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What year was this video?

Beauty

I sailed on a sister ship the assisibone 234 . She was my first ship and a great experience . One of my first trips was a run to the arctic to baffin island and Hudson's bay . From there I was transferred to the protecteur 509 . Another great experience and crew

Fast for its time...

A sexy old steamer

Former Banger here. This reaches way back for me. I was on board for the '93 and '94/'95 cruise on the Lincoln before we swapped to the Carl Vinson.

Goodness it settled off the cat

nice work

Nice. The dreaded low settle off the bow. Brown pants moment maybe for the pilot.

Nice

Didn't they have a fire on deck on that ship? A7 gunned a A6 tanker starting one hell of a fire? Happened in the early 90s not sure what carrier it happened on though, it was one of those Presidential named ones.

I was in HS-6 with CAG11 at that time.

Nice video, I was with VF-213 during this time I had just gotten to the squadron. I was with the Maintenance Control, my rate was an AZ.

Back before the Great Progressive Destruction.

I worked night shaft in squadron maintenance on board Saratoga and Ranger from 69 to 71. Some night it was maintenance and others it was flight ops are a combination of the two. Most flight ops where 15 to 20 aircraft with about 40 o 50 aircraft on deck at the start of the op. After launch all the remaining aircraft had to be repositioned for the recovery and after recovery they had to be repositioned for the next op. If you thing it is impressive to see the ops in day light try being on the deck in night ops. Visibility around you is shorter and thing like tie down chains disappear under red light. The air wing consisted of more types of aircraft A3, RA5C, A6, A7, F4, E1 or E2, C1 or C2, and several Helicopter types all of which had different thing you had to watch out for. It took 30 minutes of on deck prep time with the aircraft before the flight op started and during a flight op you may be on deck doing maintenance trying to get an aircraft ready for the next op. All this going on with fueling and ordnance added in a 1.5 hour cycle. It was a good time to be young.

odd. Just came from a video where they scuttled that ship..

That F-14 had a fuel leak?

Nice clip, though its a shame its cut so short.

"Leggo damn you..."

Now i gotta watch Top Gun again lol

1:10 Pilot "Sticks Moving Forward, Aft, Left, Right, Left Rudder, Right Rudder, Good Rudders, Wiping them out..."

Woosh! Pew pew pew!

Just like DCS! 😃👍

Navy needs a new updated Tomcat. Big stealth fighter.

Uh, that is not a KA6D. That is an A6E with a D704 or Sgt Fletcher refueling "buddy store" attached to the centerline pylon.

WoW! I was on the Lincoln during this time and I was working nights! VAQ-135 Black Ravens EA6B. Thank you!

Beautiful!..

Awesome 👍

such a big aircraft

holy mother of shit

thats US baby

God of sky

Super Tomcat would have been a much better plane than the Super Hornet :(

Also lovingly known as the pothole or speed bump depending on its configuration as planes taxi and land on the deck.

what doing F-14B (A) at the 1992?

A THING OF beauty

Fascinating to see legacy Hornets, Intruders and Tomcats on the same busy deck 🤩

The sound of old school freedom! God bless the U.S.A

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Awesome guys. These guys were shipmates of mine, as I was a greenshirt as well and Plankowner. I left the ship just before this vid was made.

WOW.... wonderful take off....👍👍💪💪💖💖

Thank you for uploading this stuff👍👍🙃

The tail code is NH not HN. N west coast and H for specific carrier/air wing.

I've been retired for 11 years and I still have a reoccurring dream that nights is coming and I can't find my wands.

Such a beautiful airplane.

The good old days.

These are not CQ operations but regular cyclic ops. Ordnance is never carried during CQ. It is more common to operate with 3 catapults than 4. One of the bow cats stays a parking area. Events have to have enough aircraft sortied to clear out the extra space.

What’s the carrier heading?

Thx to you F-14 for great Feelings.

Thanks for this video. I worked the flight deck of the USS Coral Sea, then was CVA-43, later on the 'A' was dropped, from 1960 t0 64. It's very interesting to see the evolution of flight deck procedures, many things the same, and quite a few updated, especially the advent of safety personnel, which were pretty much absent in my day. No complaints I loved it!