VT-0050A Video: Blue Angels Land Aboard Ship. The US Navy's Blue Angels

[@me109glen]

I totally forgot about this show. I was doing an illustration of for a former Blue Angle and it just appeared out of nowhere the thought of this show in my mind. As a kid I may have been able to watch it once or twice. Seeing it again is a total blast!!! Thanks for putting it on KZbin.....

[@garyhilson7220]

I love this stuff. This show is/was as ludicrous as that show "Air Wolf" in the 80's.

[@the1realanalogman]

Very cool. Regardless of anything else, it makes ya feel good!

[@lancelot1953]

Thank you for the memories, Ciao, L

[@G550Jedi]

Very cool! Love the "Tuck Under Break!" Mega hot water if done at Kingsville!

[@dj33036]

G550Jedi When were you in Kingsville? I was stationed there 69 to 72

[@potrzebieneuman4702]

I haven't seen these episodes since I was a kid and I'm pushing 70 now. Loved the Panthers and Cougars, magic stuff even if the stories are a bit cheesey.

[@rogerbastien2354]

My dad had a friend who flew with the angels he was six foot two and I sat in the cockpit of his F-4-J I treasure those pictures to Capt. Bob clear skies

[@sybermen]

En Venezuela se transmitió hasta principios de los años 70, por Venevison, Canal 4, los días sábados a mediodía, yo era fanatico, arriba, arriba en el cielo, esta son las aventuras de los ángeles azules

[@slimromero7585]

Me faciinan. Sus historias Aeronavales y exhibiciones riesgosas de su época.!!!...

[@TheThanimal]

I love the looped jet sounds. so retro. :)

[@rawnukles]

how many combat situations can they come up with where flying in tight formation with wing tip smoke is the key to success?

[@Evolutionist199]

morale, pride, skill, determination, focus, experience, attitude, self confidence, inspiring, are just a few that come to mind.

[@Cash_McCoy]

They are flying the F9F Cougars, a later swept wing version of the F9F Panther.

[@KutWrite]

When I was in Navy Flight School in 1971-2, they still used the Cougar to train NFOs (back-seat guys) for low-level navigation and instrument flying. They called the F9 the "Lead Sled," probably due to its sink rate, power-off.

[@NotaVampyre111]

I remember watching this show as a very small boy. The only scene I really remembered was when they "pushed" the damaged plane home. I thought they actually were carrying the plane on their wings and even that young I knew it was impossible. That's why I remember it. Guess I remembered it wrong. :)

[@44032]

I was also a small boy. I remember the series for it's visual excitement and because my parents let me stay up a little later than usual to watch it.

[@slimromero7585]

Son excepcionales x siempre

[@195511SM]

I didn't know of ( or don't remember ) the existence of this TV series. which according to the article on Don Gordon's passing....aired from 1960-1961. I would have been 5 or 6 at the time. I vaguely recall attending my first airshow at around that age...in Santa Rosa, CA. They must have been flying these things.

[@daveburch235]

How completely silly the story, I am enjoying this. I may have seen this on TV when *very* small...

[@Vaporvice84]

@3:20: Boy, those tires squealing when they land is sure a lot louder than all the other noises heard on an aircraft carrier lol.

[@Countdown70s]

I saw this show now and then when it screened here occasionally in my kidhood, I think it was sometimes b4 or after "Disneyland" Sunday night, but I thought I recalled some kind of visual reference to the WW2-era Blue Angels with F6F Hellcats at the beginning..?

[@DiHornetlover2007]

They had a quick "guest appearance" in an episode of 'Sky King' too!!

[@rbjanitorialprod]

The best

[@streakeagle]

Real Blue Angels history: In June 1950 the Blue Angels were ordered to duty in a combat status aboard the carrier Princeton as the nucleus of VF-191. LCdr. Johnny Magda, then Blue Angel leader and Commanding Officer of the squadron, was the only active Blue Angel to lose his life in combat when he was shot down off the north coast of Korea in March 1951.

[@KutWrite]

I doubt they were flying the blue, show planes.

[@aj-2savage896]

At 5:28, that's an FJ-1 being squirted off the Boxer. First jets to operate on a carrier. It did not go well.

[@Nelson64814]

Please more, episode to the "Blue Angels".

[@giovannibartolacci6209]

Recuerdos de cuando era un chamo

[@kurtnmia]

You would have thought they would have used one carrier in this show. Jeez they had footage from about 4 different carriers.

[@DiHornetlover2007]

They flew the earlier F9F-2 "Panther" in Korea...before the improved F9F-6~8/8B came out in early 1956.

[@mariospanu159]

Ya but they had a token Italian Dude ,didn't take long to kill him off ,must have been wearing a Red Jersey ,truly gave Star Trek a great idea.

[@mpbunch]

Victory at Sea Narrator..Cool...

[@44032]

Good call. Leonard Graves, although Alexander Scourby later re-did it.

[@sdasmarchives]

@Nelson64814 We will try to put more up, but we might not have any more in our collection!

[@DiHornetlover2007]

Navy had the max of Essex-class carriers for this one!!

[@aj-2savage896]

Plus the Midway.

[@tomb1198]

I believe they were called "Satan's Kittens" during war time. VF 191

[@Josh-hr5mc]

One of the coolest names I've heard

[@tomb1198]

@@Josh-hr5mc My 94 yr old Dad was attached to that outfit during Korea. Has a veteran's hat with that logo on it.

[@NicCipriani]

What are they flying? F101 Voodo?

[@Nelson64814]

14 The Blue Angels: THE DIAMOND GOES TO WAR 26Dec60 New York City The Blue Angels recall a mission assigned to them when other squadrons failed during the Korean conflict.

[@Aislanzito]

Esse avião está no WarThunder

[@sdasmarchives]

Ha ha! Good point!

[@РоманГнатюк-ш8з]

Епоха перших реактивних - неповторний шарм !.....

[@flick22601]

Corny as heck! I love it.

[@streakeagle]

Once aboard the aircraft carrier USS Princeton the group formed the core of VF-191 (Satan's Kittens).

[@metalrod23]

Cougars.

[@ebiros2]

This show erroneously made me think Blue Angels were a fighter squadron when I was a kid.

[@mariospanu159]

And that leader look like Ted Cruz.

[@eottoe2001]

Betsy Doyle?

[@Rover800Coupe]

The aircraft are not ships.

[@tom7601]

Andrew McCheyne: My dad was in the Army Air Corps/Army Air Forces during WWII. Back then the term "airship" was very common.

[@spectres0024]

Grumman F-9 Panthers

[@KutWrite]

I think these are the later F9 Cougars... swept wing.

[@arodrigues2843]

Michael Johnson NEGATIVE!!! Grumman F9F-8 "Cougar".

[@MrShobar]

The U.S. taxpayer bore the cost for this tripe?

[@TommygunNG]

No. It uses stock footage. The Navy probably cooperated, as is typical for film productions.

[@gtc1961]

Does the taxpayer bear the cost for the garbage the left has on TV now? What a stupid question.

[@Josh-hr5mc]

Films like this promoted recruiting. Just like Top Gun, Navy recruitment went through the roof following that movie. It will be the same when the new Top Gun comes

[@magneticstorm1]

They are on a combat deployment, but they still want to put an Air Show for the fellas lol.

[@MrShobar]

@@gtc1961 No stulpnagel. Your favorite show, Laverne and Shirley, was never paid for by the taxpayers.