USS Enterprise Spectacular Carrier Landing Crashes 1940 - SBC Helldiver biplane TBD Devastator, F3F
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- The U.S. Navy brought high-speed motion picture cameras to bear on aircraft carrier operations such as these views from USS Enterprise throughout 1940. From the number of mishaps, it is evident carrier landings still had a lot of art and less science in them at that time. These films were critical to education and engineering analysis as aircraft carriers became ever more important in the immediate prewar years. Tires popped on impact, landing gear crumpled or broke clean away a number of times, and it happened over and over. Watch as a sailor gestures as if to will a slow-flying TBD Devastator into the air after it misses the wires and barrier and dips off the port side of the Enterprise.
When the wooden flight deck takes strikes from a whirling propeller, bright splinters fly. Some carrier decks of the era used teak wood for planking; later, when the war made teak less available, Douglas fir was common. Repairs could be made quickly while underway.
Continuous improvements in tailhook designs and arresting cables and barriers, and landing gear, plus a growing history of experience all served to diminish the frequency of mishaps such as these.
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Ironically, this is some of the best footage of the TBD Devastator ever caught
It's amazing any of these planes could get off the ground carrying the weight of these guy's balls. These men gave everything. I hope they're always appreciated and admired for their courage and sacrifice.
Agreed!
Love the prewar stuff. Good seeing the TBD in action.
That was a fantastic find. You are outdoing yourself as time goes on. Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it
This is superb quality footage & I love the music choice too.
Thank you very much!
Rare footage of the Northrop BTs. Don't think any exist anymore
It is not the losses of yesteryear that follow is hauntingly, but the absence of these planes today, that makes us pause in remorse today.
These landings are insane. The navy must have lost quite a few pilots during these days. So dangerous!
I don't think things got much easier as time went on.
When I was in, NOBODY was allowed in the port catwalks during landing ops. This proves why ! 😳😳😳
Good observation! Thanks for watching and commenting.
I can not think of a more lonely moment one may encounter on a daily basis than when a pilot must land on aircraft carrier.
Have to feel for the gunners , just sitting there with their legs and fingers crossed ,and thinking , " another fine mess Stanley "
Amazing footage! You got a new subscriber here. Thanks!
Thanks for the sub!
Looked like quite a few snapped and missed cables.Dad was on Yorktown at the same time working the airgroup on the new TBDs.
BT-1,SBC,f3f in the yellow wings...love it
Classic
Good lord! That's just one carrier in a single year? Deck operations in the 1940s must have been mayhem.
And this is in peacetime too!
@@elennapointer701 Exactly!
What I don't understand is how there were so many crashes on the same ship in a single year.
I guess that tells us something about lessons learned and how far we've come. Yes, that seems like a lot of mishaps, doesn't it. Thanks for watching and commenting.
This was the very beginning of carrier operations and a lot of hard lessons were to be learned
Hmmmn? good thing they didn't prang all of their TBD Devastators in 1940, and had enough left over for the battle of Midway in '42 .... Hey? Thanks for the great quality footage, I wonder if the crew from the TBD that stalled on approach and nose dived into the sea had any chance of surviving? Hope so
I'm guessing they had a chance; hope it worked out. And thanks for watching and commenting.
Bells & all, subbed.👍 Captures some puckering times, Crew on Deck @ the ready , they've seen it before & c'on the Sailor on Port Side encouraging & waving the Plane to pull up. This one should be Colorized .idk
My dad served in WW2 march 1941 to june 1946 in the Navy as an electronics expert- he was involved in installing computers on many ships from submarines to aircraft carriers- I'd of like to have seen him working in a WW2 submarine lol he was 6feet 4inch tall- the average submariner was 5feet 5inch tall lol
I always appreciate when viewers add a bit of family World War II history as we remember the veterans. Thanks!
Thank u 😊
material increible wow
i bet the USS Enterprise had a storage room filled with spare props.
A crew assigned to a Douglas Devestator was a death sentence
4:19 is that the arresting hook?
Gracious loving Lord! We asked so very much of these wonderful young people. These kids are getting killed and injured and they are still in peacetime.
Pilots refer to an aircraft carrier landing as a "controlled crash". In these cases... it was more an uncontrolled crash. The majority were the result of coming in too hot (fast)... too high... or both. Most of these aircraft should have been waved off well before ever reaching the carrier. More the Landing Signal Officer's (LSO) fault and mistake... than the pilot's. While the pilot is still in control the aircraft... he must rely on and obey the LSO's signals (in the case of the F4U Corsair, the aircraft must fly in an arc on final, so the LSO is visible up to the last second in the drop of the wing. Thank you England for figuring it out for us). The LSO's job is to flag the pilot as to being on target, too high, too low, frantic low, too fast, too slow, left of line, right of line. An aircraft that is still too hot or too high or both when it reaches the deck... is the LSO's fault, unless the pilot completely ignored him. And, in that case, the pilot... will not be a pilot anymore! An aircraft must come in barely above stall speed at a predetermined rate of descent. Then, when the LSO gives the cut signal, the pilot cuts the throttle, pulls back on the stick to stall the aircraft hard and angle the aircraft tail down, then drops the nose. The aircraft lands in a modified three pointer, with the tail hook hitting first a fraction of a second before the mains. But, the aircraft must be coming in low and slow enough the main gear doesn't bounce when it does hit the deck. Again... a "controlled crash".
Of course, Capt Eric "Winkle" Brown of England threw all that out the window to land the Mosquito on a carrier. He came in well below the Mosquito's stall speed (less than 90 knots verses the normal 135 landing speed) with it literally hanging on the props. That gives an indication of the immense power of the twin Rolls-Royce Merlin engines... and the light weight of the Mosquito. He is the ONLY person to EVER land a Mosquito on an aircraft carrier. And, he is the ONLY person to EVER take off in a Mosquito from an aircraft carrier. Truly a remarkable feat from a remarkable man.
I can imagine a drill officer looking on and berating the pilots as they came in.
Why the music ?
It just felt right. The film was originally silent, of course, so if you want it that way, just hit the mute button.
@@airailimages Great footage anyway....
Any not lost to accident or combat would have been promptly destroyed by the government anyway
Sad to watch
I wonder what they did with all those wrecked planes? Throw them overboard or use them for spare parts.
Probably a little of both, I'm guessing.
Too bad it's all b&w as planes in those days were beautifully painted. One wonders how the Navy had any Devastators left for Coral Sea & Midway...
DAMN, Haulsy must have been PISSED OFF !!!! I'm glad I was not with him then !!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Halsey
Running out of skill at the worst time.
Same crash, 14 times. Boring.