Product Details

• Format: Color, Digital Sound, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Letterboxed, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Little Mammoth Media
• DVD Release Date: September 30, 2003
• Run Time: 40 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000E3J8U
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #100,894 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

This kid's-eye tour of the largest ship in the U.S. Navy invites the viewer into a small airplane on land, takes them on a brief flight, through a landing on the U.S.S. Nimitz and through takeoff again. Along the way, there's a tour of the ship--the largest afloat on earth--from hospital to barbershop to library. Viewers get to watch future pilots go through water-survival training, parachute-landing practice, and escape from a dunker--a cage that simulates a helicopter crashed into the water. Much of the 40-minute tour is ideal for kids, such as the fact that the naval personnel wear different-colored shirts that identify their jobs--yellow shirts direct the planes, purple shirts refuel, etc. The video simplifies more difficult information by comparing it to what kids know: the aircraft carrier weighs more than 15,000 school buses. While most of the aircraft carrier's 6,000 residents appear to be male, both a male pilot and a female pilot talk about their job on camera, giving girls a nice incentive to watch. --Kimberly Heinrichs

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Big Aircraft Carrier, February 19, 2002

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Jennifer B. Talton (Alachua, FL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Big Aircraft Carrier [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This video is great for both kids and adults! Narrarated by a child, this video takes you on a journey where you feel like you're living on an aircraft carrier. See what it's like to have one of the many jobs on the deck of an aircraft carrier, or even cook meals for such a large "floating city". Excellent all the way from the fighter plane coverage to the post office within the carrier that is so large it carries its own zip code! This is my sons #1 video choice! Enjoy!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Big Aircraft Carrier, October 5, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Big Aircraft Carrier [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is an excellent movie. Our family has enjoyed it over and over and over . . . it is a little above our two year old, but he still likes to watch it. There are a lot of action shots which entertain him. My husband and I both work for the Navy and we found very informative and well done. We also own "The Big Plane Trip" from this same series and enjoy that as well.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Highly Informative and Educational for Children, January 17, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Big Aircraft Carrier [VHS] (VHS Tape)

We have the Big Aircraft Carrier as well as several others produced by Little Mammoth. This series is one of the few educational videos that my children ask to watch over and over again. It delivers high quality content, and I consider it an enrichment to my children's education.