Landings and Missed Traps F14, F18, A6a

The nuclear powered nimitz class USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier had an active day on my visit hundreds of miles off the southern Californian coast.
This footage is of daytime landings and some missed "traps".
There is a 5 cables on the deck that the aircraft's hook tries to grab. Most pilots aim #3 cable.

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[deliciousmorton]

I like the plane with the large pizza tray on top. That's the pizza delivery plane.

[dsoutherngent1]

@FMXndMXismylife Just realized, the title is inaccurate. There was NO A-6a Intruder landing...that was an EA-6B Prowler, same basis, but totally different aircraft. BTW, the F-14, unfortunately got phased out because they became maintenance hogs. Pilots LOVE the aircraft, maintenance crew hated it.

[fluxbios]

bolter

[TheCannonofMohammed]

if I were the captian I wuld have stopped the boat so thata the pilots didnt have to hit a moving object on the oceans.

[jamesyak52]

everyone loves the F-14 just because it was in Top Gun. retards

planes a POS thats why its gone now.

[BlackAces100]

@rolandtran10

The F-14 retired in 2006,probably this video was taken before 2006.

[Webzen]

2:00 COME AT ME, BRO

[rolandtran10]

u guys still use F-14s lol i thought the US stopped using those years ago.

[doitstupidly]

oh no, RIP f-14 tomcat

i love this plane



[Alpha57931]

2:02 Who ordered Dominos?

[dsoutherngent1]

There is definite logic to that, however, how many of our enemies have gotten their hands on say, F-4's, A-7's,F-16's (given classified info by a certain president for campaign $, ahem, Clinton) Our pilots are superior to ALL our enemies, mainly because we've invested the time and money in training. Unfortunately, the swing-wing means a lot more moving parts, thus more expense. LOVE the bird, but...I don't think we'll need to take down 6 bombers at once for a few years. God willing

[tenacious645]

@dsoutherngent1 That and alot of our enemies now have f14 and to make sure they can't keep theirs operational they had to stop production on parts for them.