F-22 Raptors Chase SpaceX Rocket Over NASA-Cape Canaveral Space Force Station -Exclusive Cockpit POV
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- Опубліковано 11 чер 2024
- Hop in the cockpit of a F-22 as a pair of Raptors fly over NASA's Kennedy Space Center and the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building as the SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket launched (timecode 0:56) Starlink mission 6-52 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
As the rocket ascended, two F-22 Raptors accompanied the Falcon 9 up to 18,000 feet, offering a spectacular one-of-a-kind aerial view, before peeling off and heading west for the 2024 Orlando Air Show.
We're excited to present to you this exclusive POV footage from the cockpit of Captain Samuel "RaZZ" Larson as he and Safety Officer Sawyer Murray follow the Falcon 9 Rocket up to Class A Airspace.
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THANK YOU for not putting in annoying background music like the other 99% of UA-cam.
The only acceptable background music would be 'Comona' anyway.
yes! thanks for cockpit sounds
👍👍
Now if only they could do that at the airshow as well! Been going to airdot airshow for past few years and they blast obnoxiously loud music instead of just letting the jets play their own "tune", so to speak. Commentary is great but lay off the music at the airshow guys.
I want to hear the turbine 🎵🎵
Falcon: "Would you intercept me?"
"I'd Intercept me" !!
There it is! lol
I see you're a man of culture
@@ShadowSniperUK"I'd intercept me so hard"
😊
As I get older I realise I'm more and more like grandpa buff
This was on April 18th, 2024. I was at the Orlando Airshow two days later, where the F-22 display pilot also spoke about this event. Freaking chasing a SpaceX rocket on its way to the orbit! With a F-22 fighter... He couldn't believe they actually got the opportunity to be doing this. And he was still smiling days later. I'm sure, he is still smiling now. Just like like most of us, who are now watching this... :)
Those two pilots have a "Sea Story" they'll be telling their friends and family for the rest of their lives. ✌
no it
aint
He didn't chase shit to orbit. As soon as they reached 20,000 ft they turned away
Hardly a chase, more like observing
Do you know what altitude they got to?
It's amazing that rocket launches are now so routine that the focus is on the F-22 Raptors, not the Falcon 9. Thank you Space X.
Spacex didn’t invent the rocket or all of space technology get a clue.
That's a great point I didn't even think of until I read your comment! It really is crazy how launching stuff to orbit has just become another every day event
I think they need to do a retake. Lost a little on the end, and maybe get in a bit tighter. Upgrade that camera a lot. Or maybe I am asking too much. ;-)
What's even crazier is those raptors are far more expensive than a falcon 9 !
@@Timmyval123 because those raptors are FAAAAAAAAAAR more advanced than the falcon 9. its basically just fuel in, fire out. not much more than that. the amount of technology on the raptors is leaps and bounds above.
This reminds of a mission in Ace Combat 7 when you have to chase ICBMs before they reach space and shoot them down.
OGs remember the mission in AC4 when you defend a rocket while it launches
Did you save us? 😉
Nah, It was in Assault Horizon xD
AC7 …. Yes 👍👍👍
Or the v2 launch from ace combat zero
He didn't chase it, he observed it.
Seriously. I was hoping for a full afterburner climb following the rocket.
Yeah, and don't get me wrong it's beautiful footage and observing it is plenty fantastic, but there is a difference.
@@PsRohrbaugh at 1:25 u can see they hit afterburners m8 :) beautiful.
@@PsRohrbaugh Sorry maybe i misunderstood, u meant FULL climb. My bad :D
@@PsRohrbaughsame here.
1:23 just the sound of the engines spooling up is so good, chefs kiss honestly
As well as seeing the Afterburner lighting up on his wingman's aircraft
First time i have seen a raptor with a legitimate reason to go full afterburner
Count your lucky stars, every week I used to watch jets with a genuine reason to go vertical from take off. It's not a nice feeling when your told launch get as many jets armed an airborne ASAP, intercept. But alas it's being happening for decades, testing one another's response times.
22: "You should go home now."
Falcon: "I am!"
Falcon: "...I'll be back."
you mean in pieces like all trashX
@@Blox117 Events do not seem to support your statement. Please elucidate.
@Donleecartoons
In half of his defense... it technically does return in "pieces".
The orbital booster stage, then the payload stage.
But I'm sure they worked out the kinks of unplanned disassembly by now.
The Raptors hitting the afterburners and flying with the rocket is like when dogs find each other and immediately start playing together.
except in this case it's a greyhound that starts running and two chihuahuas try running after it.
That’s so awesome
@@cjskelton7603 A near-orbital flight plan would be amazing to see in HD video, no matter who did it. I'm sure there are many more edge of space tests, than a joe public, like me will ever get confirmation of. Imagine what they got behind the curtain, the day an edge of space vertical climb is something that is taken somewhat lightly! I hope I live to see the day of such engineering.
Too bad they weren't chasing Starship. Then you would have raptors chasing raptors...
It would have been a 35 Raptor formation 🤣
Raptorception
they should hope not, dont want to be showered with debris
dont all spaceX rockets use versions of Raptor engines?!, wsnt that the whole point? , to use the same engines on alll rockets, to minimize maintainence complexity?!
@@mho... Falcon 9 uses Merlin engines and burns kerosene/oxygen.
Starship uses raptor and burns methane/oxygen.
Beyond impressive climb rate. F-22 is truly in a league of its own 🫡🇺🇸
F22 climb rate 50,000 ft/min. Typhoon climb rate 315 m/s, which if my maths is correct equates to 62,000 ft/min. Not as stealthy, but better climb rate. See Top Gear, where, from a standing start it got to 1 mile altitude and back to the start before a Bugatti Veyron could get 1 mile down the runway and back...
@@NigelRCharmanthe F-22s rate of climb is also 62,000ft/m
And the falcon 9's climb rate makes it look like a toy 😜
F15 is faster
The F-15E can climb at an initial rate of 67,250 feet per minute (342 meters per second) from sea level
Eagle drivers and keepers 🫡
When I was at the Orlando air show (first day) I got to finally meet my favorite pilot after the demo (Razz) we talked and I told him how amazing the performance was! After that, he ripped off his F22 Demo Team patch and gave it to me. I have it framed next to my F22 model. You can see that same patch at the very beginning of the video on his bottom shoulder to his right side!
SpaceX gets fighter escort, freaking awesome!
Seemed to get a late start. I guess the point was to get them both in the picture going vertical. The F-22 would win the race maybe to about 30,000 feet, then Falcon 9 would dramatically pull away from it…just the nature of a rocket going to orbit.
They should chase a Starship-Superheavy. Then it would be Raptors chasing Raptors. 😄
F22 has no chance of keeping up with a rocket or missile.
1000000 points for wordplay
@@dazzpeaceYou're dumb they have videos of jets chasing Rockets all the time
@@GaijinGamerGirl The falcon 9 doesnt surpass the max speed of the F22 untill just after max Q at 19 km altitude. The F22 can climb almost to that altitude but it only takes 90 seconds for the F9 to reach that velocity and only 30 seconds later its going twice as fast and is twice as high as the F22 can reach.
@@Marc83Aus Nobody asked for your recycled copy+paste kid.
Watching a Falcon 9 launch from the cockpit of a F-22, now thats something you dont see every day! Thanks
"What did you do today at work dad"? "Oh nothing much son, just chased a rocket ship into orbit"!!!😅😁
Not a bad days work
My Grandpa, would be amazed to see our technology today! He retired air force from WW2 and Korean war! After he retired he helped with the mass production of the F16 Fighter jets in Fort Worth Tx, through the 1980 and 90's for General Dynamics. They would test fly them over our small town in east Texas, so i rode my bike to our local airport F51 and demanded to become a pilot at 12 years old at 14 i solo a Cessna 152 with man named Bob who singed me off at 40 hours to become a private pilot! Thanks for awesome video! Sky's the Limit!
Do you still fly?
Someone call habitual linecrosser about this one
LOL I wonder what sort of accent a Falcon 9 would have?
It would probably talk like Elon musk
That was incredible - what a rate of climb! Impressive to see it keep up with the accelerating SpaceX rocket for a moment.
It did not all dude
It didn't, not in the slightest. Cool view regardless.
Pretty unimpressive actually, and I love the 22.
“Would you intercept me? I’d intercept me.” ~Habitual Line Crosser
i will not
“The kid races space rockets just for kicks” or something like it better be in a video soon.
@@cjcantrell80 He better mention this, lol.
@habitual_linecrosser
@@cjcantrell80 God he better...
A cool hot rod trying to chase a Top Fuel Dragster... still cool anyways!
Great analogy
That guy that just got the twin turbo setup dialed “yeah, I’ll run it”.
😎👍
@@cjcantrell80 Or a k&n airfilter !!!
@@soulerflare7 K&N filters make a considerable difference but they help more with smoothness and delivery not peak performance.
F-22's gave up as the rocket went past max Q and said "see-ya, landlubbers." 😂 😂
Maybe. They broke off the pursuit at 18,000 feet. I suspect it was to keep the climb information secret, because a F22 can get to 30/40 thousand feet pretty fast.
@@PsRohrbaugh I doubt they could pursue at that angle of attack and speed. I believe right after Max Q, they're soon to hit the sound barrier and then just smoke it. It would probably make the 22's look bad... so to avoid any embarrassment... Well just break off at 10k... 😂
@@raynic1173 so I just did some Googling, and according to various articles max q occurs about a minute into the flight between 8 and 10 miles high depending on orbital inclination. And that's way faster than a F22.
But trying to find reliable numbers for the first 50,000 feet of flight has been more than a little bit confusing.
I just know that the official top speed of the F22 is Mach 2.5 (with some sources speculating it can break Mach 3), with a climb rate of "over 60,000 per minute", and that's nowhere near the performance we saw in the video clip.
@@PsRohrbaugh wow, ok. I didn't realize the 22 can climb that fast. My understanding is, as you say, Max Q normally takes place at about a min. which is subsonic. But then powers up after. I look into that. So it seems if we take your upper limit of 10 miles, ~ 50k ft. The 22's could easily out pace the rocket. But after that? I'll look into that later...
@@raynic1173 That's exactly why they didn't want to push the airplane and reveal it's maximum capabilities - it's the best fighter interceptor we've got. First airplane go Mach 1.5 without afterburner (supercruise).
Remember the Chinese Ballon a few years ago? Even that revealed classified F22 capabilities. Before that the altitude was listed as "55,000+ feet", but it made it to 60,000 feet to intercept the balloon without issue.
Being at 10,000 feet and doing a supersonic climb chasing the rocket to 50k+ might be cool as hell, but it also might give away more performance information than we should.
Gotta tell you when After Burn kicked in we could just about feel those G's and the rate of climb was ridiculous. Outstanding!
Falcon 9: "You're not that guy"
Raptor: try me
The only Raptor able to beat a falcon 9 is mounted on the bottom of a starship...
SR-71 Blackbird joined the chat
@@4some2joe0 show me an SR-71 that ever pitched its nose higher than 45 degrees lol
@@dsdy1205
Ha I'm sure it's capable, it'll be interesting to see
Very cool saw this launch, we saw the raptors fly over our area in way to Cape. They talked about it at the Orlando airshow, very cool to see what the pilots saw
A full on zoom climb behind the rocket would have been super cool.
Edit: obviously not inside the exhaust stream. Just like they did here but keep climbing with full power as long as they can follow the rocket.
no
Yes
Not sure that's possible, the rocket would probably do something to the Raptors if they were right behind it or even near it.
@@Ragnarok182 obviously not directly inside the exhaust stream, as even another jets exhaust stream can cause engine problems.
Just like they did here, but keep the burners lit and see how long they can keep up.
@@fabianrudzewski9027Falcon 9 17,500 mph. F-22........ nope!
"Trigger, they fired a Starlink satellite! You need to intercept it before it reaches orbit!"
(i made a full edit of that lol)
Came looking for the AC reference and was not disappointed
Que BGM, Magic Spear II
Nice! it's kind of cool that the new SpaceX engines that curently are being tested on the Starship rocket are also called Raptor, and the Falcon 9 engines are called Merlin like the Top Gun character :)
Merlin like the engines in another super fighter of the WWII era - the P51 Mustang.
@@hamhouke Absolutely! :)
The primary engines on the falcon 9 first stage are raptors. They are also using the same raptor engines on the starship, just more of them (33 as opposed to 9). The engine on the second stage of the falcon 9 is called the Merlin vacuum engine as it is designed to operate in the vacuum of space.
@@floridagunrat1625 right from the SpaceX website:
Falcon 9’s first stage incorporates nine Merlin engines and aluminum-lithium alloy tanks containing liquid oxygen and rocket-grade kerosene (RP-1) propellant.
Falcon 9 generates more than 1.7 million pounds of thrust at sea level.
@@floridagunrat1625 that is not correct, the engines on falcon 9 are all merlins which is an open cycle engine running on RP-1 and oxygen, the variant on the 1st stage is called Merlin (sea level, there's 9 of them) and the variant on the 2nd stage is called Merlin vacuum, the difference is the longer bell nozzle which is optimized to contain the exhaust in the vacuum of space. The Raptor engine is a full-flow stage combustion engine running on methane and oxygen and is currently only flown on the starship/superheavy vehicle. there's 33 with sea level nozzles on the 1st stage and 6 on the second stage of which 3 have sea level nozzles and 3 have the larger vacuum nozzles.
Jeez, that must be a fun job. Imagine walking into work and asking your boss what's on the schedule today and he says, "you're going to be chasing a rocket." "Schweeet."
Timing is everything!
Ahhh ... America ... Watching rocket launches from the cockpit of a f22 😂. I love this country
At the 01:47 time code mark, the SpaceX Falcon 9 said to the Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 Raptors: "Gah-BYEEEEEE!" ... 😁 - and those Mach 2.25 capable (1,500 mph top speed) F-22 Raptors have an incedible "vertical climb rate".
Not exactly a fair comparison when the Falcon 9 booster is rated to Mach 10 before MECO.
@@rkr9861 Fair? Nothing about this video is about fairness
Definitly on every Fighter pilot's bucket list!
Having the Raptor and the Falcon within the same frame really showcased how much faster rockets are than planes. It's insane how quickly the Falcon ascended from ground level to low orbit.
Rocket engines and jet engines are entirely different animals for sure
Could this be a potential mission in which the F-22’s were to protect the rocket and payload? I’m sure there’s very expensive and cutting edge technologies on board. Seems like a good defense tactic to have those radars scanning the skies around the launch. Could this be a possible?
If something go south, they are to engage and destroy the rocket 🚀 😂
Well, with all the threats we face, I wouldn't be surprised if that's actually why they were there!
@@cryptoico2647 Nah man, they are supposed to destroy the threat Mr. Challenger. 🤣
No.
I'm in Aus but all I'm thinking right now is 'America! Fa#k yeah!'
Hypocrisy and infidelity at its finest in the USA.
That's what we get to see from 50 percent of our taxes going to "defense" budget lol. Hey you guys purchased lockheed martin's F-35 lightning II now- that's big money. Love our aussie friends.
@mattyice2099 My brother moved to the US a few years ago with his family and works as an engineer. His daughters are marrying there, the family is taking root in the US. Definitely look forward to visiting one day.
@bojangles2492 hahaha that's so funny- my Sister lives in australia and married a navy sailor they have a family now. Exact opposite that's funny :) i love visiting australia. What a beautiful nation with beautiful people.
I'm a retired A.E. myself and my Dad was an Engineer with GE at The Cape from '56 til '76 when he got transferred to Vandenburg in Cali. Anyway I remember him telling me a story in the early days when the engineers were gathering data regarding the oscillation forces along the missile fuselage during Max V and they would schedule F104 flights out of MacDill in Tampa to rendezvous with the missiles before Max V and take film of the missile. He said it sounded easy but it turned out to be a whole set of new intercept math and procedures to get the 104's at the exact spot in the atmosphere at the exact moment in time for a successful intercept. This video jogged my old memory banks.
I used to do this in the shuttle launch mission in the first Hawx game
Same. Then the shuttle would always pull away while my aircraft stalled because it reached max altitude. Fun times.
Those noises the aircraft makes when the afterburner is on are amazing.
music to our ears
Raptor one and two..."The skies are clear...you are clear to launch."
F22: I'm a rocket too!
Has to be amazing to be one of those pilots. Imagine going from Cessna Piston Airplane altitude to Airliner altitude just like that and back down to Cessna Altitude Piston altitude with a rocket going off
That’s crazy. Reminds me of a Blue Angels on Pensacola Beach airshow several years ago where, on the stall pass the one pilot did a side slip. I swear he lost twenty feet of altitude before recovering.
What a cool job these guys have!
If you are connected to the right people..... you could do it too.
Amazingly cool, but not the first time its happened! Back in the early days of the Titan 1 missile program NASA was having problems with the skin of the missile. This was before the advent of HD video and photography, so their solution was to equip two F4 Phantoms with special camera pods and chase the missile vertically and close!
Imagine a pair of Phantoms, a few hundred feet either side of a titan missile in flight, in formation, and taking lots of video and photographs.
I'd guess when they are testing the Starships there are fighters with missiles following them so if anything goes wrong they can shoot it down. Yes the rocket has self destruct but I'm guessing they still would have another way if that ended up failing.
@@pin65371 SpaceX has never and will never have chase fighters equipped with missiles ready to shoot at Starship. That's just too absurd of an idea to do these days. They've initiated self destruct multiple times on previous tests and they're automated. If the onboard computer detects an anomaly, it'll self destruct.
It is fitting that the best gen 5 fighter in the world is tracking/guarding the launch of the most advanced rocket system in the world.
I was able to watch them fly over on someone's live stream from the ground before launch it was awesome to see
Hey, an F-22 could keep up with it up to about 30-40,000 feet! Rate of climb on those beasts is amazing...
Everyone is gansta until F22 engages afterburners 🔥🔥
Well those pilots will never be Arkansas highway patrol with that chase, but still very cool video!!
When the afterburner engage, pure bliss 😊😊
We agree, so cool 🚀
Unbelievable perspective.
That's like having two F-22 Raptors trying to take on Iron Man. Not a fair fight.
That rocket just straight up walked away from those jets like they were standing still.
Most Overengineered Technological essence of the 90s meets the most Sophisticated Technological Simplistics of the 2010s, that's what real wonderful.
I realise that most likely there is hearing protection built into the helmets, but i wonder if the audio is what really sounds like when fling on one of those jets.
It’s not that loud inside the cockpit but the helmets fit pretty snug and do help prevent some noise so the pilot can hear the speakers inside the helmet.
@@alanwhiteside410 i was not refering to the loudness but rather just what it sounds like in general since it is not likely i will ever fly much less control one of those.
Does an airliner sound the same inside as it does outside? There ya go. 😉
@@Ganiscol i would not know, i do not fly hence why i was asking and besides i would imagine a passenger jet sounds very different from a military one.
@@Ganiscol yeah, a convertible airliner, with a plexiglas roof, and you sit on the engine. There you go.
[MISSION ACCOMPLISHED]
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I was going to say Trigger, but that works too.
@@littlesneez9002
Trigger shoots down the rocket. Mobius One engages in one of the largest single air brawls in history to sanitize the airspace around a rocket.
Also, this video, and the track 'Comona' are only ten seconds apart in length. Try playing them side-by-side.
40,000 feet? This isn't War Thunder.
@@GaijinGamerGirl yea this is Ace Combat 4.
that lil shockwave hitting the glass at 1:00 🥰
Imagine being escorted into space by f-22s 😂
Falcon 9: "I'm a rocket and take off vertically."
F-22 climbing: "I'm a bit of a rocket myself."
Wasn't much of a chase!
You have to sell the video. So you play with the truth. It's called the UA-cam way.
They lure the viewers in by inviting messages on the title
Love how the F22 cockpit is raw, stripped down to the essential, bare metal in sight, like a 1930 open race car, as light as possible, and how crisp is the response to inputs, like it is flying on invisible rails. A peek engineering feature not inferior to the Falcon 9, though, of course, cannot really be chasing it in a race up... unless the intention is to take it down with air to air missiles.
Amazing
Thanks for the service gentleman.
Happy Father's Day
Loved it, thanks putting the video up.
Glad you liked it!
I liked how the pilot looked back and was surprised to be able to see it.
it is perceivable the sound of the afterburners being engaged (I assume it was your afterburners, so it seems you engaged them first).... that moment was so cool to me.
I hope next time you get to follow safely enough, but closer and for more time the big rocket 🚀
The kids tired of balloons haha what a shot!
Did you see the pitch angle on that lead ship? Wow - that's some power.
Raptor 1: Heading to that small balloon.
Raptor 2: That's no balloon, it's a space rocket!
🤣
I was in Cape Canaveral that day and heard the jets when the launch happened. Only noticed it was Raptors when they flew over Port Canaveral when they were done chasing rockets.
Watching the afterburners kick in at 1:26 was amazing.
I said I wanted to do this in a F15-EX about a year ago in Instagram comments, glad I got to see it done in a F22, now they just need to do it for long as they can 🥺
The way it just kept accelerating…stunning
didn't even notice the rockets at first i was to busy lookin at the 22's
I friggin love seeing any craft fly.. Seeing a rocket launch with 2 raptors... Priceless ... You know this pilot was beyond grateful (im sure deserving too) to fly security for this lol . Imagine a craft with the speed and altitude possibly of the SR-71 with the agility of a Raptor? that would have been sick. Follow that bad boy almost all the way up.. Watch that sky turn from blue to abyss
What an awesome clip! Love the little sound change when he «drops a gear» and floors it! And the roll out is just cool. Love it.
Glad you liked it!
Maaaan! Those lucky Dogs! How cool was that! I want one
Cool footage! I've had the opportunity to work at KSC before & proud to do so
Very cool!
To those saying that this wasn't a Chase...
The people that are saying that the Raptor pilots are doing the job of a chase plane, which is to observe and sometimes document, are correct but that's not the full story.
Getting close to that rocket may be difficult or impossible for one or several of several reasons.
1. I'd imagine that test data gets more and more mudded down the closer you have a couple of Raptors flying to the subject.
2. Raptors are some of the most nimble fighter jets on the planet and you can see that they did go all out but that thing they are chasing is a Rocket. The thrust to weight ratio is likely on a completely different playing field between that rocket and a Raptors twin engines.
3. I'd probably not want to be within 10 miles of it just in case of something going wrong. If that thing explodes, I'd rather be way over there ------>
This should happen ALL the time! What a great way to improve skills, manage nerves, understand limits, and expectations than chasing a real rocket?!
00:55 totally awesome thanks for this bruh
Glad you liked it!
That canopy provides great spatial awareness and one hell of a view.
Best seat in the house!
The “Kid” got to chase a ticket! @habitual line crosser needs to do a clip on this!
Ya can feel the afterburners kick in @ 1:26 very cool
It's like a Dog with a toy.
You see that rocket, boy? You see it?
Go get it, get that rocket.
F22: 🐶mine, mine, mine🐶
Haha, the F22 definitely wants that rocket!
"Price, do you copy? The silo doors are open, I repeat, the silo doors are open!"
An amazing view from an amazing aircraft. i can only imagine what it must be like to fly a F-22.
OMG, this really shows how quickly the falcon 9 gets it on!
Now that was cool!
so epic!
Cool, although I was wishing there was an altimeter reading on display in the video to see how quickly they were climbing and to what altitude.
they climbed up to the approved 17,000 ft ceiling then had to back off
@@AirDotShowok thanks.
“I SWEAR, THEY REVVED THEIR ENGINE AT ME” - PILOT. 😂
Thanks for sharing, beautiful footage :-)
Glad you enjoyed it!
Awesome footage. I can understand them observing from a safe distance, wouldn't want to be too close incase the falcon developed a fault.
Thanks and appreciate you understand that!
Comona, and Mobius 1
Nuff said 😎
Thats one hell of a ride
Reminds me of the guy who decided to race an emu in his car because the emu winked at him 😅
Wow! That's about the highest level of fun it's possible for one human being to have. We truly live in the future.
Me running alongside the car as my mom pulls off and drive down the road
Awsome