Super Carrier
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DVD Cover Information
Actor: Lang Kidby, Peter MicMillanDirector: Various
Brand: Topics
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Special Edition
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 220 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-08-11
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: 60377
Studio: TOPICS Entertainment
Product features:
- This box-set contains 4 hours of the ultimate in heart-pounding action!
- We re dropping you off in the middle of the heart-pounding action on one of the world s largest aircraft carriers, the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, for a week of crucial training before deployment to the war in Iraq in Super Carrier.
- Go inside one of the world s most hazardous professions: bush piloting in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
- Welcome to the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, one of the largest warships in the world. IKE is a 95,000-pound sea-going air base boasting next-generation radar and combat capabilities
- Flying from England to Australia in the open-air cockpit of a plane with cotton-covered wings sounds crazy, but it s been done at least twice.
Movie Reviews of Super Carrier
Movie Review: Limited Review To Only DVD 1 (USS Dwight D. Eisenhower)
Summary: 3 Stars
This package must be a marketing screw up. Its called Super Carrier and only 1 of the 4 discs stated was related to an aircraft carrier. I only got to watch DVD 1 and hence my review is only limited to that. But if the reader was interested due to the package title, I believe that should be sufficed.
This documentary on USS Eisenhower is NOT on war footage. It's about trial on the Carrier and her crew before its commissioned operational. Thus it's a baptism of fire, before it earned its rights to carry live ordinance and support in theater of conflict.
It's a nice documentary, but no show with a limited time-span of 80 minutes can adequately captured a floating war city with 5000 crews, not to mention supporting towns (vessels like destroyers, submarines)
The show mainly focused on the pilots who need to fly the planes off and thereafter land on the carrier, the deck crews coordinating on the deck and the control tower. With clear presentations, it adequately educated the audiences on the challenges the pilots and crews faced to perform the main task delivering the planes via the carriers.
It managed to draw out the amount of training given to these deck operations, the constant emphasis on safely, the dedication of the crews and the importance the command placed on it. On the last point, the control tower and certain parts of the landing decks were actually staff by ex-pilots, did illustrate to non-naval personnel like me, the commitment the command placed on this deck operations.
To add a sense of risks and realism to the operations on the deck and the peril of taking off and landing on it, it has made good use of past film footages of other carrier's accidents to the supplement it.
A little bit on the cons. There were not enough attentions were placed on the supporting ships for the Carrier, though a nice simulation model was made of it. Other aspects of the Carrier were not mentioned, other than probably the risky maneuver of the Carrier refueling to receive its fuel for the fighter planes (the Carrier itself is nuclear powered).
It tried a little too hard on "affirmative actions", by squeezing 1 female pilot to appear on the show, to say how well she's been taken care of by her crew, made the show seemed a little like naval recruitment adverts.
The show also did not have enough time to show more other aspect of the carrier and how did the crew socially live and interact in such a confide space. It did mention that support crew operating below the landing deck, may not see it at all. It does makes one curious, how did they pass the time of not seeing the sun and feeling the air (as the expectation is that this is not a submarine)
On the whole, I give it a 3 stars. After watching the show, it did give me the feel on some aspects of the carrier operations.
Summary of Super Carrier
Super Carrier This 4-DVD Set Includes: Super Carrier Congo Bush Pilots Inside: Air Show The Greatest Flight This box-set contains 4 hours of the ultimate in heart-pounding action! We re dropping you off in the middle of the heart-pounding action on one of the world s largest aircraft carriers, the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, for a week of crucial training before deployment to the war in Iraq in Super Carrier. Then, hang on for dear life as you fly along on dangerous missions with amazingly skilled Congo Bush Pilots, and get a pilot s-eye-view of aerobatics at AirVenture Oshkosh in Inside: Air Show. Finally, come aboard for a flight like no other: a 15,000-mile adventure in the open-air cockpit of a World War I-era bomber in The Greatest Flight. DVD 1: Super Carrier Welcome to the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, one of the largest warships in the world. IKE is a 95,000-pound sea-going air base boasting next-generation radar and combat capabilities with a 4.5-acre flight deck and 6,000 personnel. Join the crew for seven days of relentless trials as they make crucial preparations for combat in Iraq. Go for a nerve-wracking ride as a rookie pilot is catapulted from 0-165 mph in two seconds in his first aircraft carrier launch, and see why every action is a matter of life and death on a Super Carrier. Approximately 55 minutes DVD 2: Congo Bush Pilots Go inside one of the world s most hazardous professions: bush piloting in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Terrain and climate make ground transport of aid and supplies difficult in Congo, leaving villages to rely on courageous and skilled bush pilots. But in a country crippled by decades of war and famine, the landing strips are often little more than pitted dirt roads, and local militia is known to fire at incoming craft. What drives these pilots to work in this dangerous environment? Hear their harrowing accounts and find out what it takes to fly with Congo Bush Pilots.Similar DVD Movies
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