priekaparki » Carrier http://priekaparki.org Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:59:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 PBS: Carrier – Landing on a Pitching Deck Pt. 1 http://priekaparki.org/deck/pbs-carrier-landing-on-a-pitching-deck-pt-1 http://priekaparki.org/deck/pbs-carrier-landing-on-a-pitching-deck-pt-1#comments Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:13:40 +0000 admin http://priekaparki.org/deck/pbs-carrier-landing-on-a-pitching-deck-pt-1 From the PBS documentary series “Carrier” – Rites of Passage.

Navy pilots landing aboard the USS Nimitz during rough seas in the Pacific.

Duration : 0:10:0


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]]> http://priekaparki.org/deck/pbs-carrier-landing-on-a-pitching-deck-pt-1/feed 25 Hit The Deck: Aircraft Carrier Crashes http://priekaparki.org/deck/hit-the-deck-aircraft-carrier-crashes http://priekaparki.org/deck/hit-the-deck-aircraft-carrier-crashes#comments Sun, 16 Aug 2009 08:13:40 +0000 admin http://priekaparki.org/deck/hit-the-deck-aircraft-carrier-crashes This is a short clip. The entire video is 60 min. For more details go to http://www.militaryvideo.com/store/store.cfm

This video contains one hour of the most dramatic carrier landing accidents ever recorded. Film footage from the 1940s to the 1960s of planes ripping into and exploding on the flight deck; dramatic rescues of pilots; planes ramming the island.

Featuring the USS Wasp (CV-18), USS Princeton (CV-37), USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60), USS Bunker Hill (CV-17), USS Makassar Strait (CVE-91), USS Philippine Sea (CV-47) and USS Essex (CV-9).

Also includes C-130 aborted and successful landings on USS Forrestal (CVA-59).

Duration : 0:2:28


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