Nostalgic OT footage

[littleike]

I was 7 years old in 54" !!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K46-MRxjteU

[TulliusDetritus]

Incredible image quality. I was expecting the worst.

EDIT: ah, it's a movie. The quality is still astonishing.

[Chickenboy]

I've always thought the F9F Panther is the most beautiful jet fighter ever made. It's just gorgeous. [8D]

[wdolson]

My mother's cousin flew Panthers off the Oriskany during the Korean War.

Bill

[dr.hal]

Not having an angled flight deck makes a carrier a much more difficult proposition!

[LeeChard]

The movie's story was a little similar to my dad's. He had two kids and was going to collage on the GI bill
to become a lawyer when war broke out.
He flew the F2H Banshee so I think that's a cooler plane than the Panther[:D]

[Hermit]

ORIGINAL: dr.hal

Not having an angled flight deck makes a carrier a much more difficult proposition!

As with most things, this depends on your perspective. As a pilot, the carrier moving at an angle to your approach path makes it more difficult to keep proper line-up. On the other hand, an angled deck makes it much less likely you'll hit the tower if there's a cable mishap.

[littleike]

ORIGINAL: wdolson

My mother's cousin flew Panthers off the Oriskany during the Korean War.

Bill

Wow! Maybe one of the film true pilots was him!!

(from wikipedia)

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Filming

Exteriors were shot aboard the USS Oriskany (CV-34) and the USS Kearsarge (CV-33), 27,100-ton Essex-class aircraft carriers standing in for the USS Savo Island.[3] The aircraft used in the film is the Grumman F9F-2 Panther, a Korean War workhorse still in service and equipping the air groups of both carriers, at the time the film was made. In the novel, however, Brubaker's squadron flew McDonnell F2H Banshees. The squadron depicted is an actual unit, Fighter Squadron 192 (VF-192) "Golden Dragons," which was aboard the Oriskany during the filming, and from its part in the movie, thereafter, billed itself as the "World Famous Golden Dragons." VF-192 had two war deployments to Korea, but aboard the USS Princeton (CV-37) and flying Vought F4U-4 Corsairs. The squadron continues service today as Strike Fighter Squadron 192 (VFA-192), a McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet unit.
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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

I've always thought the F9F Panther is the most beautiful jet fighter ever made. It's just gorgeous. [8D]

Yes F9F was one of my best beautiful Us Navy Jet togheter with the Douglas A4E Skyhawk!!

A question about the footage:

Someone know if the band playing and sailors dancing on the two ships meeting is a tradition really in use in the US Navy ?
And the strange operations when carrier approach home port on the deck by Corsairs is another show?
Do you know more on traditions of what carriers are capable of when they decide to play or astonish people returning home?

[bomccarthy]

ORIGINAL: littleike

A question about the footage:

Someone know if the band playing and sailors dancing on the two ships meeting is a tradition really in use in the US Navy ?
And the strange operations when carrier approach home port on the deck by Corsairs is another show?
Do you know more on traditions of what carriers are capable of when they decide to play or astonish people returning home?

Google "toko ri" and "pinwheel" - this was an uncommon(?) practice of some ship captains, using prop-engine aircraft to help with maneuvering the ship. Aircrew detested it, since it involved running air-cooled engines at high power settings while standing still (little air flow through the engines).