Part 2: USS Midway
This Aircraft Carrier is located along a beach in a tourist area.
You can see the beautiful Coronado Bridge over there.
That’s Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel.
I traveled and stayed in that hotel once before.
The hotel was very nice.
The morning buffet for breakfast is 25$ per person. The food was delicious!
This is another rescue helicopter model.
It's opened so we could get inside to see.
In an emergency, they pushed the stretchers straight into the helicopter from here.
This is the helicopter cabin.
Wow!
You see some stretchers here.
You can sit or lay down.
It’s pretty spacious.
Dunno how it works when flying.
Wow!
The scenery is great behind me.
It’s San Diego downtown,...
a tourist city.
I’ve only shown you a few models on my left side...
because there are so many of them.
I think there must be 5-10 models in total.
Most of them are rescue helicopters.
They're used mainly for rescuing.
I don’t know whether they were used for combating or not.
Over there is a radar, the Aircraft Carrier radar.
Super awesome!
Wow. So BIG!
The weather is so nice for a day trip.
The total length of this runway is the same as the length of the ship.
It's around 1,000 feet (= 350m).
The airplane departs along this runway first, then takes off.
This model is the predecessor of the F18 model.
I've just read that it was used in the Vietnam War.
Each side carries 12 rockets or torpedoes.
Under the cabin lays 6 big rockets.
On the other side, there are also 12.
A pretty diverse combat aircraft model!
What model is this?
A6. This is an A6 Intruder model.
Pretty cool!
This is the statue of a marshaller.
It's a “fly straight” signal.
See! They point this way.
Looks like “Nhất Dương Chỉ” (fictional Chinese martial arts) in Thiên Long Bát Bộ (The Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils).
Wow! Super BIG!
You have to stand here to see how massive it is.
I don’t think you can feel how big it is just by watching the video.
But standing here, I can feel how gigantic it is,...
even larger than a stadium.
I feel a bit tired now.
It’s lucky that the weather is so nice today for filming.
So cool and relaxing!
It would be difficult to film if it were too hot.
The scenery is so beautiful!
A wonderful city!
This is a patrol aircraft model.
This is E2 model.
E2 Hawkeye (Hawkeye means the eyes of the hawk)
They use Hawkeye for patrolling.
There is a circular antenna on the top.
You see the big one.
It’s for patrolling while flying on the sea.
It can help to detect objects from hundreds of miles away.
Hundreds of mile, not just 100.
It weighs 50,000 Ibs.
The flying crew consists of 5 people.
5 people sit inside and fly around.
It wasn’t used for combat.
but very important in gathering information and detecting objects.
Here is the deck.
The runway and models are all on the deck.
I'm a bit tired, so let’s go to see what’s inside.
Follow me through that door.
This is the Admiral's meeting room, and the Captain's sleeping room.
They also have a toilet, a sleeping room and a meeting room.
The Admiral's meeting room looks classy.
I didn’t expect there's one inside.
Hello? How are you?
This is the dining room for the crew.
Wow!
Let’s see.
Wow!
This is the Admiral’s room.
There's an old black and white TV.
This is the kitchen to serve officers, not kitchen for the crew.
In the kitchen, you see here ... snack and butter.
This is an exclusive kitchen for officers.
As far as I know, in NAVY or Air Force or in any armed forces,...
the US officers always get very high standard treatment.
That’s why it’s called the officer treatment.
It’s a room for senior officers, not for the crew.
The crew stay in different rooms.
They have sleeping, bathroom,...
dining, and meeting rooms here,
They also have their own chef.
It’s the war map.
The admirals can meet up, and discuss their missions and their plans here.
The Aircraft Carrier never goes alone.
There were also other ships following the Aircraft Carrier.
The Aircraft Carrier couldn’t enter the service alone.
A group of soldiers and officers will come to support them,...
so they had to meet up regularly to know the battle plans in advance.
Wow!
Can’t imagine that they could develop this infrastructure in 1945.
Sick!
Wow!
This is the control room.
It controls everything in the ship.
There is a radar system to detect objects or things happening nearby.
Electricity, radio, and information are all here.
It’s like the brain of the Aircraft Carrier.
These are old-fashioned TVs.
Wow!
Wow. This is the typewriter.
Typewriter or Teletype.
Very old-fashioned!
It was produced in 1933.
It entered service in 1933.
There are antique fans that still work until now.
Information Area.
Here. Old-fashioned phones!
Phone from Bac Lieu’s Dandy time (aka rich kids).
This is the radio center.
They mostly used radios during war time.
They have AM-FM radio.
It's a control area which controls electricity and information,...
and helps to connect with nearby ships.
Wow! All the machines look terrifying!
In the military, all the information and data must be encoded before being transmitted.
So I think they need a lot of machines and codes.
It’s not easy like we often do.
All we need to do is Press and Speak.
It’s not like that.
It must be encoded.
Wow look at this side!
So many buttons.
It's like a DJ mixing music.
These are pictures of people who were encoding information.
They have to encode all the written documents.
And when they get encoded documents,...
they also need to decode them.
You can see the working process in the US NAVY.
They need a group of smart and quick-witted people
to write these codes and decode.
This is a sleeping room.
Quite neat and tiny room for US army officers.
The meeting room is on this side.
There is also a statue here.
Here is the bathroom and toilet.
It’s very comfortable.
Can't imagine there are such quality rooms inside an aircraft carrier.
Captain means the leader of the ship.
We have visited officers' room earlier,...
and now it’s the captain’s room.
It’s as luxurious as in a 5-star hotel.
Luxurious.
Leather sofa.
Wow!
Classy!
It’s very comfortable!
Great interiors!
It's the captain's belongings.
Captain’s cap! Nice!
End of Part 2.