Vintage Aircraft Carrier Landings - Fails and Mishaps

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    Landing on an aircraft carrier isn't easy, especially in the 1940's and especially if the aircraft is damaged! These brave pilots all tried their best to land safely.
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  • @nevillemason6791
    @nevillemason6791 6 лет назад +273

    Things got just a little bit safer after a British Naval officer came up with the idea of the angled flight deck in the early 1950s. Overshooting the deck and dropping in the sea was off to one side avoiding being run over by the ship.

    • @abramo7700
      @abramo7700 5 лет назад +27

      My friends grandad served on a carrier in WW2. A plane dropped into the water and was run over, but the pilot made it out and survived as he overshot far enough to get out without being run over

    • @kdrapertrucker
      @kdrapertrucker 2 года назад +4

      Or.....with no aircraft parked in front of you you could advance the throttle and fly off the other end.

    • @vikkimcdonough6153
      @vikkimcdonough6153 2 года назад +6

      @@kdrapertrucker Usually, yes, but if the arrestor cable breaks while it's arresting you, you might not be able to reach flying speed again before going off the deck. Either way, the angled flight deck is a lifesaver.

  • @papugamer7686
    @papugamer7686 4 года назад +560

    "Introducing the safety barrier"
    - well that doesn't look safe to me

    • @intellectualbaguette7507
      @intellectualbaguette7507 4 года назад +32

      Better then flying off the deck

    • @papugamer7686
      @papugamer7686 4 года назад +6

      @@intellectualbaguette7507 water's not dangerous but taking your wheels out is. And it's *than.

    • @papugamer7686
      @papugamer7686 4 года назад +11

      1. Planes didn't fly anywhere close to that fast when they were landing. 100mph is equal to 45m/second and the aircraft carriers were about 200m and the runways even shorter. And we clearly see from the footage that the planes didn't finish the runway in 4 seconds.
      2. If they were flying at 100mph they would have been easily made a pull around.
      3. The planes would have sunk slowly giving the pilot plenty of time to get out.
      4. Even If the water was cold the human could survive surprisingly long time. The passengers of RMS Titanic could have survived about 30 minutes in the water before dying.

    • @papugamer7686
      @papugamer7686 4 года назад +10

      @@deltavgaming3447 im fine but you have to understand that the waters werent cold. And you could survive maybe hours there if not eaten by a shark. Also the crew on the carrier could be rescuing you within a 1 minute of that happening.
      The net could easily caused a fire or an explosion. If not already killed the pilot while flipping over or the engine pushing through the pilot.

    • @papugamer7686
      @papugamer7686 4 года назад +2

      Let's just call it an even.
      But you surely are one of the people who was stopped by the net and hit your head pretty hard while doing flips with you airplane.

  • @michaelangelos5117
    @michaelangelos5117 4 года назад +231

    My hat is off to these pilots.
    Literally.
    I'm not wearing my hat right now.

    • @alexriesenbeck
      @alexriesenbeck 4 года назад

      I didn't even adorn a hat before viewing

    • @youriefavre9003
      @youriefavre9003 4 года назад

      So metaphorically

    • @michaelangelos5117
      @michaelangelos5117 4 года назад +3

      @@youriefavre9003 no, literally. Although I did put my hat on later.

    • @babboon5764
      @babboon5764 3 года назад +1

      @@alexriesenbeck You lack imagination sir.
      I read your and Michael's comments and immediately put my bob hat on whilst I considered these theses.
      As i concur with the original statement I shall now .............and it is done, remove it again.

  • @gilbertogonzalezr9353
    @gilbertogonzalezr9353 4 года назад +21

    Total bravery, pilots, aircrew, and men on deck, and also the camera men filming all the close calls, our highest respect to all of them, thanks for posting this.

  • @aroalgezion5299
    @aroalgezion5299 4 года назад +440

    "a good landing is where you can walk away from"
    - _i forgot the person's name_

    • @chico20m
      @chico20m 4 года назад +5

      ...¿Joe McCuack, DuckTales?

    • @tristanfloris9970
      @tristanfloris9970 4 года назад +3

      Gotta add swim away from to that

    • @yepyep2921
      @yepyep2921 4 года назад +1

      Was just thinking that exact same thing.

    • @spicyryan3853
      @spicyryan3853 4 года назад +1

      aro algezion skipper

    • @Acheiropoietos
      @Acheiropoietos 4 года назад +7

      If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. Chuck Yeager (first man to break the sound barrier).

  • @johnhardin2269
    @johnhardin2269 6 лет назад +791

    Back in the 1960s I think it was I watched a film clip of carrier landings with Dad. One fellow came in spinning and everything tore off but the cockpit. It was an epic crash. Dad got excited. He had witnessed that landing. He said when the deck crew got to it they leaned over and puked. There was red all over the deck. Fortunately it was hydraulic fluid, not blood. The pilot merrily hopped out without a scratch on him. Any landing you can walk away from is a good one.

    • @mildly_miffed_man1414
      @mildly_miffed_man1414 6 лет назад +67

      If the plane is on the ground and your alive then you landed

    • @spacecadet35
      @spacecadet35 6 лет назад +61

      Someone else mentioned "Any landing you can walk away from is a good one. Any landing you can also reuse the aircraft, is a great one. "

    • @markcayton6712
      @markcayton6712 5 лет назад +3

      @@jolene_simz You're a troll and an idiot.

    • @russell33313
      @russell33313 5 лет назад +4

      How old are you

    • @MJLeger-yj1ww
      @MJLeger-yj1ww 5 лет назад +16

      Oh my goodness John! Horrifying! Thank goodness it was only hydraulic fluid! Aircraft carrier landings are some of the most dangerous activity in the military; but I have learned a lot from watching countless movies like the one above, and am relieved that today's aircraft have FOUR cables for their tail-hook to catch, (and they must catch the 3rd one, at 150+mph!) It is precision flying at low speed and a high angle of attack. It is the definitive skill that sets carrier pilots apart from all others. It makes me so stressed when I hear a pilot, perhaps low on fuel, with a problem, and he just MUST make that first try to get on that deck! I know how well trained they are BEFORE they go to a carrier, but sometimes, s**t happens and they go into the drink. I always get upset at that! (I know they usually get them out, but there goes that multi-million-dollar jet, to the bottom.)
      It takes the precise cooperation of the deck people and the pilots to accomplish that difficult task of landing on a carrier. We wish them ALL, HAPPY LANDINGS and SAFE deck work!

  • @Vara91391
    @Vara91391 6 лет назад +2421

    Poor WW2 pilots. Went on a long mission, tired, wounded, still have to find the carrier (a lot through calculations and maths !!!!), and then land damaged airplanes... What heroes.

    • @vonjager
      @vonjager 6 лет назад +31

      Only 1 in ten naval aviator in WWII saw actual combat.

    • @Sammakko7
      @Sammakko7 6 лет назад +80

      vonjager not true

    • @madlarkin8
      @madlarkin8 6 лет назад +163

      @@vonjager that is complete nonsense, of the combatant nations, nearly every single one was desperate for pilots by 1944, and sent many out with less than 5 hours flight time in their designated aircraft. Virtually every aviator flew at least one combat sortie except in the final waning days of the war.
      Maybe you are referring to the statistic that only 1 in 10 pilots achieved an aerial victory in combat. Bearing in mind that dive bomber, torpedo bomber, recon, and rescue planes are also naval aviators.

    • @sebi1610
      @sebi1610 6 лет назад +41

      @@vonjager WTF are you talking

    • @russg1801
      @russg1801 6 лет назад +60

      No GPS then and if you still had a working compass you didn't know if your carrier task force had changed course since you took off hours before. I presume they had to maintain course and speed toward the air strike's target for precisely that reason but what if a Japanese submarine appeared? When the pilots left Enterprise, Hornet, and Yorktown for the Midway attack they didn't know if their floating airfields would still be floating when they returned. For some Japanese pilots, they weren't!

  • @RicOshayed1
    @RicOshayed1 4 года назад +52

    The Greatest Generation, mostly passed on now. May they rest in peace, their battles over.

    • @josephjakubec3171
      @josephjakubec3171 4 года назад +1

      I feel fortunate to have been alive and to have met so many of the greatest generation. Sad that they are mostly all gone.

    • @tommygallagher5747
      @tommygallagher5747 4 года назад

      I’m sad I didn’t meet much any of them

    • @kurtmogensen4815
      @kurtmogensen4815 3 года назад +1

      @@tommygallagher5747 if they had seen the end result ,what the elite they helped gain even more power have done to their nations ,many would have said fuck it fight your own damn war

    • @andrewvida3829
      @andrewvida3829 3 года назад +1

      @@kurtmogensen4815 Perhaps.
      The "greatest generation" seems to me a misnomer of sorts. They were the ones who, instead of whipping the hide off their college aged children, let the lefties have them. The results were the filthy, stupid hippies who gave rise to the millennials, and now look at things.
      I won't blame an entire generation, but I will blame the entire human race for having allowed all this crap to happen in the first place. And Americans are the most guilty of all.
      People complain about tyranny. Well guess what: WE are the reason for it, not the tyrants, who are mere symptoms of a far deeper cancer.

    • @Grieva-SeeD-
      @Grieva-SeeD- 3 года назад +1

      @@andrewvida3829 Ah yes, the whole "millennial" argument.
      Proudly left and proudly able to ignore the intolerance of the generations before me. My respect to the men and women conscripted into wars they wanted no part in, but less respect to for the children born afterwards that act like they had some part in it.

  • @cowerdnerddespacito9518
    @cowerdnerddespacito9518 5 лет назад +756

    If the planes on the ground and the pilots alive it’s a successful landing

    • @Fred_the_1996
      @Fred_the_1996 5 лет назад +46

      THAT'S ME IN WAR THUNDER

    • @ryanm.191
      @ryanm.191 5 лет назад +12

      Cowerdnerd Despacito too bad there no ground for hundreds of nautical miles

    • @AtroposLeshesis
      @AtroposLeshesis 5 лет назад +1

      With the hellcats they flew it's amazing if no parts got torn off landing

    • @spikespa5208
      @spikespa5208 5 лет назад +13

      Walk away: good landing. Use plane again immediately: great landing.

    • @matthewroy470
      @matthewroy470 5 лет назад +7

      Wow who plays war thunder?

  • @Mig29-MF
    @Mig29-MF 5 лет назад +2145

    Hold J to leave your aircraft

  • @Feltorum
    @Feltorum 5 лет назад +648

    The stages of a carrier landing
    1: find carrier
    2: calculate how to land on said carrier
    3: attempt to land on said carrier
    4:Pray
    5a: touchdown landed safely
    5b: rough landing “ohsh*tohsh*tohsh*toh-“
    5c: completely miss the carrier splashdown
    Alternatively in War thunder:
    *Ironarmenian lands B-29 on a WW2 carrier*

    • @texasdandy9083
      @texasdandy9083 5 лет назад +41

      Feltorum stages of landing in warthunder
      1 find carrier
      2 land on carrier
      3 fail
      4 explode and die

    • @ghostarmy1106
      @ghostarmy1106 5 лет назад +35

      Stages in war thunders carrier landings:
      A: find the ship
      B: crash land on purpose

    • @texasdandy9083
      @texasdandy9083 5 лет назад +4

      GhostArmy1 Kamikaze

    • @jeancarlosbasilio5310
      @jeancarlosbasilio5310 5 лет назад

      Feltorum this is me in war thunder add me I’m lonely playing this game jeancarlos700

    • @rodfast8196
      @rodfast8196 5 лет назад

      Then go change your pants.

  • @craigpennington1251
    @craigpennington1251 5 лет назад +19

    Very much respect for those WWII pilots and all the crews that were involved.

  • @ОлегЗайцев-х2ы
    @ОлегЗайцев-х2ы 4 года назад +16

    Все эти летчики - герои!

  • @donkboys
    @donkboys 6 лет назад +71

    These were brave SOB's.. sad to think most of them have passed by now.. but I am grateful for their service! Amen..

    • @dangabrielson7058
      @dangabrielson7058 5 лет назад +1

      So true..dying daily by the hundreds..Americas finest going home one last time!

  • @rich9697
    @rich9697 6 лет назад +64

    I remember listening to ww2 vets talking about there experiences in the 70s and 80s. They all loved it and looked back fondly as they discribed their adventures. There isnt the same sense of adventure and heroism now.

    • @ldwithrow08
      @ldwithrow08 6 лет назад +18

      War stories are rarely completely truthful. Nobody who has actually been in a war wants to talk about the fear, horror and suffering. So they remember the good things and edit the other stuff so it doesn't hurt so much. War stories are how we cope with an experience no man should have to suffer. No doubt they were true heroes and should be celebrated as such. But we all edit our histories to come up with a past we can live with. One problem with PTSD today is that the images of war are so quickly made public and so irreversable that it is hard for soldiers to reconcile their memories.

    • @DElkan
      @DElkan 5 лет назад +4

      My great uncle Fred came back a completely changed man from World War 2. Sullen, rarely smiled, and had a hard time relating and becoming close with people. Fred was a navigator on a B-24 bomber. He was shot down over the Phillipines in 1944 and saw half his crew get mowed down before making back to American lines.
      For him, his memories terrorized him until the day he died.

    • @mangoje9260
      @mangoje9260 5 лет назад

      ww2 at 70s and 80s, how many drinks you all had or maybe you are just plain stupid.

    • @_K3PLR
      @_K3PLR 4 года назад +3

      @@mangoje9260 hes talking about WW2 veterans sharing their experiences during the 70's and 80's not that WW2 started during the 70's and 80's

    • @gideonkloosterman
      @gideonkloosterman 4 года назад +1

      @pyropulse Can you *not* call paying attention to PTSD "pussifying"?

  • @DrFrankensteam
    @DrFrankensteam 5 лет назад +17

    It’s amazing to watch these men risk and loose their lives for someone like me, who wasn’t even born yet. So that I can be free. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

  • @BblpBurJIa3
    @BblpBurJIa3 5 лет назад +22

    Восхищаюсь смелостью пилотов и корабельной команды. Это завораживает.
    My respect for those brave pilots and ship crew. That's amazing!

    • @gistafljfreg4905
      @gistafljfreg4905 5 лет назад +1

      Солидарен.

    • @pushokneko4714
      @pushokneko4714 2 года назад

      На это приятно смотреть

    • @abdulabbdulov
      @abdulabbdulov Год назад

      @@pushokneko4714 STO ICIO RUSKI MOZET NAPISAT.
      PROSTO MUSOR MIRA...........................

  • @davidparry1982
    @davidparry1982 6 лет назад +29

    Brings home how brave these pilots were and the risks they faced

  • @alexazarov5215
    @alexazarov5215 2 года назад +7

    Война дело опасное и не для слабых духом...морские лётчики это элита авиации...честь и хвала выполняющим присягу

  • @fastfiddler1625
    @fastfiddler1625 3 года назад +2

    These days, carrier pilots are among the best of the best. Trained to the highest of standards. These guys had mere months of training and maybe a couple hundred hours if they were lucky. AND they were dealing with new and unproven technology. It's amazing to watch.

  • @craigw1379
    @craigw1379 6 лет назад +354

    The sea beds must be littered with broken aircraft.

    • @bazd884
      @bazd884 6 лет назад +35

      Craig Welsh it’s a big sea.

    • @Kay_213_
      @Kay_213_ 6 лет назад +40

      Just look at Lake Michigan. You won’t believe how many are down there! XD

    • @Bartonovich52
      @Bartonovich52 5 лет назад +95

      But no submarines in the sky.

    • @Kay_213_
      @Kay_213_ 5 лет назад +29

      Yeah well no shit because submarines don’t fucking FLY KAREN

    • @markcayton6712
      @markcayton6712 5 лет назад +61

      @@Kay_213_ Get over yourself, idiot. The statement about no submarines in the sky is a takeoff from a joke about submarines being left on the bottom of the sea versus airplanes never being left in the sky.
      Step away from the keyboard, because every time you post you reveal yourself to be more of an idiot.

  • @thedolphin5428
    @thedolphin5428 3 года назад +20

    Yep, brave flyers, great planes and ships, stupid wars.

  • @ernst_junger
    @ernst_junger Год назад +2

    Is the plane on the ground? ✅
    Is the pilot alive? ✅
    Perfect landing

  • @geneva760
    @geneva760 4 года назад +1

    I feel for the people that placed their lives at such risk and the terror that people went through. If only man was not so stupid to start wars - if only. Have a nice day all. CHEERS from AUSTRALIA.

  • @shubhankardasgupta4777
    @shubhankardasgupta4777 6 лет назад +690

    "You have got a hole in your right wing"

  • @brianw612
    @brianw612 6 лет назад +210

    2:17 After a tragic water crash, probably survivable, he is run over by the ship.

    • @ChazizMTA
      @ChazizMTA 6 лет назад +6

      IL2 sturmovik everyday

    • @ilo3456
      @ilo3456 5 лет назад +8

      @Paul Pflaum
      Probably will take you back in Tupperware too

    • @ilo3456
      @ilo3456 5 лет назад +4

      @Paul Pflaum
      Dumb joke pay it no mind

    • @johnc1975
      @johnc1975 5 лет назад +10

      We used to have man overboard drills when i was in the U.S Navy on a cruiser in Viet Nam. The Boatswain Mates would throw a dummy named Oscar overboard. Most of the time he missed the screws, but once in a while they hit him. The Boatswain Mates would just sew him together for the next drill.

    • @je6874
      @je6874 5 лет назад +1

      Paul Pflaum Wow, any details on who the guy was???

  • @kalebk9595
    @kalebk9595 6 лет назад +30

    I love how planes look like they weigh the same as a balloon when they are landing.

  • @mcedd54
    @mcedd54 3 года назад +10

    The scene at 7:50 never ceases to amaze me. Bravery, dedication, professionalism. The guy in the fire suit never flinched, never wavered.

  • @TheBuckStopsHere480
    @TheBuckStopsHere480 4 года назад +3

    Aside from a battlefield, the flight deck of an aircraft carrier is perhaps THE most dangerous workplace in the world. Huge respect for the deck crewman who risk life and limb to get these aircraft stopped, and the pilots out of their planes. They 've never received the credit they're due.

    • @TheBuckStopsHere480
      @TheBuckStopsHere480 4 года назад +1

      @Th Tough Huge respect for firefighters also, especially the firefighters on the flight deck of the carriers, affectionately known as Crispy Critters. The hazards they face are immense, and add to the statistics of the flight deck of an aircraft carrier being the most dangerous workplace on earth - in peacetime. Props to all firefighters and police and I acknowledge the danger they face, but my point is not the occupation, but the workplace itself.

  • @darkfunewolfcoop6768
    @darkfunewolfcoop6768 5 лет назад +46

    2:10
    Every War Thunder player when you land on a carrier, but you don't have naval aircraft

    • @DiamondBlade_101
      @DiamondBlade_101 5 лет назад +3

      I landed my b 17 on a carrier without breaking anything once in a real game. :)

    • @25aida
      @25aida 4 года назад +1

      So true

    • @p_filippouz
      @p_filippouz 3 года назад

      Be me, WT chat
      >"Ok, I should be able to land here"
      >Meanwhile he is basically 70 meters away from carrier "you have an arresting hook right?"
      > "*AN ARRESTING WHAT*"
      > _teammate lands but goes past the Carrier and falls in water_

    • @ElectricGun100
      @ElectricGun100 3 года назад

      @@p_filippouz same thing happened to me on the sk60b, didn't even know about the reverse thrusters lol

    • @p_filippouz
      @p_filippouz 3 года назад

      @@ElectricGun100 no you misunderstood.
      I was the one asking the guy landing if he had an arresting hook

  • @vitalitimofejev6086
    @vitalitimofejev6086 3 года назад +4

    Эти парни спасали жизни на восточном фронте тоже!!!! ✌️👌🤗

  • @bryancoombesart
    @bryancoombesart 3 года назад +1

    What I love is, No "Critical Past" watermark across the whole video, great job FootageArchive!

  • @flufflepuffle6229
    @flufflepuffle6229 6 лет назад +19

    7:28 Plane: "I'm just gonna tinkle right here. Don't mind me."

  • @indianavince
    @indianavince 5 лет назад +9

    2:27 Mark... I know the man that filmed that footage. He's about 97 now, saw him a couple months ago.

  • @AleLGB
    @AleLGB 5 лет назад +15

    *Playing War Thunder with the boys*
    Friend: "You have to land on a carrier, trust me is not that difficult"
    Me:

  • @ge0arc244
    @ge0arc244 6 лет назад +32

    Hero's are not born, They are forged thru hardships. They are tempered thru stress. They are the ones who thrive on the thing's that would make lesser give in.
    SALUTE!

  • @onceANexile
    @onceANexile 4 года назад +5

    At 66, i feel i owe these men something....

  • @aux8344
    @aux8344 Год назад +1

    I have to say that the Foley work on this film is beyond measure...

  • @DannyBoy777777
    @DannyBoy777777 5 лет назад +16

    That pilot at 2:15 might have survived the impact but got run over by the ship. So sad.

    • @dannytwomey9071
      @dannytwomey9071 5 лет назад

      mistakes happen

    • @DannyBoy777777
      @DannyBoy777777 5 лет назад +3

      @Thane Mac No! The bow would smash into the airframe and it would be pushed down. The hull' s pressure wave would have no effect if you were directly in front of the bow.

  • @Reyeoux
    @Reyeoux 5 лет назад +138

    And let the war thunder flashbacks begin

    • @cowerdnerddespacito9518
      @cowerdnerddespacito9518 5 лет назад +7

      Miles til if the plane is on the ground and the pilot is alive it’s a successful landing

    • @ghostarmy1106
      @ghostarmy1106 5 лет назад +5

      I feel like the only war thunder player that can properly land on a carrier

    • @solomale2156
      @solomale2156 5 лет назад +2

      @@ghostarmy1106 it's not so hard anymore. Used to be really hard.

    • @Mr-Ad-196
      @Mr-Ad-196 5 лет назад

      Lol I remember war thunder as a German plane player I rarely see anyone try to land in the carrier if I ever do see one......well let say they are dead.

    • @Mr-Ad-196
      @Mr-Ad-196 5 лет назад

      @Deus Vult boom n zoom well Japan and Germany plane might good at this then again there a idiot try to turn around but later to be caught with a spitfire shooting at your cockpit.........dive fast and get out fast when I was playing on german plane .

  • @R9A9V2
    @R9A9V2 5 лет назад +264

    Rare footage of us navy doing japanese kamikaze on their own ships..

    • @sabilaahmad3731
      @sabilaahmad3731 5 лет назад +4

      its look like japan ship air carrier 2:08-2:10

    • @jhn2121
      @jhn2121 5 лет назад +2

      @@sabilaahmad3731 no

    • @Jim-zy3lf
      @Jim-zy3lf 5 лет назад +5

      WHAT A CRAP STATEMENT ! YOU OBVIOUSLY ARE NOT A CHILD OF A NAVY VETERAN ! SHAME ON YOU . 👉WHIMP👈 🇺🇸

    • @s.y4580
      @s.y4580 5 лет назад +5

      Jim Millier spell wimp right first

    • @Jim-zy3lf
      @Jim-zy3lf 5 лет назад

      @@s.y4580 Let Me know how Well Your Brain works after 2 Major Brain Surgeries and Diffuse Axonal Traumatic Brain Injury ! Just being able to See and use these little buttons is a Milestone . 🇺🇸 Patriot and 2nd Amendment Defender for Life .

  • @xaxoon69
    @xaxoon69 Год назад

    While I'm not American, I admire and salute all these men for what they did and risked for the cause they believed in. Thank you, dear Americans, for liberating us from the Nazis in Austria back then. God bless you.

  • @zozazoza1943
    @zozazoza1943 4 года назад +3

    Благодарю за кадры!!!

  • @RoboFloyd
    @RoboFloyd 6 лет назад +23

    That’s a lotta damage!

    • @andrewprincic2825
      @andrewprincic2825 5 лет назад

      Phil Swift stop

    • @Domtooboss
      @Domtooboss 4 года назад

      Daddy Swift get them some of your Flex products it’ll be okay

  • @danielwallace8434
    @danielwallace8434 6 лет назад +90

    What happened with the plane leaking fire onto the flightdeck was that it had incendiary bombs in the bomb bay that didn't release properly. It is a TBF Avenger torpedo/bomber. These bombs were designed with barometric fuzes which caused the bomb to burst at 100 feet above sea level spreading already lit napalm bomblets across a large area. With this incident, the bomb most likely "burst" as the pilot prepared to land, having been activated when he pulled the bomb release over the target. If it didn't ignite on approach, then it certainly ignited when it fell off its rack onto the bomb bay doors upon landing and then burst, the fuze detonating after it was below 100 feet.
    Either way - it's a majorly bad thing, but not the engine.

    • @mikewasfaret9563
      @mikewasfaret9563 6 лет назад +6

      Daniel Wallace these planes carry their bombs externally. That was the engine on fire.

    • @nigel900
      @nigel900 6 лет назад +2

      Reel it in Budroe.... I'm sure the jettisoned all bombs before landing.

    • @danielwallace8434
      @danielwallace8434 6 лет назад +18

      Read the part that says didn't release properly, numbnuts.... WW2 aircraft didn't "jettison", they DROPPED them. Internally held weapons aren't jettisoned, only external stores. Know what you are talking about before you open your mouth. It took me a good bit of research to find the report on how that fire occurred. Notice the fire coming out of the bombbay aft of the engine. The engine is running fine which it couldn't do if it were on fire. I work on those radial engines occasionally.

    • @___axg96___63
      @___axg96___63 6 лет назад +4

      I thought the Avenger had a bomb bay?

    • @Cragified
      @Cragified 6 лет назад +1

      Mike Wasfaret is just one of those wanna be smartasses that opens his mouth before actually knowing anything. Just ignore him and carry on. I initially thought it was an incendiary that didn't release as well Daniel, thanks for doing some research and finding out more about them.

  • @alexwest2573
    @alexwest2573 4 года назад +10

    2:18 god damn that was a close one

  • @josephwisniewski9772
    @josephwisniewski9772 3 года назад +1

    The camera quality is just CRISP

  • @hansgruber650
    @hansgruber650 6 лет назад +5

    Navy pilots had balls of steel.

  • @Somd55
    @Somd55 4 года назад +4

    I wonder how many exciting stories each one of these in air and on the carrier had to tell folks in every social gathering🙂

  • @egroegartfart
    @egroegartfart Год назад

    Wow, I did not realize we were taking off and landing on carriers so early. Thanks for sharing this video with us. Really cool .

    • @AtheistOrphan
      @AtheistOrphan Год назад +1

      We had aircraft carriers in WW1 in the U.K.

  • @jamesmiller3715
    @jamesmiller3715 2 года назад

    That's why they're " The Greatest Generation " Miss you Dad.....

  • @NoNopeAndNo
    @NoNopeAndNo 4 года назад +5

    It's astounding to see how human eyes have evolved to see the world in colour. It must have been dull only to see black & white, then sepia type colours. But look at us now!

  • @loganinkosovo
    @loganinkosovo 5 лет назад +1

    My Uncle was one of those pilots. He flew TBMs. They were the first to run out of gas on any mission. They were big slow targets. The carriers moved after launch and were under radio silence so after your mission you had to go back to where the carrier was and start your Search squares and pray to God you would find out where your carrier went before you ran out of gas. The TBMs and TBFs went in first.You would hear them calling out "Going in, Good Luck, Guys". You would hear them calling out and ditching. Quiet for a while and then came the calls came from the SBDs going in. Lastly the calls from the fighters started. This is why they turned the lights on during the battle of the Coral Sea. If they didn't they would have no planes left. My Uncle spent a lot of time in a rubber raft praying that he would be picked up by our side before the Sun, the Japs or the Sharks got him. He survived and flew combat missions until the end of world war II. He Flew combat missions in the Korean War and Viet Nam too. He retired a 1 star.

  • @michaelashcraft8569
    @michaelashcraft8569 4 года назад

    Been seeing this same video since the 50's , never gets old, I honor those who risked all for mankind, pilots, ships, ship's company, and, plane crews! Doc Mike USN

  • @nerroworks7562
    @nerroworks7562 5 лет назад +7

    I like how casually he says that the Japanese navy just ceases to exist

    • @bkjeong4302
      @bkjeong4302 5 лет назад +4

      Nerro Works
      To be honest it had already ceased to exist after the Solomons campaign when their remaining carriers lost almost all their pilots, making it impossible for the IJN to attack the main American fleet again (because a fleet that has carrier strike power can simply outrange one who has lost that power). Everything else was just filler.

  • @miroslavmilan
    @miroslavmilan 5 лет назад +29

    I see go-arounds were probably not part of standard operational procedures back then. 😂
    Just kidding. I know it was bloody hard and these folks were heroes. Calm down everyone.

    • @jimdomarus4650
      @jimdomarus4650 5 лет назад

      Lol

    • @Justwantahover
      @Justwantahover 4 года назад +2

      Maybe a lot of them didn't want to risk going around and running out of fuel.

    • @derekpowell1762
      @derekpowell1762 4 года назад

      👍

    • @LoneEagle89
      @LoneEagle89 4 года назад +3

      A lot of the Pacific Theater missions stretched their fuel to the limit. Even with the drop tank(s), they were landing on fumes. Dogfighting eat up a lot of fuel on the mission, and a damaged plane ate more. Some had to ditch long before ever seeing a flattop.

  • @agentk8263
    @agentk8263 4 года назад +1

    Some of the most courageous young men you'll probably never see

  • @baxbax8701
    @baxbax8701 4 года назад +1

    Absolute heroes ... every last one of them!

  • @captsparks1
    @captsparks1 3 года назад +3

    there is no way we can ever fully understand the kind of risks they put up with back in those days. The astonishing bravery of not only the pilots but the deck crews is very extremely humbling. My absolute respect for them is immeasurable. I think it's fair to say that they have way more than earned the title hero. Even more impressive is the fact that they knew the risks they were undertaking and they did it anyways. they knew that their chances of returning alive after a mission was only about a one in three chance. I'm humbled thinking of such brave men.

    • @pingpong9656
      @pingpong9656 3 года назад

      I always find it highly insulting to the word hero when those hollyweird freaks use it to describe themselves - fake as hell weirdos. These are real life HEROS, brave to the core.

  • @Durian_Defense
    @Durian_Defense 5 лет назад +1

    Try landing one of those planes, with more holes than swiss cheese, on a postage stamp after a brutal mission. Salute to the naval aviators of the Greatest Generation.

  • @Ahornblatt2000
    @Ahornblatt2000 4 года назад +1

    Very impressive recordings

  • @wolfgamez9642
    @wolfgamez9642 6 лет назад +66

    This is how all pilots on war thunder land on the carriers XD

    • @immanuelkant6647
      @immanuelkant6647 6 лет назад +7

      After a successful landing on a carrier I got launched to 10k Meters once and I was airborne again..

    • @wolfgamez9642
      @wolfgamez9642 6 лет назад +1

      Immanuel Kant interesting

    • @DElkan
      @DElkan 5 лет назад +2

      Bad pilots. Flying in RB is easy.

    • @livonianmapping3221
      @livonianmapping3221 5 лет назад +1

      Yep 100% me once i asked my friend does he want me to land on carrier or not he said carrier i was like fuck i played as japanese it was my 1st ever landing on a carrier and i landed like in 1:52 tho i repaired

    • @livonianmapping3221
      @livonianmapping3221 5 лет назад +1

      @@DElkan not for some

  • @ZZPAFF123
    @ZZPAFF123 4 года назад +1

    Great video. Stunning images. Magnificent.

  • @JenniferJones-pb3ku
    @JenniferJones-pb3ku 2 года назад

    Lest we forget and hold in our hearts those who have and now serve to keep the freedoms of life.

  • @Andyb2379
    @Andyb2379 5 лет назад +5

    I’ve got real pictures of these from the HMS Hunter, in which my great uncle served on in WW2. Seafires & there accidents.

  • @houstonhelicoptertours1006
    @houstonhelicoptertours1006 2 года назад +1

    Beautiful footage

  • @gangasinghchauhan467
    @gangasinghchauhan467 4 года назад

    They are real heros with no tech what so ever they tried their best and this paved the way in future generations of pilots...fukin legends.

  • @nigelbeaumont1109
    @nigelbeaumont1109 3 года назад +7

    That’s when real Men roamed the World.

    • @wcotton
      @wcotton 3 года назад +1

      And in age, they were mostly kids.

  • @DyspotikOriginal
    @DyspotikOriginal 4 года назад +1

    The cajonès on those pilots in the first stages in learning aviation, man

  • @IlTurko
    @IlTurko 2 года назад +1

    Astonished by the first 60 seconds of footage. Didn't know carriers coexisted with biplanes.

  • @GuilhermeOaskis
    @GuilhermeOaskis 6 лет назад +100

    These landings looked like "controlled accidents" lol

    • @GuilhermeOaskis
      @GuilhermeOaskis 6 лет назад +16

      Average RUclips reply. Keep up the good work.

    • @tbd-1
      @tbd-1 6 лет назад +18

      A Tomcat pilot I knew called every carrier landing a controlled crash.

    • @kystars
      @kystars 6 лет назад +4

      guiherme oaskis I read the comment made to you by Daniel.. and he is right. average youtube reply? who cares about that, he said you are a moron and you are , and also you laugh at these brave men from the past. I'm sure you couldn't even pass being in the boy scouts without wetting your pants. go ahead make your comment, I could care less, you are just a loser.

    • @kystars
      @kystars 6 лет назад +2

      Daniel Johan Andersson Ortega good comment from you over that total idiot and moron . I gave him my 2 cents. he's just a coward not cable of being able to even be in the boy scouts.. he might be good in the girl scouts

    • @crazybob270
      @crazybob270 6 лет назад

      Guilherme Oaskis

  • @cakeadventure8412
    @cakeadventure8412 5 лет назад +7

    5:02 Me in my head: Okay not too bad, at least he caught the cable
    *Tail snaps off*
    Oh

  • @samgale2481
    @samgale2481 4 года назад

    These pilots are just as human as you or me. People talk about the greatest generation like a thing of the past when in actual fact upbringing and circumstance is all that separates us from these heroes.

  • @trycoldman2358
    @trycoldman2358 3 года назад +1

    Another happy landing

  • @82lowe36id
    @82lowe36id Год назад

    Very cool video. I did not know that aircraft carriers had been around so long.

  • @erichhartmann9797
    @erichhartmann9797 2 года назад +1

    Navy pilots are the greatest airmen

  • @corneliusmcmuffin3256
    @corneliusmcmuffin3256 3 года назад +3

    Alternate title: the History of the Jingles Landing

  • @Knightfire66
    @Knightfire66 3 года назад

    thank you guys. rest in peace.

  • @lastorianostra8173
    @lastorianostra8173 2 года назад

    looking at those things, makes me remember my grandfather's words: "WAR is something horrible! I wish you never know the meaning of what that is". He was telegrapher from the Scirè submarine. He saw things he wanted to forget and did not till the day he passed away. If we only had idea of how the thigs go and of who wants us to kill each other, just to gain a slice of power...

  • @jonathanyoung5780
    @jonathanyoung5780 3 года назад

    So much courage and so much sacrificed...God Bless you all.

  • @victorrrrm
    @victorrrrm 4 года назад +1

    6:07 “The plane handling crews take every precaution”
    The plane handling crew: Runs at plane

  • @thefiascogarage3215
    @thefiascogarage3215 6 лет назад +11

    Every landing was a religious experience for everybody involved. Just... Wow. Thank you to those that have served and still serve our country. Don't let the hangers on ever tell you that your balls are not monuments in themselves.

  • @robertphillips3992
    @robertphillips3992 5 лет назад +1

    Great safety innovation with the Angled deck...

  • @crunchytheclown9694
    @crunchytheclown9694 3 года назад

    Much respect for men who fought with courage

  • @nickengineroom
    @nickengineroom 3 года назад +5

    Show this in schools .
    Absolutely disgraceful this ‘woke’ generation!!!

  • @dillonsbored
    @dillonsbored 4 года назад +2

    WW2 pilots had it tough all the new navy aircraft and carriers have wires and a hook and most of the time works with no severe damage

  • @mikeobrien6704
    @mikeobrien6704 3 года назад

    Absolutely incredible footage!

  • @stephenneville7841
    @stephenneville7841 4 года назад

    Wow, talk about skill and bravery, some friggin real men here

  • @kevinjasper6620
    @kevinjasper6620 5 лет назад +2

    Boy ! The early history of the"flat tops" was rough.

  • @U.S._Army_Retired
    @U.S._Army_Retired Год назад

    The Deck Crews were amazing!

  • @сергейсерый-к8и
    @сергейсерый-к8и 4 года назад +1

    Смелые Люди !!!!!!!!! ( и музыка красивая )

  • @amatheusladia175
    @amatheusladia175 6 лет назад +11

    The reason why large aircraft carriers are made

    • @jfan4reva
      @jfan4reva 6 лет назад +3

      Large aircraft carriers, with angled flight decks!

    • @sireanthony1793
      @sireanthony1793 6 лет назад

      And for more aircraft that are bigger

    • @TouchableGrass
      @TouchableGrass 6 лет назад +3

      actually the carriers got larger due to the introduction of jet aircraft

    • @sandgrownun66
      @sandgrownun66 5 лет назад

      @@TouchableGrass Correct.

  • @HeswinLinamo4116
    @HeswinLinamo4116 4 года назад

    Most Dangerous the old aircraft carriers, poor pilots. Respect.

  • @crustycobs2669
    @crustycobs2669 3 года назад

    Amazing piece of film history

  • @Gamble661
    @Gamble661 2 года назад

    My uncle was a plane captain on the Yorktown. He told me once that the worst thing he saw during his tour was someone walk into a spinning propeller....he saw it happen twice.
    I've always thought that the worst way to go would be to ditch successfully, get into your life raft and then not be found; just drift for days and days on the open ocean until you finally realize no one is coming and you're going to die. Lonely way to go. It happened to a lot of air crews during the Battle of Midway because they ran out of fuel trying to get back to the carriers.

  • @garyjarvis2730
    @garyjarvis2730 4 года назад

    Brave men operating in the worst of conditions doing the impossible.

  • @misterbis373_55
    @misterbis373_55 Год назад

    RIP for all of them....heroes.

  • @Ralphie_Boy
    @Ralphie_Boy 3 года назад

    *Amazing back then, Trial & Error!* 🛩

  • @kyle381000
    @kyle381000 Год назад +2

    The poor guy who went into the water inverted just behind the ship probably didn't make it.

  • @Kyle-mo7tq
    @Kyle-mo7tq 5 лет назад +1

    I would love to fly one of those old planes