Thanks Scott Kartvedt for sharing your many great stories! Drop your questions, and we'll get to as many as we can! Hear his full interview on Episode 40 of The Behind the Wings Podcast: wingsmuseum.org/resources/podcasts/behind-the-wings-the-podcast-s4-episode-40
"Own your errors" is the best advice you can get. I'm not a pilot, I work in IT (maintaining some really important systems, like NPPs for example ) and currently I'm mostly training the new guys. After every training they ask me for some advice and I always tell them "Admit your mistakes, don't try to cover them up and immediately ask for advice. I don't know a single person that was fired for making a mistake, but I know a few that was fired for lying "
yep, exactly this. I'm also in IT and once made a mistake in production that I was sure that I was going to be fired for. Went to my boss, said that I made this mistake but by god I'm going to fix it. It not only kept me from being fired but also earned the respect from my boss that he could trust me (because nothings worse for a boss than getting blindsided)
100% accurate. When I hire new film crew, people who report and own their mistakes are the ones who get asked back. Those who hide and deny their mistakes do not get asked back. Like many jobs, film is a collaborative process which requires an acceptance of errors, efficient communication, and a coordinated team effort to accomplish our goals. Setbacks are inevitable, but setbacks which are intentionally hidden from us are sabotage. There’s no room for that in a team environment.
My son is a Marine, flying a F-18, we're an average family, his mind was set on flying, Top Gun inspired him to join up and he made his way through training. He now trains those Navy & Marines pilots to fly.
I served with Mr. Kartvedt in 1996 Japan NAF Atsugi VFA 192 SSHWFGD BBSOB. Often we would took about him becoming a Blue Angels pilot. He was a Lieutenant then, I was an E4 AD (Aviation Mechenist Mate) (initial tasking as Plane Captain) low level maintainer. Mr. Kartvedt and I performed our aircraft start up procedure with style and flare. Harvey Grist was also a crew member as I and has a strong friendship with Mr. Kartvedt, he is just that type of person and has such a magnetic personality.
Awesome interview!! "Own your Errors" is such a great piece of advise! I have seen the Blue Angels and thank you for your service and commitment to such a special part of the US Navy!
The CDR came out to speak at our Sea Cadet unit and spoke with our cadets. The kids thoroughly enjoyed it and I think there were 40 kids ready to be the next generation of Navy Pilots. He is a great motivational speaker. EMCS USN Ret
Just stumbled upon this video, and i didn't know you were a stunt pilot in Topgun maverick, Scott! So cool! If you read this, much love from your relative in Norway!
Mentioning the film industry brought to my mind a story I heard from an old test pilot called Geoff in the UK. He flew the Spitfire that does a low pass over a boy on a bicycle in the film, "A Bridge too Far". Representing a reconnaissance aircraft. Richard Attenborough, the director, was on a scaffold tower with the cameras and Geoff did a couple of passes but Attenborough said he wanted it lower. "Lower it is then", he told me. Apparently Attenborough jumped off the tower because he thought the aircraft would hit it. He was still flying a Russian biplane, owned by a friend, into his eighties.
Saw the original Top Gun at the theater my senior year in high school too. Definitely influenced my decision to join the Navy. I'm 6'4" so Tomcat driver was not in the cards for me. Those are little guys driving those jets. Great video!
This fantastic interview was edited so precisely, efficiently & effectively that it maintains & gains momentum throughout! It's the 1st video I've watched from this channel but it won't be the last, everyone involved must be phenomenal at their job. Well done.
That"s so awesome.....behind the scenes, I so loved Kartvedts call sign "Intake". Truly one of the most amazing movies to demonstrate fascinating coordination and astonishing maneuvering. A favorite for sure. Great to have recognized Scott "Intake" Kartvedt, to have met him via this video. Thanks, so awesome to see inside sneak peaks to the making of such a stunning film.
Hang on, the final fight scene featuring the F14 & Russian jet (the footage you are showing ) is using CGI aircraft. It might be based on some real underlying reference, but it’s largely created digitally. This should be acknowledged as should the digital artists that created that end battle sequence.
Scott was flying the Czech-built Aero L-39 and the visual effects team would ‘re-skin’ the stand-in planes with the necessary ones. While some CGI was used, many of the flying maneuvers, airspeeds, altitudes, etc. are real. Kudos to the digital team for their work on the movie!
@@Wings_Museum Thats right but doesnt make the Taylors point any less accurate. The new trend of calling it "real" while its reskined or otherwise CGI altered is just nonsense. We all know that it was reskinned its old news so its time to call it for what it is. "I was flying XY Jet and they reskined it to modern more expensive one. Everything about the flying is real a footage. Thats whats real." And noone would say a word.
Amazing video! The humility shown by this exceptional, accomplished human being is exemplary! His statement about spending the day with Make A Wish kids hit hard. Always have and always will be a huge fan of the Blue Angels. Thanks for posting!
Did a 7 month Med cruise on the brand spankin new USS Nimitz with VMFA-333 in F-4J's. (MOS-6657) Best time a19 year old could ever have. Semper Fi, Scott!!
Nice video. I grew up with LAX airport on the land that my neighborhood is located. It's also surrounded by airports, Howard Hughes Helicopter manufacturing plant and its private airstrip was only blocks away, Santa Monica Airport just 4 miles away, Hawthorne Airport only 5 or 6 miles away, Torrance, Compton, Van Nuys, etc... plus my family and friends we'd also go out to the desert to ride dirtbikes and offtoading, camping near Edwards AFB, we'd go to all the air shows every year at all the different locations in SoCal. Southern California is the place where hot rodding, aerospace, off roading in the desert were born. I took advantage of all of those and more outdoor activities. I still haven't seen the new Top Gun movie mainly because I work in film and tv production and we work very long hours almost everyday for months at a time and it kinda takes the magic out of watching movies and tv shows. It's more fun making them than watching them, most of the time.
SoCal in the 1970s-1980s was a Golden era in military aerospace, riding in the desert, and being free. Spent most of 1974-1993 at Edwards, with some excursions to West Germany and UTTR. We loved the Edwards, El Toro, China Lake, Miramar, and Point Mugu air shows. Never missed Edwards if we were there from the 70s until 1993.
@@LRRPFco52 --- we must have seen one another because my friends and I went to all those same air shows throughout those same years. I also had my father who was the executive supervisor for purchasing at Hughes Optical and Data Systems for the Hughes Missiles and Guidance Division in El Segundo and my parents house in Westchester, home of LAX, was less than one mile from Hughes Helicopters Manufacturing Division and as kids and teenagers we would sit on the Bluffs of Loyola Marymount University that overlooked the Hughes facility and the single longest private runway in the U.S. and we'd get lucky and see helicopters doing test flights. I also remember as a little kid, some of my earliest memories starting around 1969 and through the early '70s, mostly during summertime because we'd be outside and the sun doesn't set until 8 or almost 9 o'clock and regularly we'd see missiles and rockets flying through the sky launched from Pt.Magu or maybe Hueynemi(spelling?), you could also see military fighter planes at Hawthorne Airport. Just a few blocks from my house was Northrop University and on their little campus of 3 or 4 buildings there was an open area between buildings that had fuselages of a couple fighter jets and helicopters and we could climb into the Hughey and I think it was an early MIG that was open. If I remember there was a Starfighter or a Sabre also. It was pretty cool growing up near all that stuff. I should have been more into that world having so much at such close proximity. But, I was your more typical SoCal kid into surfing, skateboarding, baseball, football, motorcycles and cars, I don't know why but being into airplanes and rockets and military stuff was considered kinda nerdy. To me, having LAX in my backyard, and in those days we could ride our bikes or skateboards all over the airport even onto the runways. We always had a fieldtrip in school to tour LAX almost every year. When you walked from the terminals to the baggage pickup and passengers walk the long corridors or used the flat escalator type moving floor there are always large white unrolled butcher paper about 4ft tall and and about 20ft long taped on the walls and there was artwork drawn or painted by elementary school students from the five public elementary schools in Westchester on display for the international passengers to see. Lots of good and some bad memories from those days. We had to practice air raid drills on the last Thursday of every month at 10 am the air raid sirens across the city would fire up and we had to stop and drop under our desks and use our hands and arms to protect the back of our head and remain there in that balled up position until the sirens turned of about 2 minutes later. I don't think that would have helped us much if we were getting bombed for real. Ahh the Cold War and Vietnam I remember them well.
Love the insights! I totally agree with the just ask! I wanted to be a pilot from Age 5 and I started flying at age 12 working at the local airport washing and fueling planes and soloed gliders at 14 and fixed wing at 16. After two years of college I went into the Air Force and couldn't get a commissioning program due to the number of banked pilots..... I then did and interservice transfer to the Army to fly choppers. Long story short, I finished my military career an AH-64D Longbow Maintenance Test Flight Evaluator and Instructor Pilot. All I did was ask and most times they said yes!!!! NEVER ACCEPT NO!
Best quote on Tom Cruise was from Matt Damon, said one time he said “I wanted to do this stunt for 20 years. My safety guy kept saying we can’t do that. So… I get another safety guy.” They did the stunt. He’ll bury in some day flying, he won’t let himself die old.
He says the only others to have that rocket ship experience was astronauts. I’d beg to say F-15, F-16 pilots had that experience and even more as the F-16 was more maneuverable, the F-15 was just as maneuverable but more powerful. Then you have the crazy jets like the crazy maneuvering F-22 and the really fast SR-71. Sorry to say I’m not a big fan of the F-18 Super Hornet primarily because of the way it came to come into service and I don’t believe it’s the aircraft the Navy needs or actually ever wanted. What’s funny is that most other pilots actually laugh at the movie and some of the stuff that is done. The fact the hornets flew the final mission when in reality it would have more likely been the F-35. The other funny thing is that Maverick was testing basically the SR-72. The SR-71 was never a Navy aircraft and the SR-72 would likely never be a Navy aircraft either. Maverick also did so many things that would have gotten him permanently grounded.
@@riverratt8626 No shit! They are however representing the real world Navy. Get facts right within the limits of national security. There were parts of the movie that was really good but the original was leaps and bounds better.
It is the Aircraft the Navy Needed, most of the pilots love their F-18 Suoer Hornets . The Super Hornet is no easy victory vs her enemies, especially with F-35 out there now .
@@anthonysaponaro6318 well my comment about unwanted was based on the legacy hornet as it was an absolute disaster. Gutless, could barely get off the deck with any weaponry. Didn’t have the range or the ability to replace the F-14. And so on and so on… One of the reasons I don’t care for the super hornet is the way it won the contract. When the companies presented their new aircraft designs to replace the legacy hornet they were instructed that their designs could not be redesigns of current aircraft that they had to be an all new aircraft. So what did they do? Make it bigger a few more features and add “super” to its name. 2 other companies especially one lost out even though it had shown serious potential and had been working closely with the Navy for years. We all know the VP at the time had their hand in the cookie jar and chose the F-18 for financial reasons. Anywho, the Navy needs a front line fighter that’s equivalent to or better than the F-22. No the F-35 is not an air superiority/dominance fighter. Just like the F-35 the F-18 is multirole. Meaning it’s good at few things and just okay at others. Dedicated aircraft built for very specific jobs along with well trained pilots will ensure the Navy always has the advantage. The A-6 was very good at its job. The E-2 Hawkeye is very good at its job. They are asking the F-18 to do too much in order to sale more airframes and keep production alive because we sale the platform to other nations. I get it parts commonality makes maintenance easier. I’ve heard several crossover pilots talk about both the F-18 and the F-16 and the F-15. They have all pretty much said similar things. The F-18 is the family suburban good when you need to love the family around but the F-16 is the Ferrari or Lamborghini that you take out when you want to go fast and have a lot of fun. They’ve basic said the F-15 is just a beast with lots of power, lots of speed and will maneuver extremely well for a fighter of its size and that its combat record says all you need to know.
Scott was flying the Czech-built Aero L-39 and the visual effects team would ‘re-skin’ the stand-in planes with the necessary ones. While some CGI was used, many of the flying maneuvers, airspeeds, altitudes, etc. are real.
LOL i am not 100% on aviation laws in America but in Australia those stunts (like the river scene and the helicopter they keep mentioning), are soooOOOooOoo illegal! 🤣 That's what a love about America, so much more 'JUST DO IT'ness than here! Go big or go home! GREAT VIDEO!!!! Well made - Great interview too! ↑ Comment for your algorithm + *👍 'd* + _previously _*_Sub'd!_* - EXTRA KUDOS FOR PUTTING TIME-STAMPS!! I can't stand big channels that are too lazy, too greedy & have ZERO RESPECT 4 VIEWERS and do not put them in! #OldManPaxus Rating: ★★★★
I don't know about Australia, but in the US it's amazing what you're allowed to do IF YOU FILL OUT THE PAPERWORK and do it safely. All that stuff would be totally illegal in the US too - unless you first talk to the FAA and figure out how to do it safely. The rules are about being safe. You can get a waiver, it just requires doing the paperwork to show you'll be safe. Personally, I have a letter authorizing me to possess and use explosives. I also have license allowing me to use 1500X as much RF broadcast power as my friends, 1500 times as much as would normally be legal. I just had to learn how to do these things safely and fill out the paperwork.
Blasting under a helicopter at 70 feet has to be an insane adrenaline rush. Flying like this if you’re going to succeed as a pilot you must be willing to own and learn from your errors. Otherwise have a good life insurance policy and last will in place.
Wow this guy and I almost had the same story....the only difference is he DID all the stuff he said he wanted to do and I chased a woman and ended up doing what she told me to do for 30 years.
@@KuostA I don't regret it only because I had fun and I had two amazing kids. Now that I am done with woman and kids are almost grown I'm going to go start all over again. Shooting a TV show, building a large truffle orchard and dog rescue and will do stuff I could never have done while married.
@@Ackermanmedia when you say 'done with woman', what does that mean exactly. As in it didn't work out and you got divorced and you don't plan on entertaining dealing with women anymore and will just do your own thing now for the rest of your life? I really respect that if so! Do YOU and follow your dreams and do whatever makes you happy man!!!
Unfortunately my time on the team was tainted by scandal. Capt. McWhorter was court marshaled by my former MO ADM Shoemaker Which I have the privilege of working with Lockheed Martin on the F-35 program.
Best quote on Tom Cruise was from Matt Damon, said one time he said “I wanted to do this stunt for 20 years. My safety guy kept saying we can’t do that. So… I get another safety guy.” They did the stunt. He’ll bury in some day flying, he won’t let himself die old.
