I thoroughly enjoyed this informative video. My only suggestion for improvement is: please leave the captions up on screen longer! It's not that I'm a slow reader, but your photography is so good that I find myself focusing attention sequentially on each of several different items in each scene for study, thus when a caption comes up I don't notice it immediately. When I do notice and begin reading, it's gone before I get through the first line! Pausing and going back is breaking the flow of an otherwise brilliant program!

@CRAFT7445

14 күн бұрын

Change your "Playback Speed" to slower than "1.0"

@voornaam3191

13 күн бұрын

These texts are stupid in the first place. Why trying to get people, who are watching a video and listening to a voice over and annoying music, to READ anything? Do you think your viewers are 140 IQ fighter pilots only? Get real.

@user-bx2oi7yk1v

10 күн бұрын

I totally agree👍

What was the insane catapult takeoff????

I can now understand why at all airports in the USA, they let the service men and woman board first. That is both respect and classy.

Where was the insane catapult takeoff? The only insane part of this is the headline writer who just wants to keep making money.

@chiefsnarlsnortz1610

14 күн бұрын

Thanks out immediately!

@waltonwarrior7428

14 күн бұрын

I’ve noticed many times when posters make these kinds of comments usually means it’s a bullshit video.

@sdean4816

14 күн бұрын

After reading your comment I turn the video off before watching. Thank you for helping me save 16 minutes of my life.

@pnayeri

14 күн бұрын

Report his ass for misleading! I know I am!

@texaswildcat2000

14 күн бұрын

I was thinking along the same lines.....

I served on the last Fixed Wing Steam Catapult Carrier HMS Ark Royal as a Tractor Driver (Blue Coat ) pulling / pushing Phantoms / Buccaneers and it was Awesome 76/77.

@evelynedeclercq-ny3kh

9 күн бұрын

decouragee je laisse tout tomber, pas drôle du tout et aucune envie d'avoir envie de revenir, basta !!!!!!

Went to high school with a Japanese guy. Dean is his name. Hadn't seen until our ten-year reunion. Turns out he was a carrier-based fighter pilot in his younger days. We got to talking about that and he quipped, "Sometimes when I was circling the carrier all I could think was, Tora Tora Tora."

You do know that those "insane catapult takeoffs" are hands off, right?

@larrymcgill5508

12 күн бұрын

You do know that because of the thrust gravity in excess of 4 g’s will push the throttle and stick backwards, kicking the engines out of burner and nose to climb through the ninety at the end of launch if the pilot doesn’t have his hands holding them in place. With an excess of over 200 traps, I know what I’m talking about.

@dmack1827

10 күн бұрын

@@larrymcgill5508 FlightSim is awesome.

Very well produced. Love this stuff. God bless these young men and women. KUDOS to the photography.

Every launch from a carrier is insane. I think it's 0 to 120 in 2 seconds.

Core, i’de give my left ear or right ear to have a flight off and on to a US carrier… I have to hand it to the USA - your armed forces are not only the best but spectacular..

what greats skills from deck crew !! i love your videos

From what's called 'Vulture's Row', I've watched F-4 Phantoms and F-14 Tomcats being launched on the USS Saratoga and the USS John F. Kennedy. I used to love the smell of the burning jet fuel. It reminds of the line from 'Apocalypse Now'. "I love the smell of napalm in the morning. It smells like victory."

82 to 88 VS-41 and VS-33 AZ2 two west pacs and working the flight deck in the beginning was a RUSH and I will never forget it..keep that head going 360 all the time or you just might get blowen down like I did with a F-14 turning to fact and there went by big butt and stopped by the front landing gear of a A-7..

They didn't look like insane catapult launches just very normal onnes. Did appreciate the information about the bubble, I'd always wondered who activated the catapult.

Miss watching airops from the 10 level of the USS HANCOCK CVA 19

Wonderful pilot...One fable

I'm an old guy who's led a damned interesting life. BUT---after watching this video I have to say that if I had to do it all over again I would have loved working on an American aircraft carrier. What professionalism! What gob-smacking technology! Wow.

Our Old MAG-11 VMFA-314 Victor Whiskey Black Knights deployed several times with them.

@howardkingston7794

17 күн бұрын

I wanted there but got MAG 31

Hey, I wore one of those red shirts! IYAOYAS!

@larrymcgill5508

12 күн бұрын

Good on ya ordie.

Not sure where the insane Catapult takeoff comes into this video.

Thats so Awesome.

空母からの発艦はいつ見てもシビレマスね！ シューターの皆さんもカッコイイ！

Insane takeoff!!! WHERE?????????????

16minute video, I'm not watching this for 5-20 secs of "Insane Catapult Takeoff"

Crew of this bird from Spokane WA.❤❤❤😂

Absolutely breathtaking and inspiring cooperative expertise on deck. High tech, high risk, and high competency. REAL MEN. America! Thank you.

The poster probably doesn't know that the FA-18 takes off with the rudder facing inwards. I guess they mistook it for an air brake and wrote it as an insane launch

Wow, the attention the stealth fighters get is immpressive

Been there done that and have a Centurion patch earned an EKA-3B aboard USS AMERICA to prove it.

@larrymcgill5508

12 күн бұрын

Half a dozen on the America (VS28), one on the Ike (VS24), and double Centurion on the Nimitz (VS24).

witness to more than a thousand carrier launches.....and this is an example of professional competence....

Wo ist denn der Wahnsinnige Start ??????

Got to love U.S. carriers...... Engineer: ...and thus we save on size while increasing flight deck capabilities. Admiral: Then how to do we get the aircraft airborne? Engineer: Simple, sir. We hurl them with catapults. Admiral: Excelle...wait, What? Edit; Imagine joining the military just to be made into a car wash and detail guy for jets. How do you explain that to family, they'll never let you live it down.

Is there an F/A-18E mechanic or switch systems expert here? I found some parts that need identified and one looks like a switch panel label that reads “OPPENHEIMER”

@johnstuartsmith

15 күн бұрын

"NOW I AM BECOME DEATH, THE DESTROYER OF WORLDS" and "PUSH HERE TO INITIATE ARMAGEDDON" were the prototype labels on those buttons, but after some religious communities objected, the Navy relabeled them "OPPENHEIMER", which pilots understood and which saved engraving costs. As a safety feature, some of the later model buttons have to be held in for three seconds.

@johnstuartsmith

15 күн бұрын

@@Twowheeltuesday Look just above the spout for the ice dispenser, just to the left of the Sprite/Pepsi toggle switch.

They are F-18As not F-18s made by Northrop….just like F-35B on carriers.

UK developed the Steam catapult angled flight Decks landing light system and the Steam Turbines that drive them and now our Carriers do not use them Crazy.

@bobmarlowe3390

14 күн бұрын

But those Harriers are impressive. And very LOUD. They used to fly into NAS Cecil Field in Jacksonville, FL when the British carriers were in town.

Don't see many people playing with their cell phones do you?

What's the deal with both rudders in opposite directions?

I dont get it, where in the video was an Insane laumch of an F-18Hornet, all catapilt launches are ify, but nothing out of the ordinary, I would syggest you use a tad bit of honesty when lableing your videos. Tom

This is normal skill for carrier pilots...

What’s so insane Aren’t they trained for this every day occurrence

Thank to all the ladies and gentlemen that contributed to keeping America and its allies safe 👍🏽🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Do one about why the f22 can't land on a ship

@dawg7915

15 күн бұрын

One, It's an USAF jet, Two, its landing gear is not made for it, Three, it doesn't have a launch bar to take off, three, its arresting gear is only made for field arrestments.

Not insane…just going to work like we all did.

The English have an Enterprise?

Team diving is the only way to dive…

Why does it take ten years to build a carrier?

Je vois rien d’extraordinaire ?

They are made for it. ??

We are so more advanced that the Chinese navel. They still have not worked out a quick functioning takeoff system

I made the 1st cruise with the F-18 hornstes

Vidéo qui ne montre rien juste pour ce la pèter . . .

Tone music down 5 points

Can ANY MILITARY, ANYWHERE, EQUAL the professionalism and efficiency of ours in the USA???

@andyfield6854

14 күн бұрын

British forces used to but now im not so sure

تركيب فيديوهات رديء جدا ❤❤❤its very bad❤❤❤

We are so screwed. Half of them cant pass the PE test.

@calvinhobbes7504

17 күн бұрын

Um, they're not SEALS ... and every one of them DOES take a Physical Fitness test (if that's what you're referring to) semi-annually. Every quarter if they are instructors or work in the field, last time I read about it. If I'm wrong, I'll apologize. We're not "screwed" at all. If you're an American, these vids should give you hope. These folks know what they're doing.

@dawg7915

15 күн бұрын

The US Navy didn't even start annual "PE" tests till the mid 80's 84 ish and we did just fine before that. We dont need to run in the event of war, we need to Swim.....

Een ongeschoolde

skilled US F-18 Pilot pulls off insane catapult takeoff on aircraft carrier

Actually the 18 is hands off stick at landing. The computer lands the bird. Their tail hooks knock the nonskid off the deck in a three foot circle. That's how accurate the computer is.

@psaffer3035

17 күн бұрын

Maybe in the Sim world, these are flown to the deck by skilled aviators, I know as I flew in the Navy!!!

@michaelshean2167

16 күн бұрын

They are flown off the deck with your hands on the towel racks. They are flown onto the deck by Naval Aviators

@waltergraves3273

14 күн бұрын

It is the opposite of your description. Hands on controls for landing, hands off controls for take off.

@JimmieBrown-sg8fq

12 күн бұрын

With the magic carpet system they use for landing it is pretty much hands off we actually have to make adjustments so the deck isn't beaten up they hit within about 3 feet unless mechanical or computer problems

@fritz1990

12 күн бұрын

@@JimmieBrown-sg8fq yep, sounds like you were aircrew?

So ... by the headline/tag does this mean there are unskilled F-18 pilots .. another BS poster to go on the list to scroll past......

One time I launched from a carrier drunk and as soon as I attracted to gear I accidentally fired aim 54 Phoenix but luckily didn't have lock on anyone so no one was hurt.

@jerrywilliford6840

15 күн бұрын

Bovine excrement!

@MomolosZtips

9 күн бұрын

@@jerrywilliford6840 Steve was high when he typed that -- VERY high.

I've just realised how old I am watching children at war. 😂

Nothing insane about it.

全然普通じゃん‼️

F35a and c are better than b

IM NOT IMPRESSED WITH THIS VIDEO AT ALL. NO SPECIAL OR UNISUAL F-18TAKE OFFS. THIS SITE /OWNERS LIED..!!!

Remember not to watch “ daily avaition” vids. Any more. Bs head lines

You'd be insane NOT catapulting from that deck. You'd drown, no questions about that. Please skip stupid words like insane, next time.

first .. really nice and informative Video .. great work for that .. !!!! but Your Titel ... nothing for this Type of Video ..

Idiot drivel. If they do not know the hornet and super hornet are different airplanes.. (not an upgrade)… they do not know squat about carrier ops…

❤

13 And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven. 14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: 15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. (Jn.3:13-21)

Plenty of diversity hires here. 😏😏

We are doomed! Just look at those pathetic low IQ creatures in our beloved Navy .... and chewing gum on the Bridge?!?!?!

I can’t watch this anymore. Masks. I was in naval,aviation onboard Kittyhawk and enterprise flight decks. The mask is idiocy

World murderers Inc Lol

@ronvera

17 күн бұрын

Yes , They called us "teufelhunden" Thank you, kindly.

skilled HOW exactly??? They put their hands on handles while the cat launches them. Watch a video inside the cockpit. Their HANDS are not even on the controls when it launches.. lol Giving full military power and then they pull up. lol. The launch is the easiest part for the pilot, with a majority of the important work done by the crew. Cat launch, cat adjustments for bird weight, all the movement on the deck. The pilot only follows the crew instruction and hangs on.... but all that skill... to launch by the pilot... lol ( i served on the USS George Washington )

@jayhershey7525

14 күн бұрын

Good for you, sailor! You said everything I wanted to say, only you said it better. By the way, I was in A-1 Division on the Constellation. Until reading your comment, I didn't know that the cat guys adjusted for the aircraft's weight. Thanks for that.

@richardcorcoran6582

13 күн бұрын

This guy knows what he's talking about... They will not launch the "CAT" until they verify the pilot is HANDS OFF THE CONTROLS!!! Learn your subject matter before you post. STOP WASTING OTHER PEOPLE'S TIME WITH YOUR B.S.!!😮

@larrymcgill5508

12 күн бұрын

Yup. You served down in the laundry room and don’t know the first about the flight deck. You’ve obviously have no respect for the shirts setting up the cat nor the pilots who have to continually monitor every thing around his bird from the moment they strap in until they climb out at the end of the mission. Go back to washing your sheets in the laundry room boy.

@larrymcgill5508

12 күн бұрын

@@jayhershey7525And do you know how they find out that weight? The pilot writes it on the nose wheel door. The pilot calculates the weight of the aircraft, its fuel, ordinance, and auxiliary equipment before he gets to the aircraft. He also uses this information in determining what trim settings to use for the cat shot in lieu of weather conditions. Don’t pay attention to the yahoo says he was on the Washington as he obviously wasn’t part of the air wing.

@larrymcgill5508

12 күн бұрын

@@richardcorcoran6582Rather easy to figure out you’ve never been part of an air wing. The ONLY time a pilots hands aren’t on part of the flight controls is when the “ordies” are pulling the armament pins or a “shirt” is doing a safety check under the aircraft. The pilot very definitely has his hands on the flight controls and throttle during the cat shot to prevent thrust G’s from pushing the throttle out of detention or the stick back to high nose up attitude when he/she leaves the deck. Know your subject before you sound off feather merchant.

What is the connection between pulling a torpedo through a hole in the ice and an f-18 carrier launch?

@MomolosZtips

9 күн бұрын

It gets the video past the 10-minute line. Otherwise - the liar doesn't get paid.

Need i say "IMPRESSIVE".

Yeahhh, uhhh, the thing is, the pilots don't have anything to do with the launch . . . other than indicating their readiness.

@larrymcgill5508

12 күн бұрын

I guess you’ve never seen a Tomcat FOD an engine during a cat shot. There’s no stopping that steam trolley once it’s initiated. On an aircraft carrier flight deck there’s never a moment the pilot is not “flying” his bird from the moment he/she steps out of the ready room and straps it on until their back in the ready room or CIC doing the mission debrief.

@jayhershey7525

12 күн бұрын

@@larrymcgill5508 Okey.