Case 1 with Wilbur

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  • Опубліковано 8 лют 2021
  • Flying a Case 1 day event with Wilbur off of the IKE. This is video taken from 2 different flights edited together to give it some continuity. There are some captions on the bottom to describe what is going on.
    Filmed about 1999.
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  • @wdjbwright
    @wdjbwright 3 роки тому +7

    Sammy!! I love this brother. I’m sure this was my “_OK_” pass that I was known for throughout the fleet 🤪. Miss you brother. Thank God you filmed this.
    Wilbur

    • @AirTales
      @AirTales  3 роки тому +5

      Wilbur! Glad to share these old memories with you... and the world! Miss flying with you my friend!

    • @wdjbwright
      @wdjbwright 3 роки тому

      @@AirTales MDC!

    • @Whiskey11Gaming
      @Whiskey11Gaming 3 роки тому +2

      Reunion tour in the F-14 in DCS World? :P Both pits are fully modeled :P

  • @brownj2
    @brownj2 3 роки тому +4

    I served in VF142 on the flight deck of Ike in the early 80s thanks for posting this.

    • @oldgoat142
      @oldgoat142 3 роки тому +1

      Hey there shipmate. I was with VF-142 from late '83 to '86 under Sumnick and Letter.

  • @oldgoat142
    @oldgoat142 3 роки тому +6

    I was on the Ike from '83 to '86 with VF-142. Watching this brings back great memories. Thank you for posting this.

  • @CallsignJoNay
    @CallsignJoNay 3 роки тому +17

    My new favorite channel on UA-cam.

  • @stijnvandamme76
    @stijnvandamme76 3 роки тому +6

    So many people on the deck near where that big old Turkey comes to a stop.
    It's amazing that that for all the danger, the coordination and finely tuned procedures keeps em all safe.

    • @andys8779
      @andys8779 3 роки тому +1

      Just gotta know where to step.

  • @tobee_gamer5816
    @tobee_gamer5816 3 роки тому +9

    F-14s are simply amazing

  • @prankthemall6903
    @prankthemall6903 3 роки тому +6

    MOOORE! I need more of these videos!

  • @rayrasbeary3081
    @rayrasbeary3081 3 роки тому +5

    Great to see these videos! Great memories of the final cruise of my Navy career with the Rippers! Keep ‘em coming!

  • @Pricklyhedgehog72
    @Pricklyhedgehog72 3 роки тому +2

    Really fun to watch. That catapult launch was cool...neat to see the size difference between the Tomcat and the Hornet, especially the wing-span with the wings forward. A bygone era of Naval ops'.

  • @crash8926
    @crash8926 3 роки тому +3

    Great video. Thank you!

  • @Hairysteed
    @Hairysteed 3 роки тому +2

    Gotta hand it to the deck crew! So well coreographed!

  • @Dryootube
    @Dryootube 2 роки тому +1

    you lived every boys dream, thanks for sharing

  • @roodytjm9282
    @roodytjm9282 3 роки тому +1

    Never forget air-plane weapons when sometime fly-by not only for SAR mission or humanitary target...
    Histo-Memo footage from amazing Tom4. Cool guys. Thank You M'sieur. Congrat.

  • @noez_ergo
    @noez_ergo 3 роки тому +3

    Thank you very much for sharing this footage with us! ❤️🙌

  • @michealryan23
    @michealryan23 3 роки тому +2

    What a gem of a channel to appear on my homepage. I really hope there’s much more content where this came from👍🏼👍🏼

  • @777hdt
    @777hdt 3 роки тому +2

    I’ve never seen a turnaround on an aircraft carrier before. Pretty cool vid

  • @roblosie5323
    @roblosie5323 3 роки тому +1

    Great stuff thanks for sharing

  • @martinromano99
    @martinromano99 3 роки тому +4

    The beggining looks like Battlefield 3.

    • @daniellebduska9972
      @daniellebduska9972 3 роки тому

      Thats true, but after BF I moved to DCS :-)

    • @martinromano99
      @martinromano99 3 роки тому

      @@daniellebduska9972 Yeah! me too.. i love DCS, but i was talking about the pre-flight part, when they walk in the mid deck of the carrier..

  • @chrisridebike8
    @chrisridebike8 3 роки тому +1

    Former Ripper WSO. That was almost a hook slap! Whoa.

  • @pjstew
    @pjstew 3 роки тому +4

    The precision flying that manifests in naval aviation is always a joy to watch. Was the low holding typically flown at a standard airspeed or just whatever max endurance was for the conditions of the day? Thanks again for sharing

  • @627horsepowers
    @627horsepowers 3 роки тому +7

    The F-14 is still usable today...for the coolness factor. I know not rational.
    17:04 Crazy how quieter it gets with HVAC power levels lowered or off.

    • @Whiskey11Gaming
      @Whiskey11Gaming 3 роки тому +1

      Only On/Off on the ECS system in an F-14 :P

  • @harryoudman5876
    @harryoudman5876 3 роки тому +6

    So, he signs for the jet.....whats that mean? You break it you buy it? Hahahaha

    • @slammerf16
      @slammerf16 3 роки тому +3

      You bend it, you mend it!! Yeah, just signing off on the maintenance.

    • @stijnvandamme76
      @stijnvandamme76 3 роки тому +2

      Rental form
      Always make sure to check the box for full cover insurance :D

  • @mxcollin95
    @mxcollin95 3 роки тому +1

    These guys make it look fun... 🇺🇸🤙

  • @mr.incognito8704
    @mr.incognito8704 Рік тому +1

    Great video! Did you guys already have DFCS at the time?

    • @AirTales
      @AirTales  Рік тому +1

      I don't recall specifically if we had it when this was filmed, but we did get it about this time.

  • @CapLAGOS
    @CapLAGOS 3 роки тому +1

    very nice!

  • @aquajay
    @aquajay 2 роки тому

    what a great video

  • @daniellebduska9972
    @daniellebduska9972 3 роки тому

    wow, just WOW!!!

  • @stevecurd9113
    @stevecurd9113 2 місяці тому

    Abs fantastic

  • @harryoudman5876
    @harryoudman5876 3 роки тому +12

    So fucking COOL, Thanks for the memories, back when
    "Men were men & sheep were scared " hahahaha

    • @crash8926
      @crash8926 3 роки тому +1

      Yes. Damn shame what we've got now!

  • @Whiskey11Gaming
    @Whiskey11Gaming 3 роки тому

    Four Wire? Based upon how far down the deck you ended up?

  • @harryoudman5876
    @harryoudman5876 3 роки тому +4

    Jolly Rogers & Pukin Dogs all the way!! Hattip to 'SNORT' Best CO ever!

    • @Hairysteed
      @Hairysteed 3 роки тому +1

      VF-84 & VF-143 Best looking Tomcat squardons there were!

  • @andrewbergman9315
    @andrewbergman9315 3 роки тому +1

    I noted the extended refueling probe on the emergency aircraft and the caption that this is in case of hydraulic failure - is this in case he is forced to waveoff (with what power?) and has to refuel?

    • @AirTales
      @AirTales  3 роки тому

      A typical way this scenario would unfold is if you lost the left engine, you lost the 'combined side' hydraulics. The refueling probe is powered by the combined side hydraulics. You can still extend/retract it with the 'flight side' hydraulics that is powered by the right engine by a bi-directional pump that connects the two systems, called the 'Bi-Di' for short.
      The Bi-di was crappy and failed a lot, or would cavitate and you had to shut it off. So to not take any chances, you would extend the probe knowing the bi-di would probably fail. You could still extend the probe with a hand pump, but that assumes you didn't lose all the fluid and it was a pain to do.
      Needing fuel might be because of a wave-off, and a single engine wave-off can be done in an F-14, but there are tons of other reasons; the ship might not be ready to recover because of aircraft parked in the landing area, the ship is too close to enemy territory and has to 're-set' its position, or you might get a wave-off because they ship has to avoid a cargo ship or territorial waters, etc...

  • @po9146
    @po9146 3 роки тому +1

    Can you say which kind of rear radar display you had? Was it the big PTID square display or the old fishbowl?

    • @AirTales
      @AirTales  3 роки тому

      At the time, VF-11 had the F-14B Upgrade, which meant the PTID. There is a quick look at it in the end of this video. ua-cam.com/video/5tPxX9Dtxeg/v-deo.html

  • @kaesees
    @kaesees 3 роки тому +1

    Dang I was worried that was going to be a ramp strike at 1:47 . I wonder what grade he got, after accounting for the slack you're likely to get when making a single-engine recovery.

    • @slammerf16
      @slammerf16 3 роки тому +1

      Nothing great - that probably just counts as a landing they walked away from. Paddles probably shat himself! I guess he can call POWER all he wants but if there's only one engine and no afterburner....

  • @u171098atgmail
    @u171098atgmail 3 роки тому +8

    There's so much RF from shipboard radar you can hear it on the video sound. Ranger had places on the flight deck so hot it would fire the life preserver CO2 cartridges of an SV-2 life vest. You could hear it in your headset even when not plugged into anything, I know several folks that have died of brain tumors. Not a good environment, the F14 AWG-9 was pumping a 1000 watts of microwave energy. the irony is everybody thinks 4 and 5G technology is safe! not so much would be my bet? It's basically military grade millimeter wavelength radar. Everybody is being exposed to that s#!t.

    • @andys8779
      @andys8779 3 роки тому

      Good thing those WoW switches worked on the ground.

  • @josephd.4890
    @josephd.4890 3 роки тому +1

    F-14, still my favorite plane of all time

  • @alaskanmarine1
    @alaskanmarine1 3 роки тому

    I imagine taxing on the deck at night can get pretty hairy.

  • @bigrednz69
    @bigrednz69 3 роки тому +1

    Very cool. How's the fuel burn in that low level hold?!

    • @brownj2
      @brownj2 3 роки тому

      it is not measured in miles per gallon it is measured in smiles per gallon

    • @bigrednz69
      @bigrednz69 3 роки тому

      @@brownj2 no doubt

    • @Whiskey11Gaming
      @Whiskey11Gaming 3 роки тому

      In a clean F-14B, probably not that high, few thousand pounds per hour probably. That sounds like a lot until you factor in that in Afterburner it's TENS of thousands of pounds per hour! :P

  • @billcramer9047
    @billcramer9047 Рік тому

    Hot seatin

  • @pnayeri
    @pnayeri 3 роки тому

    These guys were vaping before it was cool!

  • @Joker-ms4iu
    @Joker-ms4iu 3 роки тому +1

    year ?

    • @AirTales
      @AirTales  3 роки тому +1

      1999-2000 time frame

  • @jamescooper2618
    @jamescooper2618 3 роки тому

    Why was it so loud inside the plane?

    • @AirTales
      @AirTales  3 роки тому

      Many fighters are loud because of the Environmental Control System (air conditioning). But I think the F-14 was particularly loud. It is a lot of air being pushed through a lot of little outlets, which tends to make it louder than if there were more outlets of a bigger size. The main culprit in the F-14 was the "piccolo tubes", which lined the canopy under the glass. (look at 5:32 of the video for a close up). That is a long tube with a lot of little air holes in it. And it was right by your head, so it was pretty loud. If you turned the ECS off, you could talk to each other in a conversational tone, but then it would get pretty hot/cold...

    • @jamescooper2618
      @jamescooper2618 3 роки тому

      @@AirTales Thanks!

    • @Whiskey11Gaming
      @Whiskey11Gaming 3 роки тому

      @@AirTales Wouldn't disabling the ECS in flight for any extended period of time be a bad thing given it controls cooling of the AWG-9, AIM-54, G-Suit, Wing airbags (the black part seen at the trailing edge of the wings when fully forward), and a few other critical systems?

  • @fightingtwozeroone
    @fightingtwozeroone 3 роки тому +1

    Red Rippers!

  • @rakedos9057
    @rakedos9057 3 роки тому +1

    This video is collector 99', F-14, raw sound, CASE 1 with parking and opening the cockpit. Very very nice.
    Does somebody know why they move the wings to the bomb position before initial ?

    • @AirTales
      @AirTales  3 роки тому +3

      The wings come back when they leave low holding, usually abeam or aft of the ship as they descend to the 800 ft initial. The wings are set to 'MANUAL', and 'AFT', which is 68 degrees, 'Bomb' Mode is only 55 degrees. I have seen some video of F-14s in the break in bomb mode, but that was before my time and was not standard when I was in F-14's.

    • @rakedos9057
      @rakedos9057 3 роки тому +1

      @@AirTales Aft ? Oh Ok thanks for the info. Is there a special reason on why to go aft ? Or is it because it's the standard procedure for CASE 1 landing for the F-14 ?
      Thank you a lot of this amazing video ! The quality is really nice.

    • @AirTales
      @AirTales  3 роки тому +1

      @@rakedos9057 sorry, should have read ‘manual’ to get the wings back to 68 at slower air speeds. I fixed my reply above. In ‘manual’, the pilot can command the wings back to 68 degrees.

    • @SSaugaCriss
      @SSaugaCriss 3 роки тому +1

      i think they go aft to expo the accel of the 14 descending in to perform the combat overhead break ? kind of like HIRO ops in which you don't need any delays in-between landers.

  • @berandalelit4175
    @berandalelit4175 3 роки тому

    watching this video why do I feel like playing the fourth mission of Battlefield 3? 🤔

  • @lolkevandewitte1713
    @lolkevandewitte1713 3 роки тому

    This looks like such a cool job, but no, I had to become a tax inspector. What was I thinking....

  • @wiesenbefeuchter
    @wiesenbefeuchter 3 роки тому +1

    What's "Case1" ?

    • @fungezap1579
      @fungezap1579 3 роки тому +2

      Daytime good weather conditions that allowed for overhead holding and visual decent into the pattern.

    • @wiesenbefeuchter
      @wiesenbefeuchter 3 роки тому +1

      And who's Wilbur ?

    • @fungezap1579
      @fungezap1579 3 роки тому +1

      I am guessing that the backseater’s nickname, since he’s taking the video. Don’t know really.

    • @AirTales
      @AirTales  3 роки тому +4

      Case 1 describes the rules for the launch and recovery. Case 1 is in good weather where we can rendezvous over the ship in a stack and collapse down to the break. Case 2 is when the weather doesn't allow the stack, so you rendezvous away from the ship and come in as sections to the break and land. Case 3 is bad weather or night were we come in one at a time on a big straight-in approach. Case 1 is fun and can be done with out any radio transmissions; 'zip lip'

    • @daniellebduska9972
      @daniellebduska9972 3 роки тому +1

      better than case II or III :-)

  • @aliceharris9030
    @aliceharris9030 3 роки тому

    Urging myself to remember that in peacetime the military resources are used for helping out in floods, fires, rescues and that is the kind of world I want to be in.
    This stuff is amazing but it shouldn't need to be employed in destruction anymore.