Aircraft Carrier Flight Deck • Controlled Chaos
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- The flight deck of an aircraft carrier during flight operations is one of the most dangerous places on earth. And even though it might look like total chaos, it's really a finely tuned and highly organized action. Everybody has a job to do.
The aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN 65) conducts flight operations while deployed in the Mediterranean Sea.
Film Credit: Mass Communications Specialist 3rd Class Jared King
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I was a shooter on the USS Midway for 2 1/2 yrs during the 80’s. The yellow shirt crew I worked with was the hardest working group of people I’ve ever seen. I loved every one of them.
Great comment. Yellow loves Shooters too.
Magnificent video. I was on board CVN 65. PLANE Captain Supervisor and flight deck coordinator. Tears are my companions watching this flight deck ops. I will die thinking this moments working with my dear brothers. God Bless America. ADCS Cabacungan. VF- 21 AND VF - 213.
I was in the Army for 20 years and 10 of those years I was on jump status. I've watched you guys and girls on the flight deck of a carrier and its amazing how much hand and signal's you have. My brother served in the Navy he worked down in the engine room area. He told me that to work on the flight deck you had to have a certain kind of MOS. I've never seen a aircraft carrier. I hope that one day I can get to go on a aircraft carrier. GOD BLESS EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU AND I WILL KEEP EVERY ONE OF YOU IN MY PRAYERS.
The flight deck of an aircraft carrier during flight operations is one of the most dangerous places on earth. And even though it might look like total chaos, it's really a finely tuned and highly organized action. Everybody has a job to do.
+Gung Ho Vids agreed.
+Gung Ho Vids When those Hornets started taxing, I realized that they actually do sound like angry hornets
Yep! Like a fine tuned symphony. Agree, 1 of the most dangerous jobs on earth.
That's the props from an E-2C Hawkeye you're hearing. But it does sound like a swarm of pissed off hornets.
I was an AE Flight Deck Troubleshooter for an A6 Squadron during the Vietnam nastyness. The time I spent on the deck was exciting and surely helped with maturity. You have the lives of men in your hands with every move and they the same. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.
I have so much admiration for our military. I'm partial to the Navy because of my background. Our Carriers and our Submarines are often (I'm making an informed guess) places of zero tolerance for errors. Completely unforgiving workplace.
Fly 2 director, CVA42 1973. Time of my life ! We did not know how dangerous our job could be. I was having SO much fun.
Thank you for not adding insanely loud doper music to this!
25 years active now retired AVCM (AW/SW). Never tire of this
I was on her mid 70's Purple Shirt. Did a lot of growing up back then. Fantastic video .
There's always something about seeing that helmet, oxygen mask, and dark visor staring out the cockpit that gets to me.
Chris Parker Darth Vader
Gung Ho Vids Lol.
With due respect they look like aliens it's scary!! They do a great job.
Really good video. No music... no crap... Just flight deck flight ops! I like it!
Love that hummer turning in the background
Turn the volume up. There plenty of music...
The best flight deck video I've seen. Former F4 plane captain.
What is the process to brcoming a plane captain? Thank you for your service.
best time I ever had with my clothes on back seater in F4's
Much Respect Brother 🇺🇸
@@waterhead001 New guys in squadrons are usually assigned to the Line Division. Once you learn how to ride brakes, ensure aircraft cleanliness and security, and how to assist pilot with aircraft start and shut down, you will be a plane captain.
The US Navy: on station 24/7. I remember sitting in the pilots seat of a Willy Fudd as a 12 year old. It was a friend of my dad on the USS Forrestal who invited us aboard. It was scary looking down the flight deck and thinking how short it was for launch. The Big E! Our greatest ship! A gallant history.
ABH 2: I was on the Kitty Hawk and the Saratoga......I Loved being out at sea, up on deck. Loved the sounds of the Flight Deck. The sounds of the engines, The Jet Exhaust, The wind, The action, the responsibilities, the experience.
Was the coffee still as good as ever? I, as a Nam Marine combat vet, loved Navy coffee whenever I could get a mug of it. I imagine enjoyed with sea air a hot mug of coffee could be close to exhilarating.
Miss it too.😂
Best ship ever to serve !
Amen!
It was! Now it’s a ghost ship.
Amazing upload. To be able to hear the sweet melody of powerful engines without the usual moronic music overlay is a treat indeed.
I was a "White-shirt" (AE final checker-flight deck troubleshooter) on this ship (USS ENTERPRISE) during the Vietnam era. It was an Honor to represent the VA-97 Aircraft Electricians Shop as an African American on the Flight Deck of this ship. I even took a 'Cat Shot" on the C.O.D. ! I am grateful to be able to share that with you today.
j leander tucker thanks, good comment.
j leander tucker Thank you for your service sir. :)
sixtyeight Whiskey thank you for your support @(*o*)@
tripleheshy Thank you so much. To you as well.
I'm with vfa-97 now. taking care of the Stennis. thanks for everything!
Much respect. I sat in an air-conditioned shop in IM3 turning gear while these guys humped 18 hours a day and lived on sliders. Beer will always be on me. 07.
Former ABF onboard the USS John C. Stenis. I will never forget my time there. I had the best job, saw amazing places and made lifetime friends from buds all around the country.. I wouldn't change it for the world.
ABF3 Purple Shirt USS Ticonderoga CVS 14 71-72
I would very much love to serve onboard one of these carriers working on deck, looks exciting! My grandfather served on the Enterprise during the 1970s and did this stuff!
It's exciting for about the first 6 days trust me.😊
@@DaveL188 I had a friend on the Eisenhower as a red shirt, and he told me it was no fun.
When was you grandfather on th e Enterprise, I was on it June77 / May 78, If it was the same time period I might of known him.
@@josephwonderless1258 135 launch and recovery a day starting at 0700 ending at 2200 then maintenance all night it gets old fast, but when you work up there everything else seem boring.
Every one of these young men work so hard. They are just so awesome. Every single colored shirt.
I miss it.....I've been retired for almost the time I was in....20 years......time flies when you having fun..
My older brother was on Aircraft Carrier in Vietnam I was 10yrs old he was 18 when he went in the Navy
All of guys do a very professional job day after day and YOU are very appreciative and we support you always, from Frank in Florida
No cheesy music! Love this!
Well done!! Love the real sounds, which gives a great feel of being there.
I was there RM3 June 77,78. USS Enterprise. I got pictures of the planes landing and taking off the flight deck. That was some memories too.
Spent my share of time on the flight deck of the USS Ranger ( CVA-61 ) form 1959 to 1961. Ship was smaller, planes were less high tech but it was the same as now.
Thank you for your service Mr Bell. All 9 of the Cold War Carriers were 1000ft+ with the noticeable difference of the Enterprise being over 1100ft. The were all behomoths. Sadly all decom'd. Forestall, Saratoga, Ranger, Independence, Constellation, are scrapped---America sunk as a test target---Kitty Hawk laid up in Bremerton---Kennedy laid up in Philadelphia & Enterprise is being dismantled in Newport News.
Leon J Guisburg AMS3 United States Navy 1975 1979
Awesome vid. The best part is that no one is talking. You can just feel it and be there.
God bless all you Patriots who keep our country safe
Love ya'll
This is truly awsome...and beats the shit out of ANY Hollywood movie! Thank you for your service, our men and women in uniform!
Great video. I applaud the guys who work these flight decks. Dangerous job and they are great at what they do. That’s coming from a ground pounder 69-71. Kudos guys👍ps: maybe in one video they can explain what the differences are in color vests, jobs etc
Yellow moves aircraft. Blue assists yellow. Green does maintenance, either on aircraft or catapults and arresting gear. Purple fuels aircraft. Red is crash crew or ordinance loading. Brown cleans and secures aircraft and assists pilots. White is safety, medical or troubleshooting.
Lots of respect to the US navy from egypt
I’m truly grateful for the talent and skill of our armed forces...... your the BEST!
good video, my oldest brother was on the Hornet in Vietnam once told me ,that you don't know what scary is until you night trap in bad weather, you get religion real quick ,can't even imagine that watching these
+Gung Ho Vids Ah, excuse my last comment I was assuming he was talking about the most used aircraft in the U.S Navy. I was not aware that he was talking about the USS Hornet so to speak. However despite what you may think this does not make me a dumbass simply a misunderstanding.
Robert Hodge OK
Read the comment! I said .y brother was on the Hornet, as in USS Hornet, it's a big ship, planes land on it, and yes the Hornet was in the Vietnam war
+last man standing I am not sure why you are bringing this up again, I apologised and realised my mistake. In all honesty I had no idea there was an aircraft carrier named the USS Hornet so I assumed you were talking about the aircraft. Once again I apologise for the misunderstanding.
Days of days... it was some hard ass work up there but I miss it.
Great vid. Nicely edited and great to hear the original sound rather than cliche music!
Its hard to fathom how a vessel can stay afloat with alllll that weight on board. Watching this was fascinating!!
The term is displacement of water.
My son and my husband both served on the Big E! My husband was a yellow shirt. CVN65 🇺🇸
My dad was a Green Shit for VFA 115 (Engine Maintenece) he always told me these sad stories of guys getting seriously hurt or killed on the flight deck now he retired after 30 years pf service rank is CWO-4 back then he was a PO3 and I thank his service
I did two tours in the S. China sea aboard the Bon Homme Richard (Bonnie Dick) 66-67. Grape. V4 fuels checker. (QC). Took relieving carrier onto the Hancock in Sasabo Japan in 68 two for tours back to back. Loved every minute of the hustle and bustle of the flight deck.
Amazing takeoff video! The most powerful aircraft carrier in the world.
why do i have the urge to watch top gun now for the 8,234 th time ?
+Kerry Ward Because you have the need for speed.
TRUE, VERY TRUE ! the struggle is real ! lol
Kerry Ward i hear you mate! I'm the same😂
They should have Metallica pumping really loud for this kind of filming. Heavy metel for heavy metal
Coz your a wanker,try a flat spin+crash landing "Anlandugen Sie GehenVeg Von lst Gute Landun" gfy
Thanks for what you do everyday.🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Super Good Representation of Life on Aircraft Carrier
How cool is that? I got to go on this ship back in probably early 70. I dated a sailor that was stationed in Virginia Beach. Thomas A Siegfried. Would love to track him down. His job on it was catching the planes when they came in. Thanks for the memories!
Thomas weighs about 320 now, he sells sunglasses on the boardwalk in Venice beach, is covered with amateur tattoos, is on parole and has new charges pending, and his boyfriend is half his age. You wouldn't recognize him, so better leave him in your memory the way he was.
Oh my Lord, I' ve been to a carrier and that's what keeps my blood pumping! Cheers to all on the boat,
5:19 that smile. 😍😍😍😍
I worked the flight deck on 3 carriers, Connie, Big E, and Ike. 2 deployments to Vietnam and 1 to Iran. Flight deck troubleshooter and final checker.
Fantastic experience I would do it all again. Served aboard USS Hancock VF 211 flight deck red shirt
Vietnam 69 and 70
VA97, was my squadron, From the Enterprise to the Coral Sea, 1979, 2nd class bb stacker, 2 1/2 cruises westpac. stationed Lemoore Ca. 102 days Indian ocean. PI was needed .Bad LOL
I started on 43 and finished on 65.
Was on two carriers - Midway & JFK - loved watching flight ops!
Participated in a few FOD walk downs too!
I was on the USS Saratoga CV60 working on the flight deck with the Crash and Salvage personal back in 1972.
USS SARATOGA...flight deck electrician....lighting. cats and A/G systems...77-79
1970 Oriskany, EKA 3-B cat troubleshooter. Following my plane from the fantail to the catapult during Vietnam War was the most exciting time of my life!
Just Awesome as always missed my calling Thank you all ❤️ for being you
The flight deck is no place to joke around if you do you won't be around.
It IS a rush! Every second. I worked nights. Quite an experience, to say the least.
(VFA-132 Privateers, USS Coral Sea (CV-43))
5:17 that is one pretty lass!
PcMast3Rac3 Cutest smile on the deck! :o)
@@Xalabaster in a race of one competitor winning don't count for Diddley. But purely on aesthetic grounds her smile could melt a polar icecap.
She must get rattled a fair bit
Flight deck is one of absolute discipline and to use the word chaos to describe it is ludicrous!!
I will never, ever look as cool as a shooter doing one of those poses and sending an fighter into the sky.
Most dangerous job & place in the world. It's hard to understand until you have been there, you can't just go to an IMAX, you have to be there, see it, feel it, hear it, smell it. It's like no other place in the world. Thanks to all now serving, those who have, and those who will in the future. FLY NAVY!!!
Such precision & perfection!
The USS ENTERPRISE. So wonderful to see her...
I use to do this every day. now i work for alaska airlines. Man i wish those f18s had flight benfits
And most of these people are just kids! ROCK ON KIDS ! :)
Fantastic video!!! Bye from Italy 🇮🇹
Was a PC, trouble shooter, and mech. Deck ops was exciting and you'd better have your head on a swivel the entire time or.......well it won't be good.
CVW-1! The first airwing I deployed with in 1969 with VA-81 flying A-4C's embarked in USS JF Kennedy, CV-67 on her maiden cruise. We were awarded the AirLant 'E' under the command of Cdr. JJ Lahr. Upon return to NAS Cecil Field we began the transition to the (then) brand new A-7E Corsair II.
I live across the James River from NN Shipyard. I see the Enterprise CVN65 every time I cross the James River Bridge. She’s waiting for a safe way to remove her reactor. Sad 😔
I love to watch the choreography if these brave flight deck folks, USARMY 10-68/10-70
So glad that CV-80 will be named Enterprise. She'll carry on the legacy of CV-6 and CV-65.
Why is 'Danger Zone' playing rent free in my head?
same
Thanks for the video +Gung Ho Vids , I was a "Turd" aka plane captain (Brown shirt), on the USS Nimitz when I was in, attached to VF24 Fighting Renegades based out of NAS Miramar.
+renegadebiker24 Hey thanks for stopping by and watching. I was USN back in the '80s. I was on subs... but I've always been fascinated by all the activity on an A/C flight deck... so much can go wrong, but you guys always make it happen without any problems.
Gung Ho Vids You are welcome. Cool. Yes, there is a lot of things that happen on a carrier deck. I was in back in 1993.
renegadebiker24 Yea I got out in '86 so I'm probably 20 years older than you. I remember seeing the carriers pull in to Pearl and 32nd street when I was stationed there... man they towered over all the other ships like sky scrapers.
Gung Ho Vids Cool, yeah, I am only 48 years young, and have way too much grey hair that is mixed in with my brown hair. Must have been all that stress from the Navy that is starting to physically show on me now. LOL. :) Yeah, they are massive. My mom was surprised when she came out to see me, when the Nimitz pulled into San Diego and was amazed on how big it was. When you get a chance, stop by my channel and see all the videos I did and are doing on it.
renegadebiker24 Yep, I'll give it a look. Go Navy! Stop by anytime.
I Was A Yellow Shirt Starboard Cat CVN-69 USS EISENHOUR Pier 12 Norfolk Va. 4 Years 1981- 1985 .
And what are you doing now?
"F" in the chat for the Homie who snagged the 1 Wire at the end there. Low and slow at the 3/4 and held that until In Close, then he probably got a few "Power. POWER!" calls from Paddles and that's what cued him in at the last minute.
i love the sound of the engin!!!
What is the name given to this profession, so risky? Because the crew of deck perform a great task always well organized, I see this through videos and film. I'm from Brazil and I'm talking to you via Google Translate.
I hug Val do Brasil
massive respect too these guys dangerous job love from the uk
Many years ago my boss thought it would be good for me to go for a 2 week cruise on the USS INCREDIBLE as the crew called her. For you youngsters she was CVS 11 a Essex class carrier from WW2. When we got there they didn't know where to berth me so off I went to the comm berth. They had the old fashioned canvas with rope wrapped around poles. It was also dark 24 hrs and I had to hot bunk. The berth was right under the flight deck at the stern. We could hear the crash of the landing planes and then the arresting cable dragging across the deck. The companion way hatches were so small it took several smacks on the forehead and bruised shins before I learned my lesson. The head was something else. It must have been for midgets. No privacy at all. I got a chief pissed at me. My hair wasn't long by any means but he didn't like the way it was cut so he took me down to the barber shop. When he found out I wasn't ships company and was assigned to the admirals staff and being a reservist, well you can guess his reaction plus I was due to depart in 2 day he let me slide. Then the worst part of the trip. During flight ops they were only using the starboard cat because the port was being worked on. An A4 hooked up and came to power when something happened. The plane broke loose from the cat and veered towards the port cat. It hit a crewman and both he and the plane went over the side. The crewman was never found but the pilot was able to eject and by luck he landed on the flight deck. Rumor was he was hurt pretty bad. I never heard the results of the investigation. It kind of ruined what was a very interesting experience.
CINCPACFLT 70-72.
6:47 1-wire. Back in the day, that was an automatic cut-pass. I think they've eased up in recent times.
I don't know what "back in the day" means for you. I retired in 93, after transitioning from P-3 B and C's I spent 12 years of my 26 years in Hoovers. A 1-wire isn't necessarily a cut pass. Mitigating factors determine that. The grade depends on the entire approach.
@@tvideo1189 Concur. In the late 70s/early 80s a 1-wire wasn't a cut pass, not even a "taxi 1". But getting too comfortable and not bringing the engines up to full military after engaging a wire - now that's a cut pass. (Don't ask me how I know.)
4:51 grapes purple shirts V-4 division seem to have some very clean jerseys must be new mine were always dirty from crawling under planes
Plenty of people have multiple ones for different things to do on the ship like be I was an E and we would be told to clean up to eat so we learned to have multiple shirts
Shot soon after the shipyard.
My first cats and traps were on CVN-65.
Pros....awesome to watch.
beautiful!!! many of landing and take of thank you
I miss some of it......... hard being away from family for a long period of time
Right! If only the job could be 9-5 m-f.
Hi.Gung Ho Vids, thank you your video clip.
To all the men and women that busted ass to keep us flying ...THANK YOU ,🙏🙏🙏🙏
Best pilots in our military
Fantastic footage! An no annoying music! Yes!!
AT final checker and plane captain!Was on the BIG E and the CONNY...Also worked the flight line on Coronado island....I wish I could have kept my Cranial but they wouldnt let me!
5:19 shes beautiful!!
plot twist: it’s a *he*
This is my favourite video of all.
Flight decks and pilots had their understanding
Nice to see the "grapes" involved.
to build an Airport on water is Amazing in itself.....that stretches almost 1000 feet long......not to mention 2 decks to hold other aircraft... WOW.............and to float.....
Michael Loder This is CVN-65, USS Enterprise. And she was the longest aircraft carrier ever built (even slightly longer than the current Ford class) at 1123 feet. Sadly, she’s the only one of her class to be built, as the other 5 Enterprise class carriers were cancelled.
@@darkjedi74 Interesting fact: Enterprise is longest because when the bridle arrestor horns were scheduled to be cut off after all aircraft began using nose gear launch bars, the ship's CO wouldn't allow it. He ordered that they be kept so the ship would remain the longest. Nimitz class ships that also had bridle arrestor horns all had them removed.
epic...love these videos...thanks.
Can almost smell the steam, JP5 and feel the jet blast coming off the JBD's Fly 3 Yellow USS Independence CV-62 80-84
2:49, "this is fun a f&@k" I can only imagine. LOL
Hi was this part of the handover of Commanders from, Cdr Mccall to Cdr Bixby? great video thank you for the share.
Money spent on the military isn't completely necessary, it could be better spent elsewhere in the US.
But the fact that we can do this is hella cool, aircraft carriers are worth every penny.
Nothing better than knowing we have this kind of power and can project it anywhere in the world.
It would be interesting to have these post with a commentary of who does what and what that move represents. Other wise it looks like a Ballet in a extreme environment.
Check out one of my videos - i explain it in detail:)
Navy pilots are the best on the planet. #GoNavy!
lol guy at 2:48 "this is fun as fuck"