Vintage Aircraft Carrier Landings - Fails and Mishaps

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[Music] but it was a fall storm the slightest misjudgment by a pilot and restraining wires imposed stresses on the aircraft's undercarriage that you didn't have been designed to withstand causing many accidents so indifference to the frail aircraft that the RAF who now controls the Fleet Air Arm considered suitable for naval operation the restraining wires were removed it's efficient wind over the deck so the Americans adopted out of necessity the transverse arrest a wire from the start they're not without certain initial at the end of the twenties the united states are the bane of generations of Navy pilots the safety barrier miss or break an arrest a wire and you took area [Music] early barriers were too low enabling a really determined pilot to get published this one was lucky as his auxiliary fuel tank ruptures the wooden deck universal on American carriers causes no sparks and prevents a series [Music] in a high-performance aeroplane but possibly slightly obsolete like the Wildcat or help hat but most of us made it ok we got down alright got some got down all wrong [Music] [Music] and others were lucky incredibly lucky and if you have no luck at all the net crews of training carriers became great judges of a lambda approach [Music] at extreme range of dusk on the way home aircraft began to ditches they ran out of fuel the strong structure and empty fuel tanks kept this Hellcat afloat long enough for the pilot to get clear he was one of many that had splashed down on the lawn 300 mile haul against headwinds back to the carriers by the time surviving aircraft reached the carriers against all wartime regulations the ship's lights were switched on to guide the pilots down for their first deck landing in the dark to view if any of the pilots have been trained in night flying enemies judgment and with empty tanks they had to do some just could not quite make reflecting [Music] frantic radio calls gave the pilots permission to land on the first ship they saw one it is said tried to land on them destroyed the planes that got down safely were quickly marshaled from the decks or thrown overboard to make way for others as planes on the last drop of fuel certainly plan to ban deck accidents were common in all the operation cost 104 [Music] and next day widespread searches were made along the track and many of the air crew were rescued but 16 pilots and 33 crew men were never seen again October 1944 and the last big battle the Battle of Leyte Gulf in three days of fighting the Japanese Navy's simply ceased to exist as 1,050 planes two battleships four carriers and scores of smaller ships slipped into the blue waters of the Pacific off Cape engaño and after the battle back to the American carriers came damaged planes flown by their wounded and exhausted [Music] [Music] [Music] otherwise you would float over the arrest again I would stop the aircraft on the fly taking the depression preventative many people did hear one of our aircraft an Avenger returns with a missing left wheel and makes a safe landing the plane handling crews take every precaution another pilot brings down a damaged Helldiver which is minuses tailhook as the plane can't be stopped by the arresting gear the pilot must rely on his brakes [Applause] this ship is trailing smoke as the pilot covers the last yards to the carrier [Music] losses of enemy aircraft in this engagement are reported to total more than 150 [Music] you [Music] the footage archive YouTube channel is a place where you can find historic footage from world history subscribe to take a trip back in time [Music]

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Channel: FootageArchive - Videos From The Past

Views: 3,521,767

Rating: 4.7183061 out of 5

Keywords: plane, planes, aircraft, aircraft carrier, vintage planes, airoplane, airplane, aerial, amazing planes

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Length: 10min 24sec (624 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 07 2018

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anyone knows the documentary from the start? The video is compiled our of short snippets but I would like to see the whole thing.

👍︎︎ 1 👤︎︎ u/FrellPumpkin 📅︎︎ Mar 09 2019 🗫︎ replies

I'm impressed by these ships In the 20s

👍︎︎ 1 👤︎︎ u/salmon10 📅︎︎ Mar 09 2019 🗫︎ replies

Is that molten metal pouring out of the cowling at 7:27? How is that possible? It doesn't look like ignited fuel.

👍︎︎ 1 👤︎︎ u/drinkduff77 📅︎︎ Mar 09 2019 🗫︎ replies

what we ask our men to do during war time is incredible. couldn't imagine having to do this

👍︎︎ 1 👤︎︎ u/[deleted] 📅︎︎ Mar 10 2019 🗫︎ replies