Such an unsung Aircraft.

I was a flight mechanic on a hu16 made a sea rescue in Vietnam of a downed navy pilot i was with the 31st arrs usaf

Thanks for uploading this video! I freaking, love this kind of stuff! 👍✈😎

I remember it well -1963!

So, I been thinking of buying 1 of these, but got to wondering after watching this, what'd be the story on flying it solo, without the aid of co-pilot and engineer, as sometimes they may be unavailable when ya gotta go? Are there different procedures or what?

Man that Albatross sure was in need of some TLC.

Love to get the story behind the pilots black eye.

what a innovative design

Love it... no catapult, no huge crew... one guy checks the deck, then just mash the throttle and pray.

Red right returning is how I learned it. Guess that saying has been around for awhile now

My Dad flew the OA-10 and the SA-16…He also flew the SB-17…Really cool video!

This looks like a T-28C model

The T-28 B model is the most powerful ones as well as the C model

Jet trainer back then

The T-28 has the C and B models they used also and I would love to be owning one

Naval aviation

My dad, who recently passed, was AOCS at Pensacola in 56. He was T-28 flight instructor and always said that the T-28 was the best flying airplane he ever flew.

I could live in it for the rest of my life 😍

This plane is absolutely fantastic. I love it.

We had one Navy version at the NAF, Lajes Field, Azores which never flew to my knowledge while I was stationed there in 68-69. Reportedly it wouldn't float which is pretty basic. In the past there had been some ditchings nearby but most of the time the seas were so rough I doubt it could have been used. P3s rotated out from Brunswick and perhaps other locations. It might have been gotten out for an air show. There was a spectacular movie with Yul Brenner et.al. "Flight to Ashia" which showed some recoveries and accidents made in the late 50s of a Japanese fishing boat.

I was stationed at VT -2 from 1967-1969. Was plane captain,then into check crew. Good duty station

AOC class 28-68 Got my first car qual on the day they landed on the moon.

Great video! I remember it well from 54 years ago in VT-5, probably the most exciting thing I've done in my life!

You could choose a better music…

I are one.

But why you turn the prop as the manual says dont do this? This is a very nice T28 regards from Switzerland

hey what a nice T28. Regards from Switzerland

Too bad no tiny galley

Why no take off?

What am I supposed to get out of this? A lot of jerky video with some bad music. Sorry I came because the Albatross is a beautiful bird and it was neat to see two of them together.

Class 25-60 Marcad. Winged Dec 1961. My T-28 memories consist mainly of the instrument training “under the bag”. It was a real boost to my ego whenever I made a good approach and the instructor would tell me to pop the bag and take a look see at what my result was at minimums. Hated the “hood” training but it really paid off in my flying future. Lots of memories here. T-28 was a sweet flying aircraft from which I continued on to TF-9J’s at Kingsville. Never got CarQual due to the carrier being in dry dock at the time. 1st trap was in the F9F-8B. Would sure like to be back in the cockpit again and feel that power surge on takeoff..Ahh, the memories!!

VT-6 1981. USMC. One of the last to fly it. Still remember all of this. See it in my dreams. Like our DI at OCS. Now I fly DCS since I am retired. Still get the thrill vicariously flying the Mustang and Spitfire. The Trojan being a sister ship to the Mustang, but with a round engine. Each share the dorsal fin and similar performance. The Trojan had a speed brake which helped slow it down in the carrier break. And don’t forget those cowl flaps…air cooled engine vs water-cooled in the Mustang.

Whos recording the footage .possible time traveler?

how much did you guys spend on the albatross?

which year is this? prolly not gonna get a reply lol

Does it fly?????

This we do so that others may live. A most worthy slogan. I love seaplanes.

It was memorable first seeing this film, already ancient, just prior to doing it all for real personally very much as shown here days later. Then we did it in the clouds and at night too. This is definitely flying at its finest. What's most astonishing is these student pilots, by the hundreds throughout the years for decades, with little or no time between first being able to fly at all, much less these high performance aircraft, suddenly need to fly just a few feet apart, requiring absolutely mistake-free complete control throughout the flight. Fly Navy.

What an unprecedented opportunity, treat, and sheer delight to see this special video decades later is and must be for T-28 alumni! In the training process, formation flying T-28's and ALL aircraft comes only a few scant months and training flights after the student pilots have taken their first flights in any aircraft. There's nothing like learning to fly in highly congested airspace, filled with many different types of high performance aircraft, each of many other aircraft nearly independently and loosely organized as necessary, executing the most difficult maneuvers in aviation, whereupon just seeing another aircraft from miles away is to be instantly avoided by all parties; is as terrifying as Freddie Kruger suddenly popping up outta the dark. Nonetheless, lining these aircraft up with such tiny separation is absolutely jarring in its suddenly COMPLETELY DIFFERENT demands and stress. Almost everybody comes away from their first few formation flights drenched in sweat, often head-to-toe, regardless of the temperature, what happened or their metabolism. Fly Navy.

II flew radio on the Albatross from.2/64 thru 8/66 based at Naha Okinawa. We had two “C” models (41276 and 41267) and one “D model.Anyone want to talk talk HU-16’s?? [email protected]

there is a hu16 tarmac queen parked in Okmulgee city airport Oklahoma. has not been flow since sometime in the w1990s.

Lord please help them put this beautiful bird back in the sky!!!

That was uneventful

They were phasing out the T28 when I got to Whiting. Only one squadron had them and it had its last flight not long after I arrived.

In 1964, I bolted on the first two hook attempts followed by six successful hooks. My airspeed indicator was off a little. The LSO radioed to reduce speed by two knots and it worked. I still wonder to this day how he knew that!!!???

Your music choise effn SUCKS!!!!🤮

June 1965. CARQUALS. Six traps required to qualify. Had so much fun that after 5 traps, I declared a "rough runner" and bingoed to Barin Field. Went out the next day and successfully completed 6 more traps. We were directed to fly to Saufley. Tower instructed "Teenie Weenies hold short...real Naval Aviators turning final." BTW, the late Clyde Lassen was in that flight.

AOC class 01-68, did carrier quals/FCLPs at Barin Field, then the real thing on Lexington from PNS just before Christmas break 1968. By far the most defining moment in my Navy flight training. Then did it again in the TS2-A in Corpus Christi in April, 1969 before getting my wings. Unforgettable memories.

救護機 H16。

在台灣稱為水鴨子 的 H16 。