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In today’s video… we get into the history of aircraft carriers, amazing warships that joined the air and sea!
CHAPTERS:
Intro: 00:00 – 00:33
Disclaimer: 00:33 – 00:46
Balloon Carriers: 00:46 – 02:14
Seaplane Carriers: 02:14 – 03:40
Interwar Carriers: 03:40 – 06:59
World War II Carriers: 06:59 – 11:14
Innovations Post-WWII: 11:14 – 15:24
Next Week Sneak Peek: 15:24 – 15:56
Music:
“Gavotte des Baisers”
“Poolside Radio” by Dyalla
“Busy City” by TrackTribe
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I watched old 1996 VHS documentary my parents showed me its called US Navy Carrier Strike force showing footage clips of both Nuclear and non Nuclear American carriers but its mostly planes during Gulf War.
Since your doing IJN carrier I was wondering for future video if your gonna do USS Forrestal I know the fire conspiracy by McCain is still dumb I like to hear your words about the disaster.
Fantastic. It's amazing that carriers preceded planes. I always thought the Langley was the first aircraft carrier.
14:02 An interesting story about Chinook helicopters. In the Marines I was in a Recon unit and as chance would have it, when I transferred to the reserve, my reserve unit was also Recon. So, one day, my platoon was in a hangar in an airport and there was some screw up about whether we would be on a Chinook or C-130 that day. So, there we were in this hangar, with time to kill and in an office there was a magazine about the Chinook. In the center of the magazine was a "If you're interested, fill in one of these cards" inserts. I sent in the card and a few days later, my phone rang. A gruff man inquired about my interest in Chinooks. I told him I was curious because a good portion of the magazine was about the civilian version of the Chinook. He then asked, "Speaking of which, how did you come to see that magazine? It has a closed circulation." I explained how I saw the magazine. Alright, we'll let you have the information" and a week later, a pouch with all kinds of information arrived. I wondered if I was in any trouble, but nothing seemed to come from it.
Not sure what you meant by only France having nuclear carriers. Other than that the balloon Carriers were interesting.👍😊
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Hi Derek and Elinor!
Nim rhymes with 'dim' when saying Nimitz. Great video, interesting history.
Fun fact: the Chinook is the only aircraft that is capable of having a mid-air collision with itself. The rotors from both hubs criss-cross each other and are only prevented from colliding by the transmission. But it has happened; there's an incident if memory doesn't completely fail me of a British oil company Chinook having a rotor collision in the North Sea but I can't immediately recall the details.
Hi. Thanks for sharing.
This is a superb episode. I had no idea that the balloon bombing of Venice happened or that balloon carriers were the forerunners of seaplane carriers and aircraft carriers. Excellent job.
Great video that packed in a lot of fascinating facts. You asked about the ski jump. It is not used as an alternative to a catapult but as an aid to VTOL fighters such as the Harrier. Although capable of vertical take off, a lot more weight in terms of fuel and armament can be carried if they have a short run up before jumping into the air. The ski jump, first used in the British Invincible class carriers helps them gain altitude.
God bless
I served on CVA 60 during the Vietnam War , All United States Carriers now are Nuclear Powered. Cool Vid Elinor 🇺🇸👍
I will note that sometimes, when you are talking about a ship, you show an image of another ship that shares the name.
Other than that, I have no problems with the video.
France isn't the only country with nuclear carriers, the us has a lot of them. I'm very confused about what you meant when you said france appears to be the only country with a nuclear powered carrier.
Thank you for another very informative video, much appreciated. In 1967 I visited the USS America, a large aircraft carrier, it was having some time off from the Vietnam war, seeing the patched up Phantoms was quite an eye opener for this New Zealand schoolboy. All the best from Sydney Australia 🇦🇺
The US has the most aircraft carriers, with 11 in service. All of them are nuclear powered. I believe China has 3 carriers, their newest one which is still undergoing trials is steam powered, if I'm not mistaken!?
Interesting video Elinor, i didn't know about the early beginning of aircraft/balloon carriers, that was just a couple years before I was born. 😂😂😂lol
Even though it’s a good video you can’t do the history of the aircraft carrier in 15 minutes, I love your videos always something new to learn
very nice Elinor, see ya Sunday my friend. 😎💚💙👍👍🍺🍺🍻
A few errors:
– the reason battleships became obsolete thanks to carriers in WWII wasn’t poor defence, but poor offence. The very existence of carriers (even on your own side) extended battle ranges so much that battleships literally couldn’t even open fire at the enemy, which is the entire point of building a battleship to start with. This is why adding more and better AA guns to battleships or the development of AA fire control systems that could effectively track and fire on planes didn’t make battleships viable at the strategic level-it only helped them defend themselves and did nothing to allow them to pose a threat to enemy ships.
– Shinano wasn’t converted to a carrier “at the last minute”; the Japanese had already suspended battleship construction right after the loss of Force Z for obvious reasons, ironically less than a month after Yamato became operational and less than a week before her commissioning. The actual decision to turn her into a carrier only came six months later, but she wasn’t going to be completed as a battleship even before then.