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Title: US flight deck operations
Post by: Nefarious on October 06, 2014, 12:58:53 PM

Looking for links or suggested reading on carrier flight deck operations during World War 2 and later.  Things like standard operating procedures for storing/stowing, fueling,  arming, recovering and launching and emergency operations as well. Im sure all carriers were different but i was curious if there was protocol or SOPS for keeping with the flow of things on a world war 2 flight deck.

Title: Re: US flight deck operations
Post by: Arlo on October 08, 2014, 06:47:15 PM

Nobody answered this yet, it seems.

Here's an interesting Korean War era one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq61EV-FqYw

WWII to present: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Etr9lvyD4Y4

WWII landing and re-spotting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfkwjU8k6W4

Stock footage WWII: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAEgFQ09xj4

Short clip Deck ops during Iwo Jima: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1or01BBztbQ

WWII catapulting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1or01BBztbQ

Japanese carrier ops: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLBmh__VASY

F4Fs taking off: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38asXPH53PU

F6Fs and TBFs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2VUt6sVLeg

WWII JATO (land launches but narrator mentions deck launches): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovRWPV0PDDk

Flight deck ops USS Saratoga: https://archive.org/details/NPC-1307

USS Hornet: https://archive.org/details/NPC-11741

Light carrier ops - USS Independence: https://archive.org/details/NPC-800

USS Enterprise: https://archive.org/details/NPC-5598

Title: Re: US flight deck operations
Post by: Ratsy on October 08, 2014, 07:21:09 PM

Nef -

I did a quick google with these search terms "aircraft carrier launch and recovery cycle + description".  I got some interesting hits.  If nothing else this might be a good starting point.

Hope it helps -

 :salute

Title: Re: US flight deck operations
Post by: The Fugitive on October 08, 2014, 09:22:43 PM

I can't help you much with details, but it was always interesting to be out there during OPs. Scary fun   :D

Title: Re: US flight deck operations
Post by: Nefarious on October 09, 2014, 10:32:18 AM

Great stuff guys! This should really help me out.

Title: Re: US flight deck operations
Post by: artik on October 28, 2014, 08:12:12 AM

Quote from: Arlo on October 08, 2014, 06:47:15 PM

WWII landing and re-spotting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfkwjU8k6W4

This one is great - very informative and gives very good picture of what is happening on the flight deck.

Also I'll add this one "After the cut" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMy4rbF1UdA

It is a cartoon but it is used for training and very cool.