USS Ronald Reagan CVN76 2007 airshow at sea

The airshow in 3 minutes. USS Ronald Reagan CVN76 during the 2007 Tiger Cruise. This video is edited from 2 days of flight operations in the Pacific Ocean and one of those days was rainy and windy. If there is a 15 knot headwind and the carrier is traveling at about 30 knots into the wind for flight operations, you are standing in a 45 knot (51.75 MPH) wind on the flight deck, combine this with prop wash or engine exhaust and you could be standing in hurricane force winds! These people do this day and night in all kinds of weather, impressive. And they do it all without steroids, big paychecks, fame or endorsements. Remember them the next time you call a professional sports figure a hero.
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[phoenixson3]

I was on here, worked the flight deck for four years as a yellow shirt, I was up there when we had a place crash down the L.A. and off the angle!

[TJDOZIER1]

@phoenixson3

Was that the Hornet ramp strike?

[mkIIrtv05]

Nice video, the hawkeye fly-by was cool. when the seahawk takes off I was waiting for the ship to sail away from underneath it... I saw a video of a wire breaking, have they changed things so people aren't in the way if one goes?

[TJDOZIER1]

The ship and the Seahawk are both traveling forward at the same speed during take-off, so it appears they are just floating above the deck, but they are traveling about 20-30 knots. The wires can still break and injure or kill people on the flight deck. New materials and a very regimented number of traps per cable results in a minimalized chance of a cable snapping and taking out people on deck. My dad told me when he was in the Navy, a cable snapped and cut a guy in half on the flight deck.

[montaguido]

Nice video... the hornet you're describing is not a K/A-18, there's no such thing. It's an F/A-18 Super Hornet configured as a "tanker," which you described correctly. The "K" you see on the vert stab is just a form of Airwing/Ship identification.

[TJDOZIER1]

Oops, When your right your right, the designation "K" is a throw back to the old days. I didn't notice the K on the tail until now, my bad.

[macross25]

If some F-14's were on the flight deck this video would be even more awesome!! 

[CharlieDoan]

@phoenixson3 do u get good pay? are u Navy soldiers or just a regular workers?

[BloodofPatriots]

@67tomcat The F-35C is an expensive, underwhelming POS. It's nothing but a jobs program for Lockheed Martin. If the idiots just upsized the carrying capacity of the two-seater F/A-18F to carry even one or two Phoenix missiles, then we'd have the 100 mile stand-off capability again given the Phoenix's capability to be guided into a target by the E-2D's APY-9 radar, we wouldn't even have to upgrade the F/A-18F's avionics much.

[67tomcat]

@BloodofPatriots Agree with your assement on the F-14/Phoenix combo; can't fault a missle with a 100 mile range. The Phoenix was an awesome missle- when it worked properly. The F-14 should have been wired for the AMRAAM as a replacement for the AIM-7 Sparrow. Again, I would like to have seen new production F-14D's with Super Hornets sharing carrier decks- no need for the costly and single engine F-35.

[BloodofPatriots]

@67tomcat Without an equivalent to the Phoenix Missile, the Super Hornet can't even hope to match the Fleet Defense role of the Tomcat. The F-14 could target and fire that missile from 100 miles away, keeping Exocet-carrying ship-killers out of range. Unfortunately, the longest-range air-to-air missile carried by the Super Hornet is the AIM-120 with a range of only 43 miles -- well within the range of an Exocet.

[67tomcat]

@BloodofPatriots The Tomcat was the best in it's day- and I would have loved to see the Navy field new production Tomcats as well as the Super Hornet. Truth be told, the Super Hornet is a very good aircraft and the Navy is very happy with it. Is it a true "replacement" for the F-14? No, but it is much more cost effective and still does about 80-90% of what the Tomcat could do minus the top speed. And the SH sdtill has plenty of room for growth. Just my two cents.

[hey138]

i was there