It only seems like yesterday i was doing my Carrier qual.. 26 years ago. My last day was the hardest. My last cat launch, my last Trap and Shutting those F414 GE 400 turbo fans down for the last time knowing I will never fly a F18E ever again.
I hear you. I performed thousands of carrier landings while with the US Army Seals, it's too top secret still to talk about now. Retired as a Delta Force operator with Lockheed Martin as a test pilot after killing Bin Laden. Glad YT still has these, Good times!
The timing is just amazing, so efficient and smooth between the aircraft landing and the deck being ready for the next recovery, by the time the wires are reset the next bird’s on short final.
Its great when it is calm near flat seas. Wait until your doing night carrier qual in pitching seas no so smooth then.... I would do anything to be able to do this again. 25 years goes so so fast.
Been over 50 years since last aboard a carrier - never get tired of watching Ops! Intrepid was a bit older (!) than the Big Stick, but still exciting. Vietnam, 1966.
Goddam Navy and Marine aviation. Dangerous, hot/cold, noisy, smelly, dirty, hungry, cramped spaces, no privacy, the list goes on and on. Some of The best times of my life.
Incredible footage. I am very very proud of these incredible pilots and crew and all the men and women supporting the carrier wing and the rest of our fleet. May God bless you and keep you safe and keep the faith knowing we love you for all you do and cannot thank you enough for your fearless service and personal sacrifice. Have fun and come home safe.
I Love how easy this ruclips.net/user/postUgkxvAj3godqGAIP5rApM1laH767JGtPG1-h carrier is to adjust from my friend to me taking turns holding the baby! It provides great support on my back too! This has definitely made shopping easier! I always get asked where I get it too!
My father helped put these aircraft together in the uk, based on a Hawk 60 if I recall... They left the Uk 80% finished to be shipped in containers to MD who finished them while at the same time navalized them, such a pretty aircraft too....Production has sadly just stopped at Brough (where we live) where they were built.....Expected to be still in service until 2035... ps I hope Daddy built you a good airplane.....
@@tanyano9yup a British export our humble hawk t1 like others say its an old jet now but still great we are retiring UK ones soon not sure what we will have next
once you understand speed and HUD simpology its quite easy, especially with new jets. but the old ones, they would've been hard. when i was new to carrier landings, it took a while to get used too, but after that, if you have a sunny clear day they are quite easy!
@@rangimoahoiti9948 Awesome! I bet in poor visibility and strong winds it’s a bit different considering the runway is moving more and bobbing left / right / up / down!
The shortness doesn’t matter in the slightest. You’re either going to trap in the wires or use your more than adequate airspeed and full throttle to go around. The moving matters a ton because the deck angle means the ship is moving to the right slightly as you’re trying to land. Anyway, focus is on the pattern, angle of attack (and related speed), the ball/LSO, and not hitting the fantail. The ship could be three times longer and it wouldn’t affect any of that. The deck is just roll out area after you’ve hooked a wire.
Did this a couple of weeks ago with a used F18 I bought from the US Navy, great deal, $200.00 down with $50.00 a month payments. Needs a paint job though.
So we should feel pride that no UK government has had the balls to use a UK design in this manner? The Typhoon in a maritime version should be flying from the decks of the new UK carriers.
@@davesimkins6701 Prohibitively difficult to completely redesign and rebuild an airframe never intended to be launched and recovered using cats and traps. You should restrict your concern in this context to why we have discounted the idea of a marinised Tempest at the initial scoping stage. Yes yes, "it will be all drones by then anyway" I hear people cry. But we've been told that for decades. I'll wager a very large sum of money that drones will not replace all manned flight operations in the lifetime of anyone reading this. That's why we're building Tempest.
At this stage, they are most likely still Ensigns. These guys probably got commissioned within a year of car-quals, so promotion to jg, or 1st Lt would be a little later. Most of the guys I went through training with (in the late '70's) were promoted in their fleet squadrons, as I was.
Didn't the USN stop teaching Aviators how to land on carriers ~2021, due to the development and adoption of PLS and Magic Carpet? And didn't the P-8 pipeline not bother with initial carrier quals?
@@TheWizardGamez Back when the USS Lexington was serving as the Navy’s training carrier (up until 1991), it was homeported in Pensacola and conducted flight ops in the Gulf, usually several miles offshore P’Cola, Corpus Christi, or Key West.
This is a easy day. Wait until your doing your night carrier qual in pitchng seas. In a heavier aircraft. F18 E/F/G. or a (F35 which i have never flown.) The only rates I have are the T-6, T45, F18D/C/E. It seems ironic as I was entering the Navy as a Naval Aviator the F14s, A6s where being phased out and new pilots were not being rated to fly them. 25 years later. when I was retiring from the Navy the start of the F35 was entering service. Now a new generation of Naval aviator is being rated in a different equipment..
@@EDMath24Initially I was enlisted at E-7 after 8 years in I decided to be an officer. I really wanted to be a warrant officer and and just fly helos. However thst programm wasnt available. So I Mustanged to Newport. 25 years goes so so fast. Enjoy every minute fly as much as you can.
@@EDMath24 your hardest day of your career is shuttting those turbo fans down foe the last time.. . I flew for American Airlines for two months and quit. Its not the same. . Flying a virus can with wings. Besides they dont let you fly upside down.
Yes but in '73 flying a TA-4J out of VT-21, I had one #1 & four #3 wires in rainy low ceiling overcast skies - The #1 was due to my tall 42" sitting height - My viewpoint ended requiring me to fly a 'high' ball which dropped to a center ball as I reached the end of the boat - so the first trap was a 'taxi to the #1 wire' - Flying the T-28C out of VT-5 I had four #3 wires , a hook skip over #3, and a hook skip over both #3 & #4 - Unfortunately, back then I was missing a key factor "self confidence'" - I had two 'close calls' just before my wings - My father had also reminded me at this time I was not supposed to be able to do 'this' - then throw in orders cut for a flying seat out of training command where learning to be a instructor pilot - just could not trust myself with a student, so I DOR'd - never realized how good I was until I got in contact with some of my classmates from AOCS decades later and found out getting a flying assignment out of training was very rare due to returning pilots from the end of Vietnam - while I've lived a good life, dropping out is my biggest regret - "If I only knew then what I know now,..."
It only seems like yesterday i was doing my Carrier qual.. 26 years ago. My last day was the hardest. My last cat launch, my last Trap and Shutting those F414 GE 400 turbo fans down for the last time knowing I will never fly a F18E ever again.
🫡🇺🇸👍🏼
I feel you're pain....
Airline pilot now...??
I hear you. I performed thousands of carrier landings while with the US Army Seals, it's too top secret still to talk about now. Retired as a Delta Force operator with Lockheed Martin as a test pilot after killing Bin Laden. Glad YT still has these, Good times!
Try DCS😁
The timing is just amazing, so efficient and smooth between the aircraft landing and the deck being ready for the next recovery, by the time the wires are reset the next bird’s on short final.
Its great when it is calm near flat seas. Wait until your doing night carrier qual in pitching seas no so smooth then.... I would do anything to be able to do this again. 25 years goes so so fast.
Me watching and judging their performance as if I know how to fly haha. really cool footage. thank you for sharing
Served on the USS Enterprise in 1972 73 never got tired of watching this!
What a beautiful day out there with the clear skies & calm seas.Good day to be flying.
Been over 50 years since last aboard a carrier - never get tired of watching Ops! Intrepid was a bit older (!) than the Big Stick, but still exciting. Vietnam, 1966.
Goddam Navy and Marine aviation. Dangerous, hot/cold, noisy, smelly, dirty, hungry, cramped spaces, no privacy, the list goes on and on. Some of The best times of my life.
No need for music, no need for comments, Perfect👍👋👋🇨🇵
these landings of pre-nuggets are more exciting to watch than super hornets on a WestPac today.
Pre-nuggets, that’s cute! ☺️
Incredible footage. I am very very proud of these incredible pilots and crew and all the men and women supporting the carrier wing and the rest of our fleet. May God bless you and keep you safe and keep the faith knowing we love you for all you do and cannot thank you enough for your fearless service and personal sacrifice. Have fun and come home safe.
I Love how easy this ruclips.net/user/postUgkxvAj3godqGAIP5rApM1laH767JGtPG1-h carrier is to adjust from my friend to me taking turns holding the baby! It provides great support on my back too! This has definitely made shopping easier! I always get asked where I get it too!
Coolest thing I’ve ever seen in my life. Recently met a guy who worked on the flight line of these carriers. He was a green shirt.
I can watch these all evening. Nice.
We use to go up to the 09 level on the Island on the Rosey CVA-42 and watch all the time when we had time!!! 1968.
Great training
Amazing training!
Awesome! Thx for posting!
T-45, the best trainer the navy ever had. Don't have to fight sink rate. Very stable. I'd like to have one.
My father helped put these aircraft together in the uk, based on a Hawk 60 if I recall... They left the Uk 80% finished to be shipped in containers to MD who finished them while at the same time navalized them, such a pretty aircraft too....Production has sadly just stopped at Brough (where we live) where they were built.....Expected to be still in service until 2035... ps I hope Daddy built you a good airplane.....
@@tanyano9yup a British export our humble hawk t1 like others say its an old jet now but still great we are retiring UK ones soon not sure what we will have next
My niece was an instructor in them at Meridian, MS, almost talked me into stealing one!
I would love to be able to afford the fuel to fly it!
I've heard a Navy Fighter Pilot describe it as "being in a car wreck while having sex".
Hey, who hasn't popped a woody while flying? It's almost as good as sex.
That was a beautiful day for flying I’d say
Love this jet baby.
Very nice!
Naval Aviators at their best.
Must be so challenging but they make it look easy
once you understand speed and HUD simpology its quite easy, especially with new jets. but the old ones, they would've been hard. when i was new to carrier landings, it took a while to get used too, but after that, if you have a sunny clear day they are quite easy!
@@rangimoahoiti9948 Awesome! I bet in poor visibility and strong winds it’s a bit different considering the runway is moving more and bobbing left / right / up / down!
Lots of practice.
Student aviators have HUNDREDS of landings at the field before they go to the Boat.
greasy palms and sky high heart rates for the fist hook no doubt.
And just wait for that first night trap!!!
John Smith oh yeah. My knees were shaking
It is called “Pucker Factor” and I was shaking
@@sdcoinshooter
Adrenaline is a hell of a drug!
Landing on a moving ship that is short has to be the hardest thing in the world.
Some Astronaut said; night carrier landing, was way harder than landing on the Moon
The shortness doesn’t matter in the slightest. You’re either going to trap in the wires or use your more than adequate airspeed and full throttle to go around. The moving matters a ton because the deck angle means the ship is moving to the right slightly as you’re trying to land. Anyway, focus is on the pattern, angle of attack (and related speed), the ball/LSO, and not hitting the fantail. The ship could be three times longer and it wouldn’t affect any of that. The deck is just roll out area after you’ve hooked a wire.
watch the vid on landing on a pitching deck at night... eeeeck
VT-4 NAS Pensacola 68- 69 on the Lexington on screen crew.
Can you make more videos
Did this a couple of weeks ago with a used F18 I bought from the US Navy, great deal, $200.00 down with $50.00 a month payments. Needs a paint job though.
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Tail #70 seems to be having a tough time. multiple attempts to catch the 4th cable in the end....
I wonder how often they have to change the wires due to weakening from stress and fatigue.
About what airspeed are they at when they land?
Beautiful jets. Based on the British Hawk, as used by the Royal Air Force's "Red Arrows".
So we should feel pride that no UK government has had the balls to use a UK design in this manner? The Typhoon in a maritime version should be flying from the decks of the new UK carriers.
@@davesimkins6701 Prohibitively difficult to completely redesign and rebuild an airframe never intended to be launched and recovered using cats and traps. You should restrict your concern in this context to why we have discounted the idea of a marinised Tempest at the initial scoping stage.
Yes yes, "it will be all drones by then anyway" I hear people cry. But we've been told that for decades. I'll wager a very large sum of money that drones will not replace all manned flight operations in the lifetime of anyone reading this. That's why we're building Tempest.
Bad Ass Young people...they do not land they trap....
Did the one at 4:20 end up flaring slightly and having a soft landing?
5:38 last cable
4th wire, 2nd, waveoff, 3rd, and unknown
Me gusta
What was happening with the clouds near the start? Thanks is some messed up stuff.
Damned fine.
Awesome video but holy smokes, the first second of it literally blew my eardrums out while wearing headphones.
Look at these ensigns go. Best job in the world
Austin Nichols: by this time most are LTJGs.
Or 1st Lts in the Marines.
Pretty sure by this phase they are most likely Lt Jr Grade (Navy), or 1st Lt (Marine)........O-2 for both.
At this stage, they are most likely still Ensigns. These guys probably got commissioned within a year of car-quals, so promotion to jg, or 1st Lt would be a little later. Most of the guys I went through training with (in the late '70's) were promoted in their fleet squadrons, as I was.
Bars are still butter at this point. They’re getting close to O-2, still 0-1s.
They should put one of those magnetized cones on the aircraft. Student Driver - Caution - Student Driver
How does the aircraft back up to release from the cable?
Cable tention pulls it back , then pilot should raise hook
Wow
170 was having a rough day
Be safe
Why didnot this third plane landed on first attempt?
Didn't the USN stop teaching Aviators how to land on carriers ~2021, due to the development and adoption of PLS and Magic Carpet? And didn't the P-8 pipeline not bother with initial carrier quals?
Cost efficient
Cute
Way too go Kingsville.
Pretty sure carriers don’t station in the gulf, they’ed go by Cuba, and that’s a no no. But I might be an idiot
@@TheWizardGamez I think what he is implying is these are pilots from Kingsville Texas
I served in Kingsville in the mid-70's. Plane captained the T2C "Guppy". ⚓🛩
@@TheWizardGamez Back when the USS Lexington was serving as the Navy’s training carrier (up until 1991), it was homeported in Pensacola and conducted flight ops in the Gulf, usually several miles offshore P’Cola, Corpus Christi, or Key West.
whats that high pitch noise?
Probably the engines of all the other Goshawks on the deck.
I'd have better luck getting a grasshopper to land on a flea, props to them piolets.
3 wire gang!
No ecsort ships no rescue helicopters?
I dont think so
This is a easy day. Wait until your doing your night carrier qual in pitchng seas. In a heavier aircraft. F18 E/F/G. or a (F35 which i have never flown.) The only rates I have are the T-6, T45, F18D/C/E.
It seems ironic as I was entering the Navy as a Naval Aviator the F14s, A6s where being phased out and new pilots were not being rated to fly them. 25 years later. when I was retiring from the Navy the start of the F35 was entering service. Now a new generation of Naval aviator is being rated in a different equipment..
@@EDMath24Initially I was enlisted at E-7 after 8 years in I decided to be an officer. I really wanted to be a warrant officer and and just fly helos. However thst programm wasnt available. So I Mustanged to Newport. 25 years goes so so fast. Enjoy every minute fly as much as you can.
@@EDMath24 your hardest day of your career is shuttting those turbo fans down foe the last time.. . I flew for American Airlines for two months and quit. Its not the same. . Flying a virus can with wings. Besides they dont let you fly upside down.
Come on man. How hard could this be? LMAO
Yeah I landed a 737 on a carrier in MS Flight Simulator
only i #3 wire - nothing to brag about here
I think that's why they call it a training cruise.
Yes but in '73 flying a TA-4J out of VT-21, I had one #1 & four #3 wires in rainy low ceiling overcast skies - The #1 was due to my tall 42" sitting height - My viewpoint ended requiring me to fly a 'high' ball which dropped to a center ball as I reached the end of the boat - so the first trap was a 'taxi to the #1 wire' - Flying the T-28C out of VT-5 I had four #3 wires , a hook skip over #3, and a hook skip over both #3 & #4 - Unfortunately, back then I was missing a key factor "self confidence'" - I had two 'close calls' just before my wings - My father had also reminded me at this time I was not supposed to be able to do 'this' - then throw in orders cut for a flying seat out of training command where learning to be a instructor pilot - just could not trust myself with a student, so I DOR'd - never realized how good I was until I got in contact with some of my classmates from AOCS decades later and found out getting a flying assignment out of training was very rare due to returning pilots from the end of Vietnam - while I've lived a good life, dropping out is my biggest regret - "If I only knew then what I know now,..."
@@markburkley42: Me, too. Similar story and reason.... and result.
@@KutWrite If I only knew then what I know now
@@markburkley42: Haha! Me, too!
I could land a 747 on this
yes it is as boring as it looks