Behind US Crazy Idea to Test Jet Engine Thrust on Aircraft Carrier at Sea

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[@captfred65]

My first assignment in the Navy was a seaman assigned to VAW-11 in 1966. I watch your videos to compare my memories with the present. So much has changed and it’s amazing. For instance my first time on carrier quals my rack was on a deck below a hatch. I had a chief stop and show me how to tie my bed and mattress to a metal frame, “the rack”. I am happy to see many young women working along with the guys. They are talented and fantastic members of the Navy family. Love your videos.

[@brolinofvandar]

My first ship was the first "supercarrier", the USS Forrestal CV-59, 81-83. Called a supercarrier because it was the first class built with an angle deck, which allowed for launch and recovery simultaneously. I was there for her 82 Med/IO cruise and then took her into the yards in Philly for SLEP. I was a radar ET, all of our equipment was off the ship for the yard period (mine gone to mothballs, SPS-43A), so we all got other assignments. My first was the Fire Watch division as a supervisor. Our office was the Jet Engine Shop on that ship, which was located at the aft end of the hangars, with hatches opening aft to free space, which is where they would fire off the engines for testing. And, those engines had as much effect on the ship as the blast hitting the JBDs does. Nil. Compared to the mass of the ship, it's completely insignificant. Obviously, things have changed since those days. We didn't have LED lighting or laptops, for example. We technically had three hangar bays, but it's really one huge space, two decks high. The hangar bay was deck 1, the main deck. Decks 01 and 02 were mostly in the sides of the hangars or forward of them. Deck 03 was sandwiched between the hangars and the flight deck. The flight deck was the 04 level. Most of my work, my radar space, and the radar shop were in the island, on the 05 and 06 levels. I was ship's company, so I wasn't involved in any of the aircraft maintenance, but I did work with AIMD on occasion. They had nicer tools than we had. At one point, I had to remove the rotary joint from my radar's antenna pedestal because it was full of water (long story, associated gear, another "tech") and took it to them to run through an ultrasonic cleaner for me. Their shops were forward of the hangar bays, on the same deck as I recall. I've noticed more modern carriers have the island set farther back than the Forrestal did. And, I can personally attest to one reason that's a good idea, even if it's not the reason for the change. I have first hand experience as to where the jet blast coming off the JBD for the cat just in front of the island, goes. It hit the bridge and signal bridge on that carrier. There was a commercial harbor nav radar mounted on a narrow catwalk above the bridge windows, below the signal bridge, thereabouts. We were up there to do maintenance during flight ops. However, just as we lifted the dome off the radar (about 3' or so diameter), they launched from that cat. And we got hit by the blast, nearly ripping the dome out of our hands. To put that in perspective, we were on about the 09 level, or 5 decks above the flight deck. We aborted that job until a better opportunity (i.e., the rare no flight ops moment). I'll also mention that, in our case, the area of the flight deck outboard of the island was called the "bomb farm", because that's where they'd stage munitions before loading them on aircraft in preparation for launch. My berthing was directly below that area, with a JP5 pump station fore and aft of us, the stacks inboard of us, and basically air and water below us. In the first days I was told, if you hear a bump overhead, don't worry about it. If anything actually happened, you wouldn't hear it. If lucky, you'd wake up in the water. Still, that was better than the berthing that was located just below the arresting gear, with the machinery rooms on either side.

[@paulkoch9871]

When I was in the AF as a jet engine mechanic, all engines were sent to Test Cell, for test and trimming before put onto the ready line. Nothing out of the ordinary on the carrier.

[@PublicMixHardworking1]

Amazing very nice ship ❤❤

[@robertheinkel6225]

During our base runway repair, we had a couple of KC-35A model parked at Indianapolis airport. On day we need to do power runs, but no place to do it. The tower told us to get in line for takeoff, and do the power runs at the end of the runway. I often wondered what the other airline passengers thought seeing our tanker, with all cowling removed, safety streamers in place, ready for departure

[@billkunert7281]

I'll bet the Navy loves when you call a carrier a floating Air Force base.

[@littlehills739]

there boats look nice too through the Australian subs periscope that war gamed them to death

[@steveurbach3093]

Back in Nam, My ship was the 'Air force tower' out in the Gulf of Tonkin.

[@Ali_Ercan]

A full scale AFB is zipped for sailing. Amazing 👍

[@dhroman4564]

Crazy idea? Really seems perfectly natural to me.

[@glennw56401]

An aircraft carrier is NOT a mobile Air Force Base. All pilots are either Navy or Marine Corps. It would be the rare Air Force pilot indeed who could land a plane on a moving flight deck.

[@hammerslamper4125]

Love those EA-6B

[@newdefsys]

These are good Navy occupations that build transferable skills for the civilian world. A lot of aviation companies pay upwards of $38/hr for aircraft mechanic with a relatively high demand, especially if you already have your clearance. Navy A-school/honorable discharge/security clearance = $career$

[@thehark6247]

you must be old to think that 38 bucks an hour is so great. Im 56 and there are few cities in the country where that is considered alot of money.

[@newdefsys]

@@thehark6247 I know plenty of people that would love to have a job making $80K/yr I'm not old, you're just jaded.

[@imperfectlump6070]

Electricians make $50 per hour or so.

[@newdefsys]

@@imperfectlump6070 Licensed journeyman electricians make that. It takes about 8 years to get a journeyman's license in my state. How bout yours ?

[@ronvera]

Wow one of my old squadrons VMFA323 The Death Rattlers Whiskey Sierra at 11:11 MCAS El Toro

[@morgan79347]

Common practice after a rebuild / repair, hanger deck aft fantail.

[@williamfriar6295]

I enjoyed all the time spent on evaluation of additional ship propulsion supplied by thrust produced by jet engines.

[@jeremywilson4326]

DID , IT , ADD , ANY , MORE , THRUST , TO , THE , CARRIER ?

[@dreb222]

The question we ALL want….NEED….answers to.

[@RichardEnloe]

No,it does not add to the speed. Worked on F-14 Tomcat. The Jet shop just pulled.engines from shipping container and installed exhaust section then did the engine test.

[@JimHeil-sf8dc]

My first carrier was Constellation CVA 64 1961-1965

[@Shipspotting_Vietnam]

This is really an engineering marvels!!!

[@bradolsen8629]

Expert professionals, sir, you are absolutely correct. They are professional experts, or expert professionals.

[@womblissimo6666]

good to hear that they test the aircraft fuel for purity AND the absence of impurities .. perhaps they should also check for a lack of presence of impurities - just to be sure.

[@5thGenNativeTexan]

14:24 "floating Air Force Bases" ouch... LOL

[@jeffapplewhite5981]

They lined up all planes on the deck for parking/docking. With engines used to moved the carrier.

[@Trail_Trash]

Two guys snaking a drain at 2:10 seems a tad unrelated. 😂

[@joeypinter9011]

was that a plumbers snake i saw?

[@netwrkguy]

Did it add anymore thrust to the carrier speed??

[@thehark6247]

that was my curiosity as well.

[@williamgrand9724]

doubt it it would be noticeable.

[@RailroadGuy49]

They said the 3rd elevator was on the port side. But if it’s on the same side of the island/superstructure, isn’t that the starboard side?

[@CJ_spot]

That's why I want to know

[@PublicMixHardworking1]

Love you all ❤❤❤ have a great video ❤❤ very nice ship

[@kellywilson8440]

F-414 GE jet engines !

[@tomdarco2223]

Right On Go Army!

[@SLOWLYdoesit1]

They x-ray the tyre?!

[@DMTW]

No wonder an aircraft carrier costs in the billions of dollars to build. It is like an entire small city, totally self sufficient. Would like to see the size of the kitchen and dining room.

[@napleswolverine7189]

I was looking for when the jet blast was bloin and blew that little metal out the back in the toe o ho nail 🌀what are you trim to pas arground😂 nice video

[@bobjohnson3247]

Is there anything here that’s not meticulously done?

[@dnewraptorraptornew]

มันทำให้เรือเร็วขึ้นไหม

[@tormentorxl2732]

Hoist the jib!

[@garymiller5937]

Super indeed!!! 😊😊😊❤❤❤

[@elcaribbeanlounger7852]

Why are those guys with the helicopter @9:37 in suits? Doesn't look like a Presidential helo?

[@daviddooley5361]

Someone once told me the Navy has spare planes on board and all that's needed to be done is to assemble them. Extra wings and flaps I can understand, but extra fuselages?? This person was not in the Navy, he was a civilian worker assigned to a carrier.

[@TheBmco99]

They do have tons of parts but but not fuselages at least when I was in

[@joemoore4027]

I was on the carrier Constellation and the engine shop would run repaired jet engines off the fantail. It did nothing to the ship's speed if anything.

[@Donjo58]

I was on the Ranger your sister ship. They tested engines on the fantail. Normal procedures.

[@Todd.P]

Who are the guys in suits at the 9:35 mark? They look out of place onboard ship!

[@markbrisec3972]

Why the mechanics use the manual wrenches to unscrew bolts and screws instead of the battery operated ones?

[@yhuyjiukuhythujuj]

Often if you use power tools you can strip the threads if you use a power driver. Especially when first starting. Plus reliability. Manual drivers don't need batteries and don't stop working like power tools

[@robertheinkel6225]

Power drills can spark, and around jet fuel, not a good thing.

[@alexanderbriceno2524]

Bello viva Eua el Más fuerte 💪 por que no crear un portaviones 10 beses más grande que este con mucho más poder y aviones una isla 🏝️ móvil con armamento de todo tipo 🤷🏿‍♂️

[@tarawhite4419]

Combine a railgun and a jetcar

[@User61ow25hsg2]

❤️😊

[@jimclarke1108]

Aircraft Carrier doing 80km/h😁

[@_Coffee4Closers]

Ahhhh, the US has tested Jet engines on Aircraft Carriers for decades... why does anyone think this is new or even news?

[@paulkeith9680]

For clix

[@denilsonsiqueira8053]

We are FROM BRASIL 🇧🇷

[@emcee2603]

They silenced the guy who made the hydrogen engine and put the tech in the ships? Wonder why they never have to refuel 🧐🤔

[@robertheinkel6225]

Nuclear power!

[@user-oo2qy2xn8o]

Klick

[@PsRohrbaugh]

2:49 visible tattoos? It's a shame how our service has degraded.

[@Dlweta57]

Nah surely no gain in speed.. Such a waste of fuel for little gain

[@just_some_internet_guy]

Too many commercials

[@vanroeling2930]

Get KZbin premium it’s wonderful no commercials!

[@user-im7sj7gr2v]

😳👉Elon noo seriously talks about flying buildings to colonize Mars and let's run to exploration and mining money and time is pray raptor 4👀👀

[@thudtrades1850]

Nothing new... AIMD been doing it for years... moving on.

[@napalmholocaust9093]

Garage 🤬👎

[@1968konrad]

Quite boring content

[@goldar4846]

Reported for spam.

[@paulcoverdale8312]

Not crazy! They are built for it! Every engine that’s stocked or stacked has to be tested. This is how they do it! Nothin crazy here , just normal.❤❤❤❤💯💯💯🙏🙏🪬🪬🧿🧿💎💎🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🥃🥃🥃

[@Jithin_6777instagram]

Good idea u s navy, future usa destination