Blue Angels Cockpit Landing Aboard USS Harry S. Truman (1998) Experience rare cockpit footage with live radio comms as newly appointed Blue Angels Flight Leader CDR Patrick Driscoll makes history by landing Blue Angel #1 aboard the USS Harry S. Truman in November 1998. This historic moment marked the first-ever carrier landing by a Blue Angels jet and showcases the precision and professionalism of naval aviation at sea.
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The Blue Angels boss conducts a flight operation aboard the USS Harry S. Truman, involving carrier landings and launches. The sequence captures technical communications with the tower and a brief interview regarding the significance of bringing a Blue Angel jet to one of the Navy's newest carriers to support deployed personnel.
Marshall, Blue Ranger 1, see you at 10.
Blue Ranger 1, roger. Update state, check in, button 1.
State, 5.0, switching button 1.
Tower, Blue Ranger 1, checking in.
Good morning, Charlie.
Charlie, roger.
Blue Ranger 1, Tower.
Be advised, you're going to see a helicopter on the inside of your turn,
standing off about 300 feet to the port.
Visual.
Altitude.
Warning.
Blue Ranger 1, Hornet, ball.
Warning.
Blue Ranger 1, Hornet, ball.
Roger, ball.
Warning.
Roger, ball.
Hornet, no chance.
Blue Ranger 1, Tower.
Yeah, on your launches here, we're anticipating that you'll be a 37 gross weight shot, do you concur?
Affirm.
Okay, our launch bulletins don't support a burner shot, but if you end up selecting the blower on the shot itself,
ATOPS just causes you to stay below 14 alpha for the single engine piece.
We would switch you to button 2.
Button 2.
Bye, CAO.
Go ahead.
Yes, sir, we want to get a couple of quotes from you so they can shoot it out to Navy Wire Service.
Want to know how it feels to be the Blue Angel boss landing aboard one of the newest carriers out here?
I'll tell you, it feels great.
I'm really pumped up being out here.
You know, the guys on the flight deck and all the people working out here.
We've got a rare opportunity to bring a blue jet on a great boat,
and that's what we're all about, representing the men and women out here on the Harry S. Truman
and all the men and women that are deployed right now.
Roger that, boss.
And I understand you're going to do one more trap?
That's correct.
I'm going to get one more cat, one more trap, and then we'll let these guys get back to real work.
Boss, are you going to go for the three-wire next time?
The wire that kicked last time.
Have a good one, boss.
Okay.
I think the PAO ought to pay for it.
What do you think?
This is great to be out here.
How do people like you out here?
Are they treating you well?
They're treating us really well.
It's all good stuff.
Second?
Yeah, it's going up.
We've got a five-five.
Do you know if you're going to need to top off before you head back to the beach?
Yeah, I'm probably going to have to kick gas one more time.
Okay, it's reset.
Good to go.
All right.
Five C2 and seven Angel 3.
Copy.
All right.
Take care, sir.
All right.
Five zero.
Yeah, Blue Engine, why don't you give me a couple of miles for the helo to reposition?
Yeah, 614, push it out a little bit.
Can you push it out a little further of me?
Sure.
I think where we saw you before is a little further out and a little lower.
Yeah, do you want me to lower it?
No, no, that part's up to you.
We just need you to get a little more distance of me.
