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Fighter Pilot Guided Tour of the Naval Aviation Museum - Pensacola, Florida

Jun 01, 2021
We're ready to go, we're good, my name is Lou Humphrey and I'm the main ghost. Wow, and from 1968 to 1973 I was a

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in the United States Marine Corps. I flew in principle, so I found in the A4 Skyhawk an example of the By the way, that Sky Hawk is the type of plane that Arizona Senator John McCain was fine with when he was shot down because he knew I'm a Vietnam veteran and I want you to know that. You've entered one of the top 3

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s in the world here, the other two would be Air in Space, which is part of the Smithsonian concept, and the F West Master Museum at Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton , Ohio, but we have some things to make ourselves unique, among which I'll let you touch almost everything I showed you today, even if the head of the Smithsonian doesn't like me and the Air Force has to simplify the touch of their plan, they'll probably crash with sunglasses.
fighter pilot guided tour of the naval aviation museum   pensacola florida
We have a unique upper level in this

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that has two life-size dioramas and it will probably be there for the last 15 minutes or so of the

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and the reason is that we ripped an optical landing system off the deck of a plane character called the forgotten span that It will allow me to explain to you in quite detail how it is done. We can place that hook on about one square meter at night. Hey, do you have any questions before we start? Well, let's just do some adultery services. became very serious about exploring the use of airplanes shortly after the Wright brothers first flew and in 1903, it turns out that the Navy developed a relationship with a fellow New York state by the name of Glenn Curtiss, the whiteness sophistry, report to Curtis here and Curtis had a 25 year old civilian demonstration

pilot

named Jeannie Lee and Mrs.
fighter pilot guided tour of the naval aviation museum   pensacola florida

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fighter pilot guided tour of the naval aviation museum pensacola florida...

Jean Neely and damn if it wasn't Jean Healy is a civilian who made the first takeoff and landing on a ship of the Marine. The first takeoff occurred in Hampton Roads, Virginia, in November 1910. We had a boat that looked pretty similar to this one that we put up. a temporary wooden platform in the front of that pup and the Pitti's intention was to be underway when ely launched, it helped the plane fly well to make a long story short, the weather deteriorated easily, he said, you know, it will be You better go ahead and take a good look.
fighter pilot guided tour of the naval aviation museum   pensacola florida
Because they weren't on track, it didn't really have enough of what we call terminal speed or flight speed and it slid. The end of the boat descended into a cushion of air we call ground effect, which is about half the height of the wings. on any plane, for that long, and it actually hit the water, damaged the propeller, went back up into the nearest air for a very short distance and landed on a sandbar and the Navy said, well, If that is the takeoff we are going to do. We'll probably have to work on it, fortunately we're a lot better than that Simpson and two months later, in San Francisco Bay, we took the USS Pennsylvania, put a temporary wooden platform on the back of that thing and put some ropes with sacks of sand through.
fighter pilot guided tour of the naval aviation museum   pensacola florida
It was difficult to feel the tow hook on the plane. He didn't like the first landing as a result of that landing. What Ely said, well, the trick wasn't that difficult. It could probably show up nine times out of ten, luckily the Navy is on the brain. We set up and raised that nine times out of ten, so we bought a couple of planes from Glenn Curtis and a third plane, the Wright brothers, we raised Naval Aviation 1911 and San Diego California and about three days later we repurposed this facility here to become the The first Navy air station and when there were five of them, from left to right, they represent World War I, where half of Korea, Vietnam today, next to the statue of World War I is the statue of a little dog, why is the dog so early?

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aviators through unheated open cockpits where the temperature could be around zero degrees and even though they wore those long leather coats, it was still cold, so a lot of these guys would ride the dog and when they went to fly they would take it. little dog and then he sticks it right in front of that leather coat and that's how they keep the core temperature job now, as a result of the litigation between the White Brothers and Glenn Curtiss, these early

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aviators ended up having to fly with the British and the The French and, to a lesser extent, the Italians in World War I, an aircraft very similar to this new French 28 foot.
You don't have to be an aeronautical engineer to look at this French plane that looks a lot like a kite to me and quite easily. I determine that it probably wasn't as capable in airplanes like the Fokker d7, which stands above us because of its red nose. In fact, I personally think the Fokker d7 is the best aircraft to come out of the First World War. Well, one month in August 1918. d7 put out 565 now it takes five aerial victories to become an ace, which, by the way, is a French concept and one of the German pilots who flew the d7 in World War I in actually made famous by Wolff in World War II, his name was Fermin Glory, yes.
When he achieved aerial victories and led the Luftwaffe for Adolf Hill, the d7 was so good that when we signed the Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I we forced the Germans to hand them all over to the war, more than 100 of them. we brought back to the United States and the handwritten poem ended up with United States trainers in Quantico Virginia, that's why the German planes, so what we have here is a Kurtis for D in Jenny's name, if you were us a Canadian pilot in the first world war, you probably would have had about a 95% chance of training on this plane, you can see it was a biplane, which means it had two wings and, by the way, if we had had computers on these days, we quickly realized that when you have multiple wings like this to lift the wings, so in a way exactly better than two, a little contradictory, but that's how it works, these drums and these cables work to increase the resistance, we had seating for two, the engine was not very reliable and look at the suspension system, its bungee cords are now as important as These planes were for training purposes in World War I and actually became more famous after the war with the USA Mail Service and Barnstormers know the Barnstormers or the guys who would fly all over the countryside, set up shop in any farmer's field and usually come a little bit close and hang a sign saying that plane rides last maybe 30 minutes for a dollar or less among Those first Barnstormers was a guy named Charles Lindbergh who, of course, in 1927 crossed the Atlantic Ocean alone non-stop for the first time and guys like Lindbergh just set up the hammocks here, between these cables, at night, that is. where they were sleeping now this is, let's call it 1915 technology.
The Phantom that I flew was we'll call it 1960 technology, so we're talking about the Suntory type, between this airplane and listen to the difference in takeoff performance. and land at 40 miles per hour - family cruise 165 at 60 miles per hour the Phantom has a top speed of 5:30 80 miles per hour the Phantom is 1450, which is 2.3 times the speed of sound initial rate of climb after From takeoff 200 feet per minute the Phantom measures 41,000 feet, that's a third of a century. 33 years old now, if you had trained on one of these you could have flown something like this smooth British whip.
Get more. This plane is in this museum because nineteen-year-old David Ingalls is a handsome scoundrel. right here became the first navy base or one finds this type of plane, the first pretty good plane, had hundreds of aerial victories for this type of plane during the war, but the trick was that it had to be pretty good and be very lucky to learn to fly. In this thing we had 400 men killed in combat on this plane, me and 400 killed in training learning to fly, why so many in training, we will see how fat the front is, which made it very unstable in the pitch axis, those short, stubby wings. made it very unstable on the world axis and it had an engine that, believe it or not, was actually spinning with the propeller, now there's a lot of weight spinning there and that's going to give it what we call gyroscopic precession, it basically means this plane could spin like a bandit to the right, but could barely turn left, the engine was also not slaved, so the Apollo doctor to control the speed of the plane, the kill switch and that created some problems, plus the engine was also lubricated with castor oil now, when I grew up in southern Maine, my grandmother gave me castor oil for two reasons, laxative and punishment, if you've never tried it, it basically tastes like rotten fish, well there is a laxative, you can take a teaspoon of 15 or 20 minutes to do its job well over the course of a one-hour flight because thanks to the mist of castor oil that comes out of this engine, the pilots could ingest up to a third of a cup of castor oil and it is that's why they started wearing the scarf the scarf is not a fashion statement, keep this mouth cold, mind you.
It says Texas on the side of this thing, after the wool, we bought a bunch of these across the sand, placed wooden Tupperware platforms on top of the main turrets of the battleship Texas and launched our plane that way for a very short period of time because, frankly, one of the worst ideas the Navy had, shortly after that we started making aircraft carriers for a specific purpose and that turned out to be one of our best ideas. Now, behind you, at an upward angle of about 35 degrees, is a 126-foot talking wing that By the way, it turns out to be six feet farther than the Wright Brothers first flew in 1903 and that wing is attached to one of the most famous airplanes on the face of the planet.
Let's take it for a spin if you build four monster free time control bombers. they called them NC one, two, three and four more affectionately, they were known as Nancy's box and well, right after we made this investment, you saw the water well, we're talking about 1919, almost everything, so the Navy said , you know, let's go. Just so you know, the right thing, flying across the Atlantic Ocean, had never been done before, wouldn't be done for another eight years, so I'm not soft, we're talking May 1990 and the plan was to take three of these in a sail and fly from New York to Nova Scotia and Newfoundland to the Azores, the ports are at an angle of about 2,000 188 miles across very cold water and a good portion of that flight will be at night, why at night Well, I didn't have anything to sail with anything reliable, so the Navy said listen guys, go at night and we'll put can destroyers about a fifth every 50 miles or so across the Atlantic Ocean and you should be able to see your players and They put up lights and reflectors and they like to help you navigate through the water no, it's foggy and it's foggy, it's disgusting weather over the North Atlantic, they end up getting lost, two of the three, in fact, unexpectedly had to get into the drink, one of which sank, fortunately there was a Greek freighter of all the things that passed to pick up that crew, the second one that entered the drink could not fly any further but it did not sink, so the crew of that second plane took off all the wing fabric and they created a big big sail and I clicked that plane back 200 miles or so, it was like a cell phone in the North Carolina for this plane right here, it actually made the first trip, now it took 19 days in half a line, but I personally think that this flight by that plane is possibly as important to the evolution of

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as space flights in the 1960s, a very famous plane owned by the Smithsonian, we exchanged planes back and forth , every now and then those Rascals over there send us this thing in about 20 semi-trailers.
You're not likely to come here and take back this little plane with a red hose that represents the 1920s, and frankly, there are still a lot of things wrong during this period of aviation. Notice: It still has two wings, which makes room for those struts and cables for strength. What they do is stop us. I'm sitting in the open cockpit up there, which means if it's raining, I say kite, the landing gear is fixed, which means it doesn't retract, which slows me down. The engines and weapons are not well designed and we. We have a lot of fabric in this thing, which is nice, but it's not as strong as we'd like it to be now we have to correct all these deficiencies which, by the way, included the fact that guys like me were under training and why correct those deficiencies in the 1930s we call the 1930s the golden years of naval aviation they are not the golden years because of the yellow paint yellow paint is colors of neutrality like this upper wing this is how we painted our airplanes between the two world wars o Training planes like that one, the one sitting on the second tier in its golden years,Due to technological advancement, we will eventually get rid of one of these two rings, which in turn eliminates the handcuffs on the struts that help our speed at which we go. to put flexible glass over my head we are going to retract the landing gear the tires and the engines are going to be better we are going to start making the transition from fabric to aluminum and I will get better training and it all started with DP this plane that we call our Fifi because it is an FF, a first version of hunting.
Here we have to use f4 Grumman because Goodyear already had the G circled. This is our first 200 mile per hour plane that has a similar luminance ID and on it and us. I have plexiglass over my head. Let's test the landing gear on this thing now to give you an idea of ​​how weird some of our planes are. This plane here was found upside down in a scrapyard in Nicaragua in 1961 by a crop from Oklahoma. Duster, fortunately, knew what it was, so he bought it from scrap metal. They'd be damned if he didn't fix this thing and blow it up while he was under contract.
Oh yeah, meanwhile, executives at Grumman Aviation in Bethpage, New York, found out. They wanted to get this back so they talked to Scott Duster from Oklahoma, but they took it back to Bethpage, New York, put it in this condition in 1967, the plane flew from Long Island to Pensacola and this is our first plane displayed outdoors and by the way it's the only FF left on the face of the earth and it was upside down in that junkyard, it didn't happen in Agra, now I talked quite a bit about Leroy Grumman Leroy was one of the first naval aviators, passed away long ago, but his company survives today.
It's called Northrop Grumman Corporation. We've probably had an 85-year relationship with them. They do really difficult things. Take the top here by touching the bottom on an aircraft carrier deck. The next airplane I'm going to show you is the Grumman F 3 F. It's the type of airplane that most Navy and Marine Corps

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pilots would have been flying just before World War II in late thirties and our example of that plane spent 50 years at the bottom of the ocean there is a young marine lieutenant named Bob Galen Cler is practicing pushes from San Diego in this plane has a system malfunction the engine leaves you I have to get rid of the plane in which he went down.
Bob survived well 48 years later, the Navy had a small unmanned submersible working for the Marine Corps helicopter Ken Compton, damned if they don't find this thing upside down at the bottom of the reciprocal wrapped in fishing. Well, it's very rare, so in conjunction with the Button Museum in San Diego, we're curious about its history, so research the office numbers there. It was discovered that the numbers on the tail of all military aircraft were obtained from aircraft, so the decision was made to retire them. It usually takes a couple of years to get the booze plane out of the water no matter where they are, especially if it's someone like the California Coastal Commission, plus we had to raise the money where we do nothing.
I borrowed money at this place during which we were reminded that Bob Gale was still alive. These are retired Marine Corps brigadier generals, one-star generals, so doctor, let's get this out of the drink where I invite Bob to the ceremony. That's what they called it and from what I understand they said Bob probably won't believe it we found the plane that you put on the bottom of the ocean it stood out which one not only put this one on the bottom of the ocean he bombed three planes from under the channel mcdhh Waddle as part of the so-called Cactus Air Force, during which, by the way, he also received the Medal of Honor and lost a 5th Marine Corps plane in Korea that barely escaped here is a photo. from Bob when he was older on Guadalcanal this is the plane when they took her out of the drink he was actually a little disappointed because we couldn't find his wallet he had lost his wallet there is a small glove box in the cabin of This thing looks like his car and the Admiral was there, he said well, maybe it will help you, a disappointed general, to know that we are not going to charge you for this plane, now talking about charging you for the plane when this happened in 1940. the Law Review Board Accidents actually wrote it up as pilot error, the suspicion was that he had mis-selected his fuel tanks which actually had enough fuel in the attack that the military knows that when we took this plane out of the drink we found the double selector switch right where belonged as a result of that discovery Bob Galya was vindicated from that accident Conclusion of the Review Board half a century after the event, which is the longest vindication in history and a great day, obviously, the football game is now on top On this plane, that little black thing has a gun camera and we need a gun camera for two reasons: first, we need to gather information about what it is we're filming, and second, we need to settle arguments between guys like us, the the only ones we really notice.
We're going to shoot through the spinning propellers, how the hell would we do that without shooting the blades? Did you know? It's pretty simple: we just put a mechanical interrupter here on the engine camshaft and that's going to spin. those machine guns turn off every time the blades get close to the barrel, which, by the way, is an invention that was perfected by the Dutchman Tony Polk, the guy who designed the Red Nose b7 that I talked about earlier, along with another Grumman plane and this is the front. Navy fighter in the Marine Corps during the first half of World War II and this was called Grumman F9F Four O'Clock on the Front Line Navy fighter in the Marine Corps during the first half of World War II is not as maneuverable as the Japanese El Ro for example, but much stronger with 135 pounds of armor behind the pilot's head, it was quite important for drivers and had self-sealing fuel tanks on the ground, that basically means that the fuel tanks , which were layers of aluminum and rubber, they had a layer of rubber that was not galvanized and of course, rubber that was galvanized in the sun, when it gets wet it expands, you have to blow the wing, that ungallant-eyed rubber will fill that hole and that It will prohibit fog or fuel flow if you don't.
Keep in mind that you probably won't get exposure. It would be in later versions of this aircraft that Grumman would have folding wings for the first time. In this case, the wings are folded back against which the offset will increase. The planes that we can take on board a ship are probably about 30%, that is, a significant eighth of the nineteen naval aviators who received the Medal of Honor in World War II flew this plane as if it were a pilot of the Navy, seven marines, the Navy pilot. with a guy named butch O'Hare practically single-handedly saved our aircraft carrier Lexington and February 42 by shooting down a handful of Japanese planes, unfortunately he died later in the war, but one of the interesting things, at least to me, about butch is His father was a lawyer in Chicago and for a long time my father's main client was Al Capone, the gangster.
I've always had a hard time understanding a Medal of Honor winner whose father portrayed a gangster. Joe Foss, the Marine Corps is for the ages. The top ace flew this type of aircraft 26 aerial victories had a brilliant career after leaving the Marine Corps at the end of World War II, for example, he founded the South Dakota Air National Guard, from which he retired as an officer General, he was president of the National Rifle Association was the first president of the American Football League, which today is called the American Football Conference, which is half of the NFL.
He had a television show that you may remember called the American Athlete. He and Phil Harris, the radio comedian, and Curt Goudy used to go all out. about the world hunting and fishing at night they sit around the campfire telling war stories basically lies and Joe was the governor of South Dakota with a pretty fancy career now a few years before he died this was after 9/11 it was invited by the Commandant of West Point to come and address them and when they extended the invitation they asked him to bring his Medal of Honor thinking maybe he could let some of the boys pass it on, he told him about his memories of War II World to come out. at the Phoenix Sky Harbor airport hipwood approaches the Transportation Security Authority people and damn if they didn't detain him for forty minutes because they thought he was Medal of Honor and you can see a painting of one up there on the side that looks like a star, by the way, those white rectangles on the citations of Medal of Honor recipients for the entire history of Naval Aviation, the TSA people thought Medal of Honor was one of those ninja stars that you see in the movies.
I guess that's our fiscal policy job now. In order to keep the walking to a minimum here today, I'm going to talk about some of these golden gray airplanes. These are vintage post-Korean War planes so we don't have to come back here and I'll just summarize them. This naval munitions test, these aircraft shared one common characteristic for the most part and that is that the airframe technology was far superior to the engine technology. These early jet engines have what we call slow attack. Now what that essentially means is that you move the throttle and you may not get much power response for several seconds, sometimes up to 23 seconds from idle power to full power or 100%.
The Phantom that I flew, which was designed probably less than seven years later than most of these Democrats that I could. going from idle power, which is about 62%, not just to 100% power, but to full afterburner. The afterburner is just a container behind the main engine that we're going to dump raw fuel into and that will increase our thrust so it can go. from 62% to the float burner and I'll get that full power response in less than three seconds like that, so we have a problem and we saw pretty quickly that it was also during this period of time that we started to sweep our wings.
Let's look at the swept wings of the mig-15 hanging in Tokyo a little ahead of us in this white house where the Germans were thinking, at least initially, that we were going to need to keep the road straight because we needed a better slow speed. handling characteristics around the boat the engineers come and say there are two things we can do to still capture that low speed handling characteristic but to give us more top speed and those two things are our stall fences, which are just little pieces of metal that we're going to put perpendicular to the wing that bubbles the airflow and the leading edge slats FL ATS their control surfaces that are usually only supported by the back and forth wind or the speed of the aircraft and as you decrease those things will just automatically fall off and change the configuration of the wing, which changes the wind lift characteristics, so between the slats and the stall barriers we started sweeping those wings and one of the planes we made. that unsuccessful one was the f9f panther which in a swept wing version became the f9f cougar about 168 or 70 miles per hour faster than in a straight line, of course this is where it was commissioned.
I'm just going to say that we do winning ceremonies. we do retirements, in fact we have done weddings and here believe it or not, and we do quarterly dinners for over 300 volunteers and very dramatic ones at midnight, which is the type of plane that the Blue Angels thought about from 1974 to 1986, of course, they fly closer than that some of them and more because the weight considerations on the roof are based here and you probably heard them wrong, they are practicing today it's free, it's open to the public and this is one of the best places in recent years, of course, to look at the small aircraft ranges in the far corner with 41 on the side up and they say the world would train it, call the encouragement they have this 41 on the side in honor of George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st President of the United States, the eldest.
Bush, who flew that same plane a few times, was trained to become a naval aviator; by the way, when he earned his wings in 1943, he was the youngest naval aviator to speak just before his 19th birthday. He would also have flown the SNJ plane. in this corner that has 132 on the nose, which is the Navy's advanced trainer in the Marine Corps during World War II, but was replaced in Pensacola by the North American t28 example that hangs just outside the edge of the Mason, away from us with that white and orange paint job - type of fighter plane above our head here is the plane a Beechcraft t-34 which in turn has been replaced by the Texan - the t6 Do you see today a Pensacola single engine turboprop and see the cream and blue or orange green that has the air t6 behindFrom me the F-18 which is the front line fighter right now is sitting in front of the National Flight Academy.
I observe the National Fire Academy while the National Flight Academy as scientific technology engineering. and mathematics fully immersive learning experience for students in grades 7-12 primarily, we have the ability in the summer weeks to bring up to two hundred and sixteen of those young people directly to the Academy. Going to the Academy again is like walking aboard an aircraft carrier. science sounds and smells like burning aviation fuel, camaraderie of machinery, you know, we have big subwoofers in the walls that sound like engines, you can hear the plane taking off above your head, all the communication here we lower the curtains and basically put these kids right into a five and a half day video game experience, except teaching them things like aeronautics, from the joint operations centers to the intelligence centers, the ready rooms, all the birthing spaces, they pile them up and take all their needles there and basically we are changing lives, this is a 40 million dollar paid stem facility that offers an experience unlike any experience and the th-57, which is the helicopter on the second level that had 64 on the side, is a type of helicopter that we have used in the late 1960s to train the Navy Marine Corps.
Coast Guard pilots are often referred to as naval borders and currently host for our nations and occasionally we have a military training takes place at Whiting Field, which is probably located a better part of 30 miles northeast of where We are in a straight line. on any given day, why didn't I feel constitutes about 22 percent of the world's population and probably about 15, so my infectivity today, how busy it is, well, you've probably flown across a planet in Portugal, They have nine hundred thousand pence a day, which is the take-off. Well, waiting on a given day, excuse me, on a given year, on a given year, it costs about 1.2 million, so it's a third busier and a planner, which is just amazing, especially when you give yourself Note that many of those flights are piloted by aviators who do not have different wings.
Sorry, this is an SBD SP for the ex-FIFA Douglas scout that was thought to be obsolete at the start of World War II; in fact he served so effectively that he ended up serving throughout the entire period of the war in the latter stages. Now this aircraft hangar is the equipment that sank five of the 11 Japanese aircraft carriers, let's look at World War II now, why is this specific year critical? transpose two minor reasons, which is D 7 7 1941, the so-called sneak attack, now granted, that's luck, but it's a pretty good hit 180 anti-aircraft that day now you turn the clock forward by six months we get to possibly one of the battles most important in the history of the Knight States is called the Battle of Midway Island Midway was called that because it was halfway from the west coast to Tokyo and we believed that the Japanese probably wanted to control Midway Island because that would allow them to protect better the offensive perimeter that they had established in the first months of the war.
Through a lot of work, we cracked their code and were able to determine that they were indeed when they attacked Midway, allowing the Navy to tactically position themselves on three carriers and wait, and then we got a lucky break in the big leagues with one of our PBYs. Catalina, so this is a PBY on a head that actually detected the Japanese before they detected. we, which gave us the first tactical advance we made, launched 41 torpedo boats at Darmouth, the Japanese did not very adequately shoot down 35 in the 15 planes of torpedo squadron 8 or shot down fifteen or twenty-nine thirty types, only Saban was a McGeorge pilot. gay never saw the movie Battle of Midway he was the character floating in the Pacific who took the seat cushion out of an airplane and instead hid from his disabled Japanese plane now because the Japanese had to take all their fighter planes out of the water to intercept them. and because they started to take back their own aircraft carrier decks, they feed the dark planes that were returning from having bombed memory island and because of a little faulty intelligence that came to discuss another knot in my head, they put bombs on the plane that he was coming back and they sent him back to bomb Midway Island or torpedoes and I don't have them with him because he knows them, it was about 15 minutes to burn a dog like this plane right here previously lost along the way or its pilot could say temporarily disoriented, They would arrive at the scene of the battle.
Unopposed by most, these fighters, these SPDs came and in less than six minutes sank three Japanese aircraft carriers, that's for aircraft carriers at the Battle of Midway in June 1942 and from that day forward they will never be the same in the future. Japanese offensive and that. That's when you started hearing things like Guadalcanal Peleliu Tinian, OG, Okinawa, the so-called sequential island hopping campaign that basically kicked the Japanese out the back door, now it just goes back to the main reason why this plane is because it's the only one still standing. the face of the earth money the other side of the Japanese side that actually participated in the Battle of Midway coast of small catches in the surveys the Marine Corps pilot who flew this thing picked up in the Battle of Midway took its hit like a gunshot Le He cut a Japanese woman's throat, that's how close she came to dying.
He and his name was Iverson, by the way, had to make a decision. He had to take this plane, the American aircraft carrier Yorktown Atlanta, we had to take it back to the island. When she arrived, that's what she did. If she had taken it to New York City, you wouldn't be looking at it because the Japanese somewhat later, now as it was when I was and it landed on the eye of the island that had had. Blame it on the story, the landing was pretty rough and it ended up breaking the main wing spend, so when the green for Grassman doesn't make out, I said well we can fix it, but he's tired of the war so we'll send him back to the states, among themselves they did what they did.
They put him on a plane borrowed for the group of other planes. They returned to the United States. We fix it. We put him on the advance train. Come on, at that time I was teaching our young people about taking off my other planes. Spins on Lake Michigan. why Lake Michigan well two reasons why we have enemy submarines both train my control plan to a great extent, as a result we needed to protect the waters and we chose the transport Chicago, we had a couple of converted steamers and the decks moved over the water and we assume our territory. fishing well the students believe in what they are including this happened fifteen thirty years now we find this thing we always do we investigate the office you can see it up there in the queue section by the way simple training the Pensacola command finally happy is stéphanie a thousand man-hours to make it look like it is today just like I could trace those things that are breaking until now notice that I have nothing around this that is a change in this world we have a little different attitude our attitude is that simple we have 70 thousand hours -man in the sieve plan for everything, we're just going to fix it, it's more important that, oh yeah, particularly the young people play somewhere else, are you going to play downtown? such a great period of history, the only one that tells me Fifty participated a couple of years ago.
I had a lady here by the tail of the plane, we got on our knees on her name and kisses her, and after the

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she said, "I hope that doesn't embarrass you." or they helped me guess, but my dad why, so let's see if we understand those who survived the sneak attack, they survived about five applied tiger colors. Tigers are actually known more formally as ABG, the American Quality Group, the favorite lunches that a former military pilot went to work with. mercenaries for an army colonel by class name and is generally a ghost to the CIA geysers and formed this band of brothers to protect the Chinese from the Japanese invaders, which is why his plane was trying to conquer and alone They flew together. from I could play with the most famous Flying Tigers.
You better watch the captain, yes, forever, yes, twenty-four hours of links and his name is Gregory Cathy. Quentin is arguably most famous for being the commanding officer of VM 14 Black Sheep. the TV show baa baa black sheep and then Robert Conrad and the starring role until three years next December the only surviving laxative pilots the boy can hold on to I spoke to Harry less than a month before he died he was sitting here in the The world made fun of a terrace, we had a table on chairs up there, an area handed out photographs, autographed photographs and I started in Iowa, very good friends, I stopped and said to Harry, what was it like flying with someone famous? this really work in his face he hit me with his index finger right in my chest and said sir, I didn't fly with Cathy points, he's going to fly with me, hey, he was 94 years old and by the way, he's still admissible the way he is the black seat.
It's called that because it basically states and warms up with squadrons of discards of a squadron now, if Disney designed this Flying Tiger, you can see the money to build these buildings, including the national Flight Academy, to buy assets for The New Yorker vishing, etc raised for a private 501c3 corporation called Neighborhood Vision Foundation dating back to 1960 since then and the current executive director of the foundation is retired and shriveled under John Wayne Tisa who calls him Drano, the general command of hell at all levels of the squad Marine Corps Aviation. the wing he was the Inspector General of the Marine Corps in is senior and career marines and his last command commanded Marine Forces Pacific throughout the Connemara warpath, basically meaning he had under his command around of 60% of the Marine Corps and all personnel facilities. team in Mississippi this is also for general praise thank you very much great to be great to be here it's your first time here it's not but it's been many years since I was last here well let me let me tell you what I think is the strength and ​​the Gotcha of this place.
Okay, if you look around you, you have a lot of machines. All of these machines represent some level of technology, some level of performance, some level of capability at the time they would produce. You take these machines and you put them in a historical context of what they actually did, where they served, the one behind you was actually flying in the Battle of Midway, this represents the American effort before we actually entered the war and many of our famous Pilots from both the Army Air Corps and the Navy came out of the American volunteer pool, so there is this background story and then there is the part that people like our teachers, the people who buy glue, do very well here, where we can take it to a machine. allows you to touch it, touch something of historical importance and it tells you the story of an individual which actually included the personal story of an experience, a personal story of bravery or the story of the person that we can relate to a specific aircraft and, of course, Suddenly, what you've done is you've taken the story, a very real, tangible frame of experience that you can relate to more deeply and that people enjoy, that's the impact, that's what we do here better than anywhere. somewhere else, you'll do fine, thank you, thank you, that's great and He's been doing a great job and I hope to get a lot out of it and put it on YouTube and it will be preserved.
You know you're doing a great job today and recording at the top of your game. I think probably and well, thank you. Thank you very much, so I mean, did he tell you about a gentleman named Iverson? Yeah, so you're talking about a young man named Iverson and we need a very young man named Iverson and he gets so close that he takes a bullet that takes the man's throat, you know, you have a group of people around you and you start telling that story and every one of them looks at the cabin and thinks we always smoke, that's good, he told me that when we took this plane to medical attention, a relative of Iverson were sitting in the front cabin and regarding that we came together, no joke, no , I didn't say what I didn't tell you if he was in this after he was awarded the Navy Cross for his activities, he was reassigned as an instructor and ended up dying having Wow, but there are many stories about Syndra, the lady who was giving flight instruction in Hawaii, died and saw the Japanese Li.
It was cool that she really joined in, I think so. It was the air force component in the airport component of the team in which the women who transported that ready, she died, I mean, it's one, it's one, it's a story of thousands in a risk and probability scenario by itself. will only make sure that we have a catastrophe,so, but that makes it important, they all serve some of them in battle, some of them in support, okay sir, thank you, thank you, yes, thank you, thank you very much, I'm for Miami, I'm visiting. my brother Brian, who just moved to Pensacola, the Grumman F6F Hellcat was the Navy's superstar in the Marine Corps and during the second half of World War II, although he only served less than half of the war, he ended up shooting down more than 75% of the Japanese planes in Worcester will come to Paris during the entire course of the war, more than 5,200 Japanese planes, in fact, 300 of them in one day that was in the Battle of the Philippine Sea, we call it the big canary and it is a Turkish year. for obvious reasons, over 300 aces through this type of member, five aerial victories, the culmination, one of which said that if this thing could cook, I would marry it now, among those aces was David the Kemp, the Navy's all-time leading ace with 34 aerial victories.
Medal of Honor recipient David shot down seven Japanese planes in a single mission and Garnica didn't come out to shoot down mine. Japanese Rae Hawkins also flew this aircraft. Rea had fourteen aerial victories in three other probables and unconfirmed Vickers received three Navy crosses. and three distinguished flights cross all events before turning 21, he became a Navy captain, led the Blue Angels and for years served as treasurer of the private 501c3 corporation that raises the money for this group and is currently led by 19 to 1 kill ratio to put that in perspective, the wildcat we talked about earlier with 7, the 1/2 Corsair behind you had a kill ratio of 11 to 1, the Japanese heated up the field, in fact they called it whistling death, they did it because when the air end of those oil coolers at the root of the wing had screeched like a fire, so if they hated the Corsair of 11, the ratio of 1 death, imagine what what the Japanese thought about healthcare, now they lost the Corsair that Harry Johnson and Pappy Boyington flew in the Pacific and You can see very clearly from this point of view that British glasses are quite different.
We have one wing, two wings, which normally on most airplanes comes straight out of the fuselage. Why did we do this? Pretty simple. We had a very large propeller and We were afraid that if we took the wings off the fuselage, the wings were so long that they would make the plane bounce well when landing, even though we designed it this way, it didn't bounce at all, so the Navy did what to do with all the stuff they don't like, they gave it to the Marine Corps guys and we quickly made it famous in Godman, it could be enough in the Black Sea in the South Pacific in World War II and then, of course, later in Korea.
The seller is a plane designed by Grumman and the plane that Roman actually puts on the assembly lines he calls us TBS TV for torpedo bomber. Yes Grumman, well, you can't see it because of the folded shape, but under the tail of this plane. there are some templates that say TBM - 3 e CD for 12 foot Obama M means that this Grumman designed plane actually rolled off the assembly line in the Eastern aircraft divisions General Motors General Motors was not making cars in World War II , they were making things like a vendetta under licensing agreement with drummer sherman tanks m1 carbines warbirds basically Franklin Delano Roosevelt picked up the phone and in many cases personally spoke to the CEOs of the major manufacturing companies in this country and said hey man, we need you guys to make more products and you know for one person you did that, you dropped your two villains and just like General Motors you started generating mortgages even the little kids war effort went to a couple of rubber tires. and pots and pans and they would melt and turn into things like this now back to Bush Bush is flying with his avenger one day bombing the island of chichi Jima this is Japan's main communications base in the South Pacific for you oh Wow, we d vomit he made a fixed width bomb he set it up like a tennis match, he's bombing one day he gets shot down, unfortunately two crew members died and he almost died because when he jumped out of the plane he headed towards the tail and his The parachute got hung up on the tail and he had to turn Lee around so this session he only took a couple of hits on the parachutes before his feet went into the water and then he almost drowned him for the life of him, well it's a Pretty bad day for him. older guys now the Japanese in chichi Jima want to capture him and interrogate him and they send a small patrol boat to try to pick him up and before that patrol boat can get to him one of our Hellcats hypermarkets sank that patrol boat well The Japanese could get their wits about them and send a boat rowing with elephants.
The United States appears. submarine text the other day all the guys on board in Deauville hesitate now people say boy did you ever get lucky? Well, you know what? Not so much, we actually put submarines under major Naval Aviation commitments for that very reason when our children abandoned the water we wanted. in the back it took a lot of time and money to train it and we didn't do it, it was a pretty raw experience for me, let's go to the surface and talk about Terry, this is the 172 scale model of the CBN as nuclear aircraft carrier 65 USS Enterprise.
It is our first nuclear carrier call to the PB other than USS Constitution. Trust the science. This ship actually served perhaps longer than any other. Any other ship. Many people will tell you that they think this is the best boat engine in the world. I have to say that she is a beautiful ship, but my personal favorite is the one on the kiosk next to us and this model will go in there as soon as those gentlemen move. This model is also a 170 second scale model, it is the CV 6. which is the USS Enterprise during World War II and of course the CV 6 World War 2 was the most decorated ship of the war by far, of any type.
Let's take a look at how we're doing now. cb6 USS Enterprise World War Two On the decks of CB 6, the USS Enterprise of World War II, was a young Hellcat fighter pilot named Jack Taylor. Jack actually got out of the Navy at the end of the war and started a company that today you know is the car rental company, that's how he got his name here, unfortunately, Jack died just a few months ago, but his son India, member of the board of directors of the Naval Aviation Museum Foundation, with myself and the Taylor family, have given this facility well north of 25 million dollars.
I always like to tell him. I guess you might want to consider renting a car from the Taylor family, but thank you basically for what you've done for this national treasure. Remember that I said that we are going to collect them. 135 million since the mid 1960's of the swarming family contribution to this world class facility is second to none and by the way, the car rental company is a private organization, it is not a public company, it is a fabulous corporation, is it? OK? Look at this, this platform, and if you come to the front, you can really get a good perspective on nothing.
This platform is very straight, in fact, it is not original. It's called a straight platform with a flat top and this presents an operational deficiency and that is that we. We have planes parked out front which is a very common occurrence and we are landing planes. We had to put a barrier amidships at all times to protect these parked planes from any landing planes a truck might have. white, if you put a plane in the barrier, at least you can slow down the pace of operations, worse still, you can damage the plane or the planet, so to solve this operational deficiency around 1950 we stole the concept and the British called it in angle. a flight and that is the aircraft carrier deck layout that we used today and I have a template of one here on the floor and I'm going to use this template to talk to you about the transport operation to guide you in this template this is the beginning on the side right of the offset which is the front of the file which is the back of a society and over here and you see this white and yellow center line here in the angle, the duck has moved about nine degrees or so from the center line of the ship now, What does this mean, of course, I can take off and land right here without interfering with what's going on up there on the bow.
Now we still use the barrier, an example of which is just outside the fence which, like human hair, we use. I could use it, for example, if we are in blue water operations very far from the sea and we have a plane that cannot bring it down, those planes go into the water or go to the barracks, which is a very simple decision, now this template turns out to be the CBN 76, which is the Ronald Reagan, the Reagan is the ninth of the ten super carriers of her class that we operate today, the last of which is the Joy Walker Bush turbine, which is the city of 77.
I started building them every few years and in the early seventies they are about 11 feet long about 250 feet wide they have monthly power plants 5,500 people carry it between 75 and 85 aircraft exactly one of those ten Nimitz class aircraft carriers have four capitals of these big black lines here up these two here are called Bobcats these two here are called waste caps when we started using catapults in the 1920's we used compressed air and rubber powder to launch our planes neither of which worked very well so We quickly started using the hydraulic system. The hydraulic system is very efficient, but it prevents the death of the plane.
It was quite difficult for both pilots, so to solve that problem with hydraulic juices we borrowed another concept that the British called steam catapults and Of course, the 10 minutes plus mulch and the Enterprise are steam cats. Well, steam is definitely easier or less than hydraulic flow, but in steam catapults in the first 25 percent of the saw, the launch is sequenced depending on the height and weight of the aircraft, you may pick up so much. like 5 to 6 G, that's enough, frankly, to flatten your eyes and make you see a little bit, so to solve this problem and a series of other problems starting with the next shift class in that class is called the Jerry Ford class which starts with a The CBM 78, which was recently deployed, the Commission will probably be going full circle for them to come here, starting with the Jerry Ford and all subsequent aircraft carriers.
These four chemicals in the stop mechanism may be electromagnetic. It is called linear induction motor technology. It's the same basic thing. theory Disney monorail users, but of course we have to modify the uses for use on the boat, in theory, at least one of these electromagnetic catapults can launch Herbie, the Volkswagen Beetle, about ten miles into the sky, what? how would you like to travel probably once, but? Equally important, we're going to be able to adjust these things so that we can do something for very long periods of time that we can't do: 10-minute ships and that's launching the UAV deck that You're the wave of the future, we can do it in the Nimitz ships but it will shorten their lifespan because it is too difficult also with the Jerry Ford who took this island, we put it here where this elevator number three moves this.
The island on the way back is learning its lesson, the noise that the pilots feel is that they are approaching land. Moving the island back allowed us to space these elevators a little further and placed a group of robots below deck that allows us to refuel. manned green launch aircraft, about 35 percent of the vessels can fly in boats of less than 10 minutes and of course what that will mean is having three aircraft carriers in the voyage per class, like having four aircraft carriers in the class of minutes because it gives us an additional launch sequence and now when I was a young man I used to go to all the theme parks and buy what was called a ticker, you might remember the e-ticket, you buy a ticket and it gave you the right to ride in whatever you wanted, as many times I always would. go quickly to look for the attractions I might go fast and it will turn me upside down my mother hated it but I love it.
I don't do it today. I've had enough of that stuff and I don't like watching that stuff come together. and then come to town, but I'll tell you, you can't eat chicken at Disney, you get the e-ticket right here on this catapult boat, here I'm going to clock in around 2:30 in the morning driving up a storm. Gusty winds, hey Steve, it says the decks go up and down about 25 feet and I'll launch you from 0 to about 165 miles with an iron in about two and a half seconds, yes, even if you continue accelerating to start the sequence at your pace. of acceleration, your rate of acceleration changes so dramatically that you feel like you've stopped, like your engines have shut down, so it's cool when I write about this.
You have done this so that when you regain your vision, whichit takes, frankly, four less than a Secondly, you very quickly inspect all the important garbage in the cabin. Now I'm looking at the angle of the turn indicator to make sure it's not so steep that I end up stuck. You go into the water or it's as shallow as the submarine. In the water and looking at my vertical speed indicator we call it BSI to make sure it's positive which means I'm fine and I look at my speed indicator to make sure it's going up. I don't bother looking at the engine gauges because, frankly, if they're not working properly, the rest of those things don't work.
I can do it in about a second and a half twice and when I realize that I'm really flying is when my brain tells my ears to get the feeling that you're really flying and that's when you're finally pretty, although believe me, you've been holding my breath overnight, bad weather, heavyweight launch pad, bow cap launch, my friends, it's your e-ticket, right now, maybe you have an hour, maybe. Seven hours passed, we had men and women who flew seven hours on single-seat combat missions in Afghanistan or off the ship, but I have to get you back to land now, how am I going to do this?
Initially, we are going to put you. in what's called the Marshall holding pattern, which is the electronic pattern in the sky to starboard, you can't see it, but if you could, it looks like a high school running track with stretches of about six miles and I'm going to put you are there, either individually or payers every thousand feet, depending on the type of plane, every thousand feet stacked like Pringles in a can, everyone who goes in there gets their own personal Marshall next time, that's the time they have to maneuver their plane to intercept. an electronic fixation in the sky that moves at a speed of about plus or minus two seconds and that's when I use my fourth grade man, what do I have to do to maneuver my plane to position my plane to intercept that Marshall vector more or less two seconds?
Nowadays, computers help pilots with which, as far as I'm concerned and I'm sure you're worried about your teeth, that's fine, but now is when we use our fourth grade math, depending on the time of the day and weather conditions. The three basic ways to descend are a lower landing pattern. A really nice day. The winds don't bother us. We have restricted visibility. We are going to ask the plane to come in Marshall pattern level at Hayter at 800 feet. starboard or the right side of the boat about a mile at the corner of the beam and the 800 feet 350 miles per hour or so, are flat up or down and when that plane is clear of a tailwind, Depending on the type of aircraft, it will run an angle of up to 75 degrees backwards and up to five times the force of gravity. 190 degree turn.
They're aligned with this white and yellow line, still a smooth 800-foot Obama quarter beam on this side headed in opposite directions. It's called downwind when we go down or it's automatically sent to about 600 feet and we're going to put the beer glass down, but right now we're slowing the plane down progressively so that when we get to the back of the boat we're below. to land the ESPYs is called the optimal angle of lift and drag attack ratio and when I get this position, I automatically start a gradual sending deck towards the empty left, so that the run in the middle of the period, in what we call the 90, down to 450.
I'll continue the turn at about a 20 to 22 degree angle back to your reporters natively through the colt 45 tournament now I'm at about 350 degrees. I'm selling fun please depending on your craft and it's in this position that I start looking at the optical landing system an example of which is against the wall and if I see what I want to see there I'm going to say something like sweet oh seven feet I went to shoot sweet seven with the callsign ghosts the type 4.2 plane is my fuel say hundreds of pounds in a 24 pound ball means I see what I want to see here now, what am I looking for?
I'm looking at this device that's mounted here on the port side of the ship and its pilot facing aft and it's I assembled Johnross Kapa quickly because it has to project a stable beam of light that we can adjust for the type of aircraft that has an angle of three degrees and that beam of light has to remain stable on the boat, it is not harmful to the waves. I'm looking at these aqua green light bars that are called data lights and I'm also looking at this vertical display which is now a recognized lamp because it's a hard copy, it means it's lit from top to bottom all the time, but depending on the anklet that is looking at it, you can only see a certain amount of lights.
See the big stripe on this? What happens when you look at it lightly? it changes the angle you're looking at no it doesn't go up and down you're fine and this is what we use for a glass look it looks like a bump because you're so close if you're a little further away here in the museum it widens to a few hundred feet away it will look like a big senator this is what allows us to set the hook in that square shape times easier and not now when I said sweet summer phantom pain 4.2 know the signal official landing the LSO here also see a pilot says Roger Ball there is absolutely no merger I'm going to keep quiet as a landing pilot and the LSO is going to start getting annoyed things like a little power are going to stay be careful with your liner they don't deflate you can see the things that happen in my plane as fast as I can see them and it's comforting to have this comforting voice on the other end of the radio giving me little suggestions no matter how annoying they may seem at the time, however there are two things the LSO tells a landing pilot. which are not suggestions which are mandatory commands and those two things are wave off wave off the file platform, in which case they will turn on those red lights and the landing pilot, the pilot in the groove, must turn around even if o you're going to run out of gas Master, something's wrong with the deck making it unsafe to land now, in the old days the LSOs pointed their shit with most of the paddles, they almost looked up at my tennis racket, we don't Of course I don't do that anymore because of Fernau's limbs, but LSOs are still nicknamed rowers, who has rowing duty today means being dirty today, they look like this, not at the back of the ship here are all qualified pilots, but not all fully qualified LSO, some of them may be trainees, but each of them here has the responsibility to control now, so only the controller Alice will talk to the pilots through that hand center left, that right hand on the control also has vertical. its controls those red lights that are very low now I have about 12 seconds at most until landing and my entire universe is consumed by three things.
I'm trying to put my nose gear on this yellow weight line that's not mine. I am looking. in the pronoun wins for my glide slope information and I'm looking at the front display of my airspeed indicator, my attack indicator, which will give me my annual attack, which again is the optimal ratio left to drag, I have to carry that in sp, the handle will attack in every direction from 181 it has started a one hundred and eighty degree turn until reaching the touchdown now I'm trying to catch that number three, why if I catch the number four when I get to three, I'm on Track I plan I'm the two of them number one in the world I'm dangerous, we love each other, well I can put the hook right where it belongs, but one of the things that carry Dustin either gets up and down, so this just sent me to the bottom.
I and I may miss this rider even though my book has worked on launch, so every time we land on Butch Up, we automatically go to wash the percentage of energy, not the afterburner, but the hardcore sunflower that We call it military power, so if we really lose the cable, we can just bounce off Pacific Ultimate built and we spin around, try again and then throw out chunks of bass when you catch the cable, you know, because you can expect 30,000 pounds and you're going somewhere. 100 to 115 miles per hour and faster than the Bono and this cable. it wants to stop you inside, so as soon as I got full power, if I feel resistance on this cable, I pull on the power, they pull me back gently.
I hit the left brake because my right main tire has been around long enough to give it enough angle for this cable to go up the hook, if it doesn't, a 19 year old girl, if she's going to like this cable, we have I have to get this cookie fly and get me out of here real quick because depending on the time of day or the weather conditions, someone could be 35 seconds ahead if we don't clear this plane to land here safely on time, so , say hello, follow the deck when you land and get out of your plane, you may think you're stupid, but it's not you and all the other pilots in that long group of ships have to return to the squadron ready room and we have an example of the preparation room here in the back, we have to go back to the preparation room and I have to wait for controller Ellis and the guy behind with a notepad to walk straight into this club, everyone run and give them everyone a broken braid right in front of their classmates.
You're fine if they laugh at you, a flat Midlands. baskin close boom boom boom boom boom boom va those grades end up being posted on a wall next to the squadron area all the pilots included alphabetically in this quadrant The executive office and CEO truck of that entire grade posted it to the right, okay three cable no comment, a perfect pass, less than one of the 300 coatings on board the ship is a perfect pass and that is a big green square, okay, okay, three cables, but flat in the middle and fast in the closing , that will give you some yellow in that green square.
I can go. in any ready room on the face of the earth and I can tell you just that easily where the best pilot is around the ship because he or she will have the greenest next to his or her name and that's why we now call it the greedy board Is it fun? Well, you know what? On a day like today, the winds don't bother us. The hours of daylight. Unlimited visibility. It's a pretty good sport. It's never fun at night. When I flew, my vision was 28, not 20/20, not 2010, 28, which means I could. I saw it at 20 feet from the so-called rope and I could see it at eight and I hate those concepts.
A fight because you lose spatial awareness at night in bed. Bad weather I think they call it a stupid human trick, but this is what separates, turning and then focusing most of the left polishing in the world. This is the ship and this is our core of trust.

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