Skilled US F-18 Pilot Pulls Off Insane Catapult Takeoff on Aircraft Carrier 

Went to high school with a Japanese guy. Dean is his name. Hadn't seen until our ten-year reunion. Turns out he was a carrier-based fighter pilot in his younger days. We got to talking about that and he quipped, "Sometimes when I was circling the carrier all I could think was, Tora Tora Tora."

I served on the last Fixed Wing Steam Catapult Carrier HMS Ark Royal as a Tractor Driver (Blue Coat ) pulling / pushing Phantoms / Buccaneers and it was Awesome 76/77.

What was the insane catapult takeoff????

Very well produced. Love this stuff. God bless these young men and women. KUDOS to the photography.

They didn't look like insane catapult launches just very normal onnes. Did appreciate the information about the bubble, I'd always wondered who activated the catapult.

I thoroughly enjoyed this informative video. My only suggestion for improvement is: please leave the captions up on screen longer! It's not that I'm a slow reader, but your photography is so good that I find myself focusing attention sequentially on each of several different items in each scene for study, thus when a caption comes up I don't notice it immediately. When I do notice and begin reading, it's gone before I get through the first line! Pausing and going back is breaking the flow of an otherwise brilliant program!

I can now understand why at all airports in the USA, they let the service men and woman board first. That is both respect and classy.

what greats skills from deck crew !! i love your videos

Miss watching airops from the 10 level of the USS HANCOCK CVA 19

Where was the insane catapult takeoff? The only insane part of this is the headline writer who just wants to keep making money.

You do know that those "insane catapult takeoffs" are hands off, right?

82 to 88 VS-41 and VS-33 AZ2 two west pacs and working the flight deck in the beginning was a RUSH and I will never forget it..keep that head going 360 all the time or you just might get blowen down like I did with a F-14 turning to fact and there went by big butt and stopped by the front landing gear of a A-7..

Core, i’de give my left ear or right ear to have a flight off and on to a US carrier… I have to hand it to the USA - your armed forces are not only the best but spectacular..

空母からの発艦はいつ見てもシビレマスね！ シューターの皆さんもカッコイイ！

Absolutely breathtaking and inspiring cooperative expertise on deck. High tech, high risk, and high competency. REAL MEN. America! Thank you.

Insane takeoff!!! WHERE?????????????

I would guess any launch or landing on a pitching, rain and wind swept deck could be called insane. Even on a calm day it would still be insane.

Our Old MAG-11 VMFA-314 Victor Whiskey Black Knights deployed several times with them.

Not sure where the insane Catapult takeoff comes into this video.

My old man worked on a carrier... If I had the eyes I was dying to be a fighter pilot...

Thats so Awesome.

Been there done that and have a Centurion patch earned an EKA-3B aboard USS AMERICA to prove it.

Wonderful pilot...One fable

The poster probably doesn't know that the FA-18 takes off with the rudder facing inwards. I guess they mistook it for an air brake and wrote it as an insane launch

16minute video, I'm not watching this for 5-20 secs of "Insane Catapult Takeoff"

Wo ist denn der Wahnsinnige Start ??????

Hey, I wore one of those red shirts! IYAOYAS!

witness to more than a thousand carrier launches.....and this is an example of professional competence....

I'm an old guy who's led a damned interesting life. BUT---after watching this video I have to say that if I had to do it all over again I would have loved working on an American aircraft carrier. What professionalism! What gob-smacking technology! Wow.

From what's called 'Vulture's Row', I've watched F-4 Phantoms and F-14 Tomcats being launched on the USS Saratoga and the USS John F. Kennedy. I used to love the smell of the burning jet fuel. It reminds of the line from 'Apocalypse Now'. "I love the smell of napalm in the morning. It smells like victory."

Wow, the attention the stealth fighters get is immpressive

....F. 16, F. 18, quels superbes machines de Guerre !!

Crew of this bird from Spokane WA.❤❤❤😂

Every launch from a carrier is insane. I think it's 0 to 120 in 2 seconds.

I dont get it, where in the video was an Insane laumch of an F-18Hornet, all catapilt launches are ify, but nothing out of the ordinary, I would syggest you use a tad bit of honesty when lableing your videos. Tom

Is there an F/A-18E mechanic or switch systems expert here? I found some parts that need identified and one looks like a switch panel label that reads “OPPENHEIMER”

They are F-18As not F-18s made by Northrop….just like F-35B on carriers.

UK developed the Steam catapult angled flight Decks landing light system and the Steam Turbines that drive them and now our Carriers do not use them Crazy.

What's the deal with both rudders in opposite directions?

i like how they called it the "gulf of Tonkin incident"...they mean lie not incident. Unless they are calling a blatant lie an incident which it was not an unpleasant or unusual event. Flase flag would be a more apt term.

What’s so insane Aren’t they trained for this every day occurrence

Do one about why the f22 can't land on a ship

Team diving is the only way to dive…

This is normal skill for carrier pilots...

I made the 1st cruise with the F-18 hornstes

Not insane…just going to work like we all did.

They are made for it. ??

Don't see many people playing with their cell phones do you?

تركيب فيديوهات رديء جدا ❤❤❤its very bad❤❤❤

Tone music down 5 points

Thank to all the ladies and gentlemen that contributed to keeping America and its allies safe 👍🏽🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Got to love U.S. carriers...... Engineer: ...and thus we save on size while increasing flight deck capabilities. Admiral: Then how to do we get the aircraft airborne? Engineer: Simple, sir. We hurl them with catapults. Admiral: Excelle...wait, What? Edit; Imagine joining the military just to be made into a car wash and detail guy for jets. How do you explain that to family, they'll never let you live it down.

The English have an Enterprise?

We are so screwed. Half of them cant pass the PE test.

One time I launched from a carrier drunk and as soon as I attracted to gear I accidentally fired aim 54 Phoenix but luckily didn't have lock on anyone so no one was hurt.

Ahh, what's the point here?

Actually the 18 is hands off stick at landing. The computer lands the bird. Their tail hooks knock the nonskid off the deck in a three foot circle. That's how accurate the computer is.

Vidéo qui ne montre rien juste pour ce la pèter . . .

Why does it take ten years to build a carrier?

Een ongeschoolde

Can ANY MILITARY, ANYWHERE, EQUAL the professionalism and efficiency of ours in the USA???

The headline was a cheat! The interest I would have had now goes to a different provider. Bad juju, guys.

Nothing insane about it.

first .. really nice and informative Video .. great work for that .. !!!! but Your Titel ... nothing for this Type of Video ..

So ... by the headline/tag does this mean there are unskilled F-18 pilots .. another BS poster to go on the list to scroll past......

IM NOT IMPRESSED WITH THIS VIDEO AT ALL. NO SPECIAL OR UNISUAL F-18TAKE OFFS. THIS SITE /OWNERS LIED..!!!

I've just realised how old I am watching children at war. 😂

F35a and c are better than b

skilled US F-18 Pilot pulls off insane catapult takeoff on aircraft carrier

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We are so more advanced that the Chinese navel. They still have not worked out a quick functioning takeoff system

全然普通じゃん‼️

You'd be insane NOT catapulting from that deck. You'd drown, no questions about that. Please skip stupid words like insane, next time.

Remember not to watch “ daily avaition” vids. Any more. Bs head lines

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Idiot drivel. If they do not know the hornet and super hornet are different airplanes.. (not an upgrade)… they do not know squat about carrier ops…

Encore un titre putaclick sans aucun contenu intéressant.

Plenty of diversity hires here. 😏😏

I can’t watch this anymore. Masks. I was in naval,aviation onboard Kittyhawk and enterprise flight decks. The mask is idiocy

We are doomed! Just look at those pathetic low IQ creatures in our beloved Navy .... and chewing gum on the Bridge?!?!?!

World murderers Inc Lol

skilled HOW exactly??? They put their hands on handles while the cat launches them. Watch a video inside the cockpit. Their HANDS are not even on the controls when it launches.. lol Giving full military power and then they pull up. lol. The launch is the easiest part for the pilot, with a majority of the important work done by the crew. Cat launch, cat adjustments for bird weight, all the movement on the deck. The pilot only follows the crew instruction and hangs on.... but all that skill... to launch by the pilot... lol ( i served on the USS George Washington )

What is the connection between pulling a torpedo through a hole in the ice and an f-18 carrier launch?

Need i say "IMPRESSIVE".

Yeahhh, uhhh, the thing is, the pilots don't have anything to do with the launch . . . other than indicating their readiness.