A-7E Corsair II Day Barricade on USS John F. Kennedy

[@toastecmo]

My first deployment I remember this well. Pilot is a good guy. CVW-3 was the best airwing I served with in my 20 year career.

[@bdh985]

Pretty epic how calm the pilot was when he called the ball. Well done to the pilot, deck crew, lso and air boss.

[@RightCenterBack321]

LSO is incredible. So calm and clear in his instructions, like he's teaching a class.

[@johnandrews-yg7me]

I was flying plane guard, Dusty Dog. Steamer did a great job and Paddles was amazing. I had a front row seat from 150 feet.

[@MrRay967]

VA-72 Blue Hawks I was there helping rigging the barricade I was a plane captain at the time That was my squadron nose gear lower control arm split in half from the cat shot it seems that happened yesterday for me

[@sequoyah59]

How much damage does the barrier do to the airframe?

[@jamessanders7289]

My dad was CO, thanks for everything you did to bring everyone home safe during Desert Storm

[@bowlersunanimous1983]

Learn how to structure a sentence.

[@RedTail1-1]

@@bowlersunanimous1983 Learn how to not be a dick

[@carlospulpo4205]

That is some fine team work. Emergency landing while missing front gear with live ordinance on a moving aircraft carrier - pucker factor +10.

[@TheWizardGamez]

anyone else feel like he should've jettisoned the ordinance, at leas the bombs, the missiles maybe not, those are expensive, but the bombs can go

[@snobak1]

@@TheWizardGamez the bomb wouldn't release,he tried to drop it before hand.

[@AnneewakeeChampions]

Nothing to it really.

[@RalphThomas-o9j]

Thanks to ALL who are the alumni on this, to me, the most influential ship of Vietnam, because our missions were always protecting the Suez to the North Sea! That proves why this ship should never have become “scrap metal”! OUR ship was always ready, receiving 3 “E-awards” on every carrier quals we endured. WE CAME OUT READY. Thank you Captain Tuttle!!!!

[@HyperionBadger]

@@TheWizardGamez it couldn’t be jettisoned with the landing gear deployed. Internal mechanism design would only allow it to be jettisoned if the landing gear or what remained of it was fully retracted. Or a something like that lol.

[@samuelWx]

We took an A6 Intruder from VA-75 Sunday Punchers in a night barricade aboard "Big John" in 1983 off the coast of Beirut. Bravo Zulu to the worlds greatest Navy and her sailors!

[@steveguinn9740]

Observed that one from Vultures Row.

[@samuelWx]

@@steveguinn9740 Hand salute shipmate! That was some cruise, I was a rescue swimmer with HS-7. Were you ships company or Airwing?

[@steveguinn9740]

Hand salute to you, Samuel. I was ships company Aviation Supply.

[@RalphThomas-o9j]

Thanks so much. It brings back so much to those who were onboard 1972-1976! Thank you!

[@surfmanx796]

Made that super critical emergency landing look easy! Amazing airmanship.

[@gomphrena-beautifulflower-8043]

I don’t know technical jack about what I just saw, but I do know one thing for certain - I’m so proud of these young men who do this and train day in and day out to protect our great country. Don’t listen to the yokels trying to destroy it - you’re heads above the rest. Every one of them.❤️

[@d.cypher2920]

@Commenter2 so... you're saying you're a yokel? 🤷‍♂️😂😂

[@brenttesterman1198]

@Commenter2 Sadly, I would have to agree with you.

[@rogeroday9408]

Any physical drills are annoying, but I can tell you when it’s the real deal, all that goes away and you really do concentrate on the task. You are at you peak years in health, and even the slackers understand it’s real. Cool footage and Audio.

[@rodrigogonzalez7858]

Made me remember when I was a kid. I had an aircraft carrier toy and I used a black thread to play as it was a barrier for emergency landing.

[@tc9660]

I was an AD2 in VA-72 during this deployment. I remember when this happened.

[@Techy111]

Awesome mate, great video and for 91 this is a very clear vid, puts later plats to shame :)

[@sonora108]

We would have rig the barricade drills about once a week at least and it was no simple feat getting that thing up and ready. I was on the Coral Sea med 1985/86 one would really dread doing all those drills but it was good to know that most everyone who was on the flightdeck a lot knew how to get that barricade ready.

[@cruisinguy6024]

I saw on another video the barricade was erected in something like 90 seconds. is that reasonable? Seems incredibly fast to go from a pilot declaring "oh shit!" on the radio to getting the barricade fully erected but I'm not a sailor let alone carrier deck crew so have no clue.

[@camachinist]

Great flying and a boss LSO, thanks for the upload.

[@hoghogwild]

The Corsair performed admirably in Desert Storm.

[@bamahammer3660]

I was attached to VA-46 and had just transferred to become a drill instructor pushing boots before this cruise on Big John. But our old sister squadron VA-72 had a bad day. That is why aboard a carrier if you work on the flight deck rigging the barricade drills are essential for this very purpose. That also includes fire fighting drills. That is why you notice everyone was so calm and cool. Bravo Zulu to all my shipmates. Job well done.

[@pontiacGXPfan]

46 Clansmen.....was this when Mark "Lobster" Fitzgerald was skipper?

[@rippersrule]

@@pontiacGXPfan As I recall Lobster was a department head in VA-46 when I was in VF-14 during Desert Shield. What a great guy! Saved my butt in CAG-6 aboard Forrestal. Had a bad night: 2 foul deck wave offs, then 3 bolters before finally trapping. He tanked me twice in a VA-105 A-7 that night. Tanking off a Corsair was tough in the Tomcat, lotta cross control required. But on a dark night at 1500’ after numerous passes it sucked. However, Lobster was hawking me perfectly. They say everyone has their night in the barrel. Lobster made mine easier. Heard he made Vice Admiral.

[@pontiacGXPfan]

@rippersrule you were with the Red Rippers during the Lebanon cluster fuck. Perhaps you know of couple of Tomcat pukes named Stalker Goetsch and Traps Cloyd

[@rippersrule]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@pontiacGXPfanI joined the Rippers after that cruise, just after JFK came back from Cartagena. So we were in CAG-3 then while Forrestal was configured for the Tomcat. Goodman was still in the Airwing. I did know Brad Goetsch and Cloyd but they had left the squadron. Shiek Shean was CO.

[@Wanderingmedic]

I was on board as a Damage controlman ... Standing by in Repair 7-Alpha ... I was informed we were back up to the flight deck crew if things got out of hand. I was shitting my pants. Thank God everything went as planned.

[@MB-ln9nv]

No landing gear. Aircraft carrier Land in that net. “Okie doke”

[@gosportjamie]

Damn, I don't think even the textbook explanations of a barricade carrier landing at sea is as textbook as that...

[@mtadv406]

An A-7 landed on the Saratoga once during Desert Storm, either by accident or running low on fuel. The Captain got on the 1MC and said, "Get up to the flight deck if you want to see this because it will never happen again!"

[@allgood6760]

I admire the courage of these pilots... I wish I had 3 balls like them!

[@Artines999]

Thanks For Sharing...♥

[@flybyairplane3528]

Great job guys, GO NAVY, many years ago there is a guy I know that was in the NAVY during VIETNAM WAR, so I asked him if they had any F8U CRUSADERS said he never heard of it, but POPULAR AIRCRAFT WAS THE A7 CORSAIR, which I did not know But it is aSMALLER COPY, made by CHANCE VOUGHT , which BOTH had VARIABLE INCIDENCE WINGS, so they get off quickly Cheers 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@bioriderfc]

The A7 does not have a variable incidence wing.

[@Exodus26.13Pi]

Nice 80s jam! Synth-n-snare beat.

[@gusbailey68]

keep 'em comin'

[@bernardc2553]

Epic team work, Go TEAM USA (Hats off to you for "letting us on. boarf ,Sir!"

[@michaelp8564]

Army approved! Hardcore!

[@bobl78]

the camera was from 1856

[@erickucharski4127]

I remember this I was there in the Red Sea yep VA-72 the pilot was not a happy camper that day after that he was desk-bound for the rest of the deployment.

[@yxeaviationphotog]

Why did he get relegated to a desk for the remainder of the deployment?

[@erickucharski4127]

@@yxeaviationphotog He was young Lt. who was only on his first deployment, he was trying to claim in rank has it was he was going back to training squadron tobe trained F/A 18 due to fact the A7 was being retired after that deployment.

[@yxeaviationphotog]

@@erickucharski4127 That makes sense. Thank you.

[@mseabolt45]

Is the LSO Ward Carrol?

[@RightCenterBack321]

Keep in mind, this was during DESERT STORM!

[@scarfaceAC2]

Ugh those Tomcats on the deck...😢 Retired too soon.

[@safetychuck2]

AO's taking care of business at 4:53.

[@FN_FAL_4_ever]

Those are crash/salvage guys, they also wear red flight deck jerseys

[@PatsAdventuresTravels]

I slept thru this when it happened. Beauty of being night shift I guess

[@billsmith5166]

Outstanding

[@conanbarbar4090]

Desert storm?!) Yes or not ?

[@fermiticus4034]

Yes. VA-46 and VA-72 were the only A-7 squadrons there...retired shortly afterwards. The one in the vid is from 72.

[@vascoribeiro69]

Last USN A-7 lost in a war zone.

[@tyv1962]

So if this channel is able to somehow obtain classic footage like this, does the sister channel “Real World Police” have access to classic police footage?

[@justsmallstuff4994]

Yeah thats what i wanna know

[@WhatYouHaventSeen]

😂

[@susanwahl6322]

That was perfect!

[@nuclearthreat545]

Good training scenario

[@mark4565]

6:05 mark. Why did the tomcat take the barricade in the opposite direction. 21 years navy never heard or saw that happening to any aircraft taking the net.

[@nolankahler6705]

The image is flipped

[@rileydj8764]

Can those airframes usually fly again?

[@delten-eleven1910]

Yes, if it's not catastrophic damage. I believe in the case a malfunctioned landing gear, aircraft is overhauled and operational again. I wonder if a plane that suffers structural damage like that is inoperable until carrier is back to port.

[@nolankahler6705]

Yes but this one wasn’t. The last Navy A-7s were retired nearly immediately after Desert Storm

[@bobbypritchett1267]

I have was there when it happened.

[@taylorc2542]

How can the aircraft outrun the shuttle. No way would an A-7 accelerate like that on engine only.

[@libertyforever4270]

How do you spell Go Navy? TEAM WORK !

[@Studio23Media]

Why wouldn't they drop the ordinance in the water, rather than doing a barricade landing with it??

[@TheAcceleratorMagazine]

@ADEBISI ADEBISI ??? Seems like logical question.

[@Studio23Media]

ADEBISI ADEBISI I'm sorry no one ever loved you.

[@MB-ln9nv]

I tried finding an answer to that and couldn’t find anything. Maybe they weighed the risk/return and decided they should be fine as long as the pilot does his job? I’d think that’s the first thing that would go too. But perhaps they practiced this enough to know what should occur. Good stuff

[@Admiral_John]

@ADEBISI ADEBISI You must be fun at parties.

[@davidallen9526]

Everyone can tell that @ADEBISI ADEBISI (outside of possibly a inmate) has never served a day in his life. What a low life pos!!! I was onboard the Big John during operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm. I worked on Cat's 3&4 waist cats. It feels like a long time ago, but the memories are vivid.

[@mikoriad]

Hah, the image of the tomcat at 6:05 is inversed, making it almost look like the aircraft came from the other direction. Took me a second to realize it.

[@rokitman5753]

Pucker up

[@terrelmchenry9524]

3MMR...

[@O.G.BFrmDaWstSd]

1991 video looks like 1945 now. 🤣

[@lastfirst5863]

Sure beats dying.

[@rstidman]

it's hard to believe that other countries feared us back then, when you look at the weak-ass cameras they always had on board these carriers.

[@jamielancaster01]

Red Whitenbleu shoot it was state of the art back then

[@wormhole331]

I guess they don't need to be reading license plate numbers or anything on those ships.

[@Kincentc]

probably because the DOD was spending money on firepower..... not cameras.... literally answered your own question

[@d.cypher2920]

Keep in mind this is a copy of a copy of a copy..... The DOD isn't and wasn't required to disseminate jack to anyone. Just look at the old film (when they used real film) of launches in the 50's, it's clear as hell. Yhe VHS tape they were using for years was subpar to actual film, but a lot cheaper. Just a thought. Shoot even the TV news was all low resolution in those days. I am shocked today to watch the very same footage of things, how crisp and clean it looks on KZbin. Even the Televisions themselves couldn't produce a clear image...so. 🤷‍♂️

[@joeg5414]

They weren't worried about the video making quality YT videos 30 years later.