Author Topic: The Cool Video Thread (Read 282256 times)

SpazSinbad · « **Reply #165 on:** April 01, 2013, 08:23:07 pm »

Thanks FSXNP. Good to see the LSO simulator in action.

micro · « **Reply #166 on:** April 02, 2013, 03:20:22 pm »

Hey gents. I came across this video today and had to post it. It's a bit old but has some great footage.

micro · « **Reply #167 on:** April 02, 2013, 03:35:49 pm »

Another Discovery Wings classic. This time my all-time favorite girl, the SR.

GOONIE · « **Reply #168 on:** April 02, 2013, 08:10:41 pm »

Nice find Paddles, I really liked seeing the LSO simulator in operation, always wondered what it looked like. I wonder how the simulated airplane interprets the LSO's commands and performs the action in real time. Is someone actually flying the simulated plane and responding, or is it voice activated only (hopefully not using iphone's siri voice software

?

Micro, enjoyed the top gun video. When they talked about how people have been saying since WWI that dog fighting is no longer needed, it made me think of a conversation I had over a beer(s) this weekend with my buddy who flies hornets for the Strike Fighter Weapons School Atlantic (SFWSL) and is a graduate of top gun. While he no doubt enjoys what he does, he is not too optomistic on the continuing need for close range dog fighting skills or ACM (besides training new pilots) unless the current threat enviroment changes. He feels his future is probably protecting the UCAVs....

GOONIE

SpazSinbad · « **Reply #169 on:** April 24, 2013, 10:25:24 pm »

Harrier Flight (2013) Great Pilot View Video of Flat Deck Take Off and Vertical Landing of this USMC AV-8B Harrier (you can imagine an F-35B instead?).

“Published on Apr 23, 2013 Video by Gunnery Sgt. Michael Kropiewnicki 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit. Capt. David Neely, an AV-8B Harrier Pilot assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 266 (Re-inforced), 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), conducts flight operations off USS Kearsarge (LHD3), Mediterranean 28 Mar 2013.”

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DigitAL · « **Reply #170 on:** April 25, 2013, 01:38:37 am »

That is an awesome video Micro! so good that I watched it twice.

SpazSinbad · « **Reply #171 on:** April 25, 2013, 02:21:32 am »

On the NavAv track for the U-2 here is an abridged version below : [non-abridged here: http://defensetech.org/2011/12/06/video-u-2-carrier-ops/ ]

Lockheed U-2 Carrier OPS Declassified (U-2 Arrest JPG from: http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/history/u2/carrier_02.jpg)

"Uploaded on Dec 6, 2009
In early 1964 Bob Schumacher conducted a number of trial landings and take-offs from the USS Ranger and a number of other CIA pilots, including Jim Barnes, became carrier qualified. The target for the U-2G was the French nuclear test site, situated at Mururoa Atoll in the middle of the South Pacific, well out of the range of a land-based U-2. Consequently, in May 64 a U-2G operating from the USS Ranger photographed Mururoa Atoll and until 1968 three of the CIAs fleet of U-2s and a number of pilots were always carrier capable, although few actual sorties were ever flown."

GOONIE · « **Reply #172 on:** April 30, 2013, 04:28:30 pm »

some new ones.

FCLP Fentress

GoPro Oceana and Pensacola

Victory103 · « **Reply #173 on:** May 01, 2013, 12:46:19 am »

Just how I remember NGU and NTU areas, always overcast. Nice IAP into NPA and finish with a proper arrival out of the break!

GOONIE · « **Reply #174 on:** May 03, 2013, 03:34:09 pm »

Wow, really cool find on youtube. If you ever wanted to ride along in an A-6E for some night traps, and also hear all the audio this is it.

"Cockpit cam in A-6E Intruder during night carrier recovery. First attempt is waved off for fouled deck. Can hear all typical radio calls of a night recovery at sea. This is raw and unedited so feel free to skip ahead. For the salty fleet guys half the fun is listening to the comms from Strike, Marshall and Paddles.. Note the Paddles calls to the guy on the ball ahead of us."

GOONIE

Victory103 · « **Reply #175 on:** May 04, 2013, 04:25:13 pm »

Love it, great to see how busy the BN is, no sandbagging there.

cobrales · « **Reply #176 on:** May 06, 2013, 01:37:35 am »

You might be interested in this 1963 air show video NAS Whidbey. My dad was a ACMC Master Chief Petty Officer there 62 thru 64. I'm the spastic 9 year old at 0:08 sec. Cmd. Ken Wallace of the Blue Angels at that time was a good friend off my Mom and dads.

Sludge · « **Reply #177 on:** May 06, 2013, 08:14:01 am »

Fellas...

For those of you who remember OCS (previously AOCS) in Pensacola and the pain of the Drill Instructors, check this one out. It should be titled: "Back to the sweet smell of Mustard Gas"

At 1:00, when he says "hiya Sarge, where do I check in to fly?", I would pay BIG MONEY to see an Officer Candidate say that IRL. The blast radius on that explosion would be awesome.

Did you all catch the VINTAGE (hard as that is to say) FA-18A Hornets?

Later
Sludge

SpazSinbad · « **Reply #178 on:** May 20, 2013, 09:47:09 pm »

First F-35B Vertical Takeoff Test VIDEO

"Published on May 20, 2013
An F-35B test aircraft completes the first-ever vertical takeoff (VTO) at NAS Patuxent River, Md., on May 10, 2013. While not a capability used in combat, VTOs are required for repositioning of the STOVL in environments where a jet could not perform a short takeoff. In these cases, the jet, with a limited amount of fuel, would execute a VTO to travel a short distance."