F-0797 USS Forrestal Aircraft Carrier Video- Douglas AD-1, F7U Cutlass
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- Color footage on board the USS Forrestal, circa 1950s.
North American FJ-3 Fury, Douglas AD-1 Skyraider, McDonnell F2H Banshee and the Vought F7U Cutlass are shown.
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I was a 20 year old Plankowner serving aboard her when these scenes were recorded. Found this video by accident while scrolling in TH-cam and am REALLY glad I did. Nostalgia galore!!! Thanks.
This is theForrestal59 I wagon with air group 17 in 1956 1957 we had F2H3s FJ 3 and the big boys A3Ds we had 6 on board.I was with the first JET sVF171 . ELI TELLER AD2
Superb footage. Great to see the often overlooked AJ Savages, and the FJ3's look snazzy with their nuclear paint jobs.
I LOVED this period of Aviation....Vietnam Vet 1968-69...
I am a Centurion on the Forrestal, 1968-69, a great ship to fly off, but to live on is another story. Great days they were.
Sandy don't need no stinkin' cat!
Unbelievable film. Great quality and colour.
great video of no crash ops just good flat top operations
Was on board in 67 on the WestPac cruise with VA-106 and again with VA-66 for a Med cruise, so happy to see old films of 59
I believe this to be filmed during FORRESTAL's Shake Down Cruise which took place 24 January to 31 March 1956 in the Guantanamo Bay Operating area.
The landing passes by those furies were just smooth and sexy.
Man what a treat' Cutlass way ahead of its time, but soooo under powered. Great home movie,Thanks
Dean Van Winsen
The Navy never subsequently adopted tailless fighter aircraft. There were problems with the Gutless aside from the lack of power.
That could be included, we took the title off of many of the tests showing CV59, the Forrestal. Thank for the info on Feightner, he is interesting!
Banshees make the ship seem not excessively large.
The Cutlass Was a spacey-lookin' bird 💜.
As a kid, had a model of this ship; playing w/ it showed that portside elevator was in the wrong place: Maybe they should make mockups of new designs & let the designers' kids play w/ them to cook out the flaws, like maybe there's a chance the Ford's island could be moved 2 the portside aft corner, removing turbulence from the approach entirely.
Absolutely love this video 💜.
Cutlass was a widower maker.
CNO Admiral Arliegh Burke checking out the Navy's newest carrier when this was filmed.
Have about 275 traps aboard the amazing FID....but in the gigantic F-14...a great ship but was showing its age in 1985-1987...
How far ahead of the rest of the world when these actions took place, and where are we now?
A veritable who's who of 1950's naval aircraft
17:00 the old Gutless. Love the Forrestal, she was yar.
AJ (A-2) Savages heavy bombers, used primarily in the nuke role (later tanker and recon). Used in the interim as the Navy's only long range nuclear strike aircraft, the PV-2 Neptune (which later served as a patrol, recon, and special mission aircraft), could take off but not land on a carrier. The savages were replaced by A-3s and A-5s.
The Savages were unique in that they were a hybrid of piston and jet… two piston engines on the wings and a single jet in the tail…
Watch this at 1.5 speed. It's running too slow.
Hey..your right
Wow, the AJ Savages just took off the end of the deck.
Chapter 3 of John Glenn’s biography brought me here.
Tehy are Savages...my dad was onboard when this video was done...very cool
Jeez the Cutlass looks terrifying to land.
+Robert Cornhole Yes they were, they earned the title "widow maker". My skipper flew them and said that you had to tap burner just to keep it in the landing pattern. Said the Westinghouse engine produced less heat that their toasters.
@@redbaroniii bad engines bad controls bad ejection seat.
Waiting to see the A3-D Skywarrior (or it's predecessor) tricked out for carrying nukes, c. 1950s, as ordered by AF (as the B-66, I think). By the time we had them in the 60s (KA-3Bs, or Whales), they were mostly converted as tankers, c. 1967, 68, at least while I was aboard the Bonnie Dick, later the Tico. Have my own color S8 films of the Forrestal on fire, in July 1967, while then aboard the Bonnie, with VAH-4, Det. Lima. But of these FJ-3s, well, never saw them out there, or elsewhere, even at NAS Jacksonville, while then being trained on A\C electrical systems, and which we worked on (or tried to destroy) at the time the more common F-9 Panthers, as seen here (I think). What the hell, they looked like these, anyway, all Navy blue, waxed and shined even, and then we just ripped apart their wiring harnesses to troubleshoot problems, including by the likes of me -- just so we could get later out there in the Gulf and try destroying Vietnam. And to think, all that just to save her from the awful Commies (?), and I might add, the same ones we now buy our stuff from at Walmart. What a f****g waste of lives, planes and country back then. Good grief. Will we ever learn?
The A-3's were not "tricked out" to carry nukes, except for the reflective paint on the bottom. That capability lasted about a decade but in '64 we started dropping 2000 #ers over SE Asia.
The B-66 as used in Nam as an ECM aircraft.
@@louissimons7787 There was also a USAF RB-66 photo recon version. A war buddy of mine was an RB-66 crew chief while stationed at Korat RTAFB, Thailand during the late Vietnam War.
The Cutlass has a long nose strut..wow
Awesome 👍
me when realizing there's no audio: welp time for Danger Zone
His approach and landing and his two aborts stating at 15:52 are however exactly as desribed in the Wikipedia article.
HA, semaphore and officers in wheel hats…my first tour was flying F-4J on Independence(CV-62)….seemed so big…1975…VF-33. No wheel hats seen. First ‘super carriers’, Forrestal class.
I was on her 74/77 great times hull tect
At 6:18 Fury buzz number 207 is taxying with its FOD screen in place---- is that SOP? I wouldn't want to be the guy taking it off right then.
Boy those are some old Jet blast Defector.reminds me of the flight ops scene from the those old Korean War movies.
Hull number 59 seen after 11:30 on the film.
this is the Forrestal, this can be known by the "I" tailcodes
Who was the Four Star?
What year is this? 57-58 maybe?
F7-U here is news; wondering why there were no filmmakers on the Ticonderoga?
re: Midway vs Forrestal. Clearly Forrestal....CV-59. You do not see Midway's hull number anywhere in the video.
Nothing like the old color film for vibrant color.
Kodacolor.
And not a fat rating in sight. I remember back then a cartoon showing how fat we westerners might become, wheels under stomaches, that sort of thing.
Well they sure got that right.
I believe what we're seeing at that point of the video are the North American AJ Savage.
He only made one carrier landing on the deck with this aircraft type. In Wikipedia he is listed as making this landing on the Midway. I have no idea which version of history is correct. If you think Wikipedia is wrong, perhaps you should edit it?
Are those A-26's in the back there around 4:01?
No, they're probably Neptunes.
So many different aircraft types, what a nightmare for maintenance.
Commissioned 1954 !
Looks like it, doesn't it!
Wow those old prop planes could take off at like 5 mph lol❤
Back in '62the Forrestal was docked at Alameda,our dad took us out for a tour of the ship.It turned out the Forrestal was off limits tied next to the Ranger the inboard ship.While we went thru the Ranger when we went up the elevator the deck of the Forrestal was full of F-102s'.Well we were Air Force brats and knew the didn't belong on a ship and asked the sailor and my dad"why were they there". both just kept their mouths shut and suggested we forget what we saw.Well we found out years later the answer.
Then There came no name and the rest is history
Sorry, never mind. Somebody else already answered, haha.
Ahhh the Gutless
Same boat McCain burnt up.
This looks like Rear Admiral Edward Feightner aborted carrier landing test of the F7U Cutlass. Which if correct would make this the USS Midway and not the USS USS Forrestal?
Look Feightner up, he is a very impressive character
/en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Edward_L._Feightner
raid517. Hull number of this ship is 59 look it up.