The stories are like the secret sauce to this video. I loved them. Some were happy, some were tragic, but that's what life is: messy. That plane is one heck of a machine, but it is merely a tool. In the right hands, it can do wonders. One day, I'd love to know what the effect of those sustained g-forces would do to my own body. I know it will be unlike anything I ever felt during a rollercoaster ride, even one that pulled enough g's to make me feel how my blood was pulled towards my feet l, just for a split second.
i think a cool callsign for your helmet would have been is "Forge" doing what you do. awesome to see you excited about tech and getting to experience a once in a life time event for most civilians
I am currently studying mechanical engineering and have developed a strong interest in aviation. The part where you mentioned the Palace Acquire program really caught my attention. I don’t think I would have discovered it otherwise, so thank you :) Btw you looked cool af
I didn’t get to fly the plane myself, but about 10 years ago, I did fly in a Russian MiG-29. It was probably the most exhilarating experience I’ve ever had, both in terms of speed and sheer enjoyment.
28:47 honestly if he had a UA-cam Channel like that I honestly would watch it. He’s such a wise guy and seems like a great mentor and teacher especially considering his background. Honestly I probably could listen to Cinco’s stories all day.
Thank you, that’s so kind of you! I’ve been incredibly fortunate to have had remarkable opportunities and mentors who have not only helped shape my perspective but also shown me grace during my challenges. I truly appreciate their guidance and support. I'm simply trying to reflect their wisdom.
@@cincohamiltonYou’re welcome. I can also relate I’ve had a couple really good people who I look up to in my life who are mentors to me. Like my Grandma and my Robotics Mentor. Because they’ve always been so kind and understanding and they are always willing to help out.
@@conneryates5073 You should definitely make sure to tell them! I've lost people in my life, and I always wish I would've told them more often how much they meant to me.
To be honest, that was the most inspiring and one of the most fun video in a long time, James. I feel often this phrase of inspiring others becomes just that, a phrase, but the fun and enthusiasm you had in this video was truly really inspiring. Thank you so much for this awesome video and sharing your experience in such a long video!
Wild coincidence here, but Cody aka Donut Operator on UA-cam earned a Navy achievement award when he was in the Navy because he discovered an issue in that ground avoidance system. It wasn't accounting for man made structures like buildings.
Having this video drop the day after an F-16 at Eglin had a mishap with an external fuel tank being dropped on a residential area I know is just a coincidence, but it's a hell of a coincidence.
I went tandem skydiving in Vegas one time and had a similar delayed reaction to the adrenaline dump. Was fine once on the ground and even during the 5+ min golf cart trip back to the building. Body finally gave up the ghost after sitting around for a bit waiting for everyone to return. Unfortunately I did not pass the no vomit part of the test. Good job James! Looks like you had an amazing time.
James - Thank you. This was amazing and such a great experience. However, your willingness to show what these brave men and women do. Cinco - if you see this. Thank you for your service and that of your company you lead. Your love of history and insistence in keeping your pilots as safe as possible through technology. You are from a family of miracles and your stories are an inspiration to me. Thank you for allowing this to be shared by so many.
At a little less than half the length of either top gun movie, this video was still equally entertaining. Thanks Hacksmith, thanks to our service members.
He was right to give you that challenge coin for inspiration. I first discovered your channel from the very first lightsaber video and I knew at that moment I wanted to pursue science. Now, despite what I thought with finances, I'm going to college for nanotechnology. Thanks for making such awesome videos
Great video. Gotta love the F-16 it’s a hot jet especially the single seater not seen in the vid however, I was so much more tickled seeing the F-15 it truly is a marvel of engineering. Both jets actually share engines the Pratt & Whitney F100.
I once flew a small cesna and pilot performed some light funny manoeuvres (obviously there wasn't any Gs), and even then I was pretty sick when landed. Can't even imaging how it felt for you after freaking jet fighter
this might be one of my favorite videos you've done. Incredible story telling and you did incredible! You're really living an enviable life. I know if comes with a lot of work and sacrifice but thank you for doing it so we can all follow along vicariously
My dad was RAF. He had to emergency eject due to an engine fire but the spin delay caused him to be fired upside-down into the canopy. He was 7 inches shorter and had a broken back when they finally managed to recover him.
@Tanner-o5p Are you a bot or not? I've seen various bot accounts with [Name]-[letter number letter]. Plus, I didn't mention anything to do with seats so your reply seems out of place.
I had a 1 in 3 chance to get an incentive flight (much like what you got here) on an F15 E after my third back to back to back deployment. Dang I missed out.
I am so glad i watched this, not only did it give my passion of plane a push but also help me learn anoyher engineering feild i could do. This might be the feild for me.
As much as I love the normal Hacksmith content, I genuinely cant say I've been as engaged and focused as I was watching this one. Cinco's stories, the animations and explanations of what's going on, absolute banger. Can't wait for the Hacksmith arc reactor powered F-16 vid
I always love hearing about the F-16. My father was one of the many people that were involved in the design, testing, and later automated manufacturing of it at General Dynamics. He was on the team that developed the Air Force Prototype Automated Factory and all of the required computer controlled design and manufacturing systems. It was and still is an amazing aircraft nearly half a century later.
What a great video! I could tell pretty quickly when you started to feel sick back there, I’ve been in that same exact situation but didn’t manage to hold it all the way through haha
This was amazing!! Adrenaline hangovers are no joke, I can't imagine stacking that with reacclimating to the ground. Either way you killed it in this one dude!
That was absolutely amazing ... you did BRILLIANT .. what an experience .. what a plane .. what a pilot. Just going up there takes some guts so quite frankly you did amazing .. at the end ... well my 8 year old is an obsessive and very talented climber ... and doing some free solo with Honnold would be brilliant ... but she would definitely like an invite if you do that video haha!!
My dad was given this opportunity right before he retired from a full job in the air force as a boom operator. Now I help my team test ships for the navy. Civilians get to play with them too sometimes.
As a kid I made myself a (crude) cardboard fighter jet cockpit that entertained me for hours and hours, and I dreamed about being a pilot! Unfortunately serious motion sickness and photosensitive sneeze reactions (among other things) put a damper on that but you sharing your experience rekindles some of the excitement! Also, machines and engineering are cool. I love your work! As for what to do next...I will suggest that you should get invited to visit an active tunnel boring machine! They are cool machines like the giant crane and can be used on a variety of projects to help big cities like in Boston. If only Toronto would do a 'Big Dig'...
Nice! Mine began flying in 1917 and became the Commander of Hickam Army Airfield a week before Pearl Harbor. He moved back to the States (this was before Hawaii was a state) right before the attack. He ended his career flying B-17s. I bet they knew each other; so few pilots back in the early days.
Perfect video to randomly put on in vr youtube. The part with your vision was very good and tricked me for a second. Had to grab my phone to write this comment.
U pretty much are the irl Iron Man since ur basically living like Tony minus the ego and making weapons to start out, love the vids and keep up the fantastic content
brilliant vid. great to hear the stories as well. I wonder how they get the balance between pilot control and auto ground avoidance or in air collision avoidance. don't feel you have to do dangerous stuff (aka free climbing) for views. do what inspires you and others will be inspired.
I think the coolest thing about this video was your comparison between a flight stick you buy for simulator games and the actual stick itself. It was very cool learning that it's not the physical movement of the stick that translates into movements for the plane but actually the amount of force on the stick IF I'm understanding correctly.
Worked on F-16s for 4 years in the Royal Netherlands Airforce until they got decommissioned. I've only flown with in a two seater 1 time. To this day it still feels surreal that this chunk of metal from the 70's goes faster than the speed of sound.
Now, I do feel like the Top Gun references are just a little out of place, because the Top Gun program and the movies were about NAVAL aviation, and F-16s are Air Force aircraft, but I still enjoyed it! Very inspirational!
What an awesome experience, both @cincohamilton and Monster are Great, and you did a great job both in the aircraft and outside of it with the interviews ^^ I can only imagine what it was like to get to control an F-16 even for a brief moment, once I took a ride on a sailplane and was able to control the aircraft for a few minutes ( I did nothing crazy, just some banking/turns etc), the thing that surprised me the most was the force from the thermal currents, it was a cloudy day and still when whenever we got into them it was like getting in an elevator, you could really feel the sudden push from below.
So cool man!! I actually worked on jets at Eglin until recently. Some cool test stuff going on at that base! Also one of those 16s dropped an external tank off the wing the other day lol (luckily no one was hurt)
I had an incentive flight on a t38, we pulled 6Gs in a BFM mission, insane feeling. Didn’t puke so it was a victory but took me the whole day to recover
Full respect to the Air Force aviators. My dad is Colonel Koerber out of Travis AFB. C-141. 708th. I just have a question about the pronunciation of “aileron roll”. Am I missing something, or did others notice that? I kept hearing “airelon roll”. No disrespect, just curious. Great video, and thanks to Cinco for the touching stories from his service.
Eglin AFB is an absolutely magnificent Base. I've lived just outside the gate in Valparaiso for 20 plus years. If it flew it would fly just a couple hundred feet right over my house. I've seen just about every aircraft that's ever existed in the US military and I was always left at aww. I remember just a few years back there was a storage tank failure that exploded and rocked everything all the way to the end of Blue Water Bay over 20 miles away. With another recent accident that an aircraft had accidentally dropped its fuel take in someone's back yard just a few weeks ago. Even with the things that have happened I would definitely recommend if your able to to go visit and explore the reservation there.
The way you were pronouncing aileron was giving me anxiety but otherwise what a cool video! lol I got to fly with the Titan Aerobatic team one time for part of their warm up. That was like 2 g's though. Still awesome.
Every video I've seen of people getting an opportunity to ride in a fighter jet has ended the same way. The flight is cut short, they didn't get to do all the stuff they planned, and the experience beat the hell out of them. Fighter pilots are tough, it's no joke. Also, the movie "The Right Stuff" is a fantastic and mostly true look at being a test pilot over the decades. Highly recommend it to anyone who watched this.
I’ve been subscribed for a while and I seen your videos and I love them. It would be my dream to fly in a A-10 F-16 any military yet I’m in love with military jets it would be amazing to fly on one.
It was great sitting down with you and sharing some of my stories. Keep crushing it!!
I was loving the stories as well. Thanks for sharing!
The stories are like the secret sauce to this video. I loved them. Some were happy, some were tragic, but that's what life is: messy.
That plane is one heck of a machine, but it is merely a tool. In the right hands, it can do wonders. One day, I'd love to know what the effect of those sustained g-forces would do to my own body. I know it will be unlike anything I ever felt during a rollercoaster ride, even one that pulled enough g's to make me feel how my blood was pulled towards my feet l, just for a split second.
And thank you for sharing them!
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Thanks for the stories, your words were really inspiring.
i think a cool callsign for your helmet would have been is "Forge" doing what you do. awesome to see you excited about tech and getting to experience a once in a life time event for most civilians
I like that!!
Callsigns aren’t really supposed to be cool or nice haha
"Hack" is more likely, given how callsigns go, at least according to popular culture.
Bros the real life Tony stark with the looks of captain America
real
So true
He's got the Leading Man physique too.
He looks more like Doctor Strange
Real😂😂
I am currently studying mechanical engineering and have developed a strong interest in aviation. The part where you mentioned the Palace Acquire program really caught my attention. I don’t think I would have discovered it otherwise, so thank you :)
Btw you looked cool af
I didn’t get to fly the plane myself, but about 10 years ago, I did fly in a Russian MiG-29. It was probably the most exhilarating experience I’ve ever had, both in terms of speed and sheer enjoyment.
How did did you get that opportunity?
28:47 honestly if he had a UA-cam Channel like that I honestly would watch it. He’s such a wise guy and seems like a great mentor and teacher especially considering his background. Honestly I probably could listen to Cinco’s stories all day.
Thank you, that’s so kind of you! I’ve been incredibly fortunate to have had remarkable opportunities and mentors who have not only helped shape my perspective but also shown me grace during my challenges. I truly appreciate their guidance and support. I'm simply trying to reflect their wisdom.
@@cincohamiltonYou’re welcome. I can also relate I’ve had a couple really good people who I look up to in my life who are mentors to me. Like my Grandma and my Robotics Mentor. Because they’ve always been so kind and understanding and they are always willing to help out.
@@conneryates5073 You should definitely make sure to tell them! I've lost people in my life, and I always wish I would've told them more often how much they meant to me.
To be honest, that was the most inspiring and one of the most fun video in a long time, James. I feel often this phrase of inspiring others becomes just that, a phrase, but the fun and enthusiasm you had in this video was truly really inspiring. Thank you so much for this awesome video and sharing your experience in such a long video!
LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT YOU DID WHAT?!?!?!
Vera libertas Brother
It cannot be . . . DEMOCRACY OFFICER I REPORT CHAOS DIVERS!!!! THIS IS NOT A DRILL EVIL ANIT DEMOCRACY COMMUNISTS HAVE BEEN SPOTTED
Imagine a make it real helldiver's episode that would be awesome. Cya on the front troops
@The_spac3gam3r true freedom brother
@@liorgoldshtein2373 my comment about reporting you to my local democracy officer got deleted by a moderator. . . . I feel this is very undemocratic
Wild coincidence here, but Cody aka Donut Operator on UA-cam earned a Navy achievement award when he was in the Navy because he discovered an issue in that ground avoidance system. It wasn't accounting for man made structures like buildings.
wait holy shit that's cool
Having this video drop the day after an F-16 at Eglin had a mishap with an external fuel tank being dropped on a residential area I know is just a coincidence, but it's a hell of a coincidence.
My flight was back in May lol
@@hacksmith thats what they all say, Hacksmith. Why'd you drop the tank my guy???? (/j)
You think I could edit a 46 minute in 2 days flat? This edit took me the entire holiday break
Yeah it was close to an elementary school 😰
I went tandem skydiving in Vegas one time and had a similar delayed reaction to the adrenaline dump. Was fine once on the ground and even during the 5+ min golf cart trip back to the building. Body finally gave up the ghost after sitting around for a bit waiting for everyone to return. Unfortunately I did not pass the no vomit part of the test. Good job James! Looks like you had an amazing time.
They’ve taken the phrase “Make It Real” to the max
James - Thank you. This was amazing and such a great experience. However, your willingness to show what these brave men and women do.
Cinco - if you see this. Thank you for your service and that of your company you lead. Your love of history and insistence in keeping your pilots as safe as possible through technology.
You are from a family of miracles and your stories are an inspiration to me. Thank you for allowing this to be shared by so many.
Thank you Lisa, I hope I honored the stories well enough shared in my video!
Thank you, that is very kind of you to say. I've been very blessed with the people who have supported me through so many ups and downs.
At a little less than half the length of either top gun movie, this video was still equally entertaining. Thanks Hacksmith, thanks to our service members.
He was right to give you that challenge coin for inspiration. I first discovered your channel from the very first lightsaber video and I knew at that moment I wanted to pursue science. Now, despite what I thought with finances, I'm going to college for nanotechnology. Thanks for making such awesome videos
5:34 "Press Esc to Exit Fullscreen" 😂
Literally was about comment about that.
Bro that's amazing.
Great video. It's so real. Not hiding the after effects, etc. Freakin amazing job.
It's definitely not everyday that you get an opportunity to fly an F16. How amazing that must have been.
I genuinely forgot I was watching a Hacksmith video when Tucker was talking, and I am not disappointed
man you can just feel the real love, care and passion from this, thats not even shit either man.
POV me: looks at youtube “oo an F-16, who uploaded? THE HACKSMITH WHAT!!!”
Great video. Gotta love the F-16 it’s a hot jet especially the single seater not seen in the vid however, I was so much more tickled seeing the F-15 it truly is a marvel of engineering. Both jets actually share engines the Pratt & Whitney F100.
I once flew a small cesna and pilot performed some light funny manoeuvres (obviously there wasn't any Gs), and even then I was pretty sick when landed. Can't even imaging how it felt for you after freaking jet fighter
this is one of the best videos ive ever seen man you guys make such good content keep it up,
"WHO DO WE WANT?"
"XENU!"
"WHEN DO WE WANT HIM?"
"10 TRILLION YEARS!"
this might be one of my favorite videos you've done. Incredible story telling and you did incredible! You're really living an enviable life. I know if comes with a lot of work and sacrifice but thank you for doing it so we can all follow along vicariously
Many people could do with learning from Cinco, he was 100% the best part of this video
Really kind of you to say. I disagree because James is a rockstar who brings all his videos to life, but your words are encouraging and mean a lot.
I hope Tom Cruise sees this. What a cool experience!
fr it would be great
Why wouldn't he? He's in scientology, and he does his own stunts.
Tom cruise himself is a certified pilot
I have wanted to be in a jet for so long. Totally awesome to see your experience!
It would be cool if you uploaded a 2 or 3-hour video with some of your cut footage. Madey, could it go on your second channel?
46 minutes wasn't long enough?! It's pretty much all of it! The extended cut at the end has cinco's extra stories but that's it!
@@hacksmith NO it was not long enough! LOL epic
@@hacksmith would love to see hs extra stories.
The link is at the end of the video, in the card annotation when it's mentioned, and in the description! Go watch!
My dad was RAF. He had to emergency eject due to an engine fire but the spin delay caused him to be fired upside-down into the canopy.
He was 7 inches shorter and had a broken back when they finally managed to recover him.
holy shit dude! Thats wild. Ejection is insanely violent.
I feel the need, the need for Speed! OW!
If it was an F-22 I'd tell you to watch out for a non-UAV suit of armour.
Erm actually there are no two seater f22s 🤓
@Tanner-o5p Are you a bot or not? I've seen various bot accounts with [Name]-[letter number letter]. Plus, I didn't mention anything to do with seats so your reply seems out of place.
@@liliowen2132 confirmed bot
I had a 1 in 3 chance to get an incentive flight (much like what you got here) on an F15 E after my third back to back to back deployment. Dang I missed out.
19:36 "If you just wanna manouver around..." Wtf! Of course we wanna!!
This video is like "What should we give James for Xmas." USAF was like well we know exactly what to give James.
Coming this Easter. James swims out of a submarine torpedo tube in a tuxedo thanks to the USN.
I look away for one moment expecting a suit video and I see this! You are on a mission to collect all life’s hidden achievements 👍
I am so glad i watched this, not only did it give my passion of plane a push but also help me learn anoyher engineering feild i could do. This might be the feild for me.
As much as I love the normal Hacksmith content, I genuinely cant say I've been as engaged and focused as I was watching this one. Cinco's stories, the animations and explanations of what's going on, absolute banger. Can't wait for the Hacksmith arc reactor powered F-16 vid
Thanks, took me a long time to edit this into the video!
I always love hearing about the F-16. My father was one of the many people that were involved in the design, testing, and later automated manufacturing of it at General Dynamics. He was on the team that developed the Air Force Prototype Automated Factory and all of the required computer controlled design and manufacturing systems. It was and still is an amazing aircraft nearly half a century later.
What a great video! I could tell pretty quickly when you started to feel sick back there, I’ve been in that same exact situation but didn’t manage to hold it all the way through haha
The F-16 was the first PRODUCTION fighter with fly-by-wire avionics... The Cf 105 Avro Arrow was the first fighter to use fly by wire
Hacksmith Industries is now taking an important step in the growth of any serious R&D company, forming a relationship with the U.S. military.
He is so good at doing interviewing in a way that makes it clear of the importance of the message of the interviewed
That mindset of using your negative experiences to help make sure others don’t have to go through the same is such a great way to look at life.
This was amazing!! Adrenaline hangovers are no joke, I can't imagine stacking that with reacclimating to the ground.
Either way you killed it in this one dude!
That was absolutely amazing ... you did BRILLIANT .. what an experience .. what a plane .. what a pilot. Just going up there takes some guts so quite frankly you did amazing .. at the end ... well my 8 year old is an obsessive and very talented climber ... and doing some free solo with Honnold would be brilliant ... but she would definitely like an invite if you do that video haha!!
then theres me playing DCS world and when I eventually get drafted they're gonna put me in an old f-5
My dad was given this opportunity right before he retired from a full job in the air force as a boom operator. Now I help my team test ships for the navy. Civilians get to play with them too sometimes.
Now that's an achievement and experience you won't ever forget. Keep going! The sky is not the limit.
As a kid I made myself a (crude) cardboard fighter jet cockpit that entertained me for hours and hours, and I dreamed about being a pilot! Unfortunately serious motion sickness and photosensitive sneeze reactions (among other things) put a damper on that but you sharing your experience rekindles some of the excitement!
Also, machines and engineering are cool. I love your work!
As for what to do next...I will suggest that you should get invited to visit an active tunnel boring machine! They are cool machines like the giant crane and can be used on a variety of projects to help big cities like in Boston. If only Toronto would do a 'Big Dig'...
40:29 -- why are all the needles frozen?
Actually, all the equipment besides the screens appear to be off but not in 'park' position.
Because it's CG... Did you see me wearing a first person camera...???
I think it's cool that he's excited about meeting you. I think there's some degree you were his hero
My great grandfather was also in the air force at the very start! They could've met that's so cool
Nice! Mine began flying in 1917 and became the Commander of Hickam Army Airfield a week before Pearl Harbor. He moved back to the States (this was before Hawaii was a state) right before the attack. He ended his career flying B-17s. I bet they knew each other; so few pilots back in the early days.
That was an amazing video filled with amazing stories, both physical and technical ones. Inspiring, motivating, and educational.
Perfect video to randomly put on in vr youtube. The part with your vision was very good and tricked me for a second. Had to grab my phone to write this comment.
U pretty much are the irl Iron Man since ur basically living like Tony minus the ego and making weapons to start out, love the vids and keep up the fantastic content
brilliant vid. great to hear the stories as well. I wonder how they get the balance between pilot control and auto ground avoidance or in air collision avoidance. don't feel you have to do dangerous stuff (aka free climbing) for views. do what inspires you and others will be inspired.
Hacksmith/ Tom cruise collab coming soon 🙏🧐
I think the coolest thing about this video was your comparison between a flight stick you buy for simulator games and the actual stick itself. It was very cool learning that it's not the physical movement of the stick that translates into movements for the plane but actually the amount of force on the stick IF I'm understanding correctly.
Glad you liked that part!
"|Would you say we'd be entering a zone of danger?" Love the Archer clip right off the start, can't wait to watch the rest of the vid.
Bro is literelly living every mans dream
Worked on F-16s for 4 years in the Royal Netherlands Airforce until they got decommissioned. I've only flown with in a two seater 1 time. To this day it still feels surreal that this chunk of metal from the 70's goes faster than the speed of sound.
Great Video 👍 ✌️
Neat touch with the radio com voice during narration.
monster, Cinco thank you for your service
Huh
The title just change
From "They let me fly this
..." to "Becoming a test pilot..."
Cinco is such an awesome human being ❤
Now, I do feel like the Top Gun references are just a little out of place, because the Top Gun program and the movies were about NAVAL aviation, and F-16s are Air Force aircraft, but I still enjoyed it! Very inspirational!
I'm so happy that you had a good day. Honestly happy for you.
What an awesome experience, both @cincohamilton and Monster are Great, and you did a great job both in the aircraft and outside of it with the interviews ^^
I can only imagine what it was like to get to control an F-16 even for a brief moment, once I took a ride on a sailplane and was able to control the aircraft for a few minutes ( I did nothing crazy, just some banking/turns etc), the thing that surprised me the most was the force from the thermal currents, it was a cloudy day and still when whenever we got into them it was like getting in an elevator, you could really feel the sudden push from below.
So cool man!! I actually worked on jets at Eglin until recently. Some cool test stuff going on at that base! Also one of those 16s dropped an external tank off the wing the other day lol (luckily no one was hurt)
I had an incentive flight on a t38, we pulled 6Gs in a BFM mission, insane feeling. Didn’t puke so it was a victory but took me the whole day to recover
Full respect to the Air Force aviators. My dad is Colonel Koerber out of Travis AFB. C-141. 708th. I just have a question about the pronunciation of “aileron roll”. Am I missing something, or did others notice that? I kept hearing “airelon roll”. No disrespect, just curious. Great video, and thanks to Cinco for the touching stories from his service.
Wow, Cinco is a motivating man!
Dude, incredible experience! Jealous. Though, I drove a locomotive when I was 8, so maybe I've got that on you..? lol
Bros boutta have the SICKEST dad lore in a few years🙌
Eglin AFB is an absolutely magnificent Base. I've lived just outside the gate in Valparaiso for 20 plus years. If it flew it would fly just a couple hundred feet right over my house. I've seen just about every aircraft that's ever existed in the US military and I was always left at aww. I remember just a few years back there was a storage tank failure that exploded and rocked everything all the way to the end of Blue Water Bay over 20 miles away. With another recent accident that an aircraft had accidentally dropped its fuel take in someone's back yard just a few weeks ago. Even with the things that have happened I would definitely recommend if your able to to go visit and explore the reservation there.
SO COOL TO SEE EGLIN AFB ON UA-cam!!!!! I JUST LEFT THERE FOR ALASKA
I keep telling my nerdy friends don't sleep on the Hacksmith! Ya'll are making lightsabers and flying jets! Incredible!
I am sure the Air Force was thrilled you turned this in the Navy Top Gun esk video...but pretty awesome to get a fighter jet ride regardless
A hundred year later, his descendant is going to serve aboard the first Enterprise as the Fist Engineer. Everyone will call him "trip"
Even though this is a massive advertisement its pretty interesting.
This is not a video its emotion😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
I could listen to Cinco all day
The way you were pronouncing aileron was giving me anxiety but otherwise what a cool video! lol I got to fly with the Titan Aerobatic team one time for part of their warm up. That was like 2 g's though. Still awesome.
Oh my gosh yea I feel you in that pronunciation
Best video ever. And congratulations on the flight and not tossing the banana.
james: "i wanna be the real-life iron man"
james: *actually works to become it*
You are the coolest UA-cam person I've seen James
It's crazy to think about how much aviation has developed in such a short time frame.
the craziest part that i feel like most people to resonate with is the fact this plane was developed in the 70's. thats nuts!
Every video I've seen of people getting an opportunity to ride in a fighter jet has ended the same way. The flight is cut short, they didn't get to do all the stuff they planned, and the experience beat the hell out of them. Fighter pilots are tough, it's no joke. Also, the movie "The Right Stuff" is a fantastic and mostly true look at being a test pilot over the decades. Highly recommend it to anyone who watched this.
It wasn't actually cut short! Was up for a full hour
@hacksmith Well I mean, the plans were cut short. You were going to do a loop and then were like... umm... maybe no.
I’ve been subscribed for a while and I seen your videos and I love them. It would be my dream to fly in a A-10 F-16 any military yet I’m in love with military jets it would be amazing to fly on one.
Excellent! What an incredible experience. "Kick the tires and light the fires"!
A very interesting video and different from what you usually make I like it
this is the content that i paid for👏thank you
What a cool experience!
Yeah
It looks amazing.
This video dame out 2 hours ago, how are you 3 hours old
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14:15....BRO, thats intense! Glad you made it!