WEBVTT 00:04.000 --> 00:10.766 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% >> FUNDING FOR THIS PROGRAM HAS 00:05.100 --> 00:11.433 align:start position:10% line:74% size:60% BEEN PROVIDED BY BOEING. 00:08.533 --> 00:14.400 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% >> WE KNOW WHY WE'RE HERE. 00:10.766 --> 00:15.600 align:start position:10% line:74% size:35% >> TO CONNECT. 00:11.433 --> 00:17.766 align:start position:10% line:74% size:37.5% >> AND PROTECT. 00:14.400 --> 00:28.200 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% >> TO STAND BEHIND ALL WHO 00:15.600 --> 00:28.200 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:15% SERVE. 00:17.766 --> 00:28.200 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:62.5% >> THAT'S WHY WE'RE HERE. 00:33.833 --> 00:42.166 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% >> THEY'RE SLEEK AND THEY GO 00:35.366 --> 00:43.033 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% FAST AND THEY MAKE LOTS OF NOISE 00:37.233 --> 00:44.400 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% AND EVERYBODY IS WOWED BY THEM. 00:42.166 --> 00:46.633 align:start position:10% line:74% size:55% >> THEY'RE DECEPTIVELY 00:43.033 --> 00:47.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% BEAUTIFUL, IT'S LIKE VENUS FLY 00:44.400 --> 00:51.666 align:start position:10% line:74% size:15% TRAPS. 00:46.633 --> 00:52.733 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% >> AIRCRAFT LAUNCHED FROM THE 00:47.933 --> 00:53.966 align:start position:10% line:74% size:47.5% SEA--FROM CARRIERS. 00:51.666 --> 00:55.366 align:start position:10% line:74% size:60% >> AIR-TO-AIR MISSILES-- 00:52.733 --> 00:56.600 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% AIR-TO-GROUND MISSILES... 00:53.966 --> 00:58.166 align:start position:10% line:74% size:47.5% GPS-GUIDED BOMBS... 00:55.366 --> 00:59.600 align:start position:10% line:74% size:57.5% ONE OF THOSE FRONT LINE 00:56.600 --> 01:00.966 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% HORNETS HAS EVERYTHING YOU COULD 00:58.166 --> 01:11.166 align:start position:10% line:74% size:22.5% NEED TO-- 00:59.600 --> 01:11.166 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:77.5% TO REALLY JUST GO OUT THERE AND 01:00.966 --> 01:11.166 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:30% WREAK HAVOC. 01:11.666 --> 01:17.733 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% >> THESE AIRCRAFT HAVE LEFT 01:12.766 --> 01:20.666 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% THEIR MARK ON AMERICA'S HISTORY 01:14.833 --> 01:23.033 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% IN WAYS THAT FEW OF US KNOW. 01:17.733 --> 01:23.600 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% >> THEY HAD NO RIGHT TO WIN, BUT 01:20.666 --> 01:29.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% THEY DID, AND IN DOING SO THEY 01:23.033 --> 01:30.300 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% CHANGED THE COURSE OF A WAR. 01:23.600 --> 01:33.666 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% >> I LOST 22 PERCENT OF THE GUYS 01:29.933 --> 01:37.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:37.5% IN MY SQUADRON. 01:30.300 --> 01:39.466 align:start position:10% line:74% size:27.5% 22 PERCENT. 01:33.666 --> 01:40.733 align:start position:10% line:74% size:55% YOU NEVER FORGET THAT. 01:37.933 --> 01:42.600 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% >> THIS FILM FOLLOWS YOUNG 01:39.466 --> 01:44.300 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% PILOTS TODAY AS THEY LEARN THEIR 01:40.733 --> 01:47.333 align:start position:10% line:74% size:20% CRAFT... 01:42.600 --> 01:49.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% AND TELLS THE SWEEPING HISTORY 01:44.300 --> 01:50.200 align:start position:10% line:74% size:57.5% THAT THEY ARE HEIRS TO. 01:47.333 --> 01:51.800 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% >> I'VE WATCHED EVERY WORLD WAR 01:49.233 --> 01:53.166 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% MOVIE I COULD GET MY HANDS ON AS 01:50.200 --> 01:54.133 align:start position:10% line:74% size:35% A LITTLE KID-- 01:51.800 --> 01:58.200 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% >> THE HISTORY WAS ONE OF THE 01:53.166 --> 01:59.366 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% THINGS THAT REALLY DREW ME TO 01:54.133 --> 02:00.833 align:start position:10% line:74% size:27.5% THIS LIFE-- 01:58.200 --> 02:01.466 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% >> THESE WERE PEOPLE WHO WERE 01:59.366 --> 02:05.066 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% WILLING TO LITERALLY BET THEIR 02:00.833 --> 02:09.700 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% LIVES TO GO AHEAD AND BRING THIS 02:01.466 --> 02:11.733 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% TECHNOLOGY AND THIS NEW KIND OF 02:05.066 --> 02:17.366 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% WARFARE TO THE FOREFRONT. 02:09.700 --> 02:21.133 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% BACK IN THE EARLY 20th CENTURY 02:11.733 --> 02:22.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% THIS IS SOMEWHAT PSYCHOTIC. 02:17.366 --> 02:25.333 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% >> YOU ARE A PART OF A LINEAGE 02:21.133 --> 02:25.900 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% OF PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN WITNESS 02:22.933 --> 02:31.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% TO THE BIGGEST EVENTS OF THE 02:25.333 --> 02:32.300 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% 20th AND NOW 21st CENTURY-- 02:25.900 --> 02:34.833 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% YOU FEEL THAT EVERY DAY-- 02:31.233 --> 02:36.533 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% YOU'RE A PART OF SOMETHING 02:32.300 --> 02:41.900 align:start position:10% line:74% size:17.5% BIGGER. 02:34.833 --> 02:43.500 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% >> BUT EMBEDDED IN THIS LINEAGE 02:36.533 --> 02:45.400 align:start position:10% line:74% size:55% IS ALSO CONTROVERSY... 02:41.900 --> 02:47.600 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% AGAIN AND AGAIN OVER ITS HUNDRED 02:43.500 --> 02:48.000 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% YEARS, THIS CRAFT HAS BEEN 02:45.400 --> 02:51.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:55% CALLED INTO QUESTION-- 02:47.600 --> 02:52.133 align:start position:10% line:74% size:42.5% AS IMPRACTICAL... 02:48.000 --> 02:56.100 align:start position:10% line:74% size:35% EXTRAVAGANT... 02:51.866 --> 02:58.400 align:start position:10% line:74% size:22.5% OBSOLETE. 02:52.133 --> 03:00.466 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% NOW, TODAY, A NEW ROUND OF 02:56.100 --> 03:04.066 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% DOUBTS, AND REASON TO WONDER IF 02:58.400 --> 03:06.166 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% THIS GENERATION OF AVIATORS JUST 03:00.466 --> 03:16.666 align:start position:10% line:74% size:60% MIGHT BE AMERICA'S LAST. 03:04.066 --> 03:16.666 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:72.5% THIS IS THE STORY OF A WEAPON 03:06.166 --> 03:16.666 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:72.5% THAT CHANGED THE FACE OF WAR. 03:39.566 --> 03:45.800 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% >> WE DID OUR CROSS COUNTRY 03:40.566 --> 03:46.800 align:start position:10% line:74% size:22.5% TO VEGAS. 03:40.833 --> 03:47.500 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% >> I STARTED RACING DIRT BIKES 03:45.800 --> 03:48.433 align:start position:10% line:74% size:22.5% ACTUALLY. 03:46.800 --> 03:49.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:60% I KIND OF WANTED TO BE A 03:47.500 --> 03:50.633 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% PROFESSIONAL DIRT BIKE RACER, 03:48.433 --> 03:52.366 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% AND THEN QUIT THE RACING. 03:49.233 --> 04:02.833 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% WENT TO COLLEGE AND DECIDED TO 03:50.633 --> 04:02.833 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:77.5% COME IN THE MARINE CORPS AND... 03:52.366 --> 04:02.833 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:60% BEST DECISION EVER MADE. 04:05.600 --> 04:11.133 align:start position:10% line:74% size:32.5% >> GOOD LUCK! 04:07.500 --> 04:13.000 align:start position:10% line:74% size:32.5% >> THANK YOU! 04:09.800 --> 04:14.066 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% >> MY MOM USED TO TAKE US TO AN 04:11.133 --> 04:15.066 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% AIRPORT NEARBY WHERE WE GREW UP, 04:13.000 --> 04:16.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% AND YOU COULD SIT OUT CLOSE TO 04:14.066 --> 04:19.133 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% THE FLIGHT LINE AND SEE PEOPLE 04:15.066 --> 04:21.633 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% TAKING OFF AND LANDING AND STUFF 04:16.933 --> 04:30.266 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% AND SAW PLANES FLYIN' OVER. 04:19.133 --> 04:31.766 align:start position:10% line:74% size:47.5% [PLANE FLYING OVER] 04:21.633 --> 04:32.700 align:start position:10% line:74% size:35% LIKE THIS GUY. 04:30.266 --> 04:35.133 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% >> IT KIND OF CAPTIVATES A 04:31.766 --> 04:36.166 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% YOUNG MIND, I THINK, AND IT 04:32.700 --> 04:36.966 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% DEFINITELY GRABBED ME EARLY ON. 04:35.133 --> 04:38.133 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% >> I TELL A STUDENT, YOU KNOW, 04:36.166 --> 04:39.833 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% HEY, WHAT AM I GOING TO TEACH 04:36.966 --> 04:41.333 align:start position:10% line:74% size:47.5% YOU HOW TO DO HERE? 04:38.133 --> 04:42.633 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% I WANT YOU TO LEARN HOW TO TAXI, 04:39.833 --> 04:44.000 align:start position:10% line:74% size:57.5% TAKE OFF, GO OUT AND DO 04:41.333 --> 04:44.833 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% SOMETHING, AND YOU'RE GOING TO 04:42.633 --> 04:45.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:47.5% COME BACK AND LAND. 04:44.000 --> 04:52.533 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% AND YOU'RE GOING TO GO DO THAT 04:44.833 --> 04:53.900 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% ON LAND, AND YOU'RE GOING TO DO 04:45.866 --> 04:54.533 align:start position:10% line:74% size:37.5% THAT ON A SHIP. 04:52.533 --> 04:55.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% >> EVERY LITTLE THING WILL 04:53.900 --> 04:59.400 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% AFFECT YOUR PSYCHE BEFORE YOU'RE 04:54.533 --> 05:02.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:55% GOING OUT TO THE BOAT. 04:55.566 --> 05:12.533 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% YOU'RE GOING OVER THE ENTIRE 04:59.400 --> 05:13.833 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% FLIGHT 500 TIMES IN YOUR HEAD, 05:02.233 --> 05:15.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% LONG BEFORE YOU EVEN GET THERE. 05:12.533 --> 05:18.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:55% >> YOU CAN IMAGINE THE 05:13.833 --> 05:20.266 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% INSTRUMENTS AND HOW THEY'RE 05:15.566 --> 05:24.600 align:start position:10% line:74% size:22.5% CHANGING. 05:18.233 --> 05:27.900 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% IN YOUR HEAD YOU CAN IMAGINE THE 05:20.266 --> 05:29.066 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% AIRPLANE ACCELERATING FASTER. 05:24.600 --> 05:30.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% >> WE'RE GONNA FLY OUT THERE. 05:27.900 --> 05:32.800 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% FIRST TIME YOU SEE THE CARRIER 05:29.066 --> 05:34.433 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% THAT YOU'RE GOING TO IT'LL BE 05:30.566 --> 05:35.033 align:start position:10% line:74% size:47.5% ABOUT 15 MILES OUT. 05:32.800 --> 05:38.433 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% AND YOU REALIZE YOU'RE GONNA BE 05:34.433 --> 05:40.433 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% LANDING ON THERE, STOPPING ON 05:35.033 --> 05:41.733 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% WHAT LOOKS TO BE ABOUT A LITTLE 05:38.433 --> 05:42.533 align:start position:10% line:74% size:57.5% DROP OF OIL IN THE SEA. 05:40.433 --> 05:43.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% >> I THINK UNIVERSALLY, THE 05:41.733 --> 05:44.133 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% FIRST TIME YOU ROLL UP BEHIND 05:42.533 --> 05:46.100 align:start position:10% line:74% size:25% THE BOAT-- 05:43.566 --> 05:46.900 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% "OH, CRAP," IS WHAT COMES TO 05:44.133 --> 05:48.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:37.5% PEOPLE'S MINDS. 05:46.100 --> 05:50.433 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% EVERYBODY SAYS IT LOOKS LIKE A 05:46.900 --> 05:51.433 align:start position:10% line:74% size:37.5% POSTAGE STAMP-- 05:48.566 --> 05:52.633 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% THE FIRST TIME YOU GO OVERHEAD. 05:50.433 --> 05:53.500 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% YOU LOOK DOWN AND THINK, WELL, 05:51.433 --> 05:55.800 align:start position:10% line:74% size:37.5% THERE'S NO WAY. 05:52.633 --> 05:56.533 align:start position:10% line:74% size:15% THEY-- 05:53.500 --> 05:57.900 align:start position:10% line:74% size:60% THEY MADE A BAD MISTAKE. 05:55.800 --> 05:59.033 align:start position:10% line:74% size:32.5% PART OF THE-- 05:56.533 --> 06:00.333 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% THE MENTAL PREPARATION, IS-- 05:57.900 --> 06:01.200 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% IS TRYIN' TO THINK, OKAY, I'M 05:59.033 --> 06:02.033 align:start position:10% line:74% size:17.5% GONNA-- 06:00.333 --> 06:03.366 align:start position:10% line:74% size:42.5% I'M GONNA SEE IT. 06:01.200 --> 06:04.166 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% IT'S GONNA LOOK DIFFERENT THAN 06:02.033 --> 06:05.200 align:start position:10% line:74% size:37.5% WHAT I IMAGINE. 06:03.366 --> 06:06.166 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% IT'S GONNA FEEL DIFFERENT THAN 06:04.166 --> 06:16.466 align:start position:10% line:74% size:35% THE SIMULATOR. 06:05.200 --> 06:16.466 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:70% I'M GONNA FREAK OUT, AND I'M 06:06.166 --> 06:16.466 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:45% GONNA KEEP FLYIN'. 06:29.533 --> 06:34.366 align:start position:10% line:74% size:50% >> IN THE EARLY 20th 06:30.400 --> 06:39.366 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% CENTURY, AMERICANS FLOCKED TO 06:32.566 --> 06:41.466 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% AIR MEETS TO WITNESS WITH THEIR 06:34.366 --> 06:42.633 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% OWN EYES A MAN TAKE TO THE SKY. 06:39.366 --> 06:45.600 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% IN AN AGE OF INNOVATION, NOTHING 06:41.466 --> 06:46.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% SEEMED MORE WONDROUS THAN THE 06:42.633 --> 06:47.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:22.5% AIRPLANE. 06:45.600 --> 06:51.166 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% >> THESE AIR MEETS WOULD DRAW 06:46.866 --> 06:52.333 align:start position:10% line:74% size:32.5% PEOPLE FROM-- 06:47.933 --> 06:53.466 align:start position:10% line:74% size:57.5% OF ALL WALKS OF LIFE... 06:51.166 --> 06:58.533 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% AND IT WAS A REAL POPULAR 06:52.333 --> 06:59.666 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% BECAUSE HERE THEY HAVE THE 06:53.466 --> 07:00.666 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% AIRCRAFT FLYING, BUZZING AROUND. 06:58.533 --> 07:08.033 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% AND OFTEN TIMES, THERE WERE 06:59.666 --> 07:09.700 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% ACCIDENTS, WHICH WERE ALMOST AS 07:00.666 --> 07:10.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% APPEALING AS THE FLYING ITSELF. 07:08.033 --> 07:11.900 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% >> THE ARMY AND NAVY, TOO, WERE 07:09.700 --> 07:12.266 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% INTRIGUED, AND SENT THEIR 07:10.233 --> 07:16.500 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% REPRESENTATIVES TO THE VERY 07:11.900 --> 07:18.333 align:start position:10% line:74% size:40% FIRST AIR MEETS. 07:12.266 --> 07:21.466 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% THE ARMY INSTANTLY SAW THE 07:16.500 --> 07:23.766 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% POTENTIAL OF FLIGHT AND BEGAN 07:18.333 --> 07:25.033 align:start position:10% line:74% size:52.5% PURCHASING AIRPLANES. 07:21.466 --> 07:26.766 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% THE NAVY, THOUGH, WAS AT A LOSS. 07:23.766 --> 07:27.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% THE IDEA OF USING A FLYING 07:25.033 --> 07:30.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% MACHINE ON THE OPEN SEA WAS 07:26.766 --> 07:31.466 align:start position:10% line:74% size:60% BEYOND ALMOST EVERYONE'S 07:27.933 --> 07:34.533 align:start position:10% line:74% size:30% IMAGINATION. 07:30.866 --> 07:36.033 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% EVERYONE EXCEPT A MIDDLE-AGED 07:31.466 --> 07:37.700 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% NAVAL OFFICER CONVINCED THAT 07:34.533 --> 07:39.966 align:start position:10% line:74% size:60% PLANES AND SHIPS WORKING 07:36.033 --> 07:40.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% TOGETHER COULD BECOME A POWERFUL 07:37.700 --> 07:41.733 align:start position:10% line:74% size:27.5% NEW WEAPON. 07:39.966 --> 07:45.033 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% >> CAPTAIN WASHINGTON IRVING 07:40.866 --> 07:46.000 align:start position:10% line:74% size:55% CHAMBERS IS SORT OF AN 07:41.733 --> 07:47.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% UNLIKELY CHAMPION OF AVIATION. 07:45.033 --> 07:49.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% HE'S A PRODUCT OF THE 19th 07:46.000 --> 07:51.166 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% CENTURY TRADITIONAL NAVAL 07:47.933 --> 07:52.500 align:start position:10% line:74% size:20% WARFARE. 07:49.566 --> 07:54.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% HE GRADUATED FROM NAVAL ACADEMY, 07:51.166 --> 07:56.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% NOT TOO FAR REMOVED FROM THE 07:52.500 --> 07:58.000 align:start position:10% line:74% size:25% CIVIL WAR. 07:54.866 --> 07:59.033 align:start position:10% line:74% size:30% BUT CHAMBERS 07:56.233 --> 07:59.633 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% REALLY EXPRESSED AN INTEREST IN 07:58.000 --> 08:02.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:22.5% AVIATION. 07:59.033 --> 08:03.466 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% HE WANTED TO LOOK INTO IT AND 07:59.633 --> 08:04.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:22.5% STUDY IT. 08:02.566 --> 08:06.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% AND THAT'S WHY HE TRAVELED TO 08:03.466 --> 08:07.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% SOME OF THE AIR MEETS THAT WERE 08:04.566 --> 08:08.466 align:start position:10% line:74% size:25% HAPPENING. 08:06.233 --> 08:10.700 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% AND HE WOULD GO THERE TO SEE 08:07.233 --> 08:12.966 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% WHAT THE LATEST TECHNOLOGY IN 08:08.466 --> 08:14.633 align:start position:10% line:74% size:32.5% AVIATION WAS. 08:10.700 --> 08:16.166 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% >> IN THE FALL OF 1910, CHAMBERS 08:12.966 --> 08:17.700 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% ATTENDED AN AIR SHOW IN BELMONT 08:14.633 --> 08:18.800 align:start position:10% line:74% size:37.5% PARK, NEW YORK, 08:16.166 --> 08:20.633 align:start position:10% line:74% size:50% IN SEARCH OF A PILOT 08:17.700 --> 08:21.700 align:start position:10% line:74% size:55% WILLING TO TRY A GRAND 08:18.800 --> 08:21.900 align:start position:10% line:74% size:30% EXPERIMENT-- 08:20.633 --> 08:25.400 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% LAUNCHING AN AIRCRAFT FROM A 08:21.700 --> 08:27.033 align:start position:10% line:74% size:12.5% SHIP. 08:21.900 --> 08:30.433 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% AMONG THE DAREDEVILS AND SHOWMEN 08:25.400 --> 08:31.533 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% AT THE MEET, ONE MAN CLEARLY 08:27.033 --> 08:33.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:55% STOOD OUT: EUGENE ELY. 08:30.433 --> 08:34.800 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% >> WHEN MOST PEOPLE THINK 08:31.533 --> 08:35.766 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% EARLY AVIATION, THEY THINK OF 08:33.233 --> 08:37.033 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% AVIATORS IN THESE, YOU KNOW, 08:34.800 --> 08:37.633 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% LEATHER JACKETS AND FLOWING 08:35.766 --> 08:41.900 align:start position:10% line:74% size:57.5% SCARVES AND EVERYTHING. 08:37.033 --> 08:42.833 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% AND ELY, HE JUST DOESN'T LOOK 08:37.633 --> 08:44.266 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% THE PART OF A DASHING AVIATOR. 08:41.900 --> 08:45.600 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% IF YOU LOOK AT THE PICTURES OF 08:42.833 --> 08:46.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% HIM PERFORMING THESE FEATS, HE 08:44.266 --> 08:47.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% WAS WEARING A STANDARD BUSINESS 08:45.600 --> 08:48.900 align:start position:10% line:74% size:12.5% SUIT. 08:46.933 --> 08:50.000 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% HE HAD A BICYCLE INNER TUBE 08:47.933 --> 08:51.000 align:start position:10% line:74% size:55% WRAPPED AROUND HIM FOR 08:48.900 --> 08:52.433 align:start position:10% line:74% size:27.5% FLOATATION. 08:50.000 --> 08:54.266 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% HE WORE A PRIMITIVE FOOTBALL 08:51.000 --> 08:55.266 align:start position:10% line:74% size:22.5% HELMET... 08:52.433 --> 08:55.500 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% HE'S FROM IOWA, AS FAR AWAY FROM 08:54.266 --> 08:56.966 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% THE OCEAN AS YOU CAN POSSIBLY 08:55.266 --> 08:59.033 align:start position:10% line:74% size:20% IMAGINE. 08:55.500 --> 09:01.333 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% AND SOMEONE WHO REALLY DIDN'T 08:56.966 --> 09:02.333 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% REALLY CARE FOR THE WATER, 08:59.033 --> 09:04.300 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% DIDN'T REALLY LIKE SWIMMING. 09:01.333 --> 09:04.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% >> BUT WHEN CHAMBERS PROPOSED 09:02.333 --> 09:08.333 align:start position:10% line:74% size:37.5% THE IDEA, ELY-- 09:04.300 --> 09:09.466 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% THE MAN WHO DIDN'T LIKE WATER-- 09:04.933 --> 09:10.800 align:start position:10% line:74% size:40% COULDN'T RESIST. 09:08.333 --> 09:13.466 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% >> IN ADDITION TO BEING A PRETTY 09:09.466 --> 09:15.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:27.5% GOOD PILOT, 09:10.800 --> 09:17.466 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% ELY ALSO HAD A SURPRISING EYE AS 09:13.466 --> 09:20.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:30% AN ENGINEER. 09:15.566 --> 09:22.066 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% HE GETS THE IDEA THAT HE CAN 09:17.466 --> 09:25.200 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% BUILD A WOODEN FLIGHT DECK ON A 09:20.233 --> 09:25.766 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% WARSHIP, LIKE A CRUISER OR A 09:22.066 --> 09:28.500 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% BATTLESHIP, AND ACTUALLY GET IT 09:25.200 --> 09:30.400 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% GOING FAST ENOUGH THAT IF HE 09:25.766 --> 09:31.733 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% FLIES HIS AIRPLANE OFF THE END 09:28.500 --> 09:34.733 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% OF IT, HE CAN ACTUALLY GET IT 09:30.400 --> 09:37.633 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% INTO THE AIR AND SAFELY MANEUVER 09:31.733 --> 09:39.633 align:start position:10% line:74% size:7.5% IT. 09:34.733 --> 09:47.633 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% WELL, BACK IN THE EARLY 20th 09:37.633 --> 09:49.033 align:start position:10% line:74% size:40% CENTURY, THIS IS 09:39.633 --> 09:50.666 align:start position:10% line:74% size:47.5% SOMEWHAT PSYCHOTIC. 09:47.633 --> 09:52.633 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% >> SOON AFTER THEIR MEETING, 09:49.033 --> 09:55.466 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% CHAMBERS OUTFITTED THE CRUISER, 09:50.666 --> 09:57.400 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% THE "USS BIRMINGHAM," WITH A 09:52.633 --> 09:59.100 align:start position:10% line:74% size:57.5% MAKE-SHIFT WOODEN DECK. 09:55.466 --> 10:06.966 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% BUILT TO ELY'S SPECIFICATIONS, 09:57.400 --> 10:08.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% THE PLATFORM WAS ONLY 83 FEET 09:59.100 --> 10:10.966 align:start position:10% line:74% size:55% LONG AND 24 FEET WIDE. 10:06.966 --> 10:16.266 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% ON THE MORNING OF NOVEMBER 14, 10:08.566 --> 10:25.966 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% 1910, RAIN SQUALLS FILLED THE 10:10.966 --> 10:27.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:10% SKY. 10:16.266 --> 10:28.166 align:start position:10% line:74% size:52.5% ELY WAITED NERVOUSLY. 10:25.966 --> 10:34.533 align:start position:10% line:74% size:57.5% FINALLY, AT 3:00 IN THE 10:27.566 --> 10:35.733 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% AFTERNOON THE WEATHER CLEARED. 10:28.166 --> 10:37.133 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% >> SO, ELY CLIMBED ABOARD AND 10:34.533 --> 10:38.500 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% REVVED UP THE ENGINE AS MUCH AS 10:35.733 --> 10:39.133 align:start position:10% line:74% size:30% IT WOULD GO. 10:37.133 --> 10:41.966 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% AND AS HE WENT OVER THE EDGE OF 10:38.500 --> 10:44.733 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% THE DECK AND OUT OVER THE WATER, 10:39.133 --> 10:45.833 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% HE ACTUALLY DESCENDED A LITTLE 10:41.966 --> 10:46.433 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% BIT QUICKER THAN HE THOUGHT. 10:44.733 --> 10:48.333 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% HE THOUGHT HE MIGHT CRASH. 10:45.833 --> 10:49.766 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% AND THE WHEELS ACTUALLY GRAZED 10:46.433 --> 10:50.800 align:start position:10% line:74% size:25% THE WATER. 10:48.333 --> 10:52.000 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% AS HE TOOK OFF FROM BIRMINGHAM. 10:49.766 --> 10:53.333 align:start position:10% line:74% size:12.5% BUT-- 10:50.800 --> 10:55.133 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% PICKED UP ENOUGH FLYING SPEED 10:52.000 --> 10:56.466 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% THAT THE WIND WENT BENEATH THE 10:53.333 --> 10:59.700 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% WINDS AND DEVELOPED SOME LIFT. 10:55.133 --> 11:02.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% AND HE WAS ABLE TO TAKE OFF AND 10:56.466 --> 11:03.833 align:start position:10% line:74% size:32.5% FLY TO SHORE. 10:59.700 --> 11:06.600 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% >> CHAMBERS WAS PLEASED-- 11:02.566 --> 11:09.666 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% BUT HE KNEW THE HARDEST PART WAS 11:03.833 --> 11:11.800 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% YET TO COME--LANDING A SPEEDING 11:06.600 --> 11:15.900 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% AIRPLANE ON A ROLLING SHIP. 11:09.666 --> 11:17.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% AGAIN, CHAMBERS RELIED ON ELY'S 11:11.800 --> 11:18.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:47.5% PRACTICAL KNOW-HOW. 11:15.900 --> 11:20.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% >> ELY WAS FACING THE PROSPECT 11:17.866 --> 11:22.533 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% OF FLYING INTO THE BACK OF THE 11:18.933 --> 11:26.133 align:start position:10% line:74% size:60% SMOKESTACKS OF THE SHIP. 11:20.866 --> 11:27.266 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% SO HE HAD TO COME UP WITH SOME 11:22.533 --> 11:29.666 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% WAY OF STOPPING THE AIRPLANE. 11:26.133 --> 11:30.533 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% >> AND SO, WHAT THEY DID IS THEY 11:27.266 --> 11:32.266 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% HAD SANDBAGS CONNECTED BY ROPES. 11:29.666 --> 11:35.600 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% AND THESE ROPES WERE STRUNG 11:30.533 --> 11:37.366 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% ACROSS THE WOODEN DECK AT A 11:32.266 --> 11:38.800 align:start position:10% line:74% size:55% SERIES OF INTERVALS... 11:35.600 --> 11:39.400 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% AND THERE WERE A SERIES OF HOOKS 11:37.366 --> 11:43.100 align:start position:10% line:74% size:52.5% BENEATH THE AIRCRAFT. 11:38.800 --> 11:44.466 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% AND AS THESE HOOKS SNAGGED ON 11:39.400 --> 11:45.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% THOSE ROPES AND THE WEIGHT OF 11:43.100 --> 11:48.333 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% THE SANDBAGS THERE WOULD BRING 11:44.466 --> 11:48.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% THE PLANE TO A STOP AS IT HIT 11:45.566 --> 11:55.166 align:start position:10% line:74% size:22.5% THE DECK. 11:48.333 --> 11:55.800 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% >> THE WEATHER ON JANUARY 18, 11:48.933 --> 11:59.133 align:start position:10% line:74% size:35% 1911 WAS COLD. 11:55.166 --> 12:02.533 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% ELY FLEW FROM AN AIR MEET TO THE 11:55.800 --> 12:03.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% "USS PENNSYLVANIA" 10 MILES 11:59.133 --> 12:09.200 align:start position:10% line:74% size:25% OFF SHORE. 12:02.533 --> 12:11.666 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% >> EUGENE ELY MADE HIS APPROACH 12:03.933 --> 12:13.033 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% TO THE CRUISER "PENNSYLVANIA." 12:09.200 --> 12:20.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% AND SUCCESSFULLY GOT INTO WHAT 12:11.666 --> 12:22.266 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% IS NOW REFERRED TO AS THE PROPER 12:13.033 --> 12:23.900 align:start position:10% line:74% size:30% GLIDE SLOPE. 12:20.866 --> 12:24.500 align:start position:10% line:74% size:42.5% HIT THE DECK, AND 12:22.266 --> 12:26.200 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% THE ROPES CAUGHT THE HOOKS ON 12:23.900 --> 12:32.700 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% THE BOTTOM OF HIS AIRCRAFT AND 12:24.500 --> 12:33.466 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% EVENTUALLY BROUGHT THE PLANE TO 12:26.200 --> 12:38.100 align:start position:10% line:74% size:17.5% A STOP. 12:32.700 --> 12:39.800 align:start position:10% line:74% size:37.5% AND IT WAS JUST 12:33.466 --> 12:40.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:42.5% AN AMAZING EVENT. 12:38.100 --> 12:41.800 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% NO ONE HAD EVER SEEN ANYTHING 12:39.800 --> 12:42.366 align:start position:10% line:74% size:42.5% LIKE THIS BEFORE. 12:40.933 --> 12:44.900 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% I MEAN, YOU HAVE TO THINK AT 12:41.800 --> 12:45.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% THAT TIME YOU'RE ONLY ABOUT 12:42.366 --> 12:46.200 align:start position:10% line:74% size:60% 7 YEARS REMOVED, 8 YEARS 12:44.900 --> 12:48.833 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% REMOVED FROM THE WRIGHT BROTHERS 12:45.933 --> 12:49.166 align:start position:10% line:74% size:25% FLIGHTS... 12:46.200 --> 12:51.266 align:start position:10% line:74% size:42.5% AND HERE YOU HAVE 12:48.833 --> 12:52.733 align:start position:10% line:74% size:35% SAILORS SEEING 12:49.166 --> 12:54.433 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% AN AIRCRAFT LAND ABOARD THEIR 12:51.266 --> 12:56.333 align:start position:10% line:74% size:12.5% SHIP. 12:52.733 --> 12:57.366 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% IT WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS-- 12:54.433 --> 13:02.500 align:start position:10% line:74% size:47.5% REALLY OBSERVING IT 12:56.333 --> 13:04.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:42.5% MUST HAVE BEEN AN 12:57.366 --> 13:07.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:57.5% EXPERIENCE TO REMEMBER. 13:02.500 --> 13:09.666 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% >> AND THE AMAZING THING IS, THE 13:04.566 --> 13:12.033 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% METAPHORS LAID OUT BY ELY OF THE 13:07.866 --> 13:14.466 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% FLIGHT DECK, OF THE ARRESTING 13:09.666 --> 13:14.766 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% GEAR, OF THE TAIL HOOK ARE 13:12.033 --> 13:19.433 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% THINGS THAT WE STILL USE 100 13:14.466 --> 13:21.400 align:start position:10% line:74% size:30% YEARS LATER. 13:14.766 --> 13:22.700 align:start position:10% line:74% size:60% THE MAN WAS A VISIONARY. 13:19.433 --> 13:23.033 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% >> BUT EUGENE ELY WOULD NOT LIVE 13:21.400 --> 13:26.200 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% TO SEE THE MAGNITUDE OF WHAT 13:22.700 --> 13:27.800 align:start position:10% line:74% size:35% HE'D ACHIEVED. 13:23.033 --> 13:37.900 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% WITHIN MONTHS, HE WAS KILLED IN 13:26.200 --> 13:37.900 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:67.5% A PLANE CRASH DURING AN AIR 13:27.800 --> 13:37.900 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:12.5% MEET. 13:49.000 --> 13:53.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:57.5% >> MY FATHER WAS AN A-6 13:50.433 --> 14:00.633 align:start position:10% line:74% size:32.5% INTRUDER GUY. 13:50.766 --> 14:01.133 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% SO AS A YOUNG ONE, I GOT TAKEN 13:53.233 --> 14:04.366 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% TO LOTS AND LOTS OF AIR SHOWS. 14:00.633 --> 14:05.766 align:start position:10% line:74% size:60% I'D CLIMB UP ON MY DAD'S 14:01.133 --> 14:08.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:25% SHOULDERS. 14:04.366 --> 14:14.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% ANY KID IS GOING TO LOOK UP AND 14:05.766 --> 14:16.266 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% THINK IT'S GRAND AND AMAZING AND 14:08.566 --> 14:18.500 align:start position:10% line:74% size:47.5% THEY WANT TO DO IT. 14:14.933 --> 14:21.966 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% >> AND REMEMBER WHAT I TOLD YOU 14:16.266 --> 14:22.766 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% ABOUT THE ROLLING, IS THAT WHEN 14:18.500 --> 14:24.833 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% YOU SEE THAT LINE DOWN THERE... 14:21.966 --> 14:29.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% >> THE THOUGHT OF LANDING ON THE 14:22.766 --> 14:32.366 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% CARRIER IS STILL A VERY BIG 14:24.833 --> 14:33.266 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% IDEA, AND NOT OMINOUS, BUT IT'S 14:29.933 --> 14:41.900 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% STILL A HEAVY THOUGHT, LANDING 14:32.366 --> 14:44.066 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% ON A GIANT CHUNK OF METAL IN THE 14:33.266 --> 14:44.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:50% MIDDLE OF THE OCEAN. 14:41.900 --> 14:48.100 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% >> TAKING THE LAST FLIGHT BEFORE 14:44.066 --> 14:50.033 align:start position:10% line:74% size:55% I HEAD OFF TO THE BOAT 14:44.866 --> 14:51.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:40% ON MONDAY, SO... 14:48.100 --> 14:55.000 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% 2 MORE CHANCES TO PERFECT IT 14:50.033 --> 14:55.966 align:start position:10% line:74% size:32.5% BEFORE WE GO. 14:51.933 --> 14:57.000 align:start position:10% line:74% size:60% OR BRACKET THE MISTAKES. 14:55.000 --> 14:58.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% >> WHEN YOU'RE PREPARING TO GO 14:55.966 --> 15:00.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:57.5% TO THE CARRIER, ALL THE 14:57.000 --> 15:00.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% STUDENTS WILL GROW A MUSTACHE. 14:58.566 --> 15:02.633 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% IT'S KINDA, MAYBE A LITTLE BIT 15:00.233 --> 15:04.133 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% OF A BADGE OF COURAGE AROUND THE 15:00.866 --> 15:07.133 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% SQUADRON THAT YOU'RE FAR ENOUGH 15:02.633 --> 15:08.000 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% IN THE PROGRAM THAT, THEY'RE 15:04.133 --> 15:09.366 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% GONNA LET YOU GO TO THE BOAT. 15:07.133 --> 15:13.533 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% >> SOME OF THE FINE YOUNG 15:08.000 --> 15:15.966 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% GENTLEMEN GOING OUT TO THE BOAT 15:09.366 --> 15:18.000 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% ARE NOT QUITE AS GIFTED IN THE 15:13.533 --> 15:19.166 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% MUSTACHE GROWING DEPARTMENT, I 15:15.966 --> 15:21.400 align:start position:10% line:74% size:15% GUESS. 15:18.000 --> 15:23.000 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% SOME OF THEM LOOK EXCEPTIONALLY 15:19.166 --> 15:24.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:17.5% CREEPY. 15:21.400 --> 15:26.333 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% >> I'M NOT A MUSTACHE GUY, BUT 15:23.000 --> 15:28.600 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% IT DOESN'T HELP THAT MY MUSTACHE 15:24.233 --> 15:29.700 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% IS BLONDE, SO UH, IT'S NOT 15:26.333 --> 15:31.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% COMIN' IN TOO GREAT, BUT... 15:28.600 --> 15:33.366 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% >> UNLESS YOU'RE A VERY SPECIAL 15:29.700 --> 15:35.533 align:start position:10% line:74% size:57.5% GIRL, YOU ARE NOT GOING 15:31.233 --> 15:36.900 align:start position:10% line:74% size:47.5% TO GROW A MUSTACHE. 15:33.366 --> 15:38.300 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% BUT I HAVE EVERY INTENT OF 15:35.533 --> 15:39.100 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% EITHER FINDING, LIKE, SOME, 15:36.900 --> 15:39.700 align:start position:10% line:74% size:60% LIKE, STICK ON MUSTACHE, 15:38.300 --> 15:45.066 align:start position:10% line:74% size:50% OR I'M JUST GOING TO 15:39.100 --> 15:47.533 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% DRAW IT ON EVERY DAY, BECAUSE 15:39.700 --> 15:50.100 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% YOU'VE GOT TO RUN WITH THE GUYS. 15:45.066 --> 15:53.633 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% I MEAN, WHEN I'M AT WORK, 15:47.533 --> 15:55.366 align:start position:10% line:74% size:52.5% I'M ONE OF THE DUDES. 15:50.100 --> 15:57.000 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% WHEN I GET HOME, IT'S HAIR DOWN, 15:53.633 --> 15:59.066 align:start position:10% line:74% size:40% SKIRTS, DRESSES. 15:55.366 --> 16:01.466 align:start position:10% line:74% size:50% I LIKE BEING A GIRL. 15:57.000 --> 16:02.733 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% AND I FOUND MYSELF TO END UP 15:59.066 --> 16:04.100 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% BEING MORE FEMININE NOW THAN I 16:01.466 --> 16:14.500 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% USED TO BE BECAUSE IT'S ALMOST 16:02.733 --> 16:14.500 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:70% LIKE RECHARGING THE ESTROGEN 16:04.100 --> 16:14.500 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:57.5% LEVELS WHEN I GET HOME. 16:16.933 --> 16:19.600 align:start position:10% line:74% size:50% >> IT'S DEFINITELY A 16:17.700 --> 16:20.533 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% COMPETITION, EVERYBODY WANTS TO 16:18.566 --> 16:21.900 align:start position:10% line:74% size:30% BE THE BEST. 16:19.600 --> 16:22.766 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% YOU KNOW, IT DOESN'T MATTER IF 16:20.533 --> 16:23.900 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% THERE ARE ARMY GUYS HERE OR AIR 16:21.900 --> 16:25.000 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% FORCE GUYS HERE, IT'S THE SAME 16:22.766 --> 16:26.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% THING--EVERYBODY JUST WANTS TO 16:23.900 --> 16:27.500 align:start position:10% line:74% size:30% BE THE BEST. 16:25.000 --> 16:37.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% WITH THAT BEING SAID I, MEAN, 16:26.233 --> 16:37.566 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:75% NAVY GUYS ARE MY GOOD FRIENDS, 16:27.500 --> 16:37.566 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:10% TOO. 16:39.233 --> 16:44.066 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% >> THERE'S ALWAYS A LITTLE BIT 16:40.166 --> 16:45.033 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% OF A RIVALRY BETWEEN THE NAVY 16:41.166 --> 16:46.200 align:start position:10% line:74% size:40% AND THE MARINES. 16:44.066 --> 16:46.833 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% JORDAN AND I ARE PRETTY GOOD 16:45.033 --> 16:48.433 align:start position:10% line:74% size:20% FRIENDS. 16:46.200 --> 16:50.066 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% WE'VE GONE THROUGH ALL OF FLIGHT 16:46.833 --> 16:52.533 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% SCHOOL IN KINGSVILLE TOGETHER. 16:48.433 --> 16:53.500 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% WE CLASSED UP BACK 14 MONTHS 16:50.066 --> 16:54.433 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% AGO, AND PRETTY MUCH BEEN FLYING 16:52.533 --> 16:55.600 align:start position:10% line:74% size:22.5% TOGETHER. 16:53.500 --> 16:56.133 align:start position:10% line:74% size:52.5% >> YEAH, ME AND ROB-- 16:54.433 --> 16:58.700 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% WE STARTED GROUND SCHOOL DAY ONE 16:55.600 --> 16:59.166 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% IN THIS BUILDING TOGETHER 16:56.133 --> 17:02.700 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% AND WENT THROUGH EVERYTHING 16:58.700 --> 17:04.800 align:start position:10% line:74% size:52.5% PRETTY MUCH TOGETHER. 16:59.166 --> 17:05.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% ANYTIME I WAS HAVING ISSUES I 17:02.700 --> 17:07.100 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% WOULD GO TALK TO ROB, AND 17:04.800 --> 17:08.466 align:start position:10% line:74% size:40% ROB WOULD GET ME 17:05.566 --> 17:09.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:55% STRAIGHTENED OUT SO... 17:07.100 --> 17:10.733 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% >> WE CAN KEEP WORKING AT JOKER, 17:08.466 --> 17:12.200 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% BUT AT BINGO, NO KIDDING, 17:09.566 --> 17:13.533 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% IT'S TIME TO KNOCK IT OFF 17:10.733 --> 17:15.133 align:start position:10% line:74% size:57.5% AND POINT TOWARDS HOME. 17:12.200 --> 17:16.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% WE'RE CREATING A TACTICAL JET 17:13.533 --> 17:18.966 align:start position:10% line:74% size:35% NAVAL AVIATOR. 17:15.133 --> 17:23.100 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% CERTAINLY MOST OF THE AVIATORS 17:16.866 --> 17:33.400 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% COMING THROUGH OUR PROGRAM ARE 17:18.966 --> 17:33.400 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:75% LIKELY TO SEE COMBAT, AND YES, 17:23.100 --> 17:33.400 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:42.5% THEY'LL BE READY. 17:38.433 --> 17:42.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% >> FOR MORE THAN A DECADE 17:39.633 --> 17:47.066 align:start position:10% line:74% size:45% AFTER EUGENE ELY'S 17:41.133 --> 17:48.300 align:start position:10% line:74% size:60% PIONEERING FLIGHTS, U.S. 17:42.866 --> 17:49.033 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% NAVAL AVIATION STOOD STILL. 17:47.066 --> 17:50.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% >> MOST PEOPLE WOULD THINK THAT, 17:48.300 --> 17:52.066 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% "HEY, THIS IS A TRIUMPHANT 17:49.033 --> 17:53.600 align:start position:10% line:74% size:35% EVENT. THIS IS 17:50.866 --> 17:55.533 align:start position:10% line:74% size:55% A MAJOR DEMONSTRATION. 17:52.066 --> 17:58.100 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% THE NAVY IS GONNA FALL ALL OVER 17:53.600 --> 17:59.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:60% ITSELF TO BUY AIRCRAFT." 17:55.533 --> 18:01.600 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% WELL, THAT WASN'T THE CASE. 17:58.100 --> 18:03.200 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% >> AIRPLANES WERE STILL MADE OF 17:59.566 --> 18:06.533 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% WOOD AND FABRIC AND COULD BARELY 18:01.600 --> 18:07.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% HOLD THE WEIGHT OF A MAN, MUCH 18:03.200 --> 18:10.066 align:start position:10% line:74% size:45% LESS A HEAVY BOMB. 18:06.533 --> 18:11.700 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% BUT FROM THE MOMENT HE WITNESSED 18:07.566 --> 18:18.533 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% ELY'S PLANE LAND ON A SHIP, 18:10.066 --> 18:20.533 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% CAPTAIN WASHINGTON CHAMBERS 18:11.700 --> 18:20.966 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% COULD IMAGINE THE FUTURE. 18:18.533 --> 18:24.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% >> CHAMBERS COULD LOOK DOWN 18:20.533 --> 18:26.700 align:start position:10% line:74% size:50% THE PIPELINE AND SEE 18:20.966 --> 18:29.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% THAT THERE WERE TANTALIZING NEW 18:24.933 --> 18:32.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% TECHNOLOGIES BEGINNING TO APPEAR 18:26.700 --> 18:34.766 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% ON THE HORIZON, NEW MATERIALS 18:29.933 --> 18:37.300 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% LIKE ALUMINUM, NEW STRUCTURES 18:32.233 --> 18:38.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:37.5% LIKE MONOCOQUE, 18:34.766 --> 18:40.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% NEW FUELS LIKE HIGH-OCTANE 18:37.300 --> 18:41.700 align:start position:10% line:74% size:22.5% GASOLINE. 18:38.933 --> 18:44.733 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% PLANES WERE GONNA GET FASTER. 18:40.566 --> 18:45.733 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% THEY WERE GONNA FOR FARTHER. 18:41.700 --> 18:52.400 align:start position:10% line:74% size:52.5% THEY COULD LIFT MORE. 18:44.733 --> 18:54.133 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% THEY WERE ALSO GONNA BE MORE 18:45.733 --> 18:55.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% DEADLY AND MORE MANEUVERABLE. 18:52.400 --> 18:55.966 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% >> BY THE END OF WORLD WAR I, 18:54.133 --> 19:05.766 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% THE AIRPLANE HAD BECOME A PART 18:55.566 --> 19:06.366 align:start position:10% line:74% size:45% OF MODERN WARFARE. 18:55.966 --> 19:08.700 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% THE BRITISH WERE THE LEADERS. 19:05.766 --> 19:10.666 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% BUT THE AMERICANS WERE ANXIOUS 19:06.366 --> 19:11.800 align:start position:10% line:74% size:30% TO CATCH UP. 19:08.700 --> 19:15.366 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% SO WERE THE JAPANESE, WHO BUILT 19:10.666 --> 19:17.966 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% THE WORLD'S FIRST AIRCRAFT 19:11.800 --> 19:21.400 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% CARRIER FROM THE GROUND UP. 19:15.366 --> 19:22.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% THE NAVY EMBRACED SEA-PLANES 19:17.966 --> 19:24.200 align:start position:10% line:74% size:47.5% FOR RECONNAISSANCE. 19:21.400 --> 19:25.433 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% BUT THE EFFORT INVOLVED IN 19:22.866 --> 19:29.000 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% LOWERING AND RETRIEVING THE 19:24.200 --> 19:30.766 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% PLANES MADE THEM USELESS FOR 19:25.433 --> 19:33.400 align:start position:10% line:74% size:25% MUCH ELSE. 19:29.000 --> 19:36.066 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% FOR CHAMBERS, IT WAS CLEAR: THE 19:30.766 --> 19:37.733 align:start position:10% line:74% size:60% NAVY WAS FALLING BEHIND. 19:33.400 --> 19:39.400 align:start position:10% line:74% size:55% HE CONTINUED TO PRESS. 19:36.066 --> 19:39.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% >> YOU HAVE CHAMBERS GOING AND 19:37.733 --> 19:43.800 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% DOING THIS INCREDIBLE MARKETING 19:39.400 --> 19:46.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% JOB TO A VERY CONSERVATIVE 19:39.933 --> 19:49.266 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% GENERAL BOARD OF THE U.S. 19:43.800 --> 19:51.433 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% NAVY, TRYING TO TO SELL A VERY 19:46.866 --> 19:52.400 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% NEW, VERY EXPENSIVE TECHNOLOGY 19:49.266 --> 19:53.966 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% WHICH, OH, BY THE WAY, REQUIRED 19:51.433 --> 19:56.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% THE BUILDING OF SOME OF THE 19:52.400 --> 19:59.666 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% LARGEST AND MOST POWERFUL 19:53.966 --> 20:01.833 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% WARSHIPS IN THE WORLD TO PROVE 19:56.233 --> 20:05.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:60% THAT IT WAS EVEN VIABLE. 19:59.666 --> 20:06.366 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% >> FOR THE NAVY BRASS, CARRIER 20:01.833 --> 20:07.800 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% AVIATION WAS A DISTANT FANTASY. 20:05.233 --> 20:15.000 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% NOTHING COULD REPLACE THE KING 20:06.366 --> 20:15.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:40% OF THEIR FLEET-- 20:07.800 --> 20:17.100 align:start position:10% line:74% size:37.5% THE BATTLESHIP. 20:15.000 --> 20:20.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% >> UP TO THIS POINT, THE WAR 20:15.566 --> 20:22.200 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% PLANS OF EVERY NATION IN THE 20:17.100 --> 20:24.633 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% WORLD STILL ENVISIONED BIG GUN 20:20.866 --> 20:26.300 align:start position:10% line:74% size:35% BATTLESHIPS... 20:22.200 --> 20:26.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:50% 8, 10, 12 AT A TIME, 20:24.633 --> 20:29.433 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% LOBBING ONE-TON SHELLS AT EACH 20:26.300 --> 20:30.466 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% OTHER UNTIL ONE SIDE OR THE 20:26.866 --> 20:33.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:35% OTHER GAVE UP. 20:29.433 --> 20:35.433 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% AND THAT WOULD DETERMINE THE 20:30.466 --> 20:36.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:40% FATE OF NATIONS. 20:33.233 --> 20:39.266 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% >> THE FINAL PUSH TOWARDS 20:35.433 --> 20:40.700 align:start position:10% line:74% size:52.5% CARRIER AVIATION CAME 20:36.933 --> 20:41.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% UNEXPECTEDLY: NOT FROM INSIDE 20:39.266 --> 20:42.466 align:start position:10% line:74% size:52.5% THE NAVY, BUT FROM AN 20:40.700 --> 20:46.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:32.5% INTER-SERVICE 20:41.866 --> 20:48.600 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% RIVALRY FUELED BY A BRASH ARMY 20:42.466 --> 20:50.300 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% GENERAL NAMED BILLY MITCHELL. 20:46.866 --> 20:52.700 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% MITCHELL HAD BEEN IN CHARGE OF 20:48.600 --> 20:54.400 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% ALL AMERICA'S AIRPLANES IN 20:50.300 --> 20:57.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:30% WORLD WAR I, 20:52.700 --> 20:59.066 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% AN EXPERIENCE THAT FOREVER 20:54.400 --> 21:00.366 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% CHANGED HIS VISION OF WAR. 20:57.866 --> 21:00.666 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% >> IF YOU LOOK AT WORLD WAR I, 20:59.066 --> 21:07.200 align:start position:10% line:74% size:55% IT WAS JUST A HORRIFIC 21:00.366 --> 21:09.266 align:start position:10% line:74% size:27.5% EXPERIENCE. 21:00.666 --> 21:12.333 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% YOU HAD TRENCH WARFARE, PEOPLE 21:07.200 --> 21:15.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% KILLED BY THE THOUSANDS AND 21:09.266 --> 21:17.500 align:start position:10% line:74% size:55% HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS. 21:12.333 --> 21:19.700 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% AND YOU HAD PEOPLE LIKE GENERAL 21:15.233 --> 21:21.633 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% BILLY MITCHELL WHO LOOKED UPON 21:17.500 --> 21:22.900 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% THE AIRPLANE AS A WAY THAT COULD 21:19.700 --> 21:25.133 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% CHANGE WARFARE AND WOULD-- 21:21.633 --> 21:26.400 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% COULD GET WARFARE OUT OF THE 21:22.900 --> 21:28.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:22.5% TRENCHES. 21:25.133 --> 21:28.800 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% >> MITCHELL'S DETERMINATION 21:26.400 --> 21:31.166 align:start position:10% line:74% size:55% MATCHED HIS ARROGANCE. 21:28.233 --> 21:32.633 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% HE WANTED TO CONSOLIDATE ALL 21:28.800 --> 21:33.833 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% MILITARY AIRPOWER UNDER ONE 21:31.166 --> 21:34.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:20% SERVICE, 21:32.633 --> 21:38.433 align:start position:10% line:74% size:60% AN INDEPENDENT AIR FORCE 21:33.833 --> 21:39.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:45% UNDER HIS COMMAND. 21:34.233 --> 21:41.700 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% MITCHELL SET OUT TO DO SOMETHING 21:38.433 --> 21:42.966 align:start position:10% line:74% size:10% BIG, 21:39.566 --> 21:45.333 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% SOMETHING NEVER DONE BEFORE. 21:41.700 --> 21:46.133 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% IF THE WHOLE WORLD BELIEVED THAT 21:42.966 --> 21:48.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% AIRPLANES COULD NOT KILL SHIPS, 21:45.333 --> 21:52.300 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% WELL, THEN HE WOULD PROVE THEM 21:46.133 --> 21:54.000 align:start position:10% line:74% size:15% WRONG. 21:48.933 --> 22:01.833 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% IN JULY OF 1921, HE ORCHESTRATED 21:52.300 --> 22:03.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% A SHOW FOR DECISION MAKERS IN 21:54.000 --> 22:04.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:22.5% CONGRESS. 22:01.833 --> 22:09.100 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% MITCHELL'S AIRPLANES FIRST 22:03.233 --> 22:10.033 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% DESTROYED SEVERAL OLD BATTLE 22:04.566 --> 22:12.333 align:start position:10% line:74% size:22.5% CRUISERS. 22:09.100 --> 22:13.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% THEN CAME THE MOST IMPORTANT 22:10.033 --> 22:16.466 align:start position:10% line:74% size:12.5% TEST. 22:12.333 --> 22:17.633 align:start position:10% line:74% size:50% EACH PLANE CARRIED A 22:13.233 --> 22:19.600 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% NEWLY INVENTED 2,000 POUND BOMB. 22:16.466 --> 22:30.000 align:start position:10% line:74% size:35% THEIR TARGET-- 22:17.633 --> 22:30.000 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:70% A CAPTURED GERMAN BATTLESHIP 22:19.600 --> 22:30.000 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:57.5% LONG DEEMED UNSINKABLE. 22:34.166 --> 22:37.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% THIS WAS A TRIUMPH FOR BILLY 22:35.533 --> 22:41.500 align:start position:10% line:74% size:22.5% MITCHELL, 22:37.033 --> 22:43.000 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% AND IT ACHIEVED THE EXACT 22:37.566 --> 22:45.300 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% OPPOSITE OF WHAT HE WANTED. 22:41.500 --> 22:47.333 align:start position:10% line:74% size:60% >> IT TRIGGERED, IN NAVY 22:43.000 --> 22:48.766 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% LEADERSHIP, A DECISION TO LOOK 22:45.300 --> 22:51.400 align:start position:10% line:74% size:52.5% AT, "HEY WE HAVE THIS 22:47.333 --> 22:53.400 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% AIRPOWER ADVOCATE, GENERAL BILLY 22:48.766 --> 22:54.733 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% MITCHELL, AND IF WE DON'T 22:51.400 --> 22:56.766 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% EMBRACE AVIATION AND LOOK AT 22:53.400 --> 22:57.800 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% AVIATION AS AN ADJUNCT TO THE 22:54.733 --> 23:00.133 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% FLEET, THEN WE MAY HAVE AN 22:56.766 --> 23:10.466 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% INDEPENDENT AIR FORCE ON OUR 22:57.800 --> 23:11.900 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% HANDS AND ALSO MAY HAVE A NAVY 23:00.133 --> 23:13.800 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% THAT'S GREATLY DIMINISHED." 23:10.466 --> 23:15.366 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% >> WITHIN A FEW MONTHS, THE NAVY 23:11.900 --> 23:17.066 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% REGAINED THE LEAD, CONVERTING A 23:13.800 --> 23:20.200 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% CARGO SHIP INTO AN AIRCRAFT 23:15.366 --> 23:22.833 align:start position:10% line:74% size:45% CARRIER CHRISTENED 23:17.066 --> 23:26.433 align:start position:10% line:74% size:35% THE "LANGLEY." 23:20.200 --> 23:28.800 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% THE AGE OF AMERICAN CARRIER 23:22.833 --> 23:29.400 align:start position:10% line:74% size:45% AVIATION WAS BORN. 23:26.433 --> 23:33.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% THE "LANGLEY" OPERATED FOR 2 23:28.800 --> 23:44.000 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% YEARS IN AN EXPERIMENTAL ROLE, 23:29.400 --> 23:44.000 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:72.5% TESTING AIRCRAFT AND TRAINING 23:33.866 --> 23:44.000 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:17.5% PILOTS. 23:54.033 --> 23:59.500 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% >> WE LIKE TO TALK ABOUT THE 23:55.066 --> 24:03.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% GOLDEN AGE OF NAVAL AVIATION IN 23:57.033 --> 24:04.900 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% THE '20s WHERE WE HAD WOODEN 23:59.500 --> 24:06.400 align:start position:10% line:74% size:57.5% AIRPLANES AND IRON MEN. 24:03.566 --> 24:08.700 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% THESE WERE PEOPLE WHO WERE 24:04.900 --> 24:10.366 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% WILLING TO LITERALLY BET THEIR 24:06.400 --> 24:16.333 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% LIVES TO GO AHEAD AND BRING THIS 24:08.700 --> 24:17.600 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% TECHNOLOGY AND THIS NEW KIND OF 24:10.366 --> 24:19.600 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% WARFARE TO THE FOREFRONT. 24:16.333 --> 24:21.533 align:start position:10% line:74% size:57.5% IT WAS HARD, AND IT WAS 24:17.600 --> 24:22.700 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% DANGEROUS AND A LOT OF NAVAL 24:19.600 --> 24:24.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:35% AVIATORS DIED. 24:21.533 --> 24:29.533 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% AND THIS IS REALLY WHERE THE 24:22.700 --> 24:31.166 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% REPUTATION OF NAVAL AVIATION 24:24.566 --> 24:31.766 align:start position:10% line:74% size:45% BEGAN TO BE BUILT. 24:29.533 --> 24:33.400 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% THE NAVAL AVIATORS OF THE 24:31.166 --> 24:42.633 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% INTERWAR PERIOD ARE VERY MUCH 24:31.766 --> 24:44.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% CHARACTERS OUT OF THE MOVIES. 24:33.400 --> 24:47.733 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% YEAH, THEY HAD SILK SCARVES. 24:42.633 --> 24:49.333 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% YEAH, THEY HAD LEATHER JACKETS 24:44.866 --> 24:50.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:47.5% AND FLYING HELMETS. 24:47.733 --> 24:54.400 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% YEAH, THEY HAD STEELY-EYED 24:49.333 --> 24:55.500 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% LOOKS AND THEY WERE HANDSOME AND 24:50.866 --> 24:56.366 align:start position:10% line:74% size:55% THEY DID DARING DEEDS. 24:54.400 --> 24:58.100 align:start position:10% line:74% size:45% >> THEY WERE THE-- 24:55.500 --> 25:01.766 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% FOR LACK OF A BETTER TERM, THE 24:56.366 --> 25:02.366 align:start position:10% line:74% size:60% MACHO MEN OF THEIR TIME, 24:58.100 --> 25:03.333 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% THE GUYS THAT HAD NO FEAR. 25:01.766 --> 25:07.833 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% JUST AS THEY WERE CONFIDENT IN 25:02.366 --> 25:10.066 align:start position:10% line:74% size:55% THEIR OWN CAPABILITIES 25:03.333 --> 25:12.066 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% SET APART FROM THOSE THAT 25:07.833 --> 25:13.633 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% PREFERRED TO KEEP THEIR TWO FEET 25:10.066 --> 25:16.266 align:start position:10% line:74% size:35% ON THE GROUND. 25:12.066 --> 25:17.433 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% >> I GUESS THE WORD IS PROBABLY 25:13.633 --> 25:18.300 align:start position:10% line:74% size:10% EGO. 25:16.266 --> 25:18.466 align:start position:10% line:74% size:32.5% PROBABLY EGO. 25:17.433 --> 25:24.766 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% IT WAS PROBABLY WHAT GOT ME INTO 25:18.300 --> 25:27.266 align:start position:10% line:74% size:7.5% IT. 25:18.466 --> 25:30.166 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% MAN, I WANT TO BE A BIG SHOT. 25:24.766 --> 25:32.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% THE IMAGE OF A NAVAL AVIATOR WAS 25:27.266 --> 25:42.733 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% A RED CONVERTIBLE, TOP DOWN WITH 25:30.166 --> 25:42.733 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:72.5% A BEAUTIFUL BLONDE ALONGSIDE. 25:32.233 --> 25:42.733 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:72.5% WHO COULD WANT ANYTHING ELSE? 25:56.166 --> 26:08.900 align:start position:10% line:74% size:47.5% >> EVERY DAY YOU'RE 25:57.133 --> 26:09.500 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% OPERATING IN 3 DIMENSIONS. 26:07.033 --> 26:11.000 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% >> YOU DON'T HAVE TIME TO, WE 26:08.900 --> 26:12.366 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% CALL IT BREAKING OUT THE BOOK, 26:09.500 --> 26:13.666 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% AND READ AND SEE WHAT THE 26:11.000 --> 26:15.133 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% PROBLEM IS AND FIX IT. YOU JUST 26:12.366 --> 26:16.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% DON'T HAVE TIME TO DO THAT, 26:13.666 --> 26:20.366 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% SO IF YOU DON'T HAVE THINGS 26:15.133 --> 26:23.033 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% MEMORIZED COLD, YOU CAN'T PUT 26:16.866 --> 26:24.133 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% THEM INTO ACTION QUICK ENOUGH. 26:20.366 --> 26:26.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% >> WE MAKE OUR OWN MISTAKES AND 26:23.033 --> 26:29.600 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% TELL THE PLANE TO DO THE WRONG 26:24.133 --> 26:38.400 align:start position:10% line:74% size:40% THING SOMETIMES. 26:26.866 --> 26:40.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% IF THINGS GO WRONG, THEY CAN GO 26:29.600 --> 26:40.700 align:start position:10% line:74% size:32.5% REALLY WRONG. 26:38.400 --> 26:43.666 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% >> SOME DAYS YOU'RE JUST ON, 26:40.233 --> 26:44.300 align:start position:10% line:74% size:52.5% SOME DAYS YOU'RE NOT. 26:40.700 --> 26:46.000 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% HOPEFULLY WE'LL PEAK WHEN WE 26:43.666 --> 26:48.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% HEAD TO THE BOAT AND HAVE A GOOD 26:44.300 --> 26:50.000 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% DAY. WE'RE PRACTICED, WE'RE, 26:46.000 --> 26:51.166 align:start position:10% line:74% size:55% YOU KNOW, WELL RESTED, 26:48.866 --> 26:53.633 align:start position:10% line:74% size:45% WE'RE READY TO GO. 26:50.000 --> 27:00.466 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% AND WE'RE AT THE TOP PART OF THE 26:51.166 --> 27:01.000 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% GAME, CLOSE TO BEING AS GOOD AS 26:53.633 --> 27:03.733 align:start position:10% line:74% size:25% WE CAN BE. 27:00.466 --> 27:05.800 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% >> WE'RE GONNA MOVE IT IN 27:01.000 --> 27:08.033 align:start position:10% line:74% size:50% 500 POUND INCREMENTS 27:03.733 --> 27:09.666 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% WHEN YOU GIVE THEM THE SIGNALS. 27:05.800 --> 27:12.666 align:start position:10% line:74% size:55% SO PALM UP, LIKE THAT, 27:08.033 --> 27:14.433 align:start position:10% line:74% size:57.5% AND THEN THE PALM DOWN. 27:09.666 --> 27:15.633 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% HORIZONTAL IS MOVE IT DOWN. 27:12.666 --> 27:16.466 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% >> I'M HAVING A FEELIN' THAT I'M 27:14.433 --> 27:19.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% GONNA LOOK AND BE LIKE, "WOW, I 27:15.633 --> 27:20.266 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% HAVE TO LAND IN THAT LITTLE 27:16.466 --> 27:20.733 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% SPOT, AND YOU KNOW THAT BOAT'S 27:19.233 --> 27:23.533 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% NOT AS BIG AS I THOUGHT IT WAS 27:20.266 --> 27:25.033 align:start position:10% line:74% size:52.5% GONNA BE," BUT TRYING 27:20.733 --> 27:27.400 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% TO KEEP THOSE OUT OF THE HEAD 27:23.533 --> 27:28.400 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% RIGHT NOW AND JUST...FOCUS 27:25.033 --> 27:30.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% ON WHAT WE WERE TAUGHT TO DO. 27:27.400 --> 27:32.433 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% >> THIS WILL BE A COMPLETELY NEW 27:28.400 --> 27:34.800 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% EXPERIENCE FOR ME AND MOST ALL 27:30.233 --> 27:35.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:47.5% THE OTHER STUDENTS. 27:32.433 --> 27:37.533 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% WE HAVE NO FLEET EXPERIENCE-- 27:34.800 --> 27:38.800 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% IT'S GONNA BE LOUD, IT'S GONNA 27:35.933 --> 27:40.133 align:start position:10% line:74% size:20% BE BUSY. 27:37.533 --> 27:41.300 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% I MEAN, THEY'VE BEEN SHOWIN' US 27:38.800 --> 27:47.100 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% ALL WEEK OF PEOPLE KILLIN' 27:40.133 --> 27:48.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% THEMSELVES BEHIND THE BOAT, YOU 27:41.300 --> 27:49.633 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% KNOW, CRASHIN' LEFT AND RIGHT. 27:47.100 --> 27:50.666 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% IT'S ALL LEARNING POINTS YOU CAN 27:48.233 --> 27:50.966 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% TAKE FROM, AND REMEMBER, DON'T 27:49.633 --> 27:53.166 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% DO THAT, I DON'T WANNA TURN INTO 27:50.666 --> 27:55.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:27.5% A FIREBALL. 27:50.966 --> 27:55.800 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% I'D LIKE TO LAND AND COME HOME 27:53.166 --> 27:59.100 align:start position:10% line:74% size:47.5% AT THE END OF THIS. 27:55.233 --> 28:01.366 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% THE NERVES CRANK UP, 'CAUSE 27:55.800 --> 28:02.133 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% IT IS COMPLETELY FOREIGN, AND 27:59.100 --> 28:03.200 align:start position:10% line:74% size:20% IT--IT-- 28:01.366 --> 28:04.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% PROBABLY THE MOST EXCITING THING 28:02.133 --> 28:14.333 align:start position:10% line:74% size:37.5% WE'VE DONE TO-- 28:03.200 --> 28:14.333 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:67.5% IN OUR LIVES TO THIS POINT, 28:04.233 --> 28:14.333 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:12.5% SO... 28:17.733 --> 28:25.266 align:start position:10% line:74% size:50% >> IN THE MID-1920s, 28:19.633 --> 28:27.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:52.5% THE NAVY HAD JUST ONE 28:20.766 --> 28:30.800 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% SMALL CARRIER: THE "LANGLEY." 28:25.266 --> 28:32.900 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% AIRPLANES HAD BECOME STURDIER, 28:27.866 --> 28:35.733 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% THE PILOTS BETTER TRAINED, BUT 28:30.800 --> 28:37.266 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% STILL UNRESOLVED WAS HOW TO USE 28:32.900 --> 28:39.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:47.5% ALL OF THIS IN WAR. 28:35.733 --> 28:41.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% AMID THE WAVERING, ONE FIGURE 28:37.266 --> 28:41.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% EMERGED TO TAKE THE LEAD. 28:39.866 --> 28:45.500 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% HIS NAME WAS ADMIRAL JOSEPH 28:41.233 --> 28:48.666 align:start position:10% line:74% size:32.5% MASON REEVES. 28:41.566 --> 28:50.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% >> EVERY MOVE OF THESE NAVAL 28:45.500 --> 28:53.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% AIRCRAFT HAS A DEFINITE PURPOSE, 28:48.666 --> 28:54.633 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% AND HAS THE SINGLE AIM OF 28:50.866 --> 28:55.666 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% ACHIEVING A FIGHTING FLEET. 28:53.866 --> 28:56.600 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% >> HIS NICKNAME WAS BILLY GOAT 28:54.633 --> 28:59.400 align:start position:10% line:74% size:52.5% REEVES, 'CAUSE HE HAD 28:55.666 --> 29:00.400 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% THIS BEARD AND GOATEE THAT HE 28:56.600 --> 29:03.200 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% WORE. HE'S A HARD CHARGER, 28:59.400 --> 29:05.000 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% A FOOTBALL PLAYER AT THE NAVAL 29:00.400 --> 29:07.033 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% ACADEMY, HAD STUDIED TACTICS. 29:03.200 --> 29:07.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% AND HE IS A CONVERT TO NAVAL 29:05.000 --> 29:10.366 align:start position:10% line:74% size:22.5% AVIATION. 29:07.033 --> 29:12.000 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% >> REEVES CHAFED AT NAVAL 29:07.566 --> 29:13.533 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% DOCTRINE THAT CONFINED PLANES TO 29:10.366 --> 29:15.800 align:start position:10% line:74% size:37.5% RECONNAISSANCE. 29:12.000 --> 29:17.066 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% HE WAS AFTER A WEAPON AS LETHAL 29:13.533 --> 29:17.700 align:start position:10% line:74% size:45% AS THE BATTLESHIP. 29:15.800 --> 29:19.733 align:start position:10% line:74% size:27.5% >> FOR HIM, 29:17.066 --> 29:21.433 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% IT VERY QUICKLY BECAME, "HOW CAN 29:17.700 --> 29:22.766 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% WE USE THIS AIRCRAFT CARRIER, 29:19.733 --> 29:24.100 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% NOT AS A SUPPORT WEAPON, BUT AS 29:21.433 --> 29:27.766 align:start position:10% line:74% size:50% AN OFFENSIVE WEAPON? 29:22.766 --> 29:29.000 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% AS THE OFFENSIVE CENTERPIECE 29:24.100 --> 29:30.466 align:start position:10% line:74% size:55% OF--OF A NAVAL FORCE?" 29:27.766 --> 29:31.966 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% >> ADMIRAL REEVES UNDERSTOOD 29:29.000 --> 29:33.066 align:start position:10% line:74% size:60% EVEN WITH "LANGLEY" THAT 29:30.466 --> 29:33.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:47.5% YOU HAD TO MAXIMIZE 29:31.966 --> 29:35.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:50% THE NUMBER OF PLANES 29:33.066 --> 29:37.700 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% THAT COULD BE LAUNCHED FROM THAT 29:33.866 --> 29:40.533 align:start position:10% line:74% size:35% FLIGHT DECK... 29:35.566 --> 29:47.966 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% BRINGING THE MOST INTENSE 29:37.700 --> 29:49.466 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% CONCENTRATION OF FIREPOWER ONTO 29:40.533 --> 29:51.066 align:start position:10% line:74% size:52.5% A TARGET AS POSSIBLE. 29:47.966 --> 29:53.733 align:start position:10% line:74% size:60% >> IN 1928, REEVES GOT A 29:49.466 --> 29:56.466 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% PLATFORM THAT MATCHED HIS 29:51.066 --> 29:58.433 align:start position:10% line:74% size:25% AMBITIONS. 29:53.733 --> 30:00.000 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% >> THE UNITED STATES TAKES TWO 29:56.466 --> 30:01.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% INCREDIBLE HULLS OF BATTLE 29:58.433 --> 30:03.533 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% CRUISERS THEY WERE BUILDING, AND 30:00.000 --> 30:04.833 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% THEY PUT ALL OF THEIR TONNAGE 30:01.933 --> 30:07.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% INTO THESE TWO SHIPS, AND THEY 30:03.533 --> 30:08.833 align:start position:10% line:74% size:57.5% PRODUCE TWO OF THE MOST 30:04.833 --> 30:11.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% BEAUTIFUL, POWERFUL, AND IN 30:07.233 --> 30:14.466 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% FACT, THE FASTEST WARSHIPS IN 30:08.833 --> 30:14.966 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% THE WORLD, THE "LEXINGTON" AND 30:11.233 --> 30:17.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:37.5% THE "SARATOGA." 30:14.466 --> 30:19.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:60% >> REEVES LOADED THE TWO 30:14.966 --> 30:21.700 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% CARRIERS WITH NEARLY A HUNDRED 30:17.933 --> 30:25.166 align:start position:10% line:74% size:30% PLANES EACH. 30:19.866 --> 30:27.300 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% AND WITHIN A YEAR, HE OVERCAME 30:21.700 --> 30:28.800 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% THE SEEMINGLY IMPOSSIBLE... 30:25.166 --> 30:38.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% LAUNCHING AND LANDING DOZENS OF 30:27.300 --> 30:41.733 align:start position:10% line:74% size:57.5% AIRPLANES IN RAPID-FIRE 30:28.800 --> 30:42.666 align:start position:10% line:74% size:27.5% SUCCESSION. 30:38.933 --> 30:42.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:60% >> IT'S A JIGSAW PUZZLE. 30:41.733 --> 30:46.366 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% IT'S LIKE BASEBALL--IT'S A GAME 30:42.666 --> 30:47.666 align:start position:10% line:74% size:25% OF INCHES. 30:42.933 --> 30:48.666 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% YOU CAN PICK A MILLION DIFFERENT 30:46.366 --> 30:49.800 align:start position:10% line:74% size:20% CLICHES, 30:47.666 --> 30:50.400 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% AND I DON'T THINK ANY OF 'EM 30:48.666 --> 30:56.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% REALLY ACCURATELY CAPTURE WHAT 30:49.800 --> 31:02.600 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% HAPPENS ON A FLIGHT DECK WITH 30:50.400 --> 31:03.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% DOZENS OF AIRPLANES, SOME 30:56.233 --> 31:06.433 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% LAUNCHING, SOME RECOVERING. 31:02.600 --> 31:07.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% >> THERE WAS THIS CONSTANT 31:03.566 --> 31:10.400 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% BALLET GOING ON CHOREOGRAPHED BY 31:06.433 --> 31:13.400 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% THE DECK DEPARTMENT, THE AIR 31:07.566 --> 31:16.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% DEPARTMENT, LITERALLY HUNDREDS 31:10.400 --> 31:25.633 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% OF YOUNG MEN USING THEIR BARE 31:13.400 --> 31:26.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% HANDS AND MUSCLES TO PUSH 90 OR 31:16.933 --> 31:29.900 align:start position:10% line:74% size:50% A HUNDRED AIRPLANES. 31:25.633 --> 31:31.800 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% >> NEW AND BETTER PLANES WERE IN 31:26.933 --> 31:36.433 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% THE PIPELINE: THE CURTISS SBC-4 31:29.900 --> 31:38.533 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% HELLDIVER COULD CARRY A 1,000 31:31.800 --> 31:39.733 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% POUND BOMB ALMOST 600 MILES. 31:36.433 --> 31:43.000 align:start position:10% line:74% size:47.5% THE NEXT CHALLENGE, 31:38.533 --> 31:46.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% DELIVERING THE BOMBS WITH MORE 31:39.733 --> 31:49.833 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% PRECISION, AND FOR THAT THEY 31:43.000 --> 31:50.433 align:start position:10% line:74% size:55% INVENTED DIVE BOMBING. 31:46.866 --> 31:53.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% >> DIVE BOMBING IS A TECHNIQUE 31:49.833 --> 31:55.733 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% THAT WAS DEVELOPED BY THE NAVY 31:50.433 --> 31:57.366 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% BECAUSE IT PROVIDED A VERY 31:53.566 --> 32:01.700 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% ACCURATE WAY OF BOMBING A 31:55.733 --> 32:03.100 align:start position:10% line:74% size:40% PINPOINT TARGET. 31:57.366 --> 32:05.633 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% AND SHIPS ARE PINPOINT TARGETS. 32:01.700 --> 32:07.733 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% THE PLANES COME IN AT ABOUT 32:03.100 --> 32:10.066 align:start position:10% line:74% size:30% 10,000 FEET. 32:05.633 --> 32:12.100 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% AND THEN PUSHES OVER INTO A 32:07.733 --> 32:15.533 align:start position:10% line:74% size:27.5% STEEP DIVE. 32:10.066 --> 32:16.066 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% AND WHEN I SAY STEEP, MEANING 32:12.100 --> 32:17.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:50% GOING STRAIGHT DOWN. 32:15.533 --> 32:22.400 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% >> INSIDE OF THE COCKPIT, 32:16.066 --> 32:22.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% THEY OFTEN FLEW WITH THEIR 32:17.566 --> 32:24.733 align:start position:10% line:74% size:35% CANOPIES OPEN. 32:22.400 --> 32:25.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% AS THE AIRPLANE WOULD PUSH 32:22.933 --> 32:27.133 align:start position:10% line:74% size:12.5% OVER, 32:24.733 --> 32:29.700 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% THE VISCERAL FEELING OF BEING 32:25.866 --> 32:31.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:57.5% LIFTED OUT OF YOUR SEAT 32:27.133 --> 32:35.166 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% AND HANGING FROM YOUR STRAPS, 32:29.700 --> 32:36.633 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% LOOKING THROUGH A VERY SIMPLE 32:31.566 --> 32:37.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:55% REFLECTORED GUN SIGHT. 32:35.166 --> 32:39.533 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% MEANWHILE, THIS SHIP THAT YOU'RE 32:36.633 --> 32:41.066 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% AIMING AT, WELL, IT'S A MOVING 32:37.233 --> 32:44.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:17.5% TARGET. 32:39.533 --> 32:48.666 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% IT'S SNAKING, IT'S CIRCLING, 32:41.066 --> 32:50.166 align:start position:10% line:74% size:60% IT'S CHANGING ITS SPEED. 32:44.866 --> 32:51.533 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% THEN, AT ABOUT 2,800 TO ABOUT 32:48.666 --> 32:57.833 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% 1,500 FEET, WHICH ISN'T VERY 32:50.166 --> 32:59.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:32.5% HIGH AT ALL-- 32:51.533 --> 33:01.033 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% YOU WOULD RELEASE THE BOMB... 32:57.833 --> 33:03.766 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% AND THEN IMMEDIATELY PULL IN 32:59.566 --> 33:06.900 align:start position:10% line:74% size:57.5% EXCESS OF ANYWHERE FROM 33:01.033 --> 33:08.533 align:start position:10% line:74% size:35% 4 TO 6 OR 7 Gs 33:03.766 --> 33:11.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% TO COME OUT OF THAT DIVE. 33:06.900 --> 33:13.800 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% >> NAVAL AVIATION HAD GAINED 33:08.533 --> 33:19.966 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% POWER, REACH, NUMBERS AND 33:11.866 --> 33:22.466 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% PRECISION BUT WAS STILL UNTESTED 33:13.800 --> 33:23.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:25% IN BATTLE. 33:19.966 --> 33:24.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% STARTING IN 1929, THE NAVY BEGAN 33:22.466 --> 33:29.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% A SERIES OF WAR GAMES CALLED 33:23.933 --> 33:31.466 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% FLEET PROBLEMS THAT PUT REEVES' 33:24.566 --> 33:33.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:52.5% THEORIES TO THE TEST. 33:29.233 --> 33:36.366 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% NONE PROVED AS PROPHETIC AS THE 33:31.466 --> 33:40.400 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% VAST PACIFIC EXERCISE KNOWN AS 33:33.866 --> 33:42.066 align:start position:10% line:74% size:42.5% FLEET PROBLEM 13. 33:36.366 --> 33:43.633 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% ON FEBRUARY 7, 1932 THE CARRIERS 33:40.400 --> 33:47.133 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% "LEXINGTON" AND "SARATOGA" 33:42.066 --> 33:49.633 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% PEELED AWAY FROM THE FLEET AND 33:43.633 --> 33:51.033 align:start position:10% line:74% size:55% SAILED TOWARDS HAWAII. 33:47.133 --> 33:51.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% 152 PLANES WERE DISPATCHED TO 33:49.633 --> 33:54.966 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% ATTACK PEARL HARBOR WITH DUMMY 33:51.033 --> 33:56.366 align:start position:10% line:74% size:15% BOMBS. 33:51.233 --> 33:58.700 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% IN THE MOCK ASSAULT, THEY 33:54.966 --> 33:59.333 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% POUNDED THE AIRFIELDS AND PORT 33:56.366 --> 34:02.200 align:start position:10% line:74% size:27.5% FACILITIES. 33:58.700 --> 34:03.066 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% >> AND WHY IT'S SO IMPORTANT IS 33:59.333 --> 34:04.200 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% BECAUSE IT SHOWED THAT THE 34:02.200 --> 34:05.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:52.5% CARRIER COULD OPERATE 34:03.066 --> 34:07.433 align:start position:10% line:74% size:32.5% INDEPENDENTLY 34:04.200 --> 34:09.033 align:start position:10% line:74% size:55% AND OPERATE AS ITS OWN 34:05.866 --> 34:11.333 align:start position:10% line:74% size:22.5% TASKFORCE 34:07.433 --> 34:12.600 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% AND DID NOT NEED TO HAVE THE 34:09.033 --> 34:14.333 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% BATTLE LINE THERE FOR SUPPORT. 34:11.333 --> 34:16.466 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% AND IT SHOWED THE OFFENSIVE 34:12.600 --> 34:18.166 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% FIREPOWER OF THE AIRCRAFT 34:14.333 --> 34:20.500 align:start position:10% line:74% size:20% CARRIER. 34:16.466 --> 34:21.766 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% >> THE NAVY MINIMIZED THE RISKS 34:18.166 --> 34:23.133 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% OF AN ATTACK BY CARRIERS. 34:20.500 --> 34:25.733 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% FOR THE NEXT DECADE, THE OLD 34:21.766 --> 34:27.133 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% STRATEGIES STAYED LARGELY 34:23.133 --> 34:29.366 align:start position:10% line:74% size:25% UNCHANGED. 34:25.733 --> 34:32.133 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% >> THESE ARE TOUGH TIMES. 34:27.133 --> 34:32.766 align:start position:10% line:74% size:57.5% THIS IS THE DEPRESSION. 34:29.366 --> 34:34.966 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% WE HAD EXISTING BATTLESHIPS. 34:32.133 --> 34:35.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% THEY WERE THERE, THEY WERE PAID 34:32.766 --> 34:37.066 align:start position:10% line:74% size:40% FOR. THEY WERE-- 34:34.966 --> 34:39.433 align:start position:10% line:74% size:47.5% WE KNEW EXACTLY HOW 34:35.933 --> 34:41.600 align:start position:10% line:74% size:37.5% TO EMPLOY THEM, 34:37.066 --> 34:45.833 align:start position:10% line:74% size:40% AND THEY WORKED. 34:39.433 --> 34:47.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% >> BUT FLEET PROBLEM 13 DID NOT 34:41.600 --> 34:58.266 align:start position:10% line:74% size:32.5% GO UNNOTICED. 34:45.833 --> 34:58.266 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:80% ACROSS THE PACIFIC, THE JAPANESE 34:47.933 --> 34:58.266 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:47.5% STUDIED IT CLOSELY. 35:02.600 --> 35:12.400 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% OVER THE NEXT DECADE, THEY WOULD 35:04.000 --> 35:14.266 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% EXPAND THEIR FLEET OF LARGE 35:05.166 --> 35:18.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:35% CARRIERS TO 6. 35:12.400 --> 35:20.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% THEY WOULD BUILD THE ZERO, A 35:14.266 --> 35:30.633 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% STATE-OF-THE-ART FIGHTER PLANE. 35:18.866 --> 35:31.200 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% THEY WOULD TRAIN 3,500 NAVAL 35:20.866 --> 35:33.100 align:start position:10% line:74% size:17.5% PILOTS. 35:30.633 --> 35:37.333 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% THE CARRIER FORCE THAT MOVED 35:31.200 --> 35:47.700 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% TOWARD PEARL HARBOR IN DECEMBER 35:33.100 --> 35:47.700 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:80% OF 1941 WAS THE LARGEST AND MOST 35:37.333 --> 35:47.700 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:55% POWERFUL IN THE WORLD. 35:56.966 --> 36:01.133 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% IN A BITTER IRONY, PEARL HARBOR 35:58.600 --> 36:03.400 align:start position:10% line:74% size:60% WOULD STAND AS THE FIRST 35:59.833 --> 36:13.766 align:start position:10% line:74% size:25% REAL-WORLD 36:01.133 --> 36:13.766 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:77.5% PROOF THAT CARRIER AVIATION WAS 36:03.400 --> 36:13.766 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:55% THE NEXT SUPER WEAPON. 36:21.400 --> 36:24.733 align:start position:10% line:74% size:50% >> WHEN YOU WALK OUT 36:22.266 --> 36:27.433 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% ON THE DECK IN THE MORNINGS, 36:23.300 --> 36:30.633 align:start position:10% line:74% size:57.5% IT'S PRETTY IMPRESSIVE. 36:24.733 --> 36:31.600 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% IT'S QUIET, IT'S PEACEFUL. 36:27.433 --> 36:36.266 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% AND YOU START THE PREFLIGHT. 36:30.633 --> 36:37.966 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% YOU CAN FEEL THE SHIP STARTING 36:31.600 --> 36:40.966 align:start position:10% line:74% size:27.5% TO WAKE UP. 36:36.266 --> 36:42.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% YOU CAN HEAR THE SURF GOING 36:37.966 --> 36:44.133 align:start position:10% line:74% size:50% UNDERNEATH THE HULL. 36:40.966 --> 36:45.166 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% YOU CAN LOOK OUT ON THE HORIZON 36:42.233 --> 36:55.666 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% AND SEE THE CLOUDS, AND YOU JUST 36:44.133 --> 36:55.666 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:75% BREATHE IN THAT FRESH AIR, AND 36:45.166 --> 36:55.666 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:75% YOU GO IT'S A GOOD DAY TO FLY. 37:04.266 --> 37:07.433 align:start position:10% line:74% size:57.5% >> AND WE FLEW OUT AS A 37:05.033 --> 37:08.733 align:start position:10% line:74% size:60% DIVISION, A FLIGHT OF 4. 37:06.500 --> 37:11.000 align:start position:10% line:74% size:55% AND EVERYBODY THAT WAS 37:07.433 --> 37:12.266 align:start position:10% line:74% size:50% QUALIFYING WAS SOLO. 37:08.733 --> 37:13.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% AND THAT'S ANOTHER APPEAL TO-- 37:11.000 --> 37:15.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% TO WHAT WE DO IS THAT YOU GET 37:12.266 --> 37:17.766 align:start position:10% line:74% size:57.5% THE GO OUT THERE ALONE. 37:13.566 --> 37:18.766 align:start position:10% line:74% size:30% IT'S ON YOU. 37:15.866 --> 37:19.366 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% >> EVERYBODY SAYS THAT YOUR 37:17.766 --> 37:21.300 align:start position:10% line:74% size:30% REPUTATION-- 37:18.766 --> 37:22.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW WELL YOU 37:19.366 --> 37:22.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% FLY IN THE AIR, YOUR REPUTATION 37:21.300 --> 37:25.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% THAT EVERYBODY HEARS ABOUT IS 37:22.233 --> 37:26.833 align:start position:10% line:74% size:60% HOW WELL YOU LAND ON THE 37:22.933 --> 37:28.633 align:start position:10% line:74% size:20% CARRIER. 37:25.566 --> 37:29.633 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% >> AND THE FORMATION PART OF THE 37:26.833 --> 37:31.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:60% FLYING WAS REALLY SHAKY. 37:28.633 --> 37:32.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% I THOUGHT WE SHOULD HAVE LOOKED 37:29.633 --> 37:33.733 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% BETTER COMING OVERHEAD THE SHIP, 37:31.233 --> 37:34.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:55% UH, JUST SOME--I THINK 37:32.933 --> 37:36.666 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% THAT WAS MORE NERVES THAN 37:33.733 --> 37:37.900 align:start position:10% line:74% size:32.5% ANYTHING--BUT 37:34.866 --> 37:40.466 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% THE 3 STUDENTS, WE DEFINITELY-- 37:36.666 --> 37:42.733 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% IT WAS--IT WAS PRETTY UGLY 37:37.900 --> 37:43.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:40% COMING OVERHEAD. 37:40.466 --> 37:44.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% >> TO SEE THAT PIECE OF AMERICAN 37:42.733 --> 37:46.533 align:start position:10% line:74% size:22.5% TERRITORY 37:43.933 --> 37:47.266 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% OUT THERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE 37:44.866 --> 37:48.400 align:start position:10% line:74% size:42.5% OCEAN IS AWESOME. 37:46.533 --> 37:49.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% THE FIRST TIME WHEN YOU'RE 37:47.266 --> 37:50.966 align:start position:10% line:74% size:27.5% COMING OVER 37:48.400 --> 37:51.766 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% AND YOU LOOK DOWN, IT'S-- 37:49.933 --> 37:54.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% YOU KIND OF GET THE CHILLS; I 37:50.966 --> 37:57.300 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% DON'T KNOW IF THEY WERE NERVOUS 37:51.766 --> 37:58.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% CHILLS OR--OR JUST...BUT WOW. 37:54.566 --> 38:00.100 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% IT MAKES YOU VERY HUMBLE. 37:57.300 --> 38:01.300 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% >> WHEN YOU GET OUT TO THE BOAT, 37:58.866 --> 38:02.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% YOU PRETTY MUCH JUST SPEND 10 38:00.100 --> 38:04.266 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% MINUTES GIVING YOURSELF THIS, 38:01.300 --> 38:06.133 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% LIKE, ONCE IN A LIFETIME PEP 38:02.866 --> 38:07.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:12.5% TALK. 38:04.266 --> 38:17.900 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% AND NEXT THING YOU KNOW TOWER'S 38:06.133 --> 38:18.766 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% CALLING YOU DOWN TO GET SET UP 38:07.933 --> 38:20.466 align:start position:10% line:74% size:32.5% FOR LANDINGS. 38:17.900 --> 38:21.833 align:start position:10% line:74% size:60% >> YOU HAVE AN LSO WHO'S 38:18.766 --> 38:22.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% STANDING NEXT TO THE WIRES ON 38:20.466 --> 38:23.700 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% THE DECK ON THE LANDING AREA, 38:21.833 --> 38:25.066 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% AND HE'S GRADING ALL YOUR 38:22.566 --> 38:26.066 align:start position:10% line:74% size:17.5% PASSES. 38:23.700 --> 38:27.800 align:start position:10% line:74% size:50% >> THEY'RE LISTENING 38:25.066 --> 38:28.800 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% FOR THE SOUNDS THE ENGINE'S 38:26.066 --> 38:36.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:57.5% MAKING. THEY CAN TELL-- 38:27.800 --> 38:37.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% YOU'VE MADE A MISTAKE BEFORE YOU 38:28.800 --> 38:38.833 align:start position:10% line:74% size:40% SEE THE MISTAKE. 38:36.933 --> 38:40.266 align:start position:10% line:74% size:35% >> ROLLED OUT. 38:37.933 --> 38:41.966 align:start position:10% line:74% size:52.5% THE BALL WAS A LITTLE 38:38.833 --> 38:44.900 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% HIGH TO BEGIN WITH, AND TO KEEP 38:40.266 --> 38:47.100 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% IT SAFE, BUMPED UP THE POWER A 38:41.966 --> 38:49.300 align:start position:10% line:74% size:27.5% LITTLE BIT. 38:44.900 --> 38:50.466 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% THE LANDING AREA IS ANGLED TO 38:47.100 --> 38:51.900 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% THE LEFT OF THE CENTER LINE OF 38:49.300 --> 38:53.133 align:start position:10% line:74% size:22.5% THE SHIP. 38:50.466 --> 38:54.433 align:start position:10% line:74% size:57.5% SO ANY TIME YOU ROLL UP 38:51.900 --> 38:56.400 align:start position:10% line:74% size:40% BEHIND THE SHIP, 38:53.133 --> 38:58.333 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% THE LANDING AREA IS ACTUALLY 38:54.433 --> 38:59.800 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% MOVING AWAY FROM YOU; NOT JUST 38:56.400 --> 39:03.300 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% AWAY FROM YOU, BUT TO THE RIGHT. 38:58.333 --> 39:05.266 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% SO YOU'RE ALWAYS LINING UP A 38:59.800 --> 39:05.533 align:start position:10% line:74% size:32.5% LITTLE RIGHT. 39:03.300 --> 39:07.633 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% YOU'LL SEE THE PLANE KIND OF 39:05.266 --> 39:08.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:22.5% UNDULATE. 39:05.533 --> 39:09.633 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% YOU'LL SEE BLACK SMOKE SHOOTING 39:07.633 --> 39:16.066 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% OUT OF THE EXHAUST, BECAUSE 39:08.566 --> 39:16.633 align:start position:10% line:74% size:20% YOU'RE-- 39:09.633 --> 39:19.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% YOU'RE IN THERE FIGHTING. 39:16.066 --> 39:22.133 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% SAW THE LSOs GO BY, AND THEY 39:16.633 --> 39:23.333 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% WERE ALL...STARING STRAIGHT UP 39:19.566 --> 39:26.900 align:start position:10% line:74% size:15% AT ME. 39:22.133 --> 39:28.500 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% I SAW THE WIRES GO BY. I WAS 30 39:23.333 --> 39:29.066 align:start position:10% line:74% size:37.5% FEET OVER THEM. 39:26.900 --> 39:31.133 align:start position:10% line:74% size:37.5% I KNEW MID-PASS 39:28.500 --> 39:33.100 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% THAT IT WAS--THAT I HAD JUST 39:29.066 --> 39:37.433 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% BOUGHT THAT BOLTER BIG-TIME, 39:31.133 --> 39:38.433 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% SO, POWER BACK UP AND TAKE BACK 39:33.100 --> 39:39.400 align:start position:10% line:74% size:10% OFF. 39:37.433 --> 39:41.300 align:start position:10% line:74% size:35% >> A BOLTER IS 39:38.433 --> 39:42.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% WHEN THEY COME AROUND WITH THEIR 39:39.400 --> 39:44.066 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% HOOK DOWN, AND THEY LAND TOO 39:41.300 --> 39:44.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% LONG, AND THEY MISS ALL THE 39:42.566 --> 39:53.333 align:start position:10% line:74% size:15% WIRES. 39:44.066 --> 39:53.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% AND THEY HAVE TO GO AROUND AND 39:44.866 --> 39:57.633 align:start position:10% line:74% size:32.5% TRY IT AGAIN. 39:53.333 --> 40:01.400 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% >> THE FIRST TRAP WAS KIND OF 39:53.933 --> 40:04.166 align:start position:10% line:74% size:57.5% A--A ROUGH PASS FOR ME. 39:57.633 --> 40:05.500 align:start position:10% line:74% size:57.5% ROLL IT OUT CENTERLINE. 40:01.400 --> 40:07.033 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% BELIEVE IT WAS A GOOD START. 40:04.166 --> 40:08.833 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% TO A LITTLE HIGH IN THE MIDDLE 40:05.500 --> 40:18.300 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% AND TRYING TO CHIP IT DOWN, 40:07.033 --> 40:19.966 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% TRYING TO CHIP IT DOWN, TO A 40:08.833 --> 40:20.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:60% LITTLE HIGH AT THE RAMP. 40:18.300 --> 40:24.433 align:start position:10% line:74% size:57.5% >> THE FIRST TRAP IS... 40:19.966 --> 40:31.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:60% THERE'S NO WAY TO REALLY 40:20.933 --> 40:33.200 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% DESCRIBE HOW IT'S GOING TO BE. 40:24.433 --> 40:34.633 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% IT'S THIS SCREECHING NOISE. 40:31.866 --> 40:35.800 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% YOUR BODY GETS THROWN FORWARD IN 40:33.200 --> 40:36.900 align:start position:10% line:74% size:25% YOUR SEAT. 40:34.633 --> 40:38.200 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% WHEN YOU GET THAT FEELING, 40:35.800 --> 40:39.133 align:start position:10% line:74% size:15% IT'S-- 40:36.900 --> 40:40.833 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% IT'S NICE BECAUSE YOU KNOW 40:38.200 --> 40:42.100 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% YOU'RE IN FACT STOPPED AND ON 40:39.133 --> 40:46.433 align:start position:10% line:74% size:22.5% THE BOAT. 40:40.833 --> 40:47.033 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% FIRST ATTEMPT AT STOPPING ON THE 40:42.100 --> 40:49.033 align:start position:10% line:74% size:35% BOAT--MADE IT. 40:46.433 --> 40:50.266 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% >> THEY TAXIED ME OVER TO GET 40:47.033 --> 40:51.200 align:start position:10% line:74% size:12.5% FUEL. 40:49.033 --> 40:51.966 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% AND, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE STILL 40:50.266 --> 40:53.133 align:start position:10% line:74% size:20% SHAKING. 40:51.200 --> 40:54.333 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% YOUR FOOT'S SITTING THERE 40:51.966 --> 41:04.833 align:start position:10% line:74% size:20% PULSING. 40:53.133 --> 41:04.833 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:77.5% AND, YOU KNOW, THEY TAXI YOU UP 40:54.333 --> 41:04.833 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:62.5% TO THE CAT. SHOOT ME OFF. 41:05.066 --> 41:09.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% >> EVERYTHING GOES DEAD SILENT. 41:06.566 --> 41:09.800 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% MY FIRST INITIAL THOUGHT WAS 41:07.600 --> 41:11.533 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% THAT MY ENGINE JUST FAILED. 41:09.233 --> 41:12.833 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% I HAD TO REALIZE THAT I WAS 41:09.800 --> 41:18.966 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% STILL CLIMBING AND MY AIRSPEED 41:11.533 --> 41:20.333 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% WAS INCREASING TO REALIZE THAT 41:12.833 --> 41:21.466 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% I'M--I'M SAFELY AIRBORNE. 41:18.966 --> 41:22.900 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% >> COMIN' DOWN A HIGH START AND 41:20.333 --> 41:24.133 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% TRYING TO CHIP IT DOWN WHILE 41:21.466 --> 41:24.466 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% REMEMBERING THE FIRST PASS, 41:22.900 --> 41:26.833 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% WHICH WAS MY FLY FLEW DOWN FOR 41:24.133 --> 41:30.366 align:start position:10% line:74% size:32.5% THE ONE WIRE. 41:24.466 --> 41:31.166 align:start position:10% line:74% size:52.5% DIDN'T WANNA DO THAT. 41:26.833 --> 41:38.433 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% KEPT TOO MUCH POWER ON IT. 41:30.366 --> 41:43.066 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% AND I FORGOT TO PUT MY HOOK 41:31.166 --> 41:45.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:17.5% DOWN... 41:38.433 --> 41:46.533 align:start position:10% line:74% size:60% AND AROUND I WENT, SO... 41:43.066 --> 41:47.333 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% THE SECOND DAY, THE FANGS CAME 41:45.233 --> 41:47.533 align:start position:10% line:74% size:55% OUT A LITTLE BIT MORE. 41:46.533 --> 41:49.600 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% I GUESS THE COCKINESS CAME OUT 41:47.333 --> 41:50.600 align:start position:10% line:74% size:15% MAYBE. 41:47.533 --> 41:51.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:47.5% >> JORDAN MEREDITH. 41:49.600 --> 41:54.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:57.5% ONE OF MY GOOD BUDDIES. 41:50.600 --> 42:04.400 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% HE HAD A BETTER SECOND DAY BUT 41:51.566 --> 42:05.533 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% IT ENDED UP BEING, I EDGED HIM 41:54.233 --> 42:06.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% OUT JUST BY A LITTLE BIT. 42:04.400 --> 42:07.100 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% >> WITH ROB BEING IN THE NAVY 42:05.533 --> 42:08.066 align:start position:10% line:74% size:30% AND ME BEING 42:06.233 --> 42:09.333 align:start position:10% line:74% size:50% IN THE MARINE CORPS, 42:07.100 --> 42:10.733 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% ROB'S CHANCES OF GOING BACK TO 42:08.066 --> 42:11.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% THE BOAT ARE ALMOST GUARANTEED. 42:09.333 --> 42:12.833 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% I MEAN, THAT'S--ALL THE NAVY JET 42:10.733 --> 42:14.466 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% PILOTS GO TO THE BOAT WHEREAS 42:11.933 --> 42:18.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:57.5% MARINE JET PILOTS DON'T 42:12.833 --> 42:19.800 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% NECESSARILY GO TO THE BOAT EVER 42:14.466 --> 42:21.166 align:start position:10% line:74% size:15% AGAIN. 42:18.233 --> 42:22.033 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% >> WE'VE PRETTY MUCH BEEN FLYING 42:19.800 --> 42:23.600 align:start position:10% line:74% size:22.5% TOGETHER. 42:21.166 --> 42:24.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% WE'VE GONE OUT TO EL CENTRO TO 42:22.033 --> 42:26.333 align:start position:10% line:74% size:60% DO BOMBING TOGETHER, AND 42:23.600 --> 42:27.500 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% OBVIOUSLY WE WENT TO THE CARRIER 42:24.566 --> 42:29.066 align:start position:10% line:74% size:30% TOGETHER, SO 42:26.333 --> 42:29.733 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% IT'LL BE TOUGH, HE'S A MARINE, 42:27.500 --> 42:31.466 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% WHICH MEANS ODDS ARE I PROBABLY 42:29.066 --> 42:34.400 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% WON'T SEE HIM AGAIN IN MY 42:29.733 --> 42:36.266 align:start position:10% line:74% size:17.5% CAREER. 42:31.466 --> 42:37.133 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% >> I WAS KIND OF DEPRESSED 42:34.400 --> 42:39.433 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% BECAUSE THE FACT THE MARINES 42:36.266 --> 42:40.633 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% DON'T ALWAYS GET TO GO TO THE 42:37.133 --> 42:42.266 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% BOAT, AND THE FACT THAT I MAY 42:39.433 --> 42:43.766 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% NEVER GO TO THE BOAT AGAIN. 42:40.633 --> 42:45.700 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% IT'S SUCH A COOL EXPERIENCE THAT 42:42.266 --> 42:55.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% YOU DON'T WANT IT TO END. 42:43.766 --> 42:55.933 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:80% AND WHEN IT DOES, IT'S KIND OF-- 42:45.700 --> 42:55.933 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:35% KIND OF ROUGH. 43:27.133 --> 43:33.666 align:start position:10% line:74% size:52.5% >> THE DEVASTATION AT 43:28.233 --> 43:37.033 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% PEARL HARBOR WAS THE WORK OF 43:29.233 --> 43:38.166 align:start position:10% line:74% size:25% CARRIERS-- 43:33.666 --> 43:40.733 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% 350 JAPANESE PLANES LAUNCHED 43:37.033 --> 43:42.666 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% FROM HUNDREDS OF MILES OUT AT 43:38.166 --> 43:43.900 align:start position:10% line:74% size:10% SEA. 43:40.733 --> 43:46.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% IN JUST TWO HOURS THEY WIPED OUT 43:42.666 --> 43:49.133 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% MOST OF THE BATTLESHIPS OF THE 43:43.900 --> 43:50.300 align:start position:10% line:74% size:35% PACIFIC FLEET. 43:46.233 --> 43:51.600 align:start position:10% line:74% size:57.5% IT WAS A MASTER STROKE. 43:49.133 --> 43:53.600 align:start position:10% line:74% size:52.5% >> JAPAN HAD NOT BEEN 43:50.300 --> 43:54.666 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% STOPPED, AND THERE WERE SOME 43:51.600 --> 43:56.133 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES 43:53.600 --> 43:56.766 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% WHO BELIEVED JAPAN COULDN'T BE 43:54.666 --> 43:59.066 align:start position:10% line:74% size:20% STOPPED. 43:56.133 --> 44:00.366 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% THAT EVENTUALLY, JAPAN WOULD NOT 43:56.766 --> 44:02.366 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% ONLY CONTROL ALL OF CHINA, THE 43:59.066 --> 44:04.733 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% PHILIPPINES, THE DUTCH EAST 44:00.366 --> 44:04.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% INDIES, BUT THE NORTHERN COAST 44:02.366 --> 44:09.366 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% OF AUSTRALIA, POSSIBLY EVEN 44:04.733 --> 44:11.366 align:start position:10% line:74% size:15% INDIA. 44:04.933 --> 44:13.066 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% >> IN THE UNITED STATES, THE 44:09.366 --> 44:17.033 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% LOSS OF THE BATTLESHIPS UPENDED 44:11.366 --> 44:19.433 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% EVERY PLAN FOR HOW A WAR IN THE 44:13.066 --> 44:21.066 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% PACIFIC COULD BE FOUGHT AND WON. 44:17.033 --> 44:22.033 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% BY SHEER LUCK, 3 AIRCRAFT 44:19.433 --> 44:24.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% CARRIERS HAD BEEN SPARED-- 44:21.066 --> 44:25.600 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% THEY WERE OUT AT SEA DURING THE 44:22.033 --> 44:27.300 align:start position:10% line:74% size:17.5% ATTACK. 44:24.566 --> 44:30.433 align:start position:10% line:74% size:60% >> YOU HAVE THIS BIZARRE 44:25.600 --> 44:32.766 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% SITUATION THAT THE JAPANESE 44:27.300 --> 44:36.433 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% ATTACK WITH AIRCRAFT CARRIERS, 44:30.433 --> 44:37.633 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% FORCES THE UNITED STATES INTO A 44:32.766 --> 44:39.166 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% CARRIER-BASED NAVAL STRATEGY. 44:36.433 --> 44:49.666 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% >> IT WAS NOW UP TO THE U.S. 44:37.633 --> 44:49.666 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:62.5% CARRIERS TO HOLD THE LINE 44:39.166 --> 44:49.666 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:75% AGAINST JAPAN'S IMPERIAL NAVY. 44:51.733 --> 44:56.633 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% IN JUNE OF 1942, THE JAPANESE 44:54.266 --> 45:00.333 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% FLEET MOVED TOWARD A PAIR OF 44:54.833 --> 45:02.500 align:start position:10% line:74% size:47.5% SMALL AMERICAN-HELD 44:56.633 --> 45:04.400 align:start position:10% line:74% size:57.5% ISLANDS IN THE PACIFIC. 45:00.333 --> 45:07.366 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% MIDWAY ATOLL WAS JUST A 1,000 45:02.500 --> 45:09.533 align:start position:10% line:74% size:60% MILES WEST OF HAWAII AND 45:04.400 --> 45:11.000 align:start position:10% line:74% size:60% STRATEGICALLY IMPORTANT. 45:07.366 --> 45:13.900 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% A THREAT OF INVASION WAS SURE TO 45:09.533 --> 45:15.633 align:start position:10% line:74% size:37.5% DRAW A FULL-OUT 45:11.000 --> 45:18.833 align:start position:10% line:74% size:45% AMERICAN RESPONSE. 45:13.900 --> 45:19.400 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% IT WAS DESIGNED AS A PERFECT 45:15.633 --> 45:28.433 align:start position:10% line:74% size:12.5% TRAP. 45:18.833 --> 45:34.466 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% >> THE AMERICANS SORTIE WITH 45:19.400 --> 45:36.966 align:start position:10% line:74% size:37.5% ABOUT 50 SHIPS. 45:28.433 --> 45:45.433 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% 3 OF THEM ARE AIRCRAFT CARRIERS. 45:34.466 --> 45:47.300 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% THEY'RE FACING OFF AGAINST WHAT 45:36.966 --> 45:50.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% LOOKED TO BE IMPOSSIBLE ODDS. 45:45.433 --> 45:52.833 align:start position:10% line:74% size:32.5% THE ENEMY HAS 45:47.300 --> 45:53.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% VAST, VAST NUMBERS OF SHIPS, 45:50.866 --> 45:58.166 align:start position:10% line:74% size:42.5% ALMOST 200 SHIPS. 45:52.833 --> 45:59.600 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% THEY'VE SORTIED THE ENTIRE 45:53.933 --> 46:00.666 align:start position:10% line:74% size:37.5% COMBINED FLEET. 45:58.166 --> 46:04.333 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% >> THE MORNING OF JUNE 4 DID 45:59.600 --> 46:06.166 align:start position:10% line:74% size:55% NOT START WELL FOR THE 46:00.666 --> 46:11.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:25% AMERICANS. 46:04.333 --> 46:14.100 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% RADAR ON MIDWAY BEGAN TRACKING 46:06.166 --> 46:14.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% 107 INCOMING JAPANESE PLANES. 46:11.933 --> 46:16.000 align:start position:10% line:74% size:52.5% WITHIN MINUTES, EVERY 46:14.100 --> 46:21.666 align:start position:10% line:74% size:55% OPERATIONAL U.S. PLANE 46:14.566 --> 46:31.066 align:start position:10% line:74% size:37.5% WAS IN THE AIR. 46:16.000 --> 46:33.033 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% THE JAPANESE BOMBERS SWEPT 46:21.666 --> 46:34.200 align:start position:10% line:74% size:52.5% THROUGH THE DEFENSES. 46:31.066 --> 46:35.433 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% OUT AT SEA, THE U.S. CARRIERS, 46:33.033 --> 46:37.900 align:start position:10% line:74% size:57.5% "ENTERPRISE," "HORNET," 46:34.200 --> 46:38.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% AND "YORKTOWN' LAUNCHED THEIR 46:35.433 --> 46:40.366 align:start position:10% line:74% size:22.5% PLANES... 46:37.900 --> 46:47.266 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% HOPING TO HIT THE JAPANESE 46:38.866 --> 46:49.000 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% CARRIERS BEFORE THEY COULD 46:40.366 --> 46:50.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:60% UNLEASH A SECOND STRIKE. 46:47.266 --> 46:53.300 align:start position:10% line:74% size:45% 3 SQUADRONS OF TBD 46:49.000 --> 46:54.066 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% DEVASTATOR TORPEDO PLANES 46:50.866 --> 46:55.733 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% REACHED THE JAPANESE FLEET. 46:53.300 --> 47:06.133 align:start position:10% line:74% size:45% FLYING AT WAVE-TOP 46:54.066 --> 47:06.133 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:75% LEVEL, THEY WERE EASY PREY FOR 46:55.733 --> 47:06.133 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:47.5% ANTI-AIRCRAFT FIRE. 47:18.200 --> 47:23.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% OF 41 TORPEDO PLANES, ONLY 4 47:20.900 --> 47:28.466 align:start position:10% line:74% size:22.5% SURVIVED. 47:23.433 --> 47:30.433 align:start position:10% line:74% size:57.5% NOT ONE TORPEDO SCORED. 47:23.933 --> 47:32.433 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% >> THE EARLY STRIKES THAT 47:28.466 --> 47:35.366 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% MORNING, BOTH FROM MIDWAY AND 47:30.433 --> 47:43.033 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% FROM THE AMERICAN CARRIERS, 47:32.433 --> 47:44.333 align:start position:10% line:74% size:60% SUFFER CRIPPLING LOSSES. 47:35.366 --> 47:44.800 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% THE CASUALTIES WERE JUST INSANE. 47:43.033 --> 47:55.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% >> OF THE MEN AND AIRCRAFT THAT 47:44.333 --> 47:55.233 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:55% LAUNCHED THAT MORNING, 47:44.800 --> 47:55.233 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:65% ABOUT HALF DID NOT RETURN. 48:05.900 --> 48:11.166 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% MEANWHILE, TWO SQUADRONS OF SBD 48:08.133 --> 48:12.300 align:start position:10% line:74% size:55% DAUNTLESS DIVE-BOMBERS 48:09.666 --> 48:22.666 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% LAUNCHED FROM THE "ENTERPRISE" 48:11.166 --> 48:22.666 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:30% IN SEARCH OF 48:12.300 --> 48:22.666 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:55% THE JAPANESE CARRIERS. 48:25.300 --> 48:29.700 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% THEY WERE LED BY A 40-YEAR 48:26.400 --> 48:31.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% OLD LIEUTENANT COMMANDER FROM 48:27.466 --> 48:33.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% BUFFALO, NEW YORK, NAMED WADE 48:29.700 --> 48:35.033 align:start position:10% line:74% size:22.5% McCLUSKY. 48:31.933 --> 48:36.300 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% >> McCLUSKY GETS OUT TO THE 48:33.233 --> 48:37.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% POINT WHERE HE'S BEEN TOLD, "THE 48:35.033 --> 48:40.466 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% JAPANESE FLEET WILL BE WAITING 48:36.300 --> 48:42.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:37.5% FOR YOU THERE." 48:37.566 --> 48:44.400 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% GETS OUT THERE, BUPKIS, NOTHING 48:40.466 --> 48:47.033 align:start position:10% line:74% size:22.5% IN SIGHT. 48:42.933 --> 48:47.666 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% >> STARING AT THE VAST EXPANSE 48:44.400 --> 48:50.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% OF OCEAN, McCLUSKY HAD TO DECIDE 48:47.033 --> 48:53.066 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% WHETHER TO RETURN HIS MEN TO THE 48:47.666 --> 48:55.533 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% "ENTERPRISE" OR LEAD THEM ON A 48:50.233 --> 48:57.633 align:start position:10% line:74% size:35% FOOL'S ERRAND. 48:53.066 --> 48:58.966 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% >> AND McCLUSKY DECIDES, WELL, 48:55.533 --> 49:00.100 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% I'M GONNA TAKE MY FORCE OF TWO 48:57.633 --> 49:02.066 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% SQUADRONS OF DIVE-BOMBERS 48:58.966 --> 49:05.400 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% AND I'M GONNA HAVE THEM FOLLOW 49:00.100 --> 49:08.633 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% ME ON A VERY METHODICAL SEARCH 49:02.066 --> 49:10.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:20% PATTERN. 49:05.400 --> 49:12.000 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% NOW, HE HAS A LITTLE PROBLEM, 49:08.633 --> 49:13.366 align:start position:10% line:74% size:60% HE'S RUNNING LOW ON GAS. 49:10.866 --> 49:14.900 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% AND MORE THAN A FEW OF HIS 49:12.000 --> 49:17.500 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% PILOTS ARE LOOKING AT THEIR GAS 49:13.366 --> 49:19.533 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% GAUGES WONDERING IF THE OLD MAN 49:14.900 --> 49:21.566 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% REALLY KNOWS WHAT HE'S DOING. 49:17.500 --> 49:23.500 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% AND THEN McCLUSKY SPOTS A 49:19.533 --> 49:25.500 align:start position:10% line:74% size:47.5% JAPANESE DESTROYER. 49:21.566 --> 49:26.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:60% HE FIGURES THAT JAPANESE 49:23.500 --> 49:27.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% DESTROYER IS GOING AT HIGH-SPEED 49:25.500 --> 49:29.400 align:start position:10% line:74% size:45% TOWARDS SOMETHING. 49:26.866 --> 49:30.400 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% I'LL BET YOU THAT'S THE JAPANESE 49:27.933 --> 49:31.733 align:start position:10% line:74% size:15% FLEET. 49:29.400 --> 49:32.333 align:start position:10% line:74% size:60% >> McCLUSKY FOLLOWED THE 49:30.400 --> 49:36.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:25% DESTROYER. 49:31.733 --> 49:38.000 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% APPROACHING FROM THE SOUTH, HE 49:32.333 --> 49:39.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% SPOTTED 3 JAPANESE CARRIERS. 49:36.933 --> 49:50.433 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% HIS BOMBERS PLUNGED INTO THEIR 49:38.000 --> 49:50.433 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:65% DIVES, CATCHING TWO OF THE 49:39.933 --> 49:50.433 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:75% CARRIERS BY COMPLETE SURPRISE. 49:59.966 --> 50:13.300 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% MINUTES LATER, A THIRD U.S. 50:01.133 --> 50:13.300 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:75% SQUADRON STUMBLED ON THE SCENE 50:03.066 --> 50:13.300 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:32.5% AND ATTACKED. 50:15.500 --> 50:20.466 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% AS McCLUSKY LOOKED BEHIND 50:17.200 --> 50:21.600 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% THROUGH THE TALL COLUMNS OF 50:17.766 --> 50:24.166 align:start position:10% line:74% size:55% SMOKE, HE WAS STUNNED. 50:20.466 --> 50:33.066 align:start position:10% line:74% size:60% THE AMERICANS HAD SUNK 3 50:21.600 --> 50:37.666 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% CARRIERS ALONG WITH SOME 300 50:24.166 --> 50:39.766 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% AIRCRAFT AND NEARLY 4,000 MEN. 50:33.066 --> 50:43.100 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% >> THAT MAN AND THAT ACTION 50:37.666 --> 50:46.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:55% TOOK THE JAPANESE NAVY 50:39.766 --> 50:46.833 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% ESSENTIALLY OUT OF THE WAR AT 50:43.100 --> 50:49.800 align:start position:10% line:74% size:30% THAT MOMENT. 50:46.233 --> 50:53.866 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% >> THE JAPANESE HAVE GONE FROM 50:46.833 --> 50:57.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:57.5% AN ABSOLUTE POSITION OF 50:49.800 --> 50:59.000 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% SUPREMACY TO THEY NEVER GO ON 50:53.866 --> 51:07.533 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% THE OFFENSIVE EVER AGAIN. 50:57.233 --> 51:08.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% AND IT ALL CAME DOWN TO ABOUT, 50:59.000 --> 51:11.000 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% OH, 4 DOZEN DIVE-BOMBERS. 51:07.533 --> 51:16.333 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% >> THE PILOTS WHO FOLLOWED 51:08.933 --> 51:20.366 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% McCLUSKY THAT DAY WERE ORDINARY 51:11.000 --> 51:22.966 align:start position:10% line:74% size:10% MEN. 51:16.333 --> 51:25.333 align:start position:10% line:74% size:62.5% MANY WERE NEWLY ENLISTED. 51:20.366 --> 51:28.366 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% >> THEY HAD NO RIGHT TO WIN, BUT 51:22.966 --> 51:29.766 align:start position:10% line:74% size:75% THEY DID, AND IN DOING SO THEY 51:25.333 --> 51:31.533 align:start position:10% line:74% size:70% CHANGED THE COURSE OF A WAR. 51:28.366 --> 51:38.833 align:start position:10% line:74% size:77.5% >> THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY WAS THE 51:29.766 --> 51:41.000 align:start position:10% line:74% size:65% MOST DECISIVE SINGLE NAVAL 51:31.533 --> 51:42.366 align:start position:10% line:74% size:57.5% BATTLE IN U.S. HISTORY. 51:38.833 --> 51:44.366 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% OVER THE COURSE OF WORLD WAR II, 51:41.000 --> 51:48.100 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% NAVY AIRPLANES WOULD PROVIDE THE 51:42.366 --> 51:50.933 align:start position:10% line:74% size:67.5% DOMINANT FIREPOWER IN EVERY 51:44.366 --> 52:01.366 align:start position:10% line:74% size:80% IMPORTANT BATTLE IN THE PACIFIC. 51:48.100 --> 52:01.366 align:start position:10% line:79.33% size:67.5% CARRIER AVIATION HAD PROVED 51:50.933 --> 52:01.366 align:start position:10% line:84.67% size:55% ITSELF BEYOND MEASURE. 52:36.233 --> 52:44.233 align:start position:10% line:74% size:47.5% >> CONGRATULATIONS. 52:37.266 --> 52:45.733 align:start position:10% line:74% size:72.5% REAL PROUD OF YOU. 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