Animation, Short | 1946 (USA)
Original Title: Flight Safety: After the Cut
A group of damaged naval planes bemoan the various errors committed while landing on an aircraft carrier.
Director: John Hubley (uncredited)
Original Title: Flight Safety: After the Cut
A group of damaged naval planes bemoan the various errors committed while landing on an aircraft carrier.
Director: John Hubley (uncredited)
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00:00No operation at sea provides more dramatic evidence of skill than the perfect carrier
00:23landing.
00:24With the grace of a gull, the aircraft approaches its nautical haven.
00:28And now, the breathtaking thrill as the pilot responds to what is called the cut, and gently
00:35eases his craft downward to the deck for a perfect landing.
00:42As the mid-ocean sun paints dazzling patterns of light and shade, the deck is cleared for
00:47the landings to come, and the busy life of the carrier goes on.
00:54So we descend below, where we find the neat hangar deck, to which the planes are promptly
00:59dispatched for a well-earned respite from their long and hazardous missions, and where
01:04they impatiently awake future aeronautical adventures.
01:10Oh, oh, oh, my achin' head.
01:17Uh-oh, you got DDT's.
01:21Huh? DDT's?
01:23Yeah, Deck Dive Treatment.
01:27Very common, but don't worry.
01:29You'll see worse cases than that down here, such as anglomania, that angling in disease
01:38you get from the boys who always overshoot or undershoot the groove.
01:43Catch the wire at an angle, and it is...
01:49The planes weren't built to take that wire off-center.
01:52Gives a man goo-goo anglomania.
01:57But then that isn't all you can get.
01:59You might be exposed to one of the boys who always holds off, keeps pulling back on the
02:05stick, won't set it down.
02:11For him, they invented a barrier.
02:16And do you know what that nets you?
02:20Float-o-phobia.
02:23Of course, that's rather mild, but brother, the real mess is the deal you get from nervous
02:30flyers who disobey the cut.
02:32Now, every pilot knows that when the LSO gives them either the cut or the wave-off, he must
02:39obey it, yet the nervous ones won't accept the decision.
02:44They not only risk their own necks, they risk blowing up the carrier.
03:09You know?
03:11You know, they say there are some good flyers in the Navy.
03:16Maybe, maybe someday, in one shining hour of a beautiful tomorrow, an ideal pilot will
03:28come to our squadron, and he'll make a clean, deep approach, and line up along the center,
03:39and after the cut, he'll fly us all the way down to the dune, down to the dune, down to
03:47the deck.
03:49Oh, but no.
03:53Impossible.
03:55We're all doomed.
04:05Wait, did I hear a gentle sound?
04:08Ah, you're, you're going batty, brother.
04:16Holy cow!
04:18Look!
04:20A normal landing!
04:22Hooray!
04:24Hooray!
04:26Hooray!
04:28Hooray!
04:30Hooray!
04:32Hooray!
04:34Hmm.
04:36Must be going batty.
04:38Thought I heard airplanes cheering.
04:40Huh.
04:42Well, they won't have anything to shout about until carrier pilots realize that they can't
04:46go forth and expect the plane to land itself.
04:50They've got to stay on the ball.
04:52No one is going to fly that airplane right down to the deck but the pilot himself.
05:04The End