Fascinating, first section was in the period during transition from gloss sea blue to gull gray/white. Interesting also that they launched /landed with canopy open. F7U-3 footage was great, not all of them had the refuelling probe in place. Crash barrier was interesting. The difference between straight / angled deck operation make it obvious what a step forward this innovation was. Previously unknown to me was that there were separate ordnance lifts apart from the main plane lifts. The A3D overshoot was scary.😮

Thanks for posting. Just as an FYI to anyone who cares what ship or air wing they are seeing, the footage from 1:38 - 6:19 appears to be from the USS Hancock (CVA-19). Probably filmed between AUG 1955 - MAR 1956, based on the VF-124 F7U Cutlasses. The video has the first caption about Oct 1954 USS Kearsarge (CV33), notice the Skyraiders and Panthers on deck. However, at 1:38 there is a cut to a F9F and then the remaining video in the 1st section is of Cougars and Cutlasses. You can also clearly see the "19" on the flight deck.

When men were men. Flying those early jets off carriers built for prop fighters. Serious guts.

Great shots of the Cougars landing....

I love the navy blue paint job on the Panthers and Skyraiders.

Oh my god.. Great fucking find! Amazing footage, love the old birds!

My dad served on this ship I have seen great 8mm video of the chair crossing between ships, I think my dad had to fix some electronics on the other ship and ride the chair.

Note the Cutlass taking the barricade here (No. 10?) and which also appears in the B&W official Navy films taken aboard the Hancock (CVA-19), apparently just before No. 12 enters the port catwalk, killing the pilot and 2 or 3 deckhands. These home movies appear to complement (but not show the catwalk crash) of what the Navy films show from that time aboard the Hancock, presumably during training or air quals in the late 50s. By the time I was stationed aboard the Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31) c. 1967, Gulf of Tonkin, these planes had been replaced by Vought F-8 Crusaders. We still had the venerable A3-D, however, for refueling, identified as ZB on the tail section (VAH-4), and which were later designated as KA-3B's, when then serving aboard the Ticonderoga (CV-14) c. late 1968. Someone should compile the home films shown here aboard the Hancock with those of the Navy's, for an even better depiction of what happened to those Cutlasses at that time. Truly interesting (if tragic) stuff here, but that's the Navy for you, war time or not.

good ol' times, , the sea was blue, there was no plastic continent (just some radioactive falls ;))

God those Panther Jets were cool looking planes.

My dad was on the Hancock during this time. He barely escaped with his life when one of the gutless cutless lost power and plowed into the deck.

@milano61

6 жыл бұрын

Nick Knight Good for your dad. One quarter of the 50's Navy pilots died in plane crashes. Much more dangerous than flying for the Air Force. The angle-deck carriers (a British development) and more reliable and powerful engines helped immensely in staunching the carnage.

@jeromespaulding1013

6 жыл бұрын

I too was on the Hancock when that happened. Flew into the fantasia under the round down. My berthing compartment was in the old parachute drying compartment. I was with the Barn Owls VA215.

Not much difference from what I experienced, too, other than the F-9s and older jets, plus the other slight operational changes I see here from what I filmed aboard the Ticonderoga (CVA-14) c. 1968 -- except we had live ordnance back then (Tonkin Gulf). We also had the whale too, which for me was the KA-3B Skywarrior for refueling (VAH-4, my squadron, Det 14, with ZB on the tail section). Thanks for posting this. Need to get my stuff out there, too, all silent S8 color movie film, 35mm slides, B&W prints, c. Bonnie Dick '67, Tico '68, but not for profit. Will work on that as now 71, and fading fast. Incidentally, most of the A/C relics seen here were displayed as monuments all over the country when I was 18 (on pedestals, mostly in parks and at military bases BEFORE I went in, in 1964.) The Cougars (F-9s) by that time had been relegated to teaching us 'newbies' how to troubleshoot wiring, elect and other systems at NAS Jacksonville, Fla, in hangars there, c. 1965. What beauties they were, too -- all waxed and polished, but reduced to non-operational junk for the likes of training guys just like me, and just in time for Viet Nam, too -- the earliest of our now mostly useless and ever relentless ongoing wars.

@milano61

6 жыл бұрын

William Larson Get on it, Bill!!! Gotta be better than the pablum on commercial media. Thanks for your service, that was my war also, but I didn't have to go. I agree -- one of the earliest of our mostly useless and relentless ongoing wars.

@williamlarson3623

6 жыл бұрын

You bet, Al. I've already started on this, but the cost (about $100 per 30 minutes of S8 digital transfer commercially) keeps me from getting the job done timely. It may be my 'heirs' who will have to finish the job. But thanks for the response, and your service too.

Теперь в обратном порядке отключаем нештатные нагрузки и восстанавливаем фокусировку

VF-81 had the Cutlass's on the Ticonderoga (CV 14)...for a while, anyway. My dad - Robert Leslie and the guy I was named after - Kevin Daley - were on that tour. I can't find any video. Why are there so many Hancock video's none from the other?

As I watch this now in 2018, drinking beer from a can made from these planes . . wow. Thanks for posting this. But that A3-D tanker towards the end wasn't all that bad, I'm still here (AE3 third seat, c. '68, CVA-14). But I know what you mean . . . you ditch, you die, or you're really very lucky. I know guys that weren't.

@theoriginalbadbob

5 жыл бұрын

I saw the crew bail out of an A-3, and all were OK. USS CONSTELLATION, 1962, somewhere off the Western coast of South America.

Jets on a straight deck carrier….varsity.

What is on the other 8mm films you found?

VF-103, THE SLUGGERS!

These carrier aircraft don't land... they "arrive".

👍✈️

I wonder how Heavy a jet the hydrolic cat could put in the air??

anything on VC-33

Anyone know the aircraft at 12:50?

@KB4QAA

8 жыл бұрын

+Holden Craig Douglas A3D Skywarrior (Heavy Attack) "The Whale".

Great video, ruined by the logo splashed across the screen....

A LOT of waiveoffs...

The gutless! Never see them anywhere

@douglasames6495

6 жыл бұрын

pgvsmith1 There's one sitting outside, derelict in Ohio.

A3D Skywarrior. "All 3 Dead". lol. terrible attack plane.

@KB4QAA

7 жыл бұрын

No, it was an excellent airplane, and an excellent heavy (nuclear) attack aircraft and tanker and electronic warfare and intelligence collector. They flew for 40 years.

@milano61

6 жыл бұрын

Pelican 1984 Yes, you are correct. See the pretty good movie "Bat-21". The Air Force version, the B-66 Destroyer, is collecting intel over North Vietnam and is shot down by a SAM. High value Col. Gene Hackman is the object of a massive and costly rescue effort. Mostly true. Sometimes picked as the best Vietnam War movie. It's on YT.

@november2076

6 жыл бұрын

Well the A3D Skywarrior was great but what was terrible about it was there was no ejection seats, so that gave it a nick name "All 3 dead".

@tinmanozzie

6 жыл бұрын

We called them "aluminum clouds" they would blow the line shack open and closed when they catted, and ya never got caught in the catwalk when they catted on your side.

@mjproebstle

6 жыл бұрын

used to watch them in rota spain in the late 80's, leviathans of the sky

too bad there's that "lost world paper" bullshit right in the middle of the film footage - it ruins everything - my opinion. Too bad you couldn't get rid of that crap.

@clayz1

6 жыл бұрын

paraord1410 No prob here. Just look right thru it

What is it with you guys that you guys to plaster your name across the screen? What are you afraid of? A small copyright bottom right of screen would suffice instead of this!!