Case 1 with Wilbur

Flying a Case 1 day event with Wilbur off of the IKE. This is video taken from 2 different flights edited together to give it some continuity. There are some captions on the bottom to describe what is going on.
Filmed about 1999.

[@wdjbwright]

Sammy!! I love this brother. I’m sure this was my “_OK_” pass that I was known for throughout the fleet 🤪. Miss you brother. Thank God you filmed this. Wilbur

[@AirTales]

Wilbur! Glad to share these old memories with you... and the world! Miss flying with you my friend!

[@wdjbwright]

@@AirTales MDC!

[@Whiskey11Gaming]

Reunion tour in the F-14 in DCS World? :P Both pits are fully modeled :P

[@CallsignJoNay]

My new favorite channel on KZbin.

[@fajarsugiono4341]

Looks like gonna be my fave channel..

[@mxcollin95]

Yup... 🤙

[@brownj2]

I served in VF142 on the flight deck of Ike in the early 80s thanks for posting this.

[@oldgoat142]

Hey there shipmate. I was with VF-142 from late '83 to '86 under Sumnick and Letter.

[@stijnvandamme76]

So many people on the deck near where that big old Turkey comes to a stop. It's amazing that that for all the danger, the coordination and finely tuned procedures keeps em all safe.

[@andys8779]

Just gotta know where to step.

[@oldgoat142]

I was on the Ike from '83 to '86 with VF-142. Watching this brings back great memories. Thank you for posting this.

[@tobee_gamer5816]

F-14s are simply amazing

[@rayrasbeary3081]

Great to see these videos! Great memories of the final cruise of my Navy career with the Rippers! Keep ‘em coming!

[@Pricklyhedgehog72]

Really fun to watch. That catapult launch was cool...neat to see the size difference between the Tomcat and the Hornet, especially the wing-span with the wings forward. A bygone era of Naval ops'.

[@prankthemall6903]

MOOORE! I need more of these videos!

[@Hairysteed]

Gotta hand it to the deck crew! So well coreographed!

[@roodytjm9282]

Never forget air-plane weapons when sometime fly-by not only for SAR mission or humanitary target... Histo-Memo footage from amazing Tom4. Cool guys. Thank You M'sieur. Congrat.

[@crash8926]

Great video. Thank you!

[@Dryootube]

you lived every boys dream, thanks for sharing

[@777hdt]

I’ve never seen a turnaround on an aircraft carrier before. Pretty cool vid

[@noez_ergo]

Thank you very much for sharing this footage with us! ❤️🙌

[@michealryan23]

What a gem of a channel to appear on my homepage. I really hope there’s much more content where this came from👍🏼👍🏼

[@roblosie5323]

Great stuff thanks for sharing

[@627horsepowers]

The F-14 is still usable today...for the coolness factor. I know not rational. 17:04 Crazy how quieter it gets with HVAC power levels lowered or off.

[@Whiskey11Gaming]

Only On/Off on the ECS system in an F-14 :P

[@chrisridebike8]

Former Ripper WSO. That was almost a hook slap! Whoa.

[@pjstew]

The precision flying that manifests in naval aviation is always a joy to watch. Was the low holding typically flown at a standard airspeed or just whatever max endurance was for the conditions of the day? Thanks again for sharing

[@martinromano99]

The beggining looks like Battlefield 3.

[@daniellebduska9972]

Thats true, but after BF I moved to DCS :-)

[@martinromano99]

@@daniellebduska9972 Yeah! me too.. i love DCS, but i was talking about the pre-flight part, when they walk in the mid deck of the carrier..

[@CapLAGOS]

very nice!

[@mxcollin95]

These guys make it look fun... 🇺🇸🤙

[@harryoudman5876]

So, he signs for the jet.....whats that mean? You break it you buy it? Hahahaha

[@slammerf16]

You bend it, you mend it!! Yeah, just signing off on the maintenance.

[@stijnvandamme76]

Rental form Always make sure to check the box for full cover insurance :D

[@aquajay]

what a great video

[@daniellebduska9972]

wow, just WOW!!!

[@harryoudman5876]

So fucking COOL, Thanks for the memories, back when "Men were men & sheep were scared " hahahaha

[@crash8926]

Yes. Damn shame what we've got now!

[@stevecurd9113]

Abs fantastic

[@mr.incognito8704]

Great video! Did you guys already have DFCS at the time?

[@AirTales]

I don't recall specifically if we had it when this was filmed, but we did get it about this time.

[@Whiskey11Gaming]

Four Wire? Based upon how far down the deck you ended up?

[@andrewbergman9315]

I noted the extended refueling probe on the emergency aircraft and the caption that this is in case of hydraulic failure - is this in case he is forced to waveoff (with what power?) and has to refuel?

[@AirTales]

A typical way this scenario would unfold is if you lost the left engine, you lost the 'combined side' hydraulics. The refueling probe is powered by the combined side hydraulics. You can still extend/retract it with the 'flight side' hydraulics that is powered by the right engine by a bi-directional pump that connects the two systems, called the 'Bi-Di' for short. The Bi-di was crappy and failed a lot, or would cavitate and you had to shut it off. So to not take any chances, you would extend the probe knowing the bi-di would probably fail. You could still extend the probe with a hand pump, but that assumes you didn't lose all the fluid and it was a pain to do. Needing fuel might be because of a wave-off, and a single engine wave-off can be done in an F-14, but there are tons of other reasons; the ship might not be ready to recover because of aircraft parked in the landing area, the ship is too close to enemy territory and has to 're-set' its position, or you might get a wave-off because they ship has to avoid a cargo ship or territorial waters, etc...

[@harryoudman5876]

Jolly Rogers & Pukin Dogs all the way!! Hattip to 'SNORT' Best CO ever!

[@Hairysteed]

VF-84 & VF-143 Best looking Tomcat squardons there were!

[@po9146]

Can you say which kind of rear radar display you had? Was it the big PTID square display or the old fishbowl?

[@AirTales]

At the time, VF-11 had the F-14B Upgrade, which meant the PTID. There is a quick look at it in the end of this video. kzbin.info/www/bejne/a6WzqYtvedmrm8k

[@bigrednz69]

Very cool. How's the fuel burn in that low level hold?!

[@brownj2]

it is not measured in miles per gallon it is measured in smiles per gallon

[@bigrednz69]

@@brownj2 no doubt

[@Whiskey11Gaming]

In a clean F-14B, probably not that high, few thousand pounds per hour probably. That sounds like a lot until you factor in that in Afterburner it's TENS of thousands of pounds per hour! :P

[@kaesees]

Dang I was worried that was going to be a ramp strike at 1:47 . I wonder what grade he got, after accounting for the slack you're likely to get when making a single-engine recovery.

[@slammerf16]

Nothing great - that probably just counts as a landing they walked away from. Paddles probably shat himself! I guess he can call POWER all he wants but if there's only one engine and no afterburner....

[@alaskanmarine1]

I imagine taxing on the deck at night can get pretty hairy.

[@u171098atgmail]

There's so much RF from shipboard radar you can hear it on the video sound. Ranger had places on the flight deck so hot it would fire the life preserver CO2 cartridges of an SV-2 life vest. You could hear it in your headset even when not plugged into anything, I know several folks that have died of brain tumors. Not a good environment, the F14 AWG-9 was pumping a 1000 watts of microwave energy. the irony is everybody thinks 4 and 5G technology is safe! not so much would be my bet? It's basically military grade millimeter wavelength radar. Everybody is being exposed to that s#!t.

[@andys8779]

Good thing those WoW switches worked on the ground.

[@josephd.4890]

F-14, still my favorite plane of all time

[@billcramer9047]

Hot seatin

[@Joker-ms4iu]

year ?

[@AirTales]

1999-2000 time frame

[@pnayeri]

These guys were vaping before it was cool!

[@fightingtwozeroone]

Red Rippers!

[@po9146]

HUNTERS! KZbin needs more Hunters action!

[@fightingtwozeroone]

Yes sir!!!

[@rakedos9057]

This video is collector 99', F-14, raw sound, CASE 1 with parking and opening the cockpit. Very very nice. Does somebody know why they move the wings to the bomb position before initial ?

[@AirTales]

The wings come back when they leave low holding, usually abeam or aft of the ship as they descend to the 800 ft initial. The wings are set to 'MANUAL', and 'AFT', which is 68 degrees, 'Bomb' Mode is only 55 degrees. I have seen some video of F-14s in the break in bomb mode, but that was before my time and was not standard when I was in F-14's.

[@rakedos9057]

@@AirTales Aft ? Oh Ok thanks for the info. Is there a special reason on why to go aft ? Or is it because it's the standard procedure for CASE 1 landing for the F-14 ? Thank you a lot of this amazing video ! The quality is really nice.

[@AirTales]

@@rakedos9057 sorry, should have read ‘manual’ to get the wings back to 68 at slower air speeds. I fixed my reply above. In ‘manual’, the pilot can command the wings back to 68 degrees.

[@SSaugaCriss]

i think they go aft to expo the accel of the 14 descending in to perform the combat overhead break ? kind of like HIRO ops in which you don't need any delays in-between landers.

[@jamescooper2618]

Why was it so loud inside the plane?

[@AirTales]

Many fighters are loud because of the Environmental Control System (air conditioning). But I think the F-14 was particularly loud. It is a lot of air being pushed through a lot of little outlets, which tends to make it louder than if there were more outlets of a bigger size. The main culprit in the F-14 was the "piccolo tubes", which lined the canopy under the glass. (look at 5:32 of the video for a close up). That is a long tube with a lot of little air holes in it. And it was right by your head, so it was pretty loud. If you turned the ECS off, you could talk to each other in a conversational tone, but then it would get pretty hot/cold...

[@jamescooper2618]

@@AirTales Thanks!

[@Whiskey11Gaming]

@@AirTales Wouldn't disabling the ECS in flight for any extended period of time be a bad thing given it controls cooling of the AWG-9, AIM-54, G-Suit, Wing airbags (the black part seen at the trailing edge of the wings when fully forward), and a few other critical systems?

[@berandalelit4175]

watching this video why do I feel like playing the fourth mission of Battlefield 3? 🤔

[@wiesenbefeuchter]

What's "Case1" ?

[@fungezap1579]

Daytime good weather conditions that allowed for overhead holding and visual decent into the pattern.

[@wiesenbefeuchter]

And who's Wilbur ?

[@fungezap1579]

I am guessing that the backseater’s nickname, since he’s taking the video. Don’t know really.

[@AirTales]

Case 1 describes the rules for the launch and recovery. Case 1 is in good weather where we can rendezvous over the ship in a stack and collapse down to the break. Case 2 is when the weather doesn't allow the stack, so you rendezvous away from the ship and come in as sections to the break and land. Case 3 is bad weather or night were we come in one at a time on a big straight-in approach. Case 1 is fun and can be done with out any radio transmissions; 'zip lip'

[@daniellebduska9972]

better than case II or III :-)

[@lolkevandewitte1713]

This looks like such a cool job, but no, I had to become a tax inspector. What was I thinking....

[@aliceharris9030]

Urging myself to remember that in peacetime the military resources are used for helping out in floods, fires, rescues and that is the kind of world I want to be in. This stuff is amazing but it shouldn't need to be employed in destruction anymore.