USS Midway Aircraft Carrier Launch and Landing

A blog post with photos and a brief description of the visit is available here: http://footprints.warrier.name/visit-to-uss-midway-aircraft-carrier-museum/
A veteran US Navy Aviator gives a walkthrough of launching aircraft off a carrier deck. and landing.
The narrative covers the entire launch and recovery (landing) cycle including preparing the aircraft for launch, the roles played by various teams (red shirts, green shirts, yellow shirts, purple shirts), the actual launch and aircraft recovery (landing).
USS Midway used steam catapults to launch everything from piston engined planes to modern jets. It is now a floating museum in the San Diego harbor in southern California and has an extensive static display of all the
various aircraft that have flown off its deck.

Examples include Skyhawk, Skywarrior, Crusader (featured in this video), Intruder, Hawkeye, Seaking, Huey gunship, F-14 Tomcat and several others.
This was filmed on the deck of USS Midway on Jan 2, 2009.

USS Midway was the first aircraft carrier to be commissioned into the US Navy after the Second World War. After a career spanning almost 48 years, she was decommissioned in 1992. From 2004, she has been functioning as a floating museum at the Sandiego harbor in California.
Other aircraft carriers that use steam catapults include French Navy's Charles De Gaulle and India's INS Vikrant.

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[XH558B2]

What a good explanation of what goes into launching a plane...

Excellent video...thanks for posting

[sreejath]

@XH558B2 Glad you enjoyed it. :-)

[rackasaurus]

Did my share of time in the Navy, was always aware of the precision it took for you guys to work on a carrier deck, but never really understood exactly what went on. THIS, out of all documentaries, movies, etc. was THE most complete explanation of how it's done. Thank you, and now I've got an idea of what I'm seeing. Great Job. Thumbs Up, and Bravo Zulu.

[sreejath]

@rackasaurus Glad you liked the video. :-)

[sreejath]

So, were you one of the green shirts?

[dominicfhk]

Nice video !!!

[sreejath]

Thanks Dominic

[TScrapps330]

Except that's an A-7 Coursair II, not an F-8 Crusader.

[Reduxalicious]

My father was Purple then Yellow

[DRadioflyer]

I wanted to be a yellow shirt. But being in the crows nest was more fun!

[cypris2002]

i remember chasing the dog bone sometimes it got lose from the launch bar and everyone was running after it lol