Aircraft Carrier Flight Deck In Slow Motion - Beautiful
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- Опубліковано 5 гру 2014
- To see the whole film, visit www.createspace.com/204558 . This is one of my favorite film clips. a scene from my TV special, Second Home. The sailors on the carrier let us see and shoot things they normally don't allow the press to see. But we were filmmakers and they respected our abilities. To see the documentary about how I made this and other films, visit www.createspace.com/204514.
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It's the most beautiful thing to see a f-14 tomcat making a deck landing!
And even to see the small air brake pop up!
shame on me! ! in all my adrenaline infused excitement of my positive flashbacks on the flight deck, I sincerely meant to, but totally forgot to show my appreciation and gratitude to a particular person. Captain's mast for me at 0900 hours for my lack of gratitude! Mr David Hoffman, thank you sir! Not only for taking the time to go record us young professionals, but even more so for openly sharing those slices into the unique world and time in our lives. thank you, thank you sir for a job well done.!!! As vf-14 flight deck troubleshooter, I've given countless thumbs up for my tomcats to launch off the cats. Here's my thumbs up to you sir for capturing us on film and sharing the results with the rest of the world. thanks again! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
I was on the USS America CV-66 from 1991-1996. I was a Fly 3 blueshirt and then a EO (Elevator Operator) This brings back memories. I just showed this video to my 15 year daughter and she was amazed.
I love it.. sailors wearing dungarees! I served on 5 carriers. Three of which I worked that Roof as an ordie! I served aboard JFK, Midway, Hancock, America & Nimitz...yea I was a lifer....proud of it.
@John Doe Yep! love the word helos..NOBODY that was an airedale when I served with the USN called helos choopers. they are helos and long ago they were called Angels because of all the rescues of downed pilots.
You weren’t a lifer. You were a career sailor.
Yeah, AO busts ass up there day and night. I did 4 years as an ordie with VA-192 the Golden Dragons. 2 cruises in Ticonderoga and 1 in Oriskany. In retrospect, most significant part of my 75 years to date! Keep humpin' brother.
I went to see my RIO when he was dying of cancer and he played your documentary for me on his laptop. I was focused on him and didn't pay attention to the details of the video. So glad I found this. Takes me back to days of flying the "turkey". My eternal gratitude to all the real Rainbow Warriors who saw to it we left "Mom" and came back safe every time! I still have vivid memories of an AO holding up bouquet of arming pins, giving a thumbs up on a weight board, my crusty old brown shirt telling me to take good care of HIS airplane (and he meant it), saluting that last shooter on my last Cat. My girl flies no more. Mom is at the bottom of the Atlantic. These kids in colors were family. Hope they all had great lives.
Diamondbacks Baby
Anywhere
Any weather
Any time!
Thank you so much for the thoughts and the poetry of your story. I'm so glad you used my film to give someone pleasurable memories.
David Hoffman-filmmaker
David, Other way around... he shared it with me. But, now that I have found it, I ordered a copy from Amazon for myself. Thank you sir!
Great film! Brought back some great memories of my time on Kitty Hawk (92-94) as a shooter. It was a tremendously rewarding experience. Thank you for sharing Mr. Hoffman.
I was a PC with VS-37 at that time.
I suppose we crossed paths as I worked in PLAT/Lens from 90-95 on the Hawk. Being up on the fight deck is one of the most amazing things in the world
Thanks again for uploading all of these videos. As I was on board the whole time. Many good times with continuous duty. Seeing the red rippers fly in our Tomcats is great 👍
I served in V-3 division on the Forrestal 1988-1990. VF-31 and VF-11 were assigned to CVW-6 and were aboard with F-14As. I remember that the Tomcatters logo was Felix the Cat with two tails.
This was during my first set of deployments aboard the USS John F Kennedy, 82-85. The Tomcats here were from VF-11 the Red Rippers and VF-31 the Tomcatters. I remember these guys! Thanks for bringing back some good memories!
Vince Edwards VAW-126
I saw myself on the flightdeck
" the conductor" of the orchestra...respect for the whole orchestra. Still impressive to watch
2:12 One F-14 takes off, another lands LITERALLY SECONDS later... WOW!! 😲😲😲😲😲🤤🤤🤤🤤
It was the same tomcat that's how fast the F14 is.
And That's Why, The Angled Deck And Steam Catapult Being More Practical To " Land And Go " In The Same Time
Slow Motion and F-14's?! Awesome stuff! Would have loved to see it go a lot longer.
God Bless and Thank ALL of you for your service to Our country!!!!!
I really wish we could all just get transported back to the 80's & early 90's - superior films, better music and sexier aircraft!
I do like the present but I agree with you, there were some wonderful films made back then, sexy airplanes, and terrific music.
David Hoffman filmmaker
I had a buddy who was on a WESTPAC in 73, on the Kitty Hawk. The first cruise with the F14 Tomcat aboard. He had great sea stories
Great video! Thanks for upload.
F 14 Tomcat. The best fighter jet in the world. Ever! R.I.P.
Kevin Laughlin Thanks for your answer and subscribe! The F4 was great plane and nice, like it, but my favorit the Tomcat :)
Have a nice day for you!
Chris ;)
Kevin Laughlin I send the like your another subscribes :)
best fighter plane ever built !
@@timothythomas2705 So why is it not in use now?
I loved working on the flight deck. I was fly 1 yellow shirt on USS Carl Vi soon(CVN 70) 83-85
Ernie Montanez one of my sons was on
The CVN70 when 911 happened. They just arrived in the Persian Golf that day.
Then upon there return, i went to Hawaii for a Tiger cruise to San Diego. 7 days at sea. What a rush. Great food, great time. Slept on the bottom bunk, my son slept way on top. Tight fit.
great footage! love how clear and crisp it is.
That is what a team of Americans looks like, working together, towards a goal. Fantastic video! 🇺🇸
see the guy with white vest and black checkerboard, leg out sideways, thumb going up higher and higher? that's what I did on cv-62, uss Independence as flight deck troubleshooter in vf-14 tophatters. 1982-84. med cruises, bagel station off Lebanon, multinational peacekeeping force, NATO exercises in artic circle, air cover for Marines at Beirut airport, etc. flight deck ops is already so intense and a major adrenaline rush on a beautiful, clear sky, sunny day as our f-14 tomcats shot off cats 1 and 2 in a hail of multiple thousands of pounds of thunderous thrust, intense heat blast, huge multi colored twin flames infused with the eye watering smell of burning jp5 as the catapult steam rushes at and envelops you with every bird launch!. now imagine experiencing all this at night in dark with minimal and subdued lights. not lit up like a sports stadium or Walmart parking lot, but dark like dark colored lenses on flashlights and no white lights on the flight deck. it certainly made for ramping up the levels of sheer intensity of both the action and extremely hazardous working environment. what a tremendous rush. we were just kids, 18,19,20 years old giving a thumbs up or down on $28,000,000 birds flight deck ops at night was the best! 1900 hours to 0700 hours, 7 days per week!
salvatore monella Served with ya brother, fly 3 yellow and tractor driver. Same time.
My brother cruised with you- USS Indy, 82-84.
On my ship during combat ops in Vietnam, average age of the flight deck crew was about 20. All those airplanes, fuel, tons of live ordnance and a bunch of 20 YO men getting the work done flawlessly every day, every night. Amazing...
From what I saw, it certainly is amazing.
David Hoffman filmmaker
For Top Gun 2, the opening should be in this style.
Damn I miss my old job..USS Ranger CV 61 V1 Div
Does breathing those fumes make ya'll sick? God keep all of you and keep safe!
That was very Interesting David, thanks for sharing!
Thank you Bram
David Hoffman - filmmaker
Incidentally some scenes were used in the opening of “Supercarrier” the TV series.
This is almost better than the opening scene to Top Gun!
Thank you E Drew. It is interesting that when the producers were beginning preproduction on Top Gun, they purchased a copy of my entire film and used it heavily in the creation of the film. As I understand it, some scenes and shots exactly fit what I had shot in the “documentary.”
David Hoffman - filmmaker
Really? Wow, that's very interesting to know! It seems like the opening sequence to Top Gun was merely a sped-up version of what you produced. I think both scenes work well on their own merits - Top Gun captures the energy and intensity of the flight deck, while your scene captures the blood, grit, and sweat of the flight deck.
Was this filmed prior to their 1982 or 1983 deployment?
I served 4 years on CV64 Constellation ( Connie ) 67 to 71 as Fly 1 PO. Out of boot camp was a blue shirt, red shirt, then my last 2 years as yellow shirt as fly 1 PO. Made 3 wes pac deployments
This is a really cool video
Sad that there won't be anymore Grumman cats, but, at least Grumman went all out for the final cat in the family.
The best ever.....F-14 TOMCAT WHAT A WONDERFUL JET...SIMPLE THE BEST
Now that I've watched this.............. I've got that Loving Feelin. I've got it goose
As a nuke machinist mate aboard U.S.S. Enterprise it was always a thrill to go topside and watch flight ops from the catwalks or island. You gents were doing choreographed moves on a small stage packed with extreme dangers and violence!
@ 3:59 Truth! I'd go home on leave and see the same neighborhood knuckleheads doing what they always do, a whole lot of nuthin'. Then they'd give me shit for doing something with my life! What better validation can a guy get than that?
That was cool. Hell,their all kids.
God bless the deck crew!
"The DANGER ZONE"
3 plus years on Carl Vinson ……. Its the COOL !
01/09/2019
Brazil
nice
Work is worship
David Hoffman, how does one gain access to createspace to view the video you referenced above. Lots of old memories being stirred here .Some of the good stuff .
Thank you - www.amazon.com/dp/B00068S73S
David Hoffman - filmmaker
Cat 1 USS KITTY HAWK 71 72 VIETNAM. 2126 planes off flight deck in 23 days during Easter Offensive. Wild and crazy. ABE 2 MIKE GEARY. CAT1 SAFETY PO
regard to all tomcats squadron from rider 217
ABH, V-1/CV66, CVN72, CVN73
1:40 = S-3 Viking Detected
we had 90 aircraft on the big e in the 1960's we had the f8 "last of the gun fighters"how many planes on these new carriers?????
60-70..depending on ow many helos squadrons are aboard.The reduced air wing is because of budget cuts and Precision guided weapons...fewer weapons & aircraft needed to destroy targets. The ship in this video is the now decommissioned CV USS John F Kennedy(CV 67). This video has to be from the late 70's or early 80s.
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das ist so cool. möchte auch da arbeiten.
They told me that too when I was new.
Real Naval aviation.
2 yrs on JFK fight deck missile division cree
Anytime Baby!!😝😝
"A Chief could be wrong."
What blasphemy is this?? ;)
Chief could have simply been old school. I ran chains in my helo detachments on the back of FF's, never on a carrier. I don't remember which way we did it on my first deployment in '79, but by '84 we put the hook "under".
@@johnknapp952 I had always hooked a chain from the top down so the weight of the chain, gravity, would always keep it hooked. I guess though, you really have to be looking at the situation, to determine how it should be hooked.
@2:15 Tomcat takes off down the catapult and then immediately lowers his Tailhook a split second later?????
1:55 looked like a scene from Top Gun
They used my film before they made Top Gun as research.
David Hoffman - filmmaker
@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker nice 👍
USS CARL VINSON [RC div//aft plant].....1986-1990 (in the PG right before Saddam invaded Kuwait....disembarked...woof). My Hat's off to you ....Aviation Boatswain-mate!!! You guys and gals are Bad--Ass.....I dunno how you do it!!
Ripper's Rule !!!!!
Carriers are fascinating.
At 2:00 what is the guy doing at the table?
That's the Ouija Board. It's a scale representation of the flight deck, and all the aircraft and their status. When a aircraft moves on the flight deck, the piece that represents it is moved on the board.
Dustin Kellerman
Thank you.
Messenger... timetable..
brave soldiers
Pete Shields we are sailors... :)
@@carew97 Sailors :)
Shipping out next month as an ABH this shit gets me so hype. Hell yeah
LOL GOOD LUCK!! ya gonna need it!!
Yes and when ur out you can work at a shit job