Catapult Lift Take-Off #1 USS Nimitz

[Dremple]

"go go go! "she sounds like Tami Taylor from FNL

[yxa86]

I was there couple of weeks ago :)

[bionictrucker1]

Thankyou for posting this video. I was in the U.S. Navy from 88-92. I was in the air-anti submarine squadren, VS-33 Screwbirds attached to Carrier Air Wing 9! I was all over this here flight deck chasing birds during launch & recovery flight ops!

[stucat06]

This was my ship Jan 2,1984 - July 2,1987 Thanks for posting,oh,I was A Grape,so I knew that flight deck very well.

[RicanPito]

Smoooking !!!

[islandgrrl09]

this is what I do onboard the USS Reagan. Cat crew rules...lol!

[renegadebiker24]

I remember flight ops on Westpac '93. I loved watching the takeoffs and landing, especially night flight ops. My squadron flew the F-14A Tomcat, VF24 Fighting Renegades based at NAS Miramar

[aaronCapricorn]

this is the definition of sea presence.

[redbaroniii]

Ops seemed to be slow. I flew off the Forrestal and they launched every 20 seconds. Things got very fast when we launched a full alpha strike of up to 36 aircraft.

[rusbp]

russki planes take off without catapulta.

[Kiraina]

Americanski planes take off with a catapulta, up to 3 at once, and up to maximum takeoff weightski. Something their Russian counterparts can't achieve with the ski slope on the Admiral Kuznetsov. but I guess that kind of performace isn't needed when your carrier can only support 17 fixed wing aircraftski.

[Kiraina]

Americanski planes take off with a catapulta, up to 3 at once, and up to maximum takeoff weight. something their Russian counterparts can't achieve with the ski slopeski.But I'd imagine that kind of performance isn't needed when your carrier can only support 17 fixed wing aircraft, in stead of 85

[bulldaawg]

russki planes use a ski jump to catapult them into the air, they also dont take off with the weight that we do. They also have the deck room to take off without the cat. We dont.

[tommytmt]

Russian carriers can't launch any planes that aren't afterburning because it doesn't have a catapult...

[mrpimp333]

haha. my dad was a nuke on that awesome ship!

[sports89man7]

lol i feel sooo bad for those two yellow shirts... their gettin jetblasted really hard!!!

[j0hnb0ysutt0n]

if theres any ship you want to work on thats the one best of all :)

[holdmydill]

wheres the LIFT

[pin55head]

I envy you...

[Cscscssi]

Great video!

[trloyalist]

Sweet! Thx for the upload. I don't know if I'd have the stones to land on a carrier. Airfields suit me just fine. :P

[theraptor123456]

awesome vid. 5/5

[MasterTroller]

first!

[gotit099]

what squadron are the planes from?

[hardinflash]

that's awesome

[MysticWhizz]

Go go go...

[JuggaloTheRolla]

NUMBER ONE!

[rnaqvi21]

its amazing.

[SUNSNARE06]

those F/A-18 F Super Hornets, the two seaters

[siddharam]

cool

[bensonak47]

first comment

[imacgoo]

I love to watch those catapult take offs

[jbesberb]

nice video

[pinky50]

any marine aircraft on that deck?

[Steggman]

Not bad at all.

Whatplanes are they?

[busa89]

this was during work ups. i worked in the waist catapults #3 during this time. we were getting ready for deployment.

[kintosoul]

awesome vid

[beiro118]

Are the engines of the jets already accelerating before the catapult is activated, or are they accelerated after the jet is launched into the air?

[gunmetalxXx]

I looooooooooove the ámerican aircraft carriers!!!´

And the USS Nimitz-class is ne of the best,

most modern and largest aircraft carrier of the world! I think that america is so strong because they have this ships! respect....

[raverbaby1]

Kool vid!!

[pissek]

thx very much

[CactusFire]

cool, but too jumpy.  next time set the camera down or stabilise on the deck

[mbxxx19]

hell ya f18's rock

[acedegamer1]

dont treat me like an idiot, its just that i forgot. why does the rail smoke afterwards again, is it steamdriven or is that just from friction

[Kris0990]

nice vid, do you know where this was shot?

[Tphai]

awosme how fast the can get a new plane into postion

[josip1980]

cool

[c172pr]

fantastic

[n807734]

That looks like so much fun! Although were I to try I am inclined to believe the outcome would be somewhat different

[JuriGeller]

very very nice!