I was an F-16 mechanic at Luke AFB in the early 80's. There is nothing like watching them and the F-15's on the base doing unrestricted FCF (functional check flight) straight up vertical climbs, especially at dusk when all you could see were the diamonds out the back of the engines. Gave me a chub back then and still does 36 years later.
charlie dee; Always wondered if it's kind of a drag you guys do all the critical work and it's Lt. Fab Flyboy climbing-in, up and away and then returning it for you to fix and clean...
@@docwill184 We actually got along very well. Sometimes the butter bars (2nd Lt, one gold bar) would give you shit but they quickly realized the Crew Chief or any other qualified tech could "red X" the plane which grounded it for whatever reason they saw fit. Once the pilots got to 1st Lt and Captain they knew their lives were in our hands based on our proficiency as technicians, and they gave us much respect for that. Look at the canopy, there are 2 names. The pilot on one side and the crew chief on the other. When in the air the plane belongs to the pilot, if the tires are touching tarmac it belongs to the crew chief. I did get a ride in a B model, the biggest thrill in my life by a long shot.
Doc Will Pilots dont just show up and go up. They have a shit ton of work to do outside of flying. So much so that US military has issues with pilot retention. Yeah you heard that right, some of the fighter pilots dont wanna be pilots! Mountains of paperwork, unnecessary courses and classes, so much extra bs.
I saw 2 Hornet's do this at our local airport around 1995 and I'll never forget standing there in amazement with my Mom as they climbed so fast and so high as fast as they did and just remember that so vividly!! I'll never forget that. It was a great memory and I couldn't believe how powerful these jets were. Beautiful memory. Thanks for sharing!!!
Was that at the Van Nuys Airport on Sunday after the airshow as the planes were departing? If so, I was at the golf course driving range at the end of the runway. It was spectacular.
@@longshot7601 No it was probably 1995 or 1996 at the Tri-cities regional airport in Blountville, TN. Just right outside of Bristol, Tennessee. I wish they would come back here for another air show!! There was a great turn out and we just absolutely loved every second of it lol.
There was a F-18 Blue Angel at the airport getting ready to take-off. We were listening to the radio traffic. Tower gave him "position and hold"(this was years ago) and "contact departure". He hadn't even released the brakes, yet! He called departure and got clearance for unrestricted climb to flight level 180. He accelerated down the runway lifted about 10 feet into the air and retracted the landing gear. That f-18 went hauling the length of the runway just a few feet off the ground. Afterburners blasting. When he got to the end of the runway, the pilot pulled the nose to vertical and up that plane went. Out of sight, vertically. Nice video. Very steady camera work.
while off the coast off Viet Nam in 71 for holidays we'd get a "Holiday flyover" I was starboard lookout, 2 F4 Phantoms came straight at our bow from dead ahead then went ballistic and apparently shot for a star because I watched them for a good 5 minutes those 4 afterburners turning to 2 then 1 with the distance... then I realized they had pealed off shortly after cutting back the throttles and left me starring at a star...
I waa in the Navy in the early and mid 70s , before FA-18s . I was on a Destroyer. We plane guarded for the aircraft carrier . Several of them over 5 years . The F-14 , Tomcat, in the 70s was the #1 Fighter Plane , Hands Down in the world . Spent 5 years at sea watching them suckers take off and land and do touch-and-gos on different aircraft carriers . Only a sailor on a plane guard destroyer or a sailor on an Aircraft Carrier or a pilot that flew them can tell you how amazingly awesome they look doing this . It's just amazing , literally amazing , the power those suckers had and the brave pilots that flew them . I have seen the F-18s in the Blue Angels at a couple of Air shows . F-14s , as far as I'm concerned though still own Top Gun status in my books , but then again , I'm an old salty dog . 64 years old July 17th 1955 and destroyers rule . America rules , and God Bless Our Military and God Bless Our Country and God Bless American Veterans and Civilians . America First , all others , take a hike .
The legacy F-18's were upgraded to the super hornet without any competition... sort of. Those special interests groups that wanted to see their competitor, the F-14 program, die did their best to continually delay its proposed 'Super Tomcat 21' upgrade. They had very powerful friends that, at the time, included vice president Dick Cheney. As a result, when F-18 super hornets were approved for production, they claimed the F-14 was no longer needed and too expensive unfairly pointing to the Rhinos greater range, size, advanced avionics, more stealthy radar cross section. Without any competitors on the drawing board, and since delays continued with the F-14, they were abruptly decommissioned and cancelled without one shot fired. The corruption here was self evident. While the F-18 F/A super hornet does everything okay, it doesn't excel, or do anything, great. The proposed Super Tomcat 21 would have had mach 3 speed, thrust vectoring engines, greater range, more powerful engines, and upgraded avionics. It would've been the fastest, most deadly fighter in our military offering true air superiority, had our greedy and corrupt politicians not delayed it/set it up for failure.
@@roblockhart6104 not to mention that I think the LRIS pods of the St21 were meant to detect heat off 5 gen fighters engine panels like the F-22 which was supposed to be impossible for the raptor...so if what you say and I say is true then the ST-21 would have been THE best fighter ever
I watched 2 F4 Phantoms take off from B'ham airport a long time ago. They used a little short stretch of runway with afterburners glowing and went straight up!! Very impressive!
You are a little on on the "unrestricted climb"! The "climb" was IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE PLANE LEFT THE GROUND. I retired from the Navy 40 years ago and say MANY of those type take-off by F4's. Magnificent sight and I really loved to watch them! When an F-4 hit stage 4 in after burner mode the boom was very loud and windows in near by houses were know to be broken!
You have shown us incredible footage of our military jets. Thank you so much for how much time and effort you used to place on UA-cam. Thank you and thank you to all that served and those who currently serve. Your video was great! Thank you! 🇺🇸
@charlie dee I too was at Luke AFB in the mid eighties.Armament specialist at the 311th AMU.Loved watching those 15s and 16s take off at night.I saw the F18 demo at Dayton air show along with the Navy Blue Angels,and both were quite impressive.It's good to know that we had a part in keeping our fighters running.We have the strongest and best military and anybody would be foolish to mess with us.
I love how the two Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornets of VFA-211 Checkmates do their unrestricted vertical climb during takeoff it reminds me of the Disney/Pixar movie Planes when those jet fighter planes named Bravo and Echo from VFA-103 Jolly Rogers did the same thing in the beginning of the movie Planes! Thanks!
@@bigman1182 I worked just a few times on the Tustin sight. During the Gulf war. I broke the rules a lot of Friday nights, I would walk out to the end of the landing lights and just sit under the landing F-18's having a few beers. I never got "caught" thank goodness.
Years ago I was working on a flight line at MacDill AFB on one of the secondary strips. The F-16's would take off at the first crack of dawn...many times did the straight-up take offs...watching the blue exhaust was exhilarating. We could not have been more than 100 feet from the strip.
I flew into St Louis one afternoon and when I touched down and made for the first high speed taxi way the tower called 2 f-15 on the displaced threshold at McDonnell Douglas factory and cleared them for immediate takeoff with a unrestricted climb, contact departure. As I was making my turn onto the parallel portion of the taxi way 2 F-15 in full afterburner rolled vertical tails barely clearing the runway. Last I saw there were 4 afterburners making a slow roll corkscrewing their way straight up thru the cloud deck.
Very cool....KLAL is less than a mile do south of my house; love seeing the T-birds and Angels fly right over my driveway during their demos. So sad we didn't get to see them this year!
I remember as a kid(late 1960's) I saw a CF104 do the same thing at an airshow at RCAF base Rockliffe outside of Ottawa Ontario. It was amazing especially as 12 year old kid. It flew along the runway lifted up enough to retract its landing gear .It flew along the runway for a distance lit the afterburner then nosed up to a tail stand, and went straight up.
I had a chance to fly an FA-18 in 2001. It was the most exhilarating experience of my life doing 6g turns, squirrel cages, vertical flight, Mach 1.1, etc. Unbelievable power with afterburners engaged!
This reminds me of a tomcat waiting for takeoff a d the ATC said "hold short, landing traffic" it wad a cessna in a 5 mile final. The F14 pilot was getting very inpatient and said "im burning lots of fuel here, clear me for take of" tower replied "negative, hold short". The little bug killer landed and taxied off the runway. The tower then cleared the F14 for take off. He took the runway, went to full power and began his tale off roll. He lit the afterburners and lifted the nose, burning the runway all the way down. Hahaha
I had 2 of these do this directly over my house 5 years ago. Took off from AKC and rumbled the hell out of my body. One of the most awe inspiring moments in my life.
When I was 13, I was in Civil Air Patrol Squadron 12 at Mather AFB. Our Building was right on the flight line, an old hanger, but once in a while we'd get to see an F-16 take off in full afterburner! Man, to a 13 year old kid who is enthralled by anything loud and fast, that was a treat!!!!!!!
We'd flown down to Winnipeg Airport in our school's Seneca II to bring a new student up to the Base in Gimli, Mb. We picked him up at the Avitat, and were taxiing back out to the active runway to head back and ground asked if we could hold short of the active and let 2 CF-18's who were headed to C.F.B. Bagotville go ahead as they were slightly overdue, due to some issues getting them refueled. We said " of course" because we were in no hurry, and would likely do training on the way home anyways, so, no time-constraints for us. So the 2 Pilots pass us, giving a quick synchronized dual salute, which we returned, headed out to the active, and since we had dual radios, one on ground and one on ATC we listened to their clearance direct to FL310 enroute to Bagotville, which they did... Full A/B takeoff, in ground effect just long enough to get the gear up and then straight up and gone...Awesome. We were all grinning ear to ear as they left... then we got our clearance and we taxied out... Locked the brakes, props full-fine, full thrust..let the power build until the brakes slid a bit and we tried to mimic their previous takeoff... within reason ( no exceeding Best AoA Airspeed) ..As we cleared the controlled airspace the tower called us and said " Nice try, there Interlake, but Not even close". We howled... humbled, but still... lol.
I got to see an sr 71 take off from kadena afb back i the mid 70's while stationed at camp shields, okinawa with the navy seabees, just an incredible roaring sound and the ground shakes.
Watching this with your own eyes gives you a much better idea of how quickly they are "gone". The zooming in of the camera is of course beneficial for viewing them but it detracts from the effect of their incredible acceleration and climbing abilities.
When I lived in North Las Vegas, Nevada, I worked at an auto repair shop on the 'strip', We watched on numerous occasions the mechanics working on the Thunderbirds F-16s, when the maintenance was completed they would take off and head straight up to test the engines, I don't know what this testing told them but it had to be very important. I just wanted to share that.
Nah, their heads would have exploded on the way to this airbase when they realized their first flight could have been conducted in the cargo hold of the C5 Galaxy transporting them.
The first time I saw the Blue Angels I was standing onnthe hillside of an overpass by Moffett Field eith my Dad maybe 10 years old. I've taken mt kids multiple times ( they're hooked) my grandkids ( they'r hooked) and they take my greatggrand kids. THANKS DAD!!!!
Last time they flew out of Moffett, was back when the Super Bowl was in Santa Clara. (2016) And it wasn't even a show. They just did a fly over during the National Anthem. It's too bad, I grew up in SC and would go to the Moffett airshow every year. At least fleet week is still happening every year. But it's harder to go there. I try to go to the practice shows on the Friday before the full weekend show.
I have watched F15's take off at Luke AFB in the late 70's and go straight as soon as the landing gear is off the runway. First fighter that could do more than a pilot could withstand. 2 to 1 power to weight ratio.
Sometimes these clearances were issued as they taxied to the active runway and they would do what was called a rolling takeoff. Their clearances most always contained the phrase " BUSTER CLIMB ANGELS FL (flight level) ...", then any other viable instructions such as turns or reporting points, vectors and all that kind of fun stuff. At times they might execute an afterburn climb right after rotation, usually (and logically) at the departure end of the runway. A spectacular sight to witness.
Control to F-18 pilot: "Dusty 52, Center, we have you at 620 on the ground." Control to SR-71 pilot: "Aspen 20, I show you at one thousand eight hundred and forty-two knots, across the ground." The true king of speed!
But they don't, all they have in the US is couple thousand noisy/influential useful idiots. It was the same during the Cold War 1.0, the Soviets had the sympathy of your intellectuals and part of the journalist clique.
Eglin Air Force base?? I've watched many unrestricted take offs and it's so amazing just how quick they go out of site and even how quick the sound us gone ..it never gets old after many years of being on air bases all over world ,no matter what I'm doing I always stop and look still when a fighter jet is taking off or landing ..the ultimate machine in speed and excitement, nothing can match a fighter jets awsome power !
I was in Germany in the 60's and saw a pair of Luftwaffe F-104's scrambled for some sort of alert; they went down the runway only about half-way, sucked up the landing gear and made like a right angle turn and went straight up like some sort of missile. Impressive!
..not totally off subject, but I was stationed at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, NC about a half century ago, and the F4 Phantoms did this on a pretty regular basis. F4 was the first plane in the world to break the speed of sound going straight up!
A good friend of mine was a Super Hornet pilot for a while stationed at NAS Lemoore in 2002. The Navy decided to send him to Navy post graduate school and he had taken his official last flight but had not been transferred off the base yet. However for some reason, the base asked called him one Friday morning to do some practice dog fighting exercises with 3 other jets over the Pacific near Monterrey. Maybe another pilot had called in sick that day or something and were short of pilots. So he did but was in a mid air collision with another jet while over the water. No wreckage could be found other than a small oil slick that news clips were showing in the vicinity of the crash. His wife was 7 months pregnant with their first child. The military investigation ruled it as pilot error of some sort. The accident happened mid morning Pacific time and while I was in Houston, I saw the headlines of the incident sometime that morning and had an uneasy feeling that day. Right when I got home from work I got a call from a friend of my friend's mother telling me he was one of the pilots and was presumed dead and asked me to start making phone calls to friends. That was one tough day and many phone calls I dreaded having to make. His wife since remarried but can tell she still misses him and although it's easier 18 years later, she'll never get over losing him. For more info you can probably find some details about the accident that occurred on October 18, 2002.
Jim Bo You have been exposed to too much Russian propaganda and are actually gullible enough to believe it.
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@@Thetequilashooter1 .........Jim is correct. Obama didn't do ANYTHING to remove them because HE was funding them. Did you ever wonder why Trump could clean up ISIS in one month? You people had better start paying attention to what is going on. It YOU that is GULLIBLE....BEYOND BELIEF actually. The fact that you would call it "Russian propaganda" takes it to a whole new level of stupid....since Russia and the US had the same goal.
It was not a straight up vertical climb. It was about a 55 to 60 degree pitch up. The camera angle makes it look steeper than it actually is. Super Hornet bleeds too much energy in the vertical and can result in "leaf falling" after a stall, which is why pure vertical is rarely used with Super Hornet.
This reminds me when I was flying home on Southwest Airlines we had to hold on the taxi way short of the Runway while 2 F16s from a local Air National Guard Base on the oppisite end to the Airport. When those planes took off the noise and the thrust from them shook that large plane and it was loud. I just cannot remember what Airport that was I fly a lot.
I grew up about 3 miles from where these aircraft were built, in St. Louis. I visited a friend working in the weather station last time I visited St. Louis. Two F18's were taxiing down a taxi way on their for a test-flight. They kicked in their after-burners and rolled maybe a quarter-mile. The pilots stood their planes on their tails and disappeared. Those jets are quick! This was 1982. I suspect that the tech has gotten faster by now.
Thomas Altizer Why so uptight. I did it on purpose. Oh!! And by the way I served in the U.S. Army as a Cavalry Officer and 36 years in Law Enforcement. “MERICA.”
I was an F-16 mechanic at Luke AFB in the early 80's. There is nothing like watching them and the F-15's on the base doing unrestricted FCF (functional check flight) straight up vertical climbs, especially at dusk when all you could see were the diamonds out the back of the engines. Gave me a chub back then and still does 36 years later.
charlie dee; Always wondered if it's kind of a drag you guys do all the critical work and it's Lt. Fab Flyboy climbing-in, up and away and then returning it for you to fix and clean...
@@docwill184 We actually got along very well. Sometimes the butter bars (2nd Lt, one gold bar) would give you shit but they quickly realized the Crew Chief or any other qualified tech could "red X" the plane which grounded it for whatever reason they saw fit. Once the pilots got to 1st Lt and Captain they knew their lives were in our hands based on our proficiency as technicians, and they gave us much respect for that. Look at the canopy, there are 2 names. The pilot on one side and the crew chief on the other. When in the air the plane belongs to the pilot, if the tires are touching tarmac it belongs to the crew chief. I did get a ride in a B model, the biggest thrill in my life by a long shot.
Doc Will Pilots dont just show up and go up. They have a shit ton of work to do outside of flying. So much so that US military has issues with pilot retention. Yeah you heard that right, some of the fighter pilots dont wanna be pilots! Mountains of paperwork, unnecessary courses and classes, so much extra bs.
@@rykehuss3435 Then why the intense competition to get into the programs?
Ignorance?
Much respect to the support crews or these things wouldn’t get off the ground.
They Deserve more Credit
@@siberiusstuph so does wastewater/water treatment plant operator’s
@@ExpecteDDissapointment My father was one. Funny He was in the USAF also lol
Thank you!
Cap, they need them to land and know where to take off but they can take off alone
I saw 2 Hornet's do this at our local airport around 1995 and I'll never forget standing there in amazement with my Mom as they climbed so fast and so high as fast as they did and just remember that so vividly!! I'll never forget that. It was a great memory and I couldn't believe how powerful these jets were. Beautiful memory. Thanks for sharing!!!
Was that at the Van Nuys Airport on Sunday after the airshow as the planes were departing? If so, I was at the golf course driving range at the end of the runway. It was spectacular.
@@longshot7601 No it was probably 1995 or 1996 at the Tri-cities regional airport in Blountville, TN. Just right outside of Bristol, Tennessee. I wish they would come back here for another air show!! There was a great turn out and we just absolutely loved every second of it lol.
There was a F-18 Blue Angel at the airport getting ready to take-off. We were listening to the radio traffic. Tower gave him "position and hold"(this was years ago) and "contact departure". He hadn't even released the brakes, yet! He called departure and got clearance for unrestricted climb to flight level 180. He accelerated down the runway lifted about 10 feet into the air and retracted the landing gear. That f-18 went hauling the length of the runway just a few feet off the ground. Afterburners blasting. When he got to the end of the runway, the pilot pulled the nose to vertical and up that plane went. Out of sight, vertically.
Nice video. Very steady camera work.
Great story, cool when you see things like that.
That must have been amazing
glad you took a photo in your memory . . Hallelu-Yah !
MGTOW like Yahushua !
@@clarkkentll5490 Yahmazing, Hallelu-Yah .
while off the coast off Viet Nam in 71 for holidays we'd get a "Holiday flyover" I was starboard lookout, 2 F4 Phantoms came straight at our bow from dead ahead then went ballistic and apparently shot for a star because I watched them for a good 5 minutes those 4 afterburners turning to 2 then 1 with the distance... then I realized they had pealed off shortly after cutting back the throttles and left me starring at a star...
Legend has it they are still climbing.
Legend has it that they are still climbing to this day!
Much respect to the military aviators. They are true professionals.
BOYS & GIRLS WITH TOYS!
I waa in the Navy in the early and mid 70s , before FA-18s . I was on a Destroyer. We plane guarded for the aircraft carrier . Several of them over 5 years . The F-14 , Tomcat, in the 70s was the #1 Fighter Plane , Hands Down in the world . Spent 5 years at sea watching them suckers take off and land and do touch-and-gos on different aircraft carriers . Only a sailor on a plane guard destroyer or a sailor on an Aircraft Carrier or a pilot that flew them can tell you how amazingly awesome they look doing this . It's just amazing , literally amazing , the power those suckers had and the brave pilots that flew them . I have seen the F-18s in the Blue Angels at a couple of Air shows . F-14s , as far as I'm concerned though still own Top Gun status in my books , but then again , I'm an old salty dog . 64 years old July 17th 1955 and destroyers rule . America rules , and God Bless Our Military and God Bless Our Country and God Bless American Veterans and Civilians . America First , all others , take a hike .
@Boyce Hopkins I hope Iran see this , and thank you for your service sir
Thank you for your service, sir.
The legacy F-18's were upgraded to the super hornet without any competition... sort of. Those special interests groups that wanted to see their competitor, the F-14 program, die did their best to continually delay its proposed 'Super Tomcat 21' upgrade. They had very powerful friends that, at the time, included vice president Dick Cheney. As a result, when F-18 super hornets were approved for production, they claimed the F-14 was no longer needed and too expensive unfairly pointing to the Rhinos greater range, size, advanced avionics, more stealthy radar cross section. Without any competitors on the drawing board, and since delays continued with the F-14, they were abruptly decommissioned and cancelled without one shot fired. The corruption here was self evident. While the F-18 F/A super hornet does everything okay, it doesn't excel, or do anything, great. The proposed Super Tomcat 21 would have had mach 3 speed, thrust vectoring engines, greater range, more powerful engines, and upgraded avionics. It would've been the fastest, most deadly fighter in our military offering true air superiority, had our greedy and corrupt politicians not delayed it/set it up for failure.
One our biggest mistakes in the US military for the 21st century was killing the tomcat when I could have still been around
@@roblockhart6104 not to mention that I think the LRIS pods of the St21 were meant to detect heat off 5 gen fighters engine panels like the F-22 which was supposed to be impossible for the raptor...so if what you say and I say is true then the ST-21 would have been THE best fighter ever
I watched 2 F4 Phantoms take off from B'ham airport a long time ago. They used a little short stretch of runway with afterburners glowing and went straight up!! Very impressive!
The sound and smell of FREEDOM. The roar of jet engines and the smell of JP-8 exhaust!
You are a little on on the "unrestricted climb"! The "climb" was IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE PLANE LEFT THE GROUND. I retired from the Navy 40 years ago and say MANY of those type take-off by F4's. Magnificent sight and I really loved to watch them! When an F-4 hit stage 4 in after burner mode the boom was very loud and windows in near by houses were know to be broken!
“Hornet Flight, contact NASA Departure...”
Houston, we have a flight of two down range and accelerating .
You have shown us incredible footage of our military jets. Thank you so much for how much time and effort you used to place on UA-cam. Thank you and thank you to all that served and those who currently serve. Your video was great! Thank you! 🇺🇸
Thanks Mom!
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Your welcome!
Been there, done that with full AB. It's a real kick in the butt too. Loved it.
@charlie dee I too was at Luke AFB in the mid eighties.Armament specialist at the 311th AMU.Loved watching those 15s and 16s take off at night.I saw the F18 demo at Dayton air show along with the Navy Blue Angels,and both were quite impressive.It's good to know that we had a part in keeping our fighters running.We have the strongest and best military and anybody would be foolish to mess with us.
I love how the two Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornets of VFA-211 Checkmates do their unrestricted vertical climb during takeoff it reminds me of the Disney/Pixar movie Planes when those jet fighter planes named Bravo and Echo from VFA-103 Jolly Rogers did the same thing in the beginning of the movie Planes! Thanks!
I can just hear it, one pilot to the other, "I'll race you to 30,000."
I loved my time at MCAS El Toro CA. I watched every aircraft I could when I was in. I ❤️ airplane noise!
Aye... Another person from El Toro.... My father was on El Toro and Tustin before they shut down
@@bigman1182 I worked just a few times on the Tustin sight. During the Gulf war. I broke the rules a lot of Friday nights, I would walk out to the end of the landing lights and just sit under the landing F-18's having a few beers. I never got "caught" thank goodness.
Working just off the flighline on MCAS Beaufort for the last 10 years and still never get tired of that noise.
Super Bugs! Never get tired of seeing and hearing these guys take them up fast. Go Navy!
Years ago I was working on a flight line at MacDill AFB on one of the secondary strips. The F-16's would take off at the first crack of dawn...many times did the straight-up take offs...watching the blue exhaust was exhilarating. We could not have been more than 100 feet from the strip.
I flew into St Louis one afternoon and when I touched down and made for the first high speed taxi way the tower called 2 f-15 on the displaced threshold at McDonnell Douglas factory and cleared them for immediate takeoff with a unrestricted climb, contact departure. As I was making my turn onto the parallel portion of the taxi way 2 F-15 in full afterburner rolled vertical tails barely clearing the runway. Last I saw there were 4 afterburners making a slow roll corkscrewing their way straight up thru the cloud deck.
Very cool....KLAL is less than a mile do south of my house; love seeing the T-birds and Angels fly right over my driveway during their demos. So sad we didn't get to see them this year!
This was great taking off in tandem that close to each other loved it
I remember as a kid(late 1960's) I saw a CF104 do the same thing at an airshow at RCAF base Rockliffe outside of Ottawa Ontario. It was amazing especially as 12 year old kid. It flew along the runway lifted up enough to retract its landing gear .It flew along the runway for a distance lit the afterburner then nosed up to a tail stand, and went straight up.
The 104 didn't have the performance of these F-18s.
I had a chance to fly an FA-18 in 2001. It was the most exhilarating experience of my life doing 6g turns, squirrel cages, vertical flight, Mach 1.1, etc. Unbelievable power with afterburners engaged!
No you didn't
Liar
I saw this a month ago at Barnes AFB in Westfield. Five of them took off and then shot straight up. Amazing.
Thanks for a fine post. The unlimited take-off I saw was an F-104 departing Dobbins AFB on an Armed Forces day.
This reminds me of a tomcat waiting for takeoff a d the ATC said "hold short, landing traffic" it wad a cessna in a 5 mile final. The F14 pilot was getting very inpatient and said "im burning lots of fuel here, clear me for take of" tower replied "negative, hold short". The little bug killer landed and taxied off the runway. The tower then cleared the F14 for take off. He took the runway, went to full power and began his tale off roll. He lit the afterburners and lifted the nose, burning the runway all the way down. Hahaha
I had 2 of these do this directly over my house 5 years ago. Took off from AKC and rumbled the hell out of my body. One of the most awe inspiring moments in my life.
Santa claus landed on my roof
Use to go to the
Hanford California
Air show and loud was the word of the day
It is amazing how something could be man-made and could be so beautiful
That looks like the best job in the world!
Look like a drag race on land & in the air....AWESOME!!!
When I was 13, I was in Civil Air Patrol Squadron 12 at Mather AFB. Our Building was right on the flight line, an old hanger, but once in a while we'd get to see an F-16 take off in full afterburner! Man, to a 13 year old kid who is enthralled by anything loud and fast, that was a treat!!!!!!!
That has to be one helluva rush to see that in person.
Fighting Checkmates for the win! btw, love the Raptor in the background!
Loved the F-22 cameo
I worked on the flight line at Kadina in the late 70’s early 80’s. Watched F-15’s and SR 71’s take off . It was a sight I’ll never forget.
Seeing the sr71 must of been awesome!
lol right
I have seen many Blue Angels air shows. And they don't even do full max. Love these machines
Nice! Saw 2 F-18s depart the airport near my house! Cool stuff ;)
I'm lucky enough to live in the flight path of a naval air station. I get to see these things fly every day
Such a cool looking Aircraft
Winside DM ,but Sukhoi looks better
Never get tired of this.
We'd flown down to Winnipeg Airport in our school's Seneca II to bring a new student up to the Base in Gimli, Mb. We picked him up at the Avitat, and were taxiing back out to the active runway to head back and ground asked if we could hold short of the active and let 2 CF-18's who were headed to C.F.B. Bagotville go ahead as they were slightly overdue, due to some issues getting them refueled. We said " of course" because we were in no hurry, and would likely do training on the way home anyways, so, no time-constraints for us. So the 2 Pilots pass us, giving a quick synchronized dual salute, which we returned, headed out to the active, and since we had dual radios, one on ground and one on ATC we listened to their clearance direct to FL310 enroute to Bagotville, which they did... Full A/B takeoff, in ground effect just long enough to get the gear up and then straight up and gone...Awesome. We were all grinning ear to ear as they left... then we got our clearance and we taxied out... Locked the brakes, props full-fine, full thrust..let the power build until the brakes slid a bit and we tried to mimic their previous takeoff... within reason ( no exceeding Best AoA Airspeed) ..As we cleared the controlled airspace the tower called us and said " Nice try, there Interlake, but Not even close". We howled... humbled, but still... lol.
I got to see 2 F-15’s go vertical when I was in the Air Force. Still one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen.
I got to see an sr 71 take off from kadena afb back i the mid 70's while stationed at camp shields, okinawa with the navy seabees, just an incredible roaring sound and the ground shakes.
The F/A 18 is a nice looking plane, but the plane it replaced which was the F-14 Tomcat was much better looking.
Watching this with your own eyes gives you a much better idea of how quickly they are "gone". The zooming in of the camera is of course beneficial for viewing them but it detracts from the effect of their incredible acceleration and climbing abilities.
That's why I zoomed out at the end.
When I lived in North Las Vegas, Nevada, I worked at an auto repair shop on the 'strip', We watched on numerous occasions the mechanics working on the Thunderbirds F-16s, when the maintenance was completed they would take off and head straight up to test the engines, I don't know what this testing told them but it had to be very important. I just wanted to share that.
Orville and Wilbur would have heart seizure seeing that today.
Maybe they’d sign up.
@@g0679 They'd want to start work on mounting guns on their biplane
Nah, their heads would have exploded on the way to this airbase when they realized their first flight could have been conducted in the cargo hold of the C5 Galaxy transporting them.
McDonnell Douglas knew how to create some insanely awesome fighter aircraft...PERIOD!🙏🇺🇸👍
Those were manufactured by Boeing after they acquired McDonnell Douglas.
@@christinepinero2336 Wrong, designed and built by McD. boeing only bought out Douglas.
Obviously McDonnell Douglas can't produce super Hornets if they don't exist anymore they only produced the legacy Hornets.
Now that is a steep climb from the F/A-18 Super Hornets
thanks for the catch :)
I grew up at 5Wing CFB Goose Bay and this sort of thing happened there ALL! SUMMER! LONG! and it was awesome!!!
The first time I saw the Blue Angels I was standing onnthe hillside of an overpass by Moffett Field eith my Dad maybe 10 years old. I've taken mt kids multiple times ( they're hooked) my grandkids ( they'r hooked) and they take my greatggrand kids. THANKS DAD!!!!
Last time they flew out of Moffett, was back when the Super Bowl was in Santa Clara. (2016) And it wasn't even a show. They just did a fly over during the National Anthem.
It's too bad, I grew up in SC and would go to the Moffett airshow every year. At least fleet week is still happening every year. But it's harder to go there. I try to go to the practice shows on the Friday before the full weekend show.
those were the days!
That's not the Blue angels.
Don't let Troy Aikman and Joe Buck see this video!
Hahahaha
Why can't glass jaw Troy watch it?
He thinks it's a waste of fuel.
@@Xrm150 I thought he thought it was a waste of money?
Fuel costs money.
I have watched F15's take off at Luke AFB in the late 70's and go straight as soon as the landing gear is off the runway. First fighter that could do more than a pilot could withstand. 2 to 1 power to weight ratio.
Sometimes these clearances were issued as they taxied to the active runway and they would do what was called a rolling takeoff. Their clearances most always contained the phrase " BUSTER CLIMB ANGELS FL (flight level) ...", then any other viable instructions such as turns or reporting points, vectors and all that kind of fun stuff. At times they might execute an afterburn climb right after rotation, usually (and logically) at the departure end of the runway. A spectacular sight to witness.
Awesome! Not only Hornets, but Super Hornets!
Rhino!
bugs that carry missiles. hell yeah
Still not as good as a Tomcat
I think they are better... just not nearly as cool looking. =D
Murder hornets now lol not like half you tards are thinking about
A beautiful thing to see
I could watch this all day long ! 😉❤️
Good take off, good flying, good landing 💙
ATC: "Dusty 14 and 16, climb and maintain flight level 200.". Dusty flight: "Uhm, we're already there sir."
lol. I assume you mean FL200.
@@allansmith7305 Yep. ;)
@Jesus H Christ No such thing as FL20.
Control to F-18 pilot: "Dusty 52, Center, we have you at 620 on the ground."
Control to SR-71 pilot: "Aspen 20, I show you at one thousand eight hundred and forty-two knots, across the ground."
The true king of speed!
They wouldn't say Sir.
Two seaters. One guy up front flying the plane, one in the back mixing the drinks.
Joseph Astier
Lmao
🥂🥂
LMFAO! Thanks, i neede that!!😂
Really got me. USN mixing drinks. LMAO
Ahahahaha....u stole my words bro..
I love afterburners.
The sound, the power, the look of the flame and the fact that they are basically just dumping raw fuel onto a flame.
Beautiful to watch
First one around the moon and back wins.
US: "We have got the best army in the world!"
China: "We control all your companies, universities and web sites without a single shot."
But they don't, all they have in the US is couple thousand noisy/influential useful idiots. It was the same during the Cold War 1.0, the Soviets had the sympathy of your intellectuals and part of the journalist clique.
@@drgonzo4714 the Indians call China the "Paper Tiger" for a reason. A lot of show and economic bluster but empty on the inside
Eglin Air Force base?? I've watched many unrestricted take offs and it's so amazing just how quick they go out of site and even how quick the sound us gone ..it never gets old after many years of being on air bases all over world ,no matter what I'm doing I always stop and look still when a fighter jet is taking off or landing ..the ultimate machine in speed and excitement, nothing can match a fighter jets awsome power !
Lakeland Linder Regional
I was in Germany in the 60's and saw a pair of Luftwaffe F-104's scrambled for some sort of alert; they went down the runway only about half-way, sucked up the landing gear and made like a right angle turn and went straight up like some sort of missile. Impressive!
You are a lucky man! The F-104's performance was years ahead of its time!
..not totally off subject, but I was stationed at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, NC about a half century ago, and the F4 Phantoms did this on a pretty regular basis. F4 was the first plane in the world to break the speed of sound going straight up!
Semper fi
Cherry Point had A-6’s, Beaufort SC had Phantoms
Nice catch!!! Badass pilots... love our military🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
A good friend of mine was a Super Hornet pilot for a while stationed at NAS Lemoore in 2002. The Navy decided to send him to Navy post graduate school and he had taken his official last flight but had not been transferred off the base yet. However for some reason, the base asked called him one Friday morning to do some practice dog fighting exercises with 3 other jets over the Pacific near Monterrey. Maybe another pilot had called in sick that day or something and were short of pilots. So he did but was in a mid air collision with another jet while over the water. No wreckage could be found other than a small oil slick that news clips were showing in the vicinity of the crash. His wife was 7 months pregnant with their first child. The military investigation ruled it as pilot error of some sort. The accident happened mid morning Pacific time and while I was in Houston, I saw the headlines of the incident sometime that morning and had an uneasy feeling that day. Right when I got home from work I got a call from a friend of my friend's mother telling me he was one of the pilots and was presumed dead and asked me to start making phone calls to friends. That was one tough day and many phone calls I dreaded having to make. His wife since remarried but can tell she still misses him and although it's easier 18 years later, she'll never get over losing him. For more info you can probably find some details about the accident that occurred on October 18, 2002.
Dang =(
Three occupations I totally respect and know I could never even come close to..
1.Teacher
2. Bull Rider
3. JET FIGHTER AVIATOR
Much Respect 💖👍
Bull rider? lol
When 2 f-18 super hornets have a drag race....whooooo hoooo.
I saw a bunch of these while fishing off the VA Beach Pier.
No you didn't
Crawl back into your hole, Troll
I’ve seen them waaaaay overhead in cape May New Jersey.
WOW!!! That was super cool seeing that. Love military aircraft
Great camera work!
My soul enjoyed the climb, AMEN!
Thank you. =)
I sleep good at night knowing those guys are on the job always support the military if you want to preserve your freedom
@Jim Bo who the hell said he was funding them? He may have not done much to remove the threat they posed but he wasn't funding them.
Jim Bo You have been exposed to too much Russian propaganda and are actually gullible enough to believe it.
@@Thetequilashooter1 .........Jim is correct. Obama didn't do ANYTHING to remove them because HE was funding them. Did you ever wonder why Trump could clean up ISIS in one month? You people had better start paying attention to what is going on. It YOU that is GULLIBLE....BEYOND BELIEF actually. The fact that you would call it "Russian propaganda" takes it to a whole new level of stupid....since Russia and the US had the same goal.
Iran funded ISIS... Obama gave Iran 150 billion..... for nothing!
@@alexandermakrianis How much did Obama give Iran?...Who funds the opposition in Syria? So yes he funded them indirectly.
higherrrr and higherrr straight up we'll climb.....
It was not a straight up vertical climb. It was about a 55 to 60 degree pitch up. The camera angle makes it look steeper than it actually is. Super Hornet bleeds too much energy in the vertical and can result in "leaf falling" after a stall, which is why pure vertical is rarely used with Super Hornet.
Love your Van Halen reference. One of Sammy's best songs.
that's.... what.... dreams are made of.....
@@2ZZGE100 /Whooosh.
Saddle up!
Awesome departure 😎
👍🏻👍🏻
I happened To see a F-15 Eagle at the St. Louis airport Perform a super takeoff and a near vertical climb That I’ll never forget.
Nice job to the camera man for keeping them inside the frame!
Thank you!
This reminds me when I was flying home on Southwest Airlines we had to hold on the taxi way short of the Runway while 2 F16s from a local Air National Guard Base on the oppisite end to the Airport. When those planes took off the noise and the thrust from them shook that large plane and it was loud. I just cannot remember what Airport that was I fly a lot.
I don't know how you can look at that and not just smile.
See these all the time out of Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Beaufort SC Freedom baby !
Unrestricted would have been full afterburner just after Lift-Off!
Those guys have the coolest job
I'm jealous! 😂
And they get paid for it.
Yes they do.
That was some nice camera work keeping them both in frame smoothly
Ty!
I see this every day of the week.
Do these guys go to bed at night and think...I am the luckiest man in the world?
nobody gonna talk about how good that camera man is
Thank you =)
@@Xrm150 your welcome I’m glad you caught all of it most people would have gotten to excited and messed up
Thank you.
I work as a civilian on an air force base. We see vertical take offs about once a week. It never gets old
I don't work but deliver on a daily basis to military bases. They didn't need that much room to take flight.
This video is also illegal
Umm.. please explain.
No, you don't.
It is beautiful, I can't get enough of it, but if you have to ask how much ...
Awesome 😎, I turned my volume up on my headphones for this vid, YES YES. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍❤️
You should watch my f104 video with the sound up! Also my p51, f18, f22, mig15, and a4 =)
Gone!
It must feel awesome when those afterburners kick in.
I grew up about 3 miles from where these aircraft were built, in St. Louis. I visited a friend working in the weather station last time I visited St. Louis. Two F18's were taxiing down a taxi way on their for a test-flight. They kicked in their after-burners and rolled maybe a quarter-mile. The pilots stood their planes on their tails and disappeared. Those jets are quick! This was 1982. I suspect that the tech has gotten faster by now.
Outstanding video. “Merica”
larry mead Fuck yeah, Team America!
Its AMERICA ya stupid fvcking idiot. Dont insult the brave men and women who died for it, so your dumb civilian ass can misspell it.
You really think the US is the only country where pilots can do that? LOL LOL LOL
Thomas Altizer Why so uptight. I did it on purpose. Oh!! And by the way I served in the U.S. Army as a Cavalry Officer and 36 years in Law Enforcement. “MERICA.”
Thomas Altizer By the way, since you know so much, are those fighters Hornets or Super Hornets (FA/18 C’s or D’s)? Lol 😂
0:41 The F22 in the foreground says "that's cute."
Unlike the F-22, Boeing is still making Super Hornets....
@@Bender2497 The F-22 Reading your comment says that's Adorable!
@@christopherlewis1315 Your channel with no content is adorable...
@@Bender2497 I know, isn't It?
I caught that too. It’s giving the ol timers a head start.
Breathtaking.
Navy adding response to "Something just entered the upper atmosphere"