I remember seeing the USS Midway when it was stationed in Yokosuka, Japan, and knew a few guys stationed on it. Thanks for the wonderful tour of this great ship.
🌟This is second video I did at USS Midway very nice to talk to many of Former sailors from different eras who served on her. They are all still very proud of this vessel.
I heard the most dangerous job on a carrier is working on the flight deck during launch and recovery. I worked on the LSO platform during recovery on the Kitty Hawk and thought I was going to have to jump in the net several times, but didn't. Funny how nothing scares you when you're in your 20's and when I think about some of crashes I was only a few feet away from it scares the hell outa me.
🌟Yes, I have never worked on a carrier flight deck, but have seen many launch and recovery ops my hats off to to sailors that did. Hard work with and alot dedication.
I was an final checker/troubleshooter in VAQ 137 on the Ranger, west pac 1980 one time right after of our EA6B`s landed and parked on the foul line. i was standing between two of them signaling the pilot asking how much Lox was left. my rating was AME so my main job was making sure its full of lox( if I don`t get it from him I have to drag a power cable across the deck and hook up power ) so much easier to ask them before they shut down. anyway I`m looking up at the pilot and all of a sudden he ducks his head down and all I see is pieces of metal, fiberglass and rivets flying over my head. then out of corner of my eye I catch an E2 Hawkeye boltering across the deck and off the end of the ship going down then a sharp turn to the right across the bow of the ship and about 5 foot off the water. then down the port side of the ship and got it back up in altitude, he had landed too far to the right and his wingtip hit 3 of our EA6B`s parked on the foul line right where i was standing, some debries also hit a Helo parked up front. it and one of our EA6B`s were damaged beyond repair and became hanger queens for the rest of the cruise. the E2 with a few feet of his right wing missing managed to circle around and eventually land. it was quite a sight.
@@DougPoulton A couple years later I was in a S3 squadeon VS 37 on the Enterprise and one of our S-3`s was having an engine issue on luanch the engine guys had the cowl open working on something and one of them came out front told the pilots to spin the engine up he than went back looked at something then went to go back up front and walked rigth in front of the engine. yeah it happend real fast. I was in shock nothing we could do and the plane was not going anywhere so I bailed and went below freaking out on what I just witnessed. He was a filipino guy, E-5 just laps in jusdgment we guessed.
@@Retr0racin 🌟Thank you very much for sharing your Flight carrier experiences! Total respect for those sailors working flight deck, i have talked more than few guys about flight ops and hazardous conditions they worked.
