Incredible Unrestricted Take off F15 fighter jet RAF Mildenhall 28Oct16 321pm
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- Incredible Unrestricted Take off F-15 fighter jet RAF Mildenhall 28Oct16 321pm this is the lakenheath F-15 that came to Mildenhall to test their emergency breaking line ( cable) that stops planes in the event of an emergency like a brake failure,i/we had no idea in advance we would get to see an Unrestricted take off when it left ! filmed this on my 1080p 90x zoom Panasonic Camcorder while standing on uneven wet wooden pallets surrounded by people inches either side of me making it very tricky to film as smoothly as i did, the Mildenhall runway is 2810 metres long , en.wikipedia.o... see en.wikipedia.o... 1 mile is 1609 metres so i was filming a plane nearly 2 miles away when you see it turn onto the end of the runway .
Part of this video was used in this brilliant video celebrating Raf lakenheath pilots winning the raytheon Trophy vimeo.com/2176... so watch that too .
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45 years old and still a badass plane. There are few planes that have that kind of lifespan.
not really
Thats like saying every honda civic on the street is 50 years old because first model out since 70s
B52
"Or respect"....🇺🇸
New avionics, new engines, same plane. Incredible.
The daddy-comments were awesome. Kids are like, "what's going on here?" And the dads are like, "shhhh...quit ruining the glorious moment!". Loved their narration!
0:50 SHH WE CANT HEAR THE PLANE OVER YOUR TALKING
The kids were only there because Mum was at the office, lol
Source: I'm a Dad too 😂👌
😁
Great vid - no music, no fancy commentary, no "over close" ups - but just like being there - and that's all you need - great!
And it's always good to hear the kids that were brought along. Dad taking the kids somewhere never gets old.
Pilot: Tower, we have some impressionable children at 11 o'clock. I'm requesting permission for a totally badass takeoff.
Tower: You're cleared for a "low as shit" takeoff. Let's give those kids the business, and do some recruitment for the future.
Approved for badass
40 years old kids ;)
Best comment ever.
Bill, you’re a funny man. Loved it
I pray for a Future where kids know Badass is Good
The F-15 not only can accelerate vertically, but can break the sound barrier doing so.
The only aircraft to shoot-down a satellite in orbit, 🤙🏻
Actually accelerates going straight up.
Hmm but why did he have to level off right after taking off before he climb? Is this a tactical move or?
@@weidelye8537 he climbs quicker that way.
The F-15 can, with clean wings, accelerate straight up, but it does so very slowly. Picture the wings as a ramp and the engine as a guy pushing a minecart. If you have the ramp be vertical, a very beefy guy can still just take the cart on his shoulders and lift it with brute force, but if you have him build up speed on a level path and then go up, he goes way faster.
If the pilot didn't mind wasting a lot of gas and going pretty slow, the earliest point where he could have pulled way up was right as his nose wheel left the ground. With two drop tanks (the big round things under the wings, which store extra gas) he probably couldn't have gone straight up without slowing down either.
@@weidelye8537 best comparison actually is probably a rocket launch. A space rocket with 2 Gs of thrust moves a lot slower off the launch pad than a rocket car with 2 Gs, because gravity is stealing half of the former one's oomph. F-15 gets up to something between 1 and 1.2 Gs, so straight up it can only accelerate at up to 1/6th its usual rate.
Two things in this video are awesome. The F-15 which speaks for itself and secondly, the fact that you brought young kids to see this. My parents shared the same thing with me when I was very young and since then I've always loved aviation. Thank you very much for the video and for being a great partner of the U.S.!
thanks : ) i love the US Military & USA ive been 3 times so far and hope to see more of it .
markyhabs
I just watched again. Too funny!
thanks a lot , ive removed that idiots comment, i do love USA ive been there a few times and hope to explore even more
thanks a lot , are you on twitter ? i am @chained so follow me then i can DM you my email to send stuff to, i dont want to show it here or ill get spammers harvesting my email address
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Hey, thanks for the info. Although I'm not on Twitter I have your info. I'll figure something out. One of these days I want to go to the Mach Loop! Stay cool, keep the great vids coming and I'll be in touch. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
The F-15 is an amazing jet. I worked at an airport/National Guard base and had 4 F-15E's land. Let me tell you something, when they departed the next day, the sound that you hear live, is nothing like what you hear on your computer. Not even close. Yes it's loud, but the actual vibration felt throughout your entire body just magnifies the awesome power of this jet. It's simply incredible.
Terrific description. You just gotta be there to truly experience the goose-bumps.
Back in 1979, I was with one for engine run up tests and about 25 feet from it during that time. It was an incredible experience.
Hard to imagine that this type of aircraft first flew in 1972... forty four years before this video.
... I guess the McDonnell Douglas design team did a good job.
Built to a different set of rules - simple -fast- sturdy with growth in mind - F-15 E Best fighter bomber we have - MCAIR new what they had and built - had to keep the government bean counters from screwing with it.. “Not a pound for air to ground “was the US Gov’t mantra - IAF said screw that and reconfigured their A/C as soon as possible after delivery and parked ..
@Cobradriver99 Actually it was made specifically to counter one MiG. The Soviets managed to leak info to the CIA that indicated the aircraft to have a phenomenal and frankly scary performance. Altough in reality it was crap as the US later found out. Afraid, the senate ordered the air force to come up with something better. They pulled in everything they could and managed the goal....which means the plan of the Soviets backfired spectacularly.
Well said!!!
331SVTCobra indeed. And MD did it again some years later with the F/A-18 too. A shame they were absorbed by Boeing.
They can fly with only one wing!
For some reason I love seeing when the Brits not only welcome our military there as close allies but aren't to proud to show their love and respect for our aircraft even with their proud history of great engineering and planes. The P51 is a perfect example of the two nations contributing something to make something no one else could compete with in it's day. American designed plane then stuck in the British rolls Royce and it was all she wrote. Even today when several mustangs come over they look amazing but the sound of all the Merlin's together is awesome
My 3 favorate military aircraft:
#1-NA-P51D Mustang
#2-McDonnell Douglas F15 Eagle
#3-Fairchild A-10 Warthog
Honoured to have f15c and e's based on our shores! Absolute monster of an aircraft, the typhoons we have now i would say match it, but were 30 years late to the party!
Agreed. An honor to get an aviation compliment from the British!
@@russellbrown8377 Typhoon is a great aircraft, and Brits are great pilots. I'm happy to say I don't think I'll see a time in my life when we'd need to test each other outside of wargames. :)
We always look after out colonies 😉 🇬🇧
The Eagle remains undefeated in air to air combat to this day. In recent events it has just been updated! The F-15 EX will be a challenge to adversaries for many years to come. 🦅🇺🇸
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well to be fair this fighter has never been challenged so that's not a crazy accomplishment
Mach 2.5 + yeee hawww.
If Rocky Marciano, Andre Ward or Floyd Mayweather were jets, they would be F-15s! 🤣
As an Air Force vet, I often wonder why they spend so much on planes like the F-22 AND F-35 when an upgrade F-15 is just as deadly as ever and a lot less expensive...
@@creoleDJ Fed money, someone got to eat!
Ex Eagle Keeper here, that sight never gets old. Even after all these years.
doesnt it still hold the record 0 - fucking high as fuck
What's an Eagle Keeper?
2nd, what's a eagle keeper?
He probably did maintenance or ordnance for F15s
Still probably the most valuable fighter jet in our fleet because: they’re actually replaceable (unlike the F22), repairable, robust, reliable, available in large numbers. Those are qualities that matter most in a long drawn-out conflict with a serious adversary.
Very repairable. I spent most of my childhood and young adult life seeing these in various states of repair. My dad used to work in a hanger where the long term projects were stored and he'd bring me to work every day before school (I went on base but lived in town) and the airmen would show me all of the jets and different components.
My grandson, an Air Force captain, will begin training in the F-15 in Sept. Glad to know he'll be flying a great aircraft. He's trying to keep us safe. I trust that beautiful beast will keep him safe. Larry Jaques
Well, there has never been an F15 lost to enemy action before so it's a pretty good choice. There was actually one F15, that had one of its wings entirely ripped off in a training accident, flew something like 20 miles back to base and landed safely.
Thank you for you service Larry Jaques.
As a US Marine stationed at NAS Keflavik in the late 80’s, we had the 57th FIS (US Air Force). One of my posts was right next to the runway and I got to watch them do this frequently, usually 2 abreast. Saw once when the whole squadron took off to different points on the compass with 4 standing on their tails until out of sight.
I was stationed at Keflavik in the late 70's and we still had the F-4E's, I remember we sent our birds to the states for 2 weeks for exercises and we had the Marine Air Corp cover for us with their F-4s. They were some pretty good guys.
The sight of a fighter taking off with afterburners and going vertical is one of the most sublime spectacles of the modern world. Just beautiful.
One of the best F15 takeoffs I've ever seen! A rare gem!
My first days at Sheppard. Seen the same thing!
@ murphopolis
I saw one on a clear December morning back in the late 1980s from the door of the fire house at Luke Air Force Base northwest of Phoenix Arizona. She went to angels 50 and was out of sight heading west in less then 4 minutes.
Navy here....we had an eagle come to our base.....well we fortunately are allowed to get closer than a civilian. When that badass left......absolutely awesome performance, just impressive as hell.....right up there with the Tomcat. Lol.
@@gregbuck701 -- LOL, do you realize how many civilians have been in, under, and over them? Tens of thousands.
This was a common sight for a long time at Lambert Field as the F-15s could exit the controlled air space around STL the fastest that way. Commercial travelers frequently got a show if any were going out for test flights. Back in the day, you could roll out in a Cessna 172 and have an F-4, F-15, or F-18 sitting in front of you or behind you.
My favorite jet fighter of all time, the C models course! The sound of this old girl in full burner is enough to raise my pulse by 30 points! I was crushed to learn that my vision was nowhere near good enough to fly her when I was younger.
sorry your dream to fly them remained just that, what an awesome plane
Darren4352
Same for me, except it was the F-14 that I longed to fly. I spent my junior high and senior high school years in ROTC hoping to get a leg up when the time came to join the service, only to find out my last year of high school that my lousy vision would keep that dream from ever becoming a reality. The F-15 also tickled my fancy (still does), but I wanted the extra thrill and challenge of carrier launches and traps.
Ahh...to dream
F-15E with IPE's.....saw first flight......best sight and sound ever!
You guys are the example of the parent that I want to be. Chilling at the airport with my child and enjoying some airplanes.
The sound of freedom. Its great having you guys over here in the UK
Yup, it sure is!
We've got your backs!
Brothers in Arms, to the end.
We like having you in our corner too, I'd love to see a Type 45 sailing with one of our Fords sometime!
TONE 007 bit random but I like your profile pic 👍👍
That chuckle at the end! Sounds like he was going to say "He-he-he! Cracking take-off Gromit!"
Dickhea@
@@Rover101 Obviously you have never heard of Wallace and Gromit to which this comment was referenced. So who is the dickhea@ now?
I was thinking that haha
Yeah I wouldn't be wearing the wrong trousers for sure if I went up in that thing.
The F-15 could be manufactured exactly as it was in the 80's and still be an air superiority figher today. Hard to fix perfect
The f14 was perfect. The f15 was an uglier attempt.
@@DirtNastyCivilian Aesthetically sure, F14 was beautiful. Hard to beat 104-0 though.
@G yea, like, it could use its superior speed to run away from it ;)
@@DirtNastyCivilian And which airframe is no longer actively in service? Exactly.
@Ronald Mcarthy an ugly attempt that is STILL unbeaten in air-to-air combat...😏
I saw back to back unrestricted takeoffs by F-15s during my years in the Marines while doing some training at Eglin AFB. Always slept well knowing we had those guys up there on our side on those birds. Magnificent achievement the F-15, and still an outstanding bird of war.
It's nice to have enough power, that "up" is just another direction you can fly.
It looked like he was using 'Ground effect' to quickly build up airspeed
One of the fastest climb records was a strike eagle. 0-30000m (98425fr) in 3min 27s
He should have done a unrestricted corkscrew going up.
@Irish Viking except that’s a F-15 Eagle
Gravitation becomes minimal at those speeds
I am retired Air Force and that airplane still brings a big smile every time I see it!
Thank you for your service
God this plane is my favorite jet fighter. It looks good, sounds good, and does good. So loud and perfectly symmetrical
Insane abilities !
F15E best fighter ever made!
The single seaters looks even sleaker though.
Mildenhall?
I was at mildenhall during Gulf 1.
I really want my British "cousins" to understand how much we Yanks love your country, your people, and how much we love your unsurpassed 🍺 beer!!!!!!!!
God bless the Queen.
Huh, you like warm beer ??? Ha..Ha...
Respect from the UK , love the US , glad we are on your side!
unsurpassed beer? Have you never been to the west coast, or germany?
Respect is due to our cousins across the pond. Together, we and our allies have created the longest period of general peace and prosperity. Thank you for being gracious hosts to our US servicemen and women. Cheers!
I was TDY in Mildenhal in 78, and use to swim @ a pool in lakenheath after work. Went there to see the SR-71, but only got to hear them at nite. Was a J-58 in our shop, roped off, covered up, and guarded. Such cool flying machines.Thanks for posting.
I just have this on replay, can’t get enough of that sound!!
I agree. This is one of the first videos I've seen that captured the sound right.
Could you imagine a large group of them being dispatched? Hell I'd like to see just 5 take off at once, couldn't imagine 30 or more.
How do you do replay??
@Busch light I bet I wouldn’t! I never tire of having my eardrums tickled - you can’t beat it.
Former Eagle Keeper here too that got 4 incentive flights ain't nothing like it and definitely fills THE need for speed! Thanks to all who have served! 👍🇺🇸👍🇺🇸👍🇺🇸
Years ago I was ATC in the US Army at Campbell Tower. An F14 wanted an unrestricted climb. He climbed to FL380 with full afterburners in the dead of night! Just lit up the sky! A beautiful thing to see!!!
Listening to the children brought me to tears, me and my grandfather did this as I was a child!! The memories!!
Years ago i was once having a meeting with a local planning officer on a housing site within sight of the Mildenhall airbase and a B1 bomber took off. It completely obliterated our hearing/conversation. Brilliant!
Had the pleasure of experiencing a max climb in the back seat of an F-15 D during an incentive ride while assigned to this very squadron. My time with the 493rd Grim Reapers one of the highlights of my 20 year career.
I used to work on these at Nellis in the early 80's. Watching that still gives me the chills!
I've always loved this aircraft. When I was in the Air Force and going through my training, I was hoping with all my heart to be assigned to an F-15 unit. Instead, I was assigned to EC-130s and WC-130s. I was severely disappointed. Over time, I grew to love my 130s, but I still wish it had been F-15s. One of the greatest aircraft ever built!
I got an MC-130 unit for my entire enlistment and, I gotta say, I wouldn't have changed a thing :) well, is consider becoming a pilot, but only to fly the MC-130!
I got the chance to take a ride in the back seat of an F-15E when I was at RAF Lakenheath!! We took off just like this jet did. It was the highlight of my Air Force career and the thrill of a lifetime!!
I did something similar in the back of another McDonnell Douglas product, the F4 Phantom II. It was at RAF Akrotiri on Cyprus with 228 OCU on detachment from RAF Leuchars.
Did that for the first time in an F-14A Tomcat at NAS Pensacola FL. It was for a 'dog & pony show' for all Flight School students aspiring to fighters. Called for clearance on a flight of four Tomcats going to the southern MOA for 'ACM familiarization' over the Gulf of Mexico. We were cleared to climb unrestricted to FL 350 (35,000 ft AGL). Flight lead did an Immelmann over the top at altitude to set up the split into 1v1 intercepts for the next 30 min.. Totally awesome. Tomcats forever!!
What is an "immelman"?
I've heard of it, but I cannot picture it.
Is it when you climb, are upside down, then going to opposite direction that you started and, then turn right side up?
They could really fly those things. Very low stall speed, smooth precision flight. Quiet when they wanted to be. No more noise then a car. Could slip up on you if you weren't looking. 200 yards would be a bad time to find out he's coming for you.
English man speak English!
John W . There’s two versions, the modern half-loop then half-roll as you describe (so return over original path at higher altitude), and the WW1 quarter-loop then full-rudder stall turn (at this point the biplanes were nearly stalling) to come back down the original quarter loop and re-engage at the same altitude. It allowed a pilot to re-engage on a target in less time than a traditional horizontal turn at less risk. Zoom in, strafe, up-round and back down onto the target, or come underneath, loop up to shoot into the belly and then stall turn and away backwards, never entering a defensive gun arc.
(Salutes)
I was just about 5 miles away, at RAF Lakenheath, back in the mid-eighties.
Damn, but I miss the awesome F-111 & F-15, among many others.
Both aircraft still make my heart go pitter-patter.
Went to RAF Mildenhall often...
Was an air traffic controller at Lakenheath from 80 to 82 (The F-111 years) then again from 92 to 2000 (The F-15 years) GREAT TIMES!!!
@@RSBAND08, we just missed each other. I was there 83-85.
The F-15 was a mistake. NATO knew that the new MiG had a large wing, which would make it highly manoeuvrable, and they had radar data from Israel that tracked one flying at Mach 3.2. It was therefore believed that the Soviets had a super-fast, super-agile new fighter which would run rings around anything NATO had. The resulting panic pushed demands for a new air superiority fighter that could at least keep within shouting distance of the new Soviet super-fighter. The result was the F-15.
Of course, it turned out that the MiG-25 needed its large wing because it was so _heavy,_ and it wasn't nearly as manoeuvrable as they had assumed. And while it was capable of Mach 3.2, that flight resulted in the aircraft eating its own engines, and the engines had to be completely scrapped and replaced; normal operating speed was more like Mach 2.5. So the US ended up with one of the best air superiority fighters of all time by mistake!
That's so cool
The soviets accidentally unleashed the most powerful fighter aircraft of its time
@@risingsun9595 really...
Furthermore the US acquired a MiG-25 later because one pilot defected and landed in Japan.
The US was excited, relieved, then extremely underwhelmed when they found out it was basically a flying shit box.
They also found out how behind the Soviet’s were in technology because the MiG-25 uses vacuum tubes.
While it wouldn’t be affected by an EMP from a nuclear blast it’s sketchy af because you’re flying an aerodynamically unstable brick with rockets for engines with no computer aid. (Good luck recovering from anything)
The mig 25 and 31 were built to counter the SR-71. They failed in numerous attempts. They were interceptors, and the F-15 was not to counter them. It was to replace the F-4, which was out maneuvered by the MiG 23 and other 3rd gen fighters. It was a response to our losses in Vietnam.
The engines of an F-15 fighter jet are nothing short of a miraculous invention...Just mind blowing and incredible to watch in action.
An INCREDIBLE, MAGNIFICENT BEAST!!. I first saw on in person at an airshow in Virginia some 30 years ago flying level, then straight up. I've been hooked ever since. My fave fighter.
its incredible it been in use so long buy can still kick ass !"!!
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I haven’t seen a lot of Russian trolls boasting about how great they are so you must be doing something right to keep them away. Take care, and thanks again.
From a standstill to 50+ thousand feet in 2min,3secs.Holds the record till this day 40+yrs later.Awesome airplane.
No it doesn't, English electric lighting did 50.000 feet in 1 minute
@@anthonyleadley.74 The f15 streak eagle did that. 67k ft per a min.
@abone1833 F-15EX is even more powerful. 29,000lbs of thrust per engine. Light takeoff weight is 45,000lbs. Max takeoff weight is 81,000lbs.
I once got to see a F-15 Eagle and a P-51 Mustang fly in close formation at an airshow. That was a sight to see.
The F-15 has a greater that 1:1 thrust to weight ratio meaning it has an excellent climb rate.
I was stationed at RAF Mildenhall from 1986-1989. Plan visiting the base in August.
Beck Row, Bury St. Edmunds & RAF Lakenheath see you soon.
Thank You for the video
That's a hoot, all right. Now picture a four-ship of F-15C's doing AB single ship takeoffs out of Aviano AB, Italy, and rejoining in an immelman departure while making so much noise that a four-star had to stop his speech to an outdoor group at the base. That was incredible.
Just about blew apart my speakers
I'll see your speakers, and raise you my headphones that just destroyed my eardrums! 😖
That was nothing. No, really. Ever heard an F-111 take off on full afterburner? You almost cannot hear someone shouting at you from two feet away .... this when you are half a mile away and indoors. On the phone and finger in opposite ear with phone smashed against ear and you can't hear ANYTHING. Yay, depot maintenance base, was at least interesting.
Gotta burn some more bugs
That shit knocked me off my chair !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You need better speakers
For "Streak Eagle" an F-15 with no paint was bolted to a runway with a chain and ran up to full power. After the chain link was blown, the aircraft was climbing vertically within the length of its fuselage and beat the the time to altitude of the Saturn V rocket.
are you serious ? ill google that
www.pw.utc.com/News/Story/20150218-0945/2015/All%20Categories wow thanks for saying that now ive looked it up
Not within the length of its fuselage, but in a very short time, and some incredible time-to-climb numbers.
blkbushirishwhiskey WELL YEAH SATURN ROCKETS SLOW CLIMB COMPARED TO F15 GOL LEE
Actually, Anthony, the Saturn V has a comparable thrust to weight ratio of the F15C. 7.5 million lbs of thrust vx. 6 million lbs. weight. By the time it reached 15,000 km, it had burned up 2.25 million lbs of fuel, and by that time had a thrust to weight ratio of around 1.85 to one, even better than the F15A's 1.4 to one. It would be a cool race to see them side by side!
An awesome takeoff performance by the mighty F-15 Eagle. Thank you for showing this.
Stationed at Lakenheath 1962-1965. We had the F-100 back then. So long ago. Loved every second of it. And, why not? Age 18, away from home for the first time and England in the '60s!
Part of this video was used in this brilliant video celebrating Raf lakenheath pilots winning the raytheon Trophy vimeo.com/217605310 so watch that too .
Lived near Mildenhall all my life, so fully accustomed to the amazing variety of aircraft that have used the base (and Lakenheath) over the years. When I was a kid my dad would take me over there and we’d walk up behind the industrial estate ( you could get up there in those days) and we’d watch the SR-71 take off. One of the defining and abiding memories of my childhood. Such a shame the air shows stopped many moons ago, was the highlight of my year as a child.
Was at an airshow in London Ontario, we walked down the train tracks where you can get to the end of the runway at the airport, had an F-14 tomcat go ballistic right above us wings folding back, afterburners the whole deal I swear I could feel the jet wash coming off it.
Lucky you didn’t stall and spin out to sea!! 😁
H C , I feel the need; the need for 😂😂😂😂
I could watch this on an endless loop. AWESOME.
lol yeah it is that awesome ! thanks
Wow, that’s impressive; keeping so low and then virtually going up vertically! Love it...
I literally had shivers (buzzing) watching this take off - bloody awesome. That pilot is one hell of a Top Gun.
Magnificent. My nephew flew a F16 but retired recently. My niece flies a F15 and T38 Tallon. I'm in awe of all you military. It takes a whole village to put one in the air!. You are all Heros and I'm one proud aunt ❤
Thanks for posting! American here, my (former) brother in law flew Tornadoes for the Queen. :) Cool plane as well!
Thanks to all the geniuses in America who could design such a GREAT machine back in the late 60's and who keep the world safe 24/7, 365...
with pencils and slide rules to design it.
Probably designed in feet 'n' inches & lbs thrust back then ... I'm sure it's easier now with SI units!
Was stationed there in the late 80’s. Used to watch the SR-71 take off similar to that regularly. Great times at a great base.
I had the privilege of getting a ride in a F-15B in 1985 when I was in the service. Pilot did a max takeoff. Every roller-coaster ride I have been on before or after the F-15 has been a little sissy kiddie ride. I was in good shape and my muscles hurt for 3 days after the ride. Incredible aircraft!!
Nothing gives me goosebumps like an F-15 takeoff.
When he went straight up i got chills i cant imagine how good that feels
Ashh Sim MI
Owen Wilson was impressed too, "Wow!"
Painful cause of all the G’s
The last project my grandfather worked on before retiring from McDonnell St. Louis 1971 RIP Ham
He did a great job.
The F15 was the first plane in history to break the sound barrier in vertical flight
Loucypher Streak Eagle
Really? I thought an F104 (from the 1950’s ) could do that.
no theres more then 10 us and more then a few from ussr and brit planes that could do that
No, others did it earlier.
@@xkgbciax5286 than
I worked on both RAF Mildenhall and RAF Lakenheath bases for BT years ago. The F15’s use to do this take off manoeuvre all the time. It would shake the windows in which ever office we were working in! 🤙
Part of this video was used in this brilliant video celebrating Raf lakenheath pilots winning the raytheon Trophy vimeo.com/217605310 so watch that too .
If you see that thing close and still in a hangar it is huge. It is litterally magic the way it climbs up the sky, that's power. Incredible.
They used to do this all the time at Lambert Field in St. Louis. It was called the "Viking Departure". Before 9/11 you could park at an observation area at the end of the airport and watch it up close. Quoth the Raven, NEVERMORE.
When I was a child in the 1990s my grandparents lived across the road from that air base.
During the summer holidays i would go there for afew weeks during the 4th July open day and its the best thing for any child.
The shops used to use US dollars not sure about these days.
Back then I got to see one of the last (stealth Blackbird) The Lockheed SR-71 "Blackbird"
as it traveled back to the US that same summer the jet crash landed.
Awsome place to take the children if they still do open days
Best seat in the house there.. if you aren't flying it! I crewed C and D model at Kadena and A and B mods at Holloman. At Kadena we dropped the pylons on a couple and have a demo flight every Friday. They all started like the above video. Great memories!
When was you there mate my dad was e&e there in 2000-04?
I had the pleasure of witnessing a F15 do this after an airshow I volunteered to work back in the 80's. The plane was on static display. We were cleaning up and one of the organizers came by to inform us that the pilot was ready to get back home and we should stop what we were doing and watch.
Needless to say it was one of the most beautiful moments in my life.
Incredible how great the entire teen series (14,15,16) turned out.
i’d be hollering at the top of my lungs, the raw power these things have is just such an incredible thing to witness.
I think the holler might be just a squeak. Even the pilots have to pucker their lips and draw very short breaths due to the pressure pushing their chest in those type of G's. Civilians would most likely just start to see grey because blood escapes from the brain.
Three of my favorite words: Unrestricted Take Off.👍
That's called GTFO.
Wooyeah! That's what I'm talkin' 'bout!
Great clip of an awesome jet. Thanks for sharing (you lucky blighters 😀)
yeah awesome !!
I attended many Mildenhall air shows in the '80s. I was stationed at RAF Lakenheath, 494th maintenance squadron and lived in Barton Mills. Some of the best airshows ever with F-111, SR-71 and F-15s all doing there thing amongst the mixes of Vulcans, Meteors and relics from Duxford. Truly memorable.
Part of this video was used in this brilliant video celebrating Raf lakenheath pilots winning the raytheon Trophy vimeo.com/217605310 so watch that too .
If I paid admission to an airshow and only got to watch that one take off-- I would be very pleased. That was amazing.
cheers yes it was awesome
no F-15 has ever been shot down in aerial combat...104 victories and 0 loses ...and the plane is still a formidable force to be reckoned with today even after 45 years. it took that long for the rest of the world just to catch up to it.
Only against third world air forces and only according to western sources.
The world caught up when three airliners were flown into buildings when the USAF had its pants down... sending a pathetic 2 ANG F-16s with no armament to ram the planes out of the sky. The F-15 also did nothing against the asymmetric wars the US has fought... nor will it be any good against the economic and cyber warfare the US is facing.
@@Bartonovich52 At the moment, it's because there is no fighter that is able to compete. Russian Nationalists glorify the SU-27 even though it's killed more in airshows than actual combat.
Yep, undefeated. I think the Israelis even have a few aerial gun kills in the F-15. And even though the F-22 is operational, the go-to air superiority fighter for the US is still the Eagle.
You should be ashamed of yourself. So many people died. Shame on you.
Gods speed to the American and British fighter pilots protecting the skies over England and NATO. The F-15 Eagle first came out in 1972. It remains still today as one of the most feared fighters platforms in service. With constant up-grades in engines, radar and weapons systems, the F-15 like its big brother the F-22 Raptor remain unmatched.
re: "the F-15 like its big brother the F-22 Raptor remain unmatched"
truth be told i consider the 22 to be the "little brother", albeit sharper/more athletic. a 15 is still the 800LB GORILLA.
shamarone Truth betold-you never flew a F-15. If you did, you'd blow a camel to jockey a F-22.
When you have a sound platform it’ll last forever. Take the Boeing B52 for instance. The last pilot to fly the B-52 hasn’t been born yet. Same with the F15.
@@carolusrex6171 no air frame will stand up to slamming the deck twice a day forever.
Eaven a ship propeller shaft will break if you hit it enough times.
F-22... the BIG Brother? Wouldn't the fact that the F-15 was born first make the F-15 the Big Brother?
The old girl still has some life in her. Growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, I felt safe looking up at F-15s and other aircraft filling the skies on their way to Wright-Patterson AFB. One couldn't drive on a freeway in Ohio without seeing jet engines on flatbed being taken to or from refurbishment. Cargo aircraft were constantly loading defense materials at every airport around. My sisters and I would go to Akron to watch Loral sonodomes get loaded onto C5As. The plane looked like a giant beached whale through young eyes. Luckily, my eldest sister did the dispatching for several firms and knew when these monsters were arriving. Jet noise was a comforting sign of freedom and fortune. I miss that.
And now we will have new F-15EX models coming soon. I spent several years on the C/D's. We over flew that airframe long past it's life span. It was hell doing all the repairs we had to do on those old jets. A great credit to the men and women who kept them flying. As we used to say, "College Education to break it. High School education to fix it."
Nothing else will fill you with such pride as seeing one of these beauties launch.
Legends say: the pilot is still smiling :)
Didn’t realize Wallace and Gromit liked military aircraft.
Great comment!
NIKONGUY1960, aye laddie, that we do!!
He sounds exactly like Bruce Dickenson from Iron Maiden and he IS a pilot.
great vid, thanks for sharing. props to the cameraman, nice work keeping it in frame :)
your welcome, cheers i was standing on wooden pallets with holes in surrounded by people and children so im quite impressed with my own filming to be honest ..ill give myself a pat on the back for this one : )
I've witnessed this kind of takeoff from a very cool perspective: I was at 1000ft, just entering the downwind leg of landing a C-172 and a fighter jet did the same takeoff on the runway I was setting up for. But the pilot went vertical much sooner than the pilot in this video.
Thrilling to watch.
I went to Lakenheath airshow in the early 90,s, brilliant show, remember F15 taking off, just got the wheels off the deck, then pulled the stick back straight up vertical into the clouds, didn't see him again! Funny how that's stuck in my mind all theses years!
What adds to the wow factor for me is that this aircraft first flew more than 45 years ago. One hell of a design.
Ansonidak same goes for the Viper
Ben Daulton I can confirm that. Go search youtube for "Israeli Pilot Flies F-15 On One Wing" incredible story
The 15s don't have fly by wire. Everything else you said is pretty accurate, there are lots of redundancies in the aircraft.
Legend has it that the F-15 is still climbing to this day
It's been a little while since I uploaded :) a new video went up tonight! let me know what you would like to see next.
The middle of the runway was literally in the line of sight of my door. I just open the door watch an F15 Eagle fly vertically... I will never forget watching that with a cup of coffee in my hand. There is nothing like it to see.
There is nothing cooler than fighters going vertical on takeoff... except when they’re so powerful that they can accelerate while vertical! Outstanding!
I lived in Brandon and my garden was on the flightpath. Incredidable aircraft. The sound as they hit after burner gave me goose bumps. Thank you for sharing.
I live in the flight path for Marham and the noise those new jets make sometimes drive me nuts, seems to go on for 5 or 6 min just this constant blast of sound.
Part of this video was used in this brilliant video celebrating Raf lakenheath pilots winning the raytheon Trophy vimeo.com/217605310 so watch that too .
You know dang well that pilot knew those kids were watching and wanted to show off for them ha ha. That’s what I would do anyway.
If that doesn't inspire young people I don't know what does 🤯 wish I was young and able. Wicked stuff.
Not much time for that left. Soon its going to be all drones.
Young people are smoking weed.
I was a crew chief on F15, FA22, and global hawk
@@iunnox666 no. Manned planes will be around for decades.
"Look how low he is!" ... To my ear that's enunciated perfectly for the situation. Lol
Watched these kinds of take-offs all the time at Bitburg back in the late 70's. Always impressive no matter how many times you watched it.
Big thumbs up to the pilot for giving a great show 👍👍
One of the greatest sounds in the world.
Its a shame you had to sit back in the field to watch this.
Back in the 90s, the then base Commander redid the fencing where the Gate entrance now sits on the A1101 and put down a tamac area for people to come and watch aircraft take off and land (albeit outside the fenceline) due to the hazzrads of standing right on the side of the road.
Of course, this was back when the SR71 was still flying out of Mildenhall and was quite a draw for potential sightings/photo ops.
Its a shame they did away with that area.
I’ve gotten up close and personal with these awesome jets. (Son is a Crew Chief) It’s a rush to see what these are capable of and the incredible skill these pilots and their crew have.
They closed the viewing area after 9/11, for security reasons, and never reopened it.
I’ve always felt such a rush when driving a fast car and slamming through gears. Imagine this.
Amazing. Everyone panicking on a jet airliner before takeoff and I'm sat there half pissing myself with excitement at the thought of acceleration
A magnificent beast. The F-15, IMO, is one of the best looking aircraft ever, along with the Blackbird, Concorde, B-58 Hustler, XB-70 Valkyrie, just beautiful.
De Havilland Hornet.
I was a flightline wrench in the early 80's at Luke AFB in Arizona, worked comm, nav and ECM on F-16's. The base also had F-15's, watching either one perform FCF (functional check flight) unrestricted full vertical takeoffs was one of the coolest things I witnessed while there. To this day it still gives me goose bumps. Nothing like the crackling sound the afterburners make, to hear them in person will give any man a wiggle in his trousers.
I was there as well.555th, 461st and 550th TFTS
In Alaska, we had an F-4 shack at the end of the runway. They use to do verticals often. Then we had an SR drop in one day. Stayed hidden until the next day. That morning two F4's were at the end of the runway just sitting there. Apparently they knew the SR was coming out, which it did. After about 15-20min the F4s do their vertical thing before the SR goes true vertical behind them and pass them before going out of site. Amazing. All that said, I still loved our WB-57's when on their last flight, did their own vertical. Great times. Great birds.
What is an SR?
Robert Cotter SR-71 Blackbird
@@RobertMCotter an SR is the fastest, highest flying bird ever made. On top of that it's the only bird I know of that has a perfect service record.