what the hell :D

8:18 Wombat? Is that you?

That such men and women serve makes me humble.

When he's fast down low you can hear ticking sounds in the air stream. I'm told those are insects hitting the canopy.

If only I could see the Tomcat fly once more😢

The 1998 Oceana show does that opening move as soon as the wheels leave the runway

Manhatters,Sunday puncher's

North Atlantic 1983, Cold and rough seas. Our combat deployment in Mideast was a joke to the things that happened to crew there

I always think of Maverick and him saying “I’ll hit the brakes, he’ll fly right by”, and wonder what those movie pilots could have done with the F22 and full thrust vectoring! It’s like trying to slam on the brakes in an M1A1 Abrams tank, vs an F1 car. I wonder what ol Snort could have done in Raptor!

Oh the beautiful sounds of those loud birds ❤

I don't think i could ever do this...land a plane at night on a moving deck...at birth I was only issued one set of balls.

Pitching deck landing, I cannot think of any supreme example that defines the intimacy of "Man and Machine".

The audio sucks... Speech is so fkn quiet I have to max the volume and then you have the external view at full volume so my speakers and ears get blown out. Fix this

Pilots must feel beyond badass and for good reason. They can take your life in an instant

One of many great series that were broadcasted during the early 2000s. I 'm glad that I was able to record it, when it aired, to my dvd recorder and later backed up the disks to my ext hdd. For a while the series could be seen at the PBS website until the adobe player was no longer supported. Then, up until a several months ago, the whole series could, later, be found at an archive site and I would pass the link along to others, but it has been since pulled down. I guess pbs allows the short clips, maybe to generate purchase of the series. I thought it was available, free, with an Amazon Prime membership.

Learning to warm up on jet exhaust and not go overboard around Greenland, North Atlantic, Reagan as Commanding Officer ,no joke

"You gonna send your mojo to skipper Fravor?" "He don't need it." Truer words were never spoke.

Sex and Jello famous before they were famous

I was holdback cat 1 ,82, we were in the north Atlantic, aside the British in ops, were crazy, especially in bad wheather. Right after that we went to South America, Rough seas there too. Then Hezbollah killed those 300 Marines, Medatranian is nothing but no sleep ever ,etc. A bunch of Bs,

Anyone who knows, what's the alarm going off at 0:28? I'm guessing altitude, but I just want to make sure

Money way more important than life. You guys way to big for the rest of us ..... we think people matter.

No home depot..maybe somewhere in Russia lol

قبل 13سنه هم مع بعض هم حرب أفغانستان وهم حرب العراق وهم 11ستمبر وهم نهب ثروات الدول العربية وهم زي ما انت شياف

What is a pitching deck? Is it just the deck of the carrier or sth special? Im not English btw

Start that motherfuker things are out, but under President Trump anytime we use this if we used it for the right reason that's the most important thing of having this capability everything else is b*******

Faver and Dietrich were together on 60 Minutes describing their UAP encounter. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kKikgMVzteDVeI0.html

You couldn't even hear the hornet and it looked like a corolla compared to that Tomcat...❤

@9:59-10:04 Speechless

Finest pilots in the world. Without them the ships the planes mean nothing. They are the punch.

How can you NOT be a fanboy of a F-14 seriously!! F-15 fanboys are so jealous of this fighter it's hilarious... it is what it is

I'm a pacifist, and I would go to war for Cmdr Fravor.

David "Sex" Fravor is the man!

Good CRM

Approaching the DECA at night and I only have the I don't have the slight vishen the way y'all think that we haven't and, I think I only have a couple you only have a couple seconds decide if you're going if you got the hook if you don't get the hook you have to know it immediately, if you do not feel that gooseneck that you get from the hook at a certain time then you would have put all full power on and be able to come back now this isn't the night, and tonight is only Friday to me if I'm flying a jet fighter or something if I'm on the ground or something like this

Yup, both Jell-O and Sex were in this series. So was Kevin McLaughlin (later became Commander of SFW Atlantic, flew over the funeral of President George HW Bush), Alex "Kone" Dietrich (who was Sex's wingman during the tic-tac incident), the USS Princeton (who spotted the Tic-Tac on radar) and sadly lost a sailor on that deployment, Seaman Apprentice Robert D. Macrum, and Brett Crozier (no speaking parts, but he was in the background a few times) who went on to command the USS Teddy Roosevelt during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. When he tried to alert command to act quickly to save his sailors from being infected he ended up in the middle of a political firestorm involving the Trump administration.

I notice every time you see the skipper with his flight helmet on he either has a plain visor or a enhanced visor or a night vision mount on in the same video why is that

DCS 2.0?

Awesome! ✈️

My father was RIO-ing in an F4 with his squadron leader (a MiG killer from Vietnam). After landing in the North Atlantic during a pitching deck at night, he said 'Randy...I've been shot at, I've been in dogfights, hell my plane's been on fire...and that is the most scared I've ever been in an aircraft.'.

SKILLS....!!! 😲😲😲

I started listening to Jello’s podcast before I watched the series. When I heard his voice in tang few seconds of voice-over before they showed him … I knew it was him immediately-his voice is so distinctive and I’m so used to it now.

This aviator was out to prove a point! All Fighter pilots are very skilled, however Navy Pilots are considered to definitely be a one of a kind breed.

9:59 is the best pass!! Love it!!

One of the best documentary series I have ever seen. Takes you back to the 9/11 era, George Bush, a very religious and patriotic USA. It was only 20 years ago but how things have changed.

. . Kinda weird that the two focal points of this story would go on to be the 2 infamous Tic Tac pilots Fravor and Dietrick. . .

Tomcat for life.

UAP!

The best of the best.

I wanted to be a navy pilot in the 1980s but they wouldn't let me because I was a gaay waad

Wow David Fravor, Jello-o, this documentary had some of the famous fighter pilots known today