Aircraft Videos and Images

[taildraggernut]

Heres a good example...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ugvYWyiUDw

this ones frightening...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI9Sj...eature=related

[Skoshi Tiger]

Originally Posted by taildraggernut

this ones frightening...

Just seeing how quickly the men on the deck react is a testiment to the quality of the men, their professionalism and training.

[xpzorg]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCdExWtHWrA

We don't need fire brigade, we can fly vertically


P.S. about cable the ripper

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8_8735oeQI

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sknyliv_air_show_disaster
(Many people have died from the cable which hooked to the plane)

[159th_Jester]

Which US carrier was it that had an incident with a missile release on the flight deck during the Vietnam war?

Can't remember the name of the ship but the documentary about the incident was chilling. An electrical short circuit released an A-A missile which set fire to another aircraft also preparing to take off on the other side of the flight deck and resulted in a good bit of ordinance cooking off.

Absolutely horrifying, but as Skoshi just said above, the crew's reaction was testimony to the quality of the men and their training.

[SQB]

Regarding your post xpzorg, thanking you for posting a video which cuts off at that point. I was there for that airshow and witnessed the crash, I tried to help injured and shocked off the airfield and it was my definition of hell on earth. Just seeing the aircraft again brings back those memories.

[xpzorg]

Sorry, i didn't want to seem cynical and callous. Of course i understand that is big tragedy and that's why i post it in reply in 3 first humorous posts.

[5./JG27.Farber]

Navy Flight Student Crash Video, at 1 min - are those his legs?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeRXre_FG1w

[Sternjaeger II]

jeeez, that tumbling bomb on the deck was scary

[BadAim]

Originally Posted by 159th_Jester

Which US carrier was it that had an incident with a missile release on the flight deck during the Vietnam war?

Can't remember the name of the ship but the documentary about the incident was chilling. An electrical short circuit released an A-A missile which set fire to another aircraft also preparing to take off on the other side of the flight deck and resulted in a good bit of ordinance cooking off.

Absolutely horrifying, but as Skoshi just said above, the crew's reaction was testimony to the quality of the men and their training.

That was the Forestall. John McCain was sitting in the plane that was hit. In an odd twist of fate (after miraculously surviving) he later transferred to the Oriskany which had been the site of a fire that killed 44 men the year before. He was promptly shot down and spent the rest of the war as a POW.

Seems like aircraft carrier duty is not for the feint of heart.