Skilled US F-18 Pilot Pulls Off Insane Catapult Takeoff on Aircraft Carrier
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Welcome back to our channel for a feature on the US Navy's premier fighter aircraft, the F/A-18 Super Hornet. I thoroughly enjoyed this informative video. My only suggestion for improvement is: please leave the captions up on screen longer! It's not that I'm a slow reader, but your photography is so good that I find myself focusing attention sequentially on each of several different items in each scene for study, thus when a caption comes up I don't notice it immediately. When I do notice and begin reading, it's gone before I get through the first line! Pausing and going back is breaking the flow of an otherwise brilliant program! From what's called 'Vulture's Row', I've watched F-4 Phantoms and F-14 Tomcats being launched on the USS Saratoga and the USS John F. Kennedy. I used to love the smell of the burning jet fuel. It reminds of the line from 'Apocalypse Now'. "I love the smell of napalm in the morning. It smells like victory." UK developed the Steam catapult angled flight Decks landing light system and the Steam Turbines that drive them and now our Carriers do not use them Crazy. One time I launched from a carrier drunk and as soon as I attracted to gear I accidentally fired aim 54 Phoenix but luckily didn't have lock on anyone so no one was hurt.
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