Deck Landing | Royal Navy Flight Deck Operations (1942)

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This 1942 Royal Navy instructional film explains flight deck operations aboard British aircraft carriers after three years of experience in the Atlantic and Mediterranean theatres.
The cycle of flight operations includes ranging on deck, preparation for takeoff, procedures for launch, attaching aircraft to catapults, and how arrestor hooks and crash barriers work. It emphasises the role of the Flight Deck Officer (more commonly known as the "batsman") in maintaining a high tempo of operations.
Aircraft featured include the Grumman Martlet (Wildcat), Fairey Fulmar, Fairey Swordfish and Fairey Albacore.

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@skyedog24 2 месяца назад

I'm astounded that they can take off within 10 to 12 seconds that's amazing

@hisdadjames4876 2 месяца назад

Quick, somebody wake up Drach. This video will make his weekend. 😍

@zhaoyuanlow8154 2 месяца назад

Who is drach?

@peterregan8691 2 месяца назад

@@zhaoyuanlow8154 A very popular naval historian. youtube.com/@Drachinifel?si=CHjn6iSEVDSF6ODh

@IntrospectorGeneral 2 месяца назад

@@zhaoyuanlow8154 Drachinifel. You Tube channel naval engineering and ships plus some naval battles history.

@crazypetec-130fe7 2 месяца назад

@@zhaoyuanlow8154 Drachinifel has the best naval history channel on youtube.

@fr.joeobrien3678 2 месяца назад

Drach would have rolled and pitched with gales of laughter.

@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 2 месяца назад

Where's my stringbag??? I've an appointment with a heavily pitching and rolling flight deck. I'm coming in..... fire crews to the flight deck !!!! What a GREAT vid.... team of well drilled men working like an oiled machine. I could watch these training gems all day. Thanks for putting them on !!! (Remember kids !!! Don't type "videos of well oiled men being drilled" into google !!!)

@ArcticNatureExperiences Месяц назад

17:00 Let's send him back and make another approach😅 This movie is a gem and gives us a grand view of British carrier operations early in the war. Here are a lot of fun details for the history buffs and worth the view❤

@grathian 8 дней назад

Noting the ASV antennas on all of the Swordfish,,

@Oliverdobbins 2 месяца назад

Just amazing how everything was done with flags! FLAGS!! 🤯

@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 2 месяца назад

Why use tuppenny flags when you can pay several billions to the US MIC to have a state of the art, cutting edge digital system that does exactly the same thing !!!!

@raywhitehead730 Месяц назад

Today, flashlights or hand signals.

@geordiedog1749 2 месяца назад

Quality video as always. Thanks for doing what you do!

@raywhitehead730 Месяц назад

Excellent!!

@MrRugbylane 2 месяца назад

Oh man this is sooooo good.

@TheGixernutter 2 месяца назад

Pure Class

@raywhitehead730 Месяц назад

1942. At this Time British flight deck operations second to None.

@marioborbadatrindade6372 2 месяца назад

Loved it

@andrewharrington7706 2 месяца назад

Thanks!

@ArmouredCarriers Месяц назад

Thanks again. It's very generous of you.

@mikewingert5521 2 месяца назад

I keep expecting Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse to hove into view……😂

@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 2 месяца назад

Grayson, I say, you've missed the trickle wire and have created an unseemly bally-hoo Forw'd. I'll put myself on a charge immediately, and be scrubbling the galley scuppers before you can say "shiver me arrestor hook" Mr Cholmondley-Warner.

@raywhitehead730 Месяц назад

Also, note, this is in good weather!

@GypsyPirate 2 месяца назад

16:55 "Very poor display, and not one to be emulated." 🔥

@kevanquinn9559 Месяц назад

Is it known what ships this was filmed on? My uncle's ship, the Hermes carried 'stringbags'. He was killed when she was sunk on 8 April 1942 by the same Japanese force that had attacked Pearl Harbour. I'm guessing it wouldn't be her though, as she would have been out east in the months before she was sunk.

@ArmouredCarriers Месяц назад

It looks to be HMS Illustrious and HMS Victorious. The Hermes is mentioned in one of my "memories of war" veterans' videos: Operation C ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aZFiR3HS7iE.html

@kevanquinn9559 Месяц назад

@@ArmouredCarriers Thank you. Great footage and stills of Hermes when my uncle was on her. It's a shame that my father isn't around to see that, as he died while on a trip back to England in 2014.

@ArmouredCarriers Месяц назад

@@kevanquinn9559 We can't afford to lose these memories. They reflect realities new generations often forget - and end up re-learning the hard way.

@KLOSTER777 Месяц назад

is this the Ark Royal or the Victorious ?

@ArmouredCarriers Месяц назад

The opening component was HMS Illustrious. After that it is mostly HMS Victorious by the looks of it. It is clearly intercut (one of the deck batsman that appears repeatedly, for example, is something of an iconic character from Illustrious)

@offshoretomorrow3346 Месяц назад

How the hell did he 'lose his undercarriage'???

@ArmouredCarriers Месяц назад

So that looks like a test launch of a US Wildcat (Martlet in RN service) from a RN "trolley" accelerator unit. These were built to handle both aircraft and floatplanes (like the Walrus). They were very different to USN style tail-down "strap" catapults. I suspect it was experiments like this that led to a rather simple "switch out" unit that allowed the RN accelerators to do both.

@raphael7552 Месяц назад

The same way that Boeing loose parts in 2024...

@raywhitehead730 Месяц назад

Note no radio communication necessary!

@petesheppard1709 2 месяца назад

After videos of later aircraft coming aboard, those Stringbags seem to be drifting down like snowflakes. 😉

@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 2 месяца назад

The product of a large wing area. Thats what made the Stringbag the heavy lift, short take off and landing, all weather naval strike aircraft par excellence that it was!!!

@petesheppard1709 2 месяца назад

@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 Yep!

@thhseeking 2 месяца назад

@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 Not like some torpedo bombers that feed on hamburgers and chips :P

@podunkman2709 Месяц назад

1942 and they force these poor people to fly 0 speed, paper planes. Omg. Zero responsibility.

@cameronalexander359 2 месяца назад

I doubt those pilots were really watching the batsman

@MarsFKA 2 месяца назад

Those pilots utterly relied on the batsman - there is no doubt that they never took their eyes off him. I doubt that you know what you are talking about. Try looking up exactly what the batsman's job was.

@ArmouredCarriers 2 месяца назад

There's a bunch of good books from FAA pilots that describe the varying attitudes. "With Naval Wings", "On and Off the Flight Deck", "They Gave Me a Seafire", "Carrier Pilot", "War in a Stringbag", "Sea Flight", and "Carrier Fighters" offer a diverse taste.

@sirbarringtonwomblembe4098 2 месяца назад

Don't be silly.

@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 2 месяца назад

Where would he have been looking? If you'd been the pilot of a single engine aircraft, just above stalling speed in a nose up position with a 1 ton engine completely blocking you forward view of the flight deck for the last 500 yards, then you'd realise that absolute faith and trust in the batsman positioned to the side would be to ONLY chance you had of making a safe landing !!!

@martinwest8374 2 месяца назад

@@ArmouredCarriers "Carrier Pilot" by Norman Hanson is a bloody good read. He flew the Corsair in the South Pacific and putting one of those down on a carrier was no mean feat.