Look at Life Vol 2 Military Flight Deck 1960

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  • Опубликовано: 4 ноя 2024

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  • @chrischappell9824
    @chrischappell9824 3 года назад +61

    Is it me, but when I watch these short films England was a positive place to be, looking forward to the future and proud to be an industrial leader.......what happened, where did it all go wrong?

  • @mikeybrant5595
    @mikeybrant5595 3 года назад +8

    Of the 7 decades i have lived the 60,s were without doubt the best.

    • @lablackzed
      @lablackzed 2 года назад

      100% agreed today's world is a very stressful place I will be happy when I leave it.

  • @richardprice7763
    @richardprice7763 3 года назад +40

    Great to see Hermes as she was originally designed for.

  • @stugill4513
    @stugill4513 3 года назад +19

    great film my dad was on the hermes when this was filmed , i was looking for him aqll the way threw the film

    • @adriansams6066
      @adriansams6066 3 года назад +5

      Hi Stu, Is your dad Terry Gill by any chance?. If it is then my dad Rodney Sams remembers him. My dad was also on the Hermes too, He was an armourer in the Fleet Air Arm . I think it may have been 846 sq. Anyway he served from 1957-69 and he says that other than my mum the Hermes was the only other woman in his life. Regards Adrian Sams

    • @Farweasel
      @Farweasel 3 года назад +1

      @@adriansams6066 Small world innit?

    • @adriansams6066
      @adriansams6066 3 года назад +1

      @@Farweasel It certainly is Farweasel.

    • @turquoisecat761
      @turquoisecat761 2 года назад

      *through

    • @stugill4513
      @stugill4513 2 года назад

      @@turquoisecat761 sorry spelling police

  • @BerylDavies-mw5ft
    @BerylDavies-mw5ft 6 месяцев назад +6

    I was on this flight deck at time of film as mechanic for 804 squadren happy days

  • @michaeloconnell532
    @michaeloconnell532 4 года назад +34

    I remember seeing Hermes in Portsmouth Harbour just after her return from the Falklands in 1982. That was very exciting!

    • @duartesimoes508
      @duartesimoes508 3 года назад +3

      I remember seeing the brand new HMS Invincible in Lisbon in 1980 and took a few pictures. Little did we all knew that she would go to war two years later. I visited the HMS Bulwark and the Clemenceau too, beautiful ships.

    • @ianmangham4570
      @ianmangham4570 3 года назад +1

      I there was

    • @michaeloconnell532
      @michaeloconnell532 3 года назад

      @Cardinal Sin Yes but ships are usually referred to as 'she' whatever the name is. I thought everyone knew that.

    • @michaeloconnell532
      @michaeloconnell532 3 года назад

      @Cardinal Sin Wallow in ignorance if you will.

  • @m.streicher8286
    @m.streicher8286 3 года назад +10

    The Sea Vixen is such a good looking plane damn

    • @papagee100
      @papagee100 3 года назад +1

      Pity it was a bit of a "death trap"

  • @number8485
    @number8485 3 года назад +9

    Very engaging and great to see how advanced the RN Fleet Air Arm was all that time ago.I once met a pilot on a skiing holiday and it was fascinating to get some understanding of the necessary skilled precision for these operations.

  • @allgood6760
    @allgood6760 2 года назад +5

    Awesome...HMS Eagle came to NZ in the early 70's and I been interested ever since in carrier aviation.. Thanks for this 👍🇳🇿

  • @jimramsey8887
    @jimramsey8887 6 месяцев назад +5

    I was impressed and proud during this era but now we are on a slippery slope.

  • @Cr4cKf0x
    @Cr4cKf0x 3 года назад +22

    Look at those Scimitars and Sea Vixens. Amazing.

    • @duartesimoes508
      @duartesimoes508 3 года назад +1

      Pilots did like the Scimitar. But it was a dangerous, unforgiving aircraft, no question about it.
      Have you seen "Thunders & Lightnings" site?

    • @Farweasel
      @Farweasel 3 года назад +2

      In its way the humble Gannet was the cleverest of the lot.
      A twin, contraroatating turboprop fueld by the ship's bunker Oil.
      That is *really* amazing.
      Slight digression - The Scimitars look like they borrowed a lot of their configuration from Hawker Hunters.

    • @papagee100
      @papagee100 3 года назад

      Both types had horrendous safety records

    • @sss-og1yl
      @sss-og1yl Год назад

      @@Farweasel "fueld by the ship's bunker Oil"
      it's something like a revolution in aviation history. Gannet's Mambas did work on the same fuel that any other aircraft of the airgroup
      "Scimitars look like they borrowed a lot of their configuration from Hawker Hunters"
      somewhere I've seen such sentence as: "Only British could fit TWO powerful engines into Hunter-size aircraft and obtain SUBSONIC plane"
      :)))

  • @DrTWG
    @DrTWG 4 месяца назад +2

    Fantastic . It's great that we have these digitised films . I love the music at the start.

  • @Bruce-1956
    @Bruce-1956 3 года назад +14

    As a child in the '60s, I remember seeing the Fleet, including carriers , going up and down the Forth to Rosyth.

  • @robertricketts5467
    @robertricketts5467 6 месяцев назад +1

    I grew up in Bermuda in the 60's and 70's and 'Look at Life' were one of the British 'filler' programmes in the gaps in American CBS or ABC programmes.They're where I got my love for aviation,parachuting and shipping.

  • @charishraju
    @charishraju 3 года назад +8

    Hermes was in service with the Royal Navy from 1959 until 1984, and she served as the flagship of the British forces during the 1982 Falklands War.
    After being sold to India in 1986 after a major refit, the vessel was recommissioned and remained in service with the Indian Navy as the INS Viraat until 2017.
    Viraat means Giant in the Sanskrit Language

    • @stephenchappell7512
      @stephenchappell7512 2 года назад +3

      I guess it was a giant back then
      however its been eclipsed since India brought the former Soviet ship and built
      one of its own

  • @mclare9817
    @mclare9817 4 года назад +15

    I remember going to a 'Plymouth Navy Day' as a kid in the early 70s.... and walked HMS Hermes.
    I had no idea ship could be that big!😀😀

    • @stephenchappell7512
      @stephenchappell7512 2 года назад +1

      Thought Hermes was a Pompey based ship
      Plymouth being home to the larger Fleet Carriers Eagle and Ark Royal

    • @stevenbevis9290
      @stevenbevis9290 2 года назад +2

      @@stephenchappell7512Ark was Devonport based because Pompey didnt have big enough dry dock but still visited pompey sometimes as in 1966 4 navy open days . All uk warships would have gone to D'port at times to use degaussing range & other reasons .

    • @stephenchappell7512
      @stephenchappell7512 2 года назад +1

      @@stevenbevis9290
      Gotha 👍

  • @CyrusInIndia
    @CyrusInIndia 3 года назад +16

    Currently this ship if it's the HMS Hermes is in a half broken state as of April 2021. She was decommissioned by the Indian Navy in 2017 after 30 glorious year's of service as INS Viraat.

  • @alimohammedi3674
    @alimohammedi3674 Год назад +1

    This show is very good ..this channel the best ..i hope to go on..greating

  • @adriansams6066
    @adriansams6066 3 года назад +16

    At 2:35 my dad was saying he thinks the guy with the flags and the red beard had his beard singed pretty badly when a Sea Vixen blew up on the deck.. Brave men in those days... They had a fair few close shaves apparently and if it wasn't for the small tractor units on the deck I wouldn't be here due to another plane crash landing. They lost a few pilots during my dad's time on the Hermes. I have some film slides of the aftermarth of one of the Sea Vixen fires.

    • @papagee100
      @papagee100 3 года назад +2

      Sea Vixens! Very Dangerous RN lost around 38% of them in accidents. Large amount were fatal for the air crew too

    • @sss-og1yl
      @sss-og1yl Год назад

      hello Adrian.
      "I have some film slides of the aftermarth of one of the Sea Vixen fires"
      Can we dicuss possible getting some of your photo or other materials concerning British carriers and its aircraft?

  • @alanshepherd4304
    @alanshepherd4304 4 года назад +16

    As a young lad I went to a Royal Navy day and went aboard the mighty HMS Victorious. I was so excited I wouldn't shut up talking about it for weeks!!😂😂😷

    • @Biggles2498
      @Biggles2498 3 года назад +2

      Alan Shepherd : I found Royal Navy Days exciting too and my Grandfather served on HMS Chrysanthemum now I believed permanently moored in The River Thames. I always found visits to RAF Stations most depressing as The Royal Navy venues eg ships and HMS Bases always had a certain "sparkle" about them !

    • @alanshepherd4304
      @alanshepherd4304 3 года назад

      @@Biggles2498 my brother in law was in the RAF, an air frame engineer, worked on Lightnings, Jaguars, Nimrod's and Tornados so visited bases here in the UK and Germany, enjoyed that too. Great bunch of lads, worked hard and played hard. Great memories 🙂🙂

    • @lestermay5878
      @lestermay5878 Год назад

      @@Biggles2498 HMS Chrysanthemum was near Blackfriars Bridge - scrapped 1988.

  • @angusmcangus7914
    @angusmcangus7914 3 года назад +12

    In the days when we still had a navy.

    • @duncancallum
      @duncancallum 3 года назад

      AYE.

    • @kristov29
      @kristov29 3 года назад

      You chaps are making a comeback. Your two new carriers may not be all that they could have been, but those two ships show that Britain has a long term have a commitment to being a leading player in world affairs. Every modern navy is based on the British example. Much respect from across the pond.

  • @pit_stop77
    @pit_stop77 3 года назад +10

    Scary to think, all those young men in that film are in their 80's and 90's now 😳

    • @mackan-kf4tg
      @mackan-kf4tg 3 года назад +1

      Filmed in 1960, the youngest members of the ships company would’ve been 16, so born 1944, making them 77 this year (2021). Hopefully there’s still a good few of them around, spinning their dits!!😀I wonder who that young Bunting at 7:50 is? Standing with his hands in his pockets, goofing at the flight deck!!😂👍🏻⚓️⚓️

  • @alastairnicoll1216
    @alastairnicoll1216 3 года назад +9

    Many memories - I served on HMS Hermes in the mid 1970’s. Happy days...

  • @Thunderer0872
    @Thunderer0872 4 месяца назад

    Some of that was on Victorious as well as Hermes note the V on the tails and the round down on one of the ships.

  • @richardsanders5287
    @richardsanders5287 3 года назад +6

    Loved "Sea Vixen"..😘

    • @Biggles2498
      @Biggles2498 3 года назад +2

      Their Cockpits were very jumbled and very difficult where every instrument was as they were obviously analogue displays but my(CPO) Dad's friend was a Fleet Arm Pilot(Sub.Lt)who used to let me start the engines up (on dry land HMS Condor Arbroath) it wouldn't be allowed now though far less then ! Great fun Old Boy) those were the days when 1/2 day seemed like 10 minutes of excitement.

  • @lestermay5878
    @lestermay5878 Год назад

    Brilliant! Carrier aviation - the most exacting flying in the world. BZ the Fleet Air Arm.

  • @hansjurgenochsenfahrt6176
    @hansjurgenochsenfahrt6176 3 года назад +3

    Military had culture at this time - look the officer young pilots at the bar before dinner.

  • @frostyfrost4094
    @frostyfrost4094 3 года назад +11

    Those Scimitars were horrible....
    They would scare me as a nipper at the top of the garden, and would run inside as they came into land at Wisley.

    • @Charlesputnam-bn9zy
      @Charlesputnam-bn9zy 3 года назад +1

      Seemed that the Scimitar & the Sea-Vixen were RN disappointments of the time.
      Fortunately the Buccaneer was an outstanding success !

    • @tonywilson6032
      @tonywilson6032 3 года назад +3

      We used to call the scimitars “flying fuel leaks”

    • @Farweasel
      @Farweasel 3 года назад +1

      @@Charlesputnam-bn9zy Not sure the Bucc was the *toughest* aeroplane ever built.
      But I can't think of any that were tougher.

    • @Charlesputnam-bn9zy
      @Charlesputnam-bn9zy 3 года назад +1

      @@Farweasel
      If asked to pick the Royal Navy's equivalent of the US Navy's Phantom for attack plane, I'll pick the Buccaneer.

    • @sss-og1yl
      @sss-og1yl Год назад +1

      @@Charlesputnam-bn9zy "equivalent of the US Navy's Phantom for attack plane, I'll pick the Buccaneer"
      Phantom was multi-role (so you can have airgroup totally "phantomised" in sense of combat a/c) while Bucc may did well only one role

  • @Super8Rescue
    @Super8Rescue 2 года назад

    🧐 I love this 'Look at Life' Thanks for posting it.

  • @johnappleby405
    @johnappleby405 6 месяцев назад

    Always an impressive sight!

  • @ZLAKOZILLA
    @ZLAKOZILLA 3 года назад

    love the color,shots and sound

  • @elrjames7799
    @elrjames7799 4 года назад +12

    Six minutes in the narrator acknowledges it as a "pocket carrier".

    • @mentalizatelo
      @mentalizatelo 3 года назад +5

      Indeed it was, British budget and efficiency balanced as its best, the thing did it's job!

  • @donlove3741
    @donlove3741 3 года назад +2

    RN second to none !
    Many Navies are patterned after the Royal Navy including my Navy the USN.
    Rule the waves !

  • @Charlesputnam-bn9zy
    @Charlesputnam-bn9zy 3 года назад +3

    HMS Hermes' Finest Hour : Falklands 1982 !

  • @AndreiTupolev
    @AndreiTupolev 3 года назад +12

    "She's the pride of the fleet and the envy of the world's navies." That is until USS Enterprise came along a year later. She (Hermes) was actually regarded as a Light Fleet carrier, too small to operate the Phantom, and quite a bit smaller than Ark Royal

    • @barracuda7018
      @barracuda7018 3 года назад +3

      Typical Britsh patriotic Bullshit. Everything they made was the envy of the world. The first nuclear reactor for Britain's first nuclear sub was delivered by Westinghouse of the US along with all the neccessary knowhow and technology.
      But I like Brits pretending they have invented pretty much everything.

    • @callumpettitt8192
      @callumpettitt8192 3 года назад +11

      ​@@barracuda7018 The aircraft carrier was a British invention as was the jump jet and as was the tank if you didn't know. Americans are incredibly good at assuming they did everything themselves and when they find out we did it first they get upset. Nuclear weapons are the only thing your lot ever did and surprise, surprise the Manhattan project was full of non Americans same with NASA but keep taking credit for others achievements

    • @burlatsdemontaigne6147
      @burlatsdemontaigne6147 3 года назад +1

      barracuda7018 __Says the guy writing in.... English🤣🤣😂🤣. Haven't got your own language yet have you?

    • @sss-og1yl
      @sss-og1yl Год назад

      @@barracuda7018 "Typical Britsh patriotic Bullshit"
      not sure but it seems you are from the same place (country) I am
      So believe me, Soviet (or as most write here "Russian") typical patriotic bullshit looks absolutely similar

  • @sss-og1yl
    @sss-og1yl Год назад

    brilliant short film and tears-squeezing look back to epoch when Hermes was CATOBAR
    2 questions for experts:
    - what carrier appears ahead of Hermes?
    - some planes (Scimitars) have distinct V on tail.
    Does it means these shots were made at Victorious or at that days some R38-based planes were detached to R12???

    • @sss-og1yl
      @sss-og1yl Год назад

      ruclips.net/video/qBx-T5exCkw/видео.html
      this is LARGE carrier with LONG island. So not Centaur/Albion/Bulwark anyway.
      It has NO Type 984 so not Vic. Either Eagle or Ark but which one?

  • @flybobbie1449
    @flybobbie1449 4 года назад +2

    Friends brother served carriers, which one, not sure, will have to show this film. Tells me a few tales his brother told him like the Gannet that took off a wing folded, crew rescued. Few weeks later same again , crew lost.
    His brother a radio tech. had many flights on all the navy types at that time.

    • @Farweasel
      @Farweasel 3 года назад

      'Should have bought the Vought' (F8 Crusader) Ludicrous thrust to weight ratio & a good lifting body.
      One USN lad got to circa 5,000 above the Med (might have been the Bay of Naples?) and couldn't work out why it was so heavy on the stick and impossible to trim.
      *Then* the Penny (well I suppose in his case the Dime) dropped.
      Astonishing. But its very well documented.

    • @stevenbevis9290
      @stevenbevis9290 Год назад

      @@Farweasel landing gear still down ?

    • @Farweasel
      @Farweasel Год назад

      @@stevenbevis9290 Give that man a Cocconut - He got it in one 👍

  • @phillipecook3227
    @phillipecook3227 3 года назад +6

    Now that was worth watching. 60 + years ago it says but to this lay person the images seem almost ultra modern. Remarkable to think the UK was manufacturing jet fighter aircraft then (and specialist ones for the Navy at that). I wonder whatever happened to Lieutenant JL Williams?

    • @stevetheduck1425
      @stevetheduck1425 3 года назад +4

      Britain was building jet aircraft in 1943; the Gloster 'squirt' or 'pioneer', in 1944 the Gloster Meteor and the DeHavilland Vampire.

    • @lestermay5878
      @lestermay5878 Год назад +1

      My guess is that he is the four-stripe Captain in my 2005 edition of The Navy List of Retired Officers - an air engineer officer, seniority 30 Jun 1980 (likely a test pilot, therefore). John Lawrence Williams was born around 1932, I'd wager.

  • @Schnorbitz
    @Schnorbitz 3 года назад +2

    Wow, when Britain was truly Great…

  • @jacksugden8190
    @jacksugden8190 3 месяца назад

    All this when I was a child of 5, if only I could have been older to understand.

  • @MrButtonpresser
    @MrButtonpresser 3 года назад +1

    Fantastic time capsules

  • @duartesimoes508
    @duartesimoes508 3 года назад +4

    So amusing when a Gannet folds her wings. Almost as if she was saying "it's not my fault, there was nothing I could do!"

  • @MattVF
    @MattVF 8 месяцев назад

    A beautiful ship.

  • @Kirkee7
    @Kirkee7 4 года назад +3

    Been there when it became a commando carrier. Wessex helicopters

    • @sss-og1yl
      @sss-og1yl Год назад

      thank for comment/ Do you have any photos of the ship and|or airgroup?

  • @blue47er
    @blue47er 3 года назад +1

    Every sailor aboard was obliged to swallow an atomic pill on his first night aboard. The next morning he found himself with a new clear weapon.

  • @kneelneil
    @kneelneil 3 года назад +6

    No mention of the golden rivet...

  • @duartesimoes508
    @duartesimoes508 3 года назад +1

    Wonderful times where not everything was either a F-18 or a F-35...

  • @JohnAsmith-rw6uo
    @JohnAsmith-rw6uo 9 месяцев назад

    They lose the tow cable into the sea every time they launch from the catapult?

  • @g111g
    @g111g 3 года назад +1

    Wow, I didn't know about those rollers at 2:30 to centre aircraft for the catapult. Did the US or French take on this idea?

    • @syorukel
      @syorukel 3 года назад +1

      They did not use rollers at US and French carriers.

    • @sss-og1yl
      @sss-og1yl Год назад

      it was British idea, but none other Navy used it

  • @nommchompsky
    @nommchompsky 3 года назад +3

    The British didn't seem to realize how important it was that the hand signals given by the deck crew be as cool looking as possible

    • @johnsanders2266
      @johnsanders2266 2 года назад +3

      Oh yes we did you know! just because we don't run around like headless chickens doesn't mean that it not working like well tuned engine!

  • @RogueZebra83
    @RogueZebra83 3 года назад +3

    now the INS Viraat

    • @mackan-kf4tg
      @mackan-kf4tg 3 года назад

      Paid-off into reserve in 2017. Officially de-listed & ready for scrap in late 2020⚓️

  • @PenzancePete
    @PenzancePete 3 года назад +2

    "latest, most modern. pride of the fleet, envy of the world? This was made in 1960. Victorious was in commission as was Eagle and Ark Royal. The U.S.S. Enterprise had just been launched.
    Hermes was a too small ship then, too small for modern heavy jets as witnessed by the number of accidents.

    • @stevenbevis9290
      @stevenbevis9290 2 года назад

      Eagle was in refit 1959 to 1964 . Best carrier on globe after that refit (not biggest ) . Arks flight deck upgraded for Phantom but otherwise nowhere near Eagle standard .

    • @sss-og1yl
      @sss-og1yl Год назад

      @@stevenbevis9290 "Arks flight deck upgraded for Phantom but otherwise nowhere near Eagle standard"
      your comment isn't first time I see this opinion. Can you, please, write some details why you have such a point of view?

  • @sebastieneude8199
    @sebastieneude8199 3 года назад +5

    Skyraider at 9.14 ?

    • @mh53j
      @mh53j 3 года назад

      Good catch!

    • @werewolf5970
      @werewolf5970 3 года назад +1

      Airfix 1/600 HMS Victorious. Scimitars, Sea Vixens and Skyraiders...

    • @sss-og1yl
      @sss-og1yl Год назад

      exactly. They flew as Gannet's predecessors up until 1959-60. from Hermes sister ships Albion and Centaur

  • @stuartpeacock8257
    @stuartpeacock8257 Год назад

    Incredible old girl the Gannet

  • @lord.onk99
    @lord.onk99 3 года назад +1

    Little dod they know what was ahead for Hermes.

  • @manmonkee
    @manmonkee 3 года назад +1

    The Sea Vixen looks amazing,,, It had at least that going for it, not much else but hey ho.

  • @Biggles2498
    @Biggles2498 3 года назад +1

    My Father was a CPO (at the age of 21) Fleet Air Arm as promotion was automatic as a "Tiff" and he loved HMS Eagle. Does anybody know why both Carriers are doing a Zig Zag Course ? It's not a test as I haven't the foggiest Old Boy !

    • @joshuahighlands2900
      @joshuahighlands2900 3 года назад +1

      Usually zig zag courses are used as an anti-submarine measure, along with varying speed. I should imagine the Soviets were never too far away.

    • @Paul-lb1uw
      @Paul-lb1uw 3 года назад

      I thought Artificers had to do 2 years as PO before being made up to Chief?

    • @Biggles2498
      @Biggles2498 3 года назад

      @@Paul-lb1uw Not then because he went to a Naval Boarding School Holbrook and was a CPO when I was born but refused a commission because he disliked "The Wardroom".

    • @mackan-kf4tg
      @mackan-kf4tg 3 года назад

      They’re definitely not zig-zagging, nor are they ”turning”……they’re ”wheeling”, as any Bunting will explain to you. The lead carrier doesn’t have a 984, so I’d guess that it’s HMS Centaur, another Light Fleet Carrier…..correct me if I’m wrong, someone. Also, not many cabs ranged on either carrier, so I’d guess that these were OOW manoeuvres just for the sake of the film⚓️⚓️

    • @stevenbevis9290
      @stevenbevis9290 2 года назад +1

      @@mackan-kf4tg Seen static photo of that . It was oct1960 the non 984 carrier was Ark Royal . It was the only time she + Hermes + Victorious exercised together . A pic of the 3 is on inside front cover of "British warships & auxiliaries 1979 edition " Of course Ark was just decommed then & Vic long before .

  • @danh1077
    @danh1077 3 года назад +2

    It's ironic that the British pioneered and perfected the aircraft carrier and now they don't have a true aircraft carrier anymore. They haven't for quite some time. Just STVOL flat tops.

    • @stevetheduck1425
      @stevetheduck1425 3 года назад +1

      We moved on.
      When an Admiral requires command of an aircraft carrier in his resume to be permitted high command rank, the navy need aircraft carriers in numbers to outnumber the generals in the Pentagon.
      When an Admiral requires command of a nuclear-armed submarine in his resume for high command positions, you don't need aircraft carriers anymore.

    • @joshwebb5016
      @joshwebb5016 2 года назад

      That’s because of another British Innovation ironically. The British pioneered VTOL aircraft like the Harrier which didn’t need long flight decks or steam catapults. You could put them on smaller converted Helo Carriers. This is also a cheaper idea might I add

  • @mattwilcock8967
    @mattwilcock8967 3 года назад +4

    Sailor goes to see the doctor, I think I have Hermes says the sailor, Don't you mean Herpes? Asked the doc. No replies the sailor, I'm the carrier.

  • @stuartpeacock8257
    @stuartpeacock8257 Год назад

    Call the ball!

  • @anglerfish1001
    @anglerfish1001 3 года назад

    What drops into the sea when the aircraft has left the carrier? Part of the catapult? If so were these on a cable or something so they can be retrieved?

    • @MrSheckstr
      @MrSheckstr 3 года назад +1

      I don’t know what it was called then but more recently it was called a bridle.... if you look at carriers of the late 60 to late 80s you will sometimes see a little downward sloping ramp at the end of the catapult. That was a bridle catch. It was so bridles could be refurbished and reused.
      As Naval Aviation evolved the number of types of planes requiring a bride diminished to the point those catches were removed. It was decided that the number of bridles needed during a cruise didn’t justify the need for the recycling department on ship, just extra storage for more bridles

    • @anglerfish1001
      @anglerfish1001 3 года назад

      @@MrSheckstr So you think the splash is the catapult bridle. In that case the effectiveness of the carrier could be counted in the number of bridles it carried lol. Thanks very much for the answer. I always wondered what that splash was.

    • @MrSheckstr
      @MrSheckstr 3 года назад

      @@anglerfish1001 i must point out I am completely guessing... my experience and knowledge on this subject is second and third and and even then only involves vietnam and Cold War era NAVAL aviation

    • @MrSheckstr
      @MrSheckstr 3 года назад

      @@anglerfish1001 if you’re looking at the video at or around the 4:00 mark you can see the bridle as a narrow diagonal line going up from the catapult to the underside of the plane behind the front wheel. Over time naval aviation evolved to my classes of plane could be hooked directly to the catapult shuttle
      In fact, and my memory is very fuzzy here, the last class of plane flown from catapult carriers that required a “bridle” were OV10 scout planes that were doing improvised missions from some carriers.
      This is just something I was told but some bright boys came up with the idea of making homemade bridles out of plain hemp rope, electrical tape, and a few metal bits and then launching the planes from one of the catapults using a test cycle launch that is below the lowest regular setting. This meant these little planes could be “gently” lofted into the air saving deck places they usually had to clear for them to do a self powered take off .... once again this is just something someone told me could be an exaggeration or pure fiction

    • @anglerfish1001
      @anglerfish1001 3 года назад

      ​@@MrSheckstr Wow, thanks for the detailed answer. It’s fascinating how clever, but also simple, some of these engineering inventions were. I suppose catapults are a thing of the past now with VTOL aircraft being the future for carriers.

  • @moneymandan6217
    @moneymandan6217 3 года назад

    Alot different than my day

  • @qmsarge
    @qmsarge 3 года назад +1

    HMS Hermes was later given to Indian Navy, where it was renamed as INS Viraat.

    • @Farweasel
      @Farweasel 3 года назад

      That's because of the navigation problems which developed after handover, resulting it that most memorable signal:
      Where Viraat?

  • @willnewton3051
    @willnewton3051 3 года назад +2

    Yeah Smithsonian, a British invention!

  • @stuartpeacock8257
    @stuartpeacock8257 Год назад

    Bolter!

  • @rnichol22
    @rnichol22 3 года назад

    Little did they know the battleship would be back. Schmitar looks like a harrier with the engine and cockpit position

    • @Farweasel
      @Farweasel 3 года назад

      Nose on, when it came up the lift in the first few frames, I thought it was a Harrier. Tail too.
      In other aspects it looks more like a Hunter tho.
      No idea what 'Battleship is back'. Doubt any navy built any since this film was made.

  • @MS-gr2nv
    @MS-gr2nv 5 лет назад +1

    Chip Chop Cheerious

  • @roddyk05
    @roddyk05 4 года назад

    At 8:35 as one aircraft takes off, the one parked up lifts its nose and appears to drop its tail down - has something gone wrong here?

    • @DElkan
      @DElkan 4 года назад +1

      That's just the launch posture the Royal Navy devised for its' aircraft. The hold back bar, which breaks when the catapult is released, keeps the tail down and the plane in a nose-high attitude to aid in its' climbing away once shot off the deck. If you reference other pieces if footage of aircraft from the Royal Navy in the 1960's and 1970's you'll see this during launch procedure.

    • @sss-og1yl
      @sss-og1yl Год назад

      @@DElkan somewhat strange that only Scimitars and Buccs launched this way.
      Sea Vixens and Gannets started in a usual position. Not say about F-4K...

    • @mickbradley9487
      @mickbradley9487 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@sss-og1ylPhantoms on HMS Ark Royal had an extendible nose oleo to achieve the required angle of attack for launch.

  • @jdb47games
    @jdb47games 3 года назад +4

    6 Argies have watched this.

  • @krimke881
    @krimke881 3 года назад

    Why does it feels like this was filmed in the 40's 😅

    • @mcguire2038
      @mcguire2038 3 года назад

      Was only filmed about ten years after.

    • @Biggles2498
      @Biggles2498 3 года назад

      Because it was B&W and all the Officers were ex Public School Old Boy ?

    • @phillipecook3227
      @phillipecook3227 3 года назад

      @@Biggles2498 Didn't look like B & W ...

    • @stevetheduck1425
      @stevetheduck1425 3 года назад

      The people who did much filming during WWII were still in the companies making these films, using contacts set up in the 1940s to film well into the 1960s.

    • @SuperSy99
      @SuperSy99 3 года назад

      Its film.its still superior to digicam

  • @tee2899
    @tee2899 3 года назад

    Forth bridge not fourth duh

  • @VaibhavShete1981
    @VaibhavShete1981 3 года назад +1

    Why did Brits went back to jump jets?

    • @stevetheduck1425
      @stevetheduck1425 3 года назад

      Forward, as did the US Marine corps.

    • @kingofaesthetics9407
      @kingofaesthetics9407 3 года назад +3

      @@stevetheduck1425 No, it's simply because your government refuses to spend the money required to operate CATOBAR ships, even though they're superior to STOVL carriers.

    • @handlesarefeckinstupid
      @handlesarefeckinstupid 2 года назад +1

      @@kingofaesthetics9407 we don't use the harrier. Even old museum pieces have been sold off to the US for parts. They now use the horrendously expensive f35.

  • @rez4405
    @rez4405 3 года назад

    1 commander

  • @MyScotty7
    @MyScotty7 3 года назад +2

    Very proud Brit watching this,we should fly the flag on every roof top and brag about what my country has invented and achieved!

  • @stuartpeacock8257
    @stuartpeacock8257 Год назад +1

    What happened to Britain’s supremacy?

  • @Treasuremonk
    @Treasuremonk 3 года назад +4

    The British invented Air and water also!🤣 the US had all these items in there Navy back in the 1940’s! Even in early mid 2000’s, in Iraq working on a Brit base, the UK troops gear was 10-15 years behind the US! We were instructed to “don’t make fun of the Brits kit”🤣

    • @anton7402-g1o
      @anton7402-g1o 3 года назад +4

      That means more courage to go to war, pushing your limits. As I Dutchman I have deep respect for the courage of the British army. I think the only European army that’s willing to fight really and able to take losses

    • @trident1314
      @trident1314 3 года назад +3

      Not surprising considering the differences in defence budgets is it....the UK military still gets the job done when it needs to....I won't go as far to say "all the gear and no idea" as far as the US is concerned, but there is a heavy reliance on the latest fancy gear

    • @Treasuremonk
      @Treasuremonk 3 года назад +1

      @@trident1314 Don’t get me wrong I love my British brothers we went through a lot in 2004 and five together nothing but total respect for them

    • @trident1314
      @trident1314 3 года назад

      @@Treasuremonk 👍 it's all good bud

    • @Kirtlington-Bandit
      @Kirtlington-Bandit 3 года назад +1

      British military maybe the poor relation in regard to kit but far superior in effectiveness and less likely to have friendly fire accidents in which the Americans excel at 😉

  • @peterkirgan6850
    @peterkirgan6850 3 года назад

    Did he say hms Hermes?, or herpes???? Lol

  • @danh1077
    @danh1077 3 года назад

    All I can see are the hundreds of thousands of bridles that got dropped into the ocean after every launch. What a waste. The ocean floor is littered with them.

    • @mackan-kf4tg
      @mackan-kf4tg 3 года назад

      Very true…..and there’s a sense of shame that they didn’t find a way of capturing them until very late-on in the era of the steam catapult🙄OK, they were a once-only piece of equipment…..they couldn’t be re-used without first being sent ashore for stringent testing in the airbase workshops, but it’s still better to capture them than just let them sink to the ocean floor😳Problem solved these days👍🏻⚓️⚓️

    • @stevenbevis9290
      @stevenbevis9290 2 года назад

      @@mackan-kf4tg on Ark 1970's i have read phantom bridles were used 10 times before discarding . Read Rowland Whites "Britains greatest warship " .

    • @stevenbevis9290
      @stevenbevis9290 2 года назад

      Complete history of R09 !

    • @sss-og1yl
      @sss-og1yl Год назад

      "hundreds of thousands of bridles"
      somewhat overestimated, I suppose :)))