakości😋Dzięki za ten!

Thank you for the answers to questions I'd never thought of asking!

Superb as ever. Thank you.

Sorry, but the last time I served on a "bird farm" was 1982... If I recall correctly for the various RN (and variations like RCN & RAN) what the US Navy calls Bridles they call Strops (like what a barber used to sharpen his straight edge razor on)....

Actually, a major factor for ( WW2) takeoffs and landings was Wind Speed Over The Deck! This is why most successful WW2 carriers could make 30 knots! So, if you're "making turns" for 30 knots, into a 25 knot wind, you've already given the airplane 55 knots with of take off speed!!

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1:23 This is the most dangerous job in the world, working mere feet from a spinning propeller (and later, spinning turbines) that can turn a human being into fine minced meat in an instant. At least as an infantryman who get killed by bullets, you do get a body to bury but not when you're minced meat.

Thanks to movies like Final Countdown and Flight of the Intruder, as a kid I am always intrigued by the "buck teeth" jutting out from the bow of carriers. No idea what it's for, till the advent of Internet and RUclips.