Apple quietly released “Flight Ready” on November 11, 2025, and it’s the closest most of us will ever get to launching off an aircraft carrier in an F/A-18 Super Hornet.
The 14-minute short is shot exclusively for Apple Vision Pro in the company’s Immersive Video format: 8K per eye, 180-degree stereoscopic 3D, and full spatial audio. You don’t watch it; you live it.
You start on the flight deck of the USS Nimitz at dawn. Yellow-shirts wave you forward, steam from the catapult hisses past your face, and then you’re in the cockpit.
The canopy slams shut. The jet blast deflector rises behind you.
Two seconds later you’re punched into your seat as the catapult fires, accelerating from 0 to 165 mph in the length of a football field.
The deck drops away, the Pacific tilts vertical, and you’re airborne.
From there it’s pure adrenaline: low-level runs skimming the ocean, tight turns that pull real G-forces on your inner ear (even sitting on your couch), and a night carrier trap that feels like slamming into a wall at 150 mph while trying to hook a three-inch wire.
The footage is real. No CGI. Apple’s crew spent months aboard the Nimitz and at Naval Air Station Lemoore, California, using custom 8K rigs mounted on helicopters and chase planes.
One sequence shows a Super Hornet flying literally underneath the camera helicopter at 400+ knots. Pilots who’ve seen it just shake their heads and say, “That was insane.”
The film is free in the Apple TV app for every Vision Pro owner and has instantly become the killer demo everyone shows friends to justify the $3,499 price tag. Reviewers are calling it “Top Gun Maverick without the love story and ten times more intense,” and the Vision Pro subreddit is flooded with people watching it on repeat.
Of course, the timing is… interesting.
The same week the film dropped, U.S. carrier strike groups are steaming toward the Caribbean amid escalating tensions with Venezuela, and Super Hornets from the very same air wings featured in the short are flying real-world missions that occasionally end with boats being blown out of the water on live television. Apple’s beautiful, patriotic tribute to naval aviation lands at the exact moment that same hardware is making very different headlines.
But that’s a conversation for another platform.
For now, if you have a Vision Pro, go watch “Flight Ready.” Just maybe don’t eat a big meal first.
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