I was there to see this live with my father. Who passed away a year later from cancer. Red bull air racing is back in 2014 hope they return to San Diego.
That's so special. My Dad and I so badly wanted to watch an Air Race together. He got to see the one at Perth in 2010 and we never got around to seeing one together. He also passed away to Cancer in April.
I spent some of the best days of my life while stationed aboard that ship. I wish she was still functional but that's a whole hell of a lot better than having to see her cut up as scrap. I wasn't ships company, I was an Aviation Ordnanceman for VF-151 loading bombs, rockets, and missiles on F-4 Phantoms during the Vietnam War.
Here's to ya, brother. I was an AO with VA-192 and did 2 Viet Nam cruises in Ticonderoga (CVA-14) and 1 in Oriskany (CVA-34) between 1966 and 1970. Sadly, Tico was sold for scrap in 1973 and Oriskany was later scuttled off Pensacola for a diving reef. Tico should have been saved as a floating museum. She took two kamikaze attacks in WWII and came back to launch on Japan before the end of the war in the Pacific, served with distinction throughout the Cold War and Viet Nam and even hauled in an Apollo space capsule before she was done.
This is what happens when you give an airplane "World of Outlaws" level power/weight ratios. Looks like tons of fun. One thing I love about watching Kirby fly is that the in-cockpit cameras always show him with that "holy shit, this is cool! I'm living the dream!!!" look on his face. There are also bands with musicians that have that look on stage. As someone who can't fly a plane or be a rock star, I love seeing that look in the faces of people who can... It shows they don't take it for granted. :)
Last time I saw an aircraft go vertical was out at sea on the Midway some time in 1979...the Capt. gave a little Air Show for the crew...An F-4 Phantom performed the maneuver much to the delight of the cheering crew assembled on the flight deck...
Damn, that plane has power. No wind over the deck & in the vertical before reaching the bow. WoW. Have not seen San Diego since 1989 And my days at NTC. Time flies.....
Last summer I took a tour of that ship, one of the best museums I have seen in awhile. It amazes me how small the corridors were. =/ Almost closterphobic. Kinda cool to see they had used that runway just two years ago from when I was standing on it.
its good to see USS Midway still around constructed at the end of ww2 and saw service durung the Korean and Vietnam wars and when trough many conversion and Refits the last of the post-ww2 Fleet Carriers
same here. I was there for the first day of competition. As in not the qualifiers and not the final round. I think it was a saturday. Awesome time and you really fear for these guys cuz they get LOW to the deck throwing these beasts around.
agreed....as long as a plane can do a vertical climb without losing speed and as you stated, it is aerodynamicly possible....you just need to get the throttle balance right
The racing airplanes come apart in about an hour. You can take the wings and tail off or on - in about an hour. They are made to fit in a regular tractor-trailor truck for easy transport..
As far as i know, the ship had already closed its evacuation operations. That's why the choppers were on deck. By the way, an UH-1 huey startup sequence would have taken more time than the fuel the O-1 still had aboard.
he did what's called the Cobra move. gain enough airspeed then pull up hard and let it sit there for a little bit. then recover to gain the speed back.
@thechoosendude You can get any aircraft to climb vertically its just a matter of how long it can hold the vertical climb. Using this information a person can get a Boeing 737 to climb vertically only problem is that it just can't pull up quick enough to complete a vertical climb before running out of airspeed or over stressing the aircraft. As for the 1:1 ratio I have not found any piston powered civilian aircraft that actually have a 1:1 ratio but I am still looking. Will advise if I find any
Believe it or not, he did infact land on the carrier. I was there the day they did this, and he seemed to land on it no problem. Such an amazing pilot, that takeoff and the aerobatics he did afterwards was just amazing.
There was actually an incident ironically with the USS Midway where some guy and his entire family packed onto a Piper Cub made an emergency landing on board during the evacuation from Vietnam.
they fly slow with high angles of attack due to high power/weight ration...but they have no flaps and stall speed r quite high for their weight class...also the landing roll is substantial on paved surfaces...jump the brakes and u flip the plane they r so light...
All depends on the plane, Alot of planes take off shorter than they land depends completely on aircraft! Super cub 100' T.O or less, lucky if you get stopped in 100' with a headwind.
I looked it up. So the deck was crowded with choppers frantically evacuating people from South Vietnam. A SV Major takes his O-1 Bird Dog and loads his wife and 5 kids into it, flies to the carrier, where in order to give him room for a safe landing, they push several copters overboard...thus meaning that that many fewer chopper loads could be evacuated. I'd also have to question why, considering this and the cost of a copter, they didn't simply TAKE OFF and re-land. That's what copters do...
@lyianx @FightingFalconFilms ... Ok well dont mean to be mean but do your research before you make a comments because you can adjust the catapults speed it goes. So it can go slow enough to launch his Edge 540. But Falconb you are right it dosen't have a nose wheel :P.
@TantalumsDad No, not more than a hundred times or so, CLEARLY. You have elevator authority long after the wings quit flying! How else can you raise the tail when taking off? Please don't jump to rash conclusions if you don't understand what someone means!
That's that famous story about "Clearing the deck", if i remember right, to make room for the 150 to land a couple of choppers had to be thrown overboard.
@OTULP62 What did you think was going to happen? What is lame about one of the best pilots showing off the capabilities of the latest word in aerobatic aircraft? Oh right, you were hoping for a crash, now I get it. Sick aircraft, sick skills.
Si en la bahia y el porta aviones es museo puedes visitarlo en la misma calle como de la plazuela a la gasolinera en JJR fue donde yo fui a entrenamiento buscalo en google map.
Not mine it doesn't. I fly a Ximango 200S motorglider. Landing distance averages about one half of TO. Perhaps this is different with high powered machines like this one.
Don't be sorry you spoke, you have a motorglider that is awesome, I almost got my C Ticket years ago (in the Navy), in the early 1980's, flying an old Blanic 2 seater, did about 19 hours before I was posted away. (so I took up skydiving). A motor in a glider would be handy, but not as exciting as a winch launch (with cable break)..
Exactly I quite disagree, I have well over 1000 takeoff & landings in a variety of taildragger aircraft and if you do it right you can land shorter then your takeoff distance (even in high performance birds like this one).
Everything here is good, the plane, video production, etc, etc, but why are the American Forces providing a platform for an ADD.......? Dang, I hate commercials
lol cat shot would have simply ripped which ever landing gear leg they attached it too, or both, orh whatever individual component. Unless thet found a way to wrap the entire plane up into a big blanket and cat that off the deck, it would simply break off whatever was attached. leaving the rest sitting on deck probably motionless the real question is, did he land on the carrier afterwards?
@humvee600 I came aboard right after that cruise and heard the stories and saw the photos of the event. It was the Twitter :) Yea that old boat was my home for two years in Japan. Yea Go VF151.
when was the last time any plane flew from that deck the intrepid in nyc was back in service during 9/11 goverment agnents cia.fbi ect, it shows even when these old boats still serve their country a testament to the builders here in the usa
I was there to see this live with my father. Who passed away a year later from cancer. Red bull air racing is back in 2014 hope they return to San Diego.
That's so special. My Dad and I so badly wanted to watch an Air Race together. He got to see the one at Perth in 2010 and we never got around to seeing one together. He also passed away to Cancer in April.
Fighter jet heads: "i love unrestricted take offs, shame it takes so much runway!"
Chambliss: "hold my beer"
It takes my breath away when someone loves airplanes and see how much power these small airplanes have
Enough horsepower?! He was vertical half way down the deck.
When you have 7-800hp :))) more than 1:1 thrust :))) You are going vertical :))))
I spent some of the best days of my life while stationed aboard that ship. I wish she was still functional but that's a whole hell of a lot better than having to see her cut up as scrap. I wasn't ships company, I was an Aviation Ordnanceman for VF-151 loading bombs, rockets, and missiles on F-4 Phantoms during the Vietnam War.
Thank you for your service, Sir.
Here's to ya, brother. I was an AO with VA-192 and did 2 Viet Nam cruises in Ticonderoga (CVA-14) and 1 in Oriskany (CVA-34) between 1966 and 1970. Sadly, Tico was sold for scrap in 1973 and Oriskany was later scuttled off Pensacola for a diving reef. Tico should have been saved as a floating museum. She took two kamikaze attacks in WWII and came back to launch on Japan before the end of the war in the Pacific, served with distinction throughout the Cold War and Viet Nam and even hauled in an Apollo space capsule before she was done.
"I think we have enough horse power" that thing could take off in my driveway, lol
Kirby is STILL the BEST Red-bull pilot in the world.! He's awesome! LOVE the take off bro..! :)
This is what happens when you give an airplane "World of Outlaws" level power/weight ratios.
Looks like tons of fun.
One thing I love about watching Kirby fly is that the in-cockpit cameras always show him with that "holy shit, this is cool! I'm living the dream!!!" look on his face.
There are also bands with musicians that have that look on stage.
As someone who can't fly a plane or be a rock star, I love seeing that look in the faces of people who can... It shows they don't take it for granted. :)
While not one of my favourite racers, Kirby knows how to put on a hell of an entrance.
Aww...Maaaann!!!! It just started getting good!! Got to make this one longer!!
Last time I saw an aircraft go vertical was out at sea on the Midway some time in 1979...the Capt. gave a little Air Show for the crew...An F-4 Phantom performed the maneuver much to the delight of the cheering crew assembled on the flight deck...
Damn, that plane has power. No wind over the deck & in the vertical before reaching the bow. WoW. Have not seen San Diego since 1989 And my days at NTC. Time flies.....
I was on the Midway in 1980.... brings back some memories.
That was what, a 100 foot takeoff roll?!
Amazing. That plane is pretty much lifted off the deck by the propeller!
This is really cool, that's some machine - straight into the vertical climb as soon as the tail's clear now that's flying!!
Last summer I took a tour of that ship, one of the best museums I have seen in awhile. It amazes me how small the corridors were. =/ Almost closterphobic. Kinda cool to see they had used that runway just two years ago from when I was standing on it.
That guy has the sickest takeoff I have ever seen, he's pratically vertical and still noses out of it, thats' just sick mad upset angry skills
Wouaw that is a takeoff !!!! impresive !
its good to see USS Midway still around constructed at the end of ww2 and saw service durung the Korean and Vietnam wars and when trough many conversion and Refits the last of the post-ww2 Fleet Carriers
same here. I was there for the first day of competition. As in not the qualifiers and not the final round. I think it was a saturday. Awesome time and you really fear for these guys cuz they get LOW to the deck throwing these beasts around.
agreed....as long as a plane can do a vertical climb without losing speed and as you stated, it is aerodynamicly possible....you just need to get the throttle balance right
Awesome!What a great sport!Those plane's are amazing!
I want to see touch down to Midway also.
The racing airplanes come apart in about an hour. You can take the wings and tail off or on - in about an hour. They are made to fit in a regular tractor-trailor truck for easy transport..
best takeoff ever. ever.
love the announcer and the take off
Wow that planes got some serious horsepower!
I was on the Midway in the 70;s and we would deck launch prop planes all the time. In Vietnam we even had a Cessna 150 land on the deck.
Take off is easy Bro. Landing is what makes a Naval Aviator. 😎
This gives me chills watching and in the words of the immortal Iceman, I fell a hard on coming.
It is likely that you are referring to a 1975 incident where a Cessna O-1, not a Cessna 150, landed on the USS Midway during Operation Frequent Wind.
As far as i know, the ship had already closed its evacuation operations. That's why the choppers were on deck. By the way, an UH-1 huey startup sequence would have taken more time than the fuel the O-1 still had aboard.
what a take off!!
hellz yea, san diego ,that was my first time going to this event. this is where i live
this is a cool video ive bin on that aircraft before in sandieago
Mind you, it is on record that a Piper Cub (military version, of course), does have credit for a "kill" of a 109 through out-manuevering.
Thumbs up for San Diego!
How short was that take off roll? friggin amazing!
@FSXnut catapult would likely have torn the plane up, as its frame isnt designed to take that kind of stress.
@papioscarw mad props to you for being on that boat.
Not only the vertical but the smoke gets some of the engine power
The smoke is oil injected into the exhaust. There is no lost of power or power gained.
Oh I did not know that thanks and my bad for not searching
he did what's called the Cobra move. gain enough airspeed then pull up hard and let it sit there for a little bit. then recover to gain the speed back.
@thechoosendude You can get any aircraft to climb vertically its just a matter of how long it can hold the vertical climb. Using this information a person can get a Boeing 737 to climb vertically only problem is that it just can't pull up quick enough to complete a vertical climb before running out of airspeed or over stressing the aircraft. As for the 1:1 ratio I have not found any piston powered civilian aircraft that actually have a 1:1 ratio but I am still looking. Will advise if I find any
Believe it or not, he did infact land on the carrier. I was there the day they did this, and he seemed to land on it no problem. Such an amazing pilot, that takeoff and the aerobatics he did afterwards was just amazing.
As a 172 pilot I've always wondered if something like a 172 or a 150 could do a short field onto a carrier. Thank you for answering the question.
There was actually an incident ironically with the USS Midway where some guy and his entire family packed onto a Piper Cub made an emergency landing on board during the evacuation from Vietnam.
Kirby fly ower Budapest(too) with Péter Bessenyei, Mike Mangold(blue sky!😪🙏) etc Those were the days!😉👌👌💥
@Earthlinked Well, I only asked that cuz not all Extra 300Ss and Edge 540s are used for air racing...
That´s what I call POWER!
that was awesome he went really steep
they fly slow with high angles of attack due to high power/weight ration...but they have no flaps and stall speed r quite high for their weight class...also the landing roll is substantial on paved surfaces...jump the brakes and u flip the plane they r so light...
All depends on the plane, Alot of planes take off shorter than they land depends completely on aircraft! Super cub 100' T.O or less, lucky if you get stopped in 100' with a headwind.
I looked it up. So the deck was crowded with choppers frantically evacuating people from South Vietnam. A SV Major takes his O-1 Bird Dog and loads his wife and 5 kids into it, flies to the carrier, where in order to give him room for a safe landing, they push several copters overboard...thus meaning that that many fewer chopper loads could be evacuated. I'd also have to question why, considering this and the cost of a copter, they didn't simply TAKE OFF and re-land. That's what copters do...
Cant believe what this sport planes can do !!!? Looks like they can even start from the roof of a bungalow :)
extra high performance take off. almost like laughing in the faces of the guys from the carrier.
@brenoribeiro2007 Of course they are - what do they do if the location of the air race is 300 miles from the nearest airport????
@lyianx @FightingFalconFilms ... Ok well dont mean to be mean but do your research before you make a comments because you can adjust the catapults speed it goes. So it can go slow enough to launch his Edge 540.
But Falconb you are right it dosen't have a nose wheel :P.
@Earthlinked Are all edge 540s and extra 300Ss able to do that?
@TantalumsDad No, not more than a hundred times or so, CLEARLY. You have elevator authority long after the wings quit flying! How else can you raise the tail when taking off? Please don't jump to rash conclusions if you don't understand what someone means!
0:17 I think we've got enough horsepower... you bet !! Look at the candel take off !!!
That's that famous story about "Clearing the deck", if i remember right, to make room for the 150 to land a couple of choppers had to be thrown overboard.
Did he land on the carrier also?
How did he get the plane onto the Midway? Crane or did he land it?
@OTULP62 What did you think was going to happen? What is lame about one of the best pilots showing off the capabilities of the latest word in aerobatic aircraft? Oh right, you were hoping for a crash, now I get it. Sick aircraft, sick skills.
Whoa there's an F9F jet.
cool take off it almost looked like he was going to stall
AWSOME!!!!
Wow I gotta try that in FSX!
Este portaaviones lo visite en 2007 y la competencia fue en mayo de 2008 en este video se ve lo cortito que te habia comentado.
Muy bonito video, esto fue en San Diego, California???
Si en la bahia y el porta aviones es museo puedes visitarlo en la misma calle como de la plazuela a la gasolinera en JJR fue donde yo fui a entrenamiento buscalo en google map.
Orale, gracias..
A raiz de esto estamos planeando volver al portaavones Midway y llevar la camara de videos.
Sale, ojalá lo puedas subir a RUclips y nos lo compartas.-
I see how he got the plane OFF the ship.
How did he get the plane ON the ship?
Not mine it doesn't. I fly a Ximango 200S motorglider. Landing distance averages about one half of TO. Perhaps this is different with high powered machines like this one.
Don't be sorry you spoke, you have a motorglider that is awesome, I almost got my C Ticket years ago (in the Navy), in the early 1980's, flying an old Blanic 2 seater, did about 19 hours before I was posted away. (so I took up skydiving).
A motor in a glider would be handy, but not as exciting as a winch launch (with cable break)..
Heh. Saw this plane in Oshkosh a couple days ago. Same takeoff. Radioed tower with some sort of problem and had to land immediately.
Exactly I quite disagree, I have well over 1000 takeoff & landings in a variety of taildragger aircraft and if you do it right you can land shorter then your takeoff distance (even in high performance birds like this one).
That's what I call performance.
kirby chambliss mon pilote préféré dans la air race :pp
Everything here is good, the plane, video production, etc, etc, but why are the American Forces providing a platform for an ADD.......? Dang, I hate commercials
*puts on glasses*
*bites lower lip*
Dat takeoff...
that is a takeoff with style
Taildraggers landing at speed have the benefit of the elevators forcing the tail DOWN- why they don't nose forward when braking.
WHAT THE HELL ? TAKE OFF WITHOUT CATAPULT LUNCH ? THOSE GUYS ARE NUTS
@FSXnut ...it would of probably destroyed the landing gear...not to mention that it doesn't have a nose wheel.
How'd they get the plane on the carrier?
@lenswork4 Yes that is called a fouled deck.
0:38 best scene
@lenswork4, how do you think he got there?
god that things got a lot of power!
@Cunninghamn8r
No, it can't. It can climb vertically, but it can't hover because it doesn't have the necessary balance or control surfaces or power.
How do you think he got there?
I lol'ed when he said "I think we have a enough HP".... NO SHIT !!!!! LMAO !!
"I think we've got enough horsepower to get me off this deck" - lmao...
lol cat shot would have simply ripped which ever landing gear leg they attached it too, or both, orh whatever individual component. Unless thet found a way to wrap the entire plane up into a big blanket and cat that off the deck, it would simply break off whatever was attached. leaving the rest sitting on deck probably
motionless the real question is, did he land on the carrier afterwards?
Now thats a high performance takeoff :D
@humvee600 I came aboard right after that cruise and heard the stories and saw the photos of the event. It was the Twitter :) Yea that old boat was my home for two years in Japan. Yea Go VF151.
I would like to see this beast landing .....
What about the landing?
this would be awsome to get into
yeah that was my first thought too. looked almost like an rc. except the rc pilot would have hoovered for a while before hitting the gas again :)
when was the last time any plane flew from that deck the intrepid in nyc was back in service during 9/11 goverment agnents cia.fbi ect, it shows even when these old boats still serve their country a testament to the builders here in the usa
0:32 If I was at a dog fight, and the redbull plane was mine, I would most certainly be afraid to engage on those jet fighters next to it.
Not sure.. They can fly really slow with those things.
When it went straight up I was like oh shit!