2 F-18 Super Hornets take off & unrestricted climb! 

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?

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

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...

BOYS & GIRLS WITH TOYS!

Houston, we have a flight of two down range and accelerating .

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.

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.

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

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.

I agree

Why the fuck would this make me proud to be an American?

@@Wh4tUneeD You sound like a triggerd little bitch

I didn't know America was the only country that made fighter jets.

Just the best! MERICA!!!

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.

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

Joseph Astier Lmao

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LMFAO! Thanks, i neede that!!😂

Really got me. USN mixing drinks. LMAO

Ahahahaha....u stole my words bro..

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.

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.

@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

You Vish including Mon and Mars

@@kirksdva8310 last I checked the moon and mars are in the solar system.

32,001 lbs of thrust.

Not sure how this is possible when Wikipedia says it has thrust to weight ratio of 0.96 how can it climb?

Glywnnis Wells it men’s it cannot sustain a 90 degree climb without loosing speed. It can hold constant speed in a less than vertical trajectory to a certain altitude where it starts reaching thinner air.

Disregard the mistypes lol.

F-22 can do 90 degree vertical climb to the moon and back

Roger that Seeing the f15 and sr71s go straight up, these guys seem normal

Winside DM ,but Sukhoi looks better

Have you watched the RAF Eurofighters do it?

@@Nairnster not as cool as the f22

Don't they have rules? If your right I got into the wrong career. ;-)

@@bermieboy1 The militaries have more rules than anyone knows. But they also let the men play with their toys, know their machines, know their equipment, know their weapons ... get some experience and have some fun, it's all good as long as they're smart enough to not cause problems. The conditioning involves reward and punishment, not punishment alone.

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.

No you didn't

Crawl back into your hole, Troll

I’ve seen them waaaaay overhead in cape May New Jersey.

The 104 didn't have the performance of these F-18s.

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.

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.

Semper fi

Cherry Point had A-6’s, Beaufort SC had Phantoms

Guess you weren't paying attention during Desert Storm or Afghanistan. Once the radars have been taken out by the "stealthy" assets the F18's are free to roam.. In any campaign there will be F35's and F22's in the air as well for air superiority while the Hornets take out ground targets with precision strikes as they have been doing all along.

I love some free range warthogs!

SU 57 has to get off of the production floor first .

@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.

You should watch my f104 video with the sound up! Also my p51, f18, f22, mig15, and a4 =)

I'm lucky enough to live in the flight path of a naval air station. I get to see these things fly every day

Thanks Mom!

Xrm150 Your welcome!

+sandiabill1 no offense taken but when they are going pretty much straight up what else can I do? No trees in the clouds. That's why I tried zooming out at the end of the clip.

I'm so glad you didn't take offense, some folks would use a constructive comment as license to go on a rant. Thanks for the reply and I understand your point, thank you again. Cheers!!

sandiabill1 we need more of this in the world ^^

Another commentor below, Raoul Cruz, pointed out "very steady camera work." Considering the zoom at the end that's an understatement.

I have no problem with the zoom. In fact, pulling back at the end of the video made the distance and height all the more incredible and amazing. *Well done!*

Thank you!

When I was very young me and my dad went to an airshow and somehow wandered onto a live part of the base without knowing and me being like 7 at the time found an "static" F-16 with an open canopy I'm about climb in an this pilot starts running and screaming at us turns out it was his F-16...and it was not static it was a live ready to fly F-16

=D

Santa claus landed on my roof

Robert L. Fallin does look like NAS Oceana. Saw a few 22s landing there on Wednesday. Virginia Beach is a great place

It was lakeland linder regional airport

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'm jealous! 😂

And they get paid for it.

Yes they do.

Read rich to much isiosonation

No you didn't

Liar

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@Mark Ward from a logistical standpoint I greatly have to disagree. The f-35 has stealth and advanced data link over the super, but f18s have triple the sortie rate, greater payloads, and are much easier/cheaper to fix while still boasting some of the best avionics around.

I agree!

Money in the pockets of people who don't use them!

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 flight performance is. The repair hours not.

Climb rate I'd rather see a bae lightning unrestricted climb these look very tame

The f-14 is a maintenance nightmare , it's leaks like a stuck pig on the ground . Ive seen popped rivets after an hour flight

Please!!!!! Worked on both of those birds......The lone dart was not better.....believe it player.....

@@angelmarte6971 I worked on the f-18 , the f-14's on my carrier were fucking shit . The 30 year old a-6's were more reliable

That's why I zoomed out at the end.

same for me

Depends on the loadout and fuel

Barely. It’s no F-15.

@@LTVoyager IF the first cat shot doesn't separate the nose gear from the fuselage with extreme prejudice, how many launch & recovery cycles do you think an Eagle could endure?

@@stephenobrien1505 I didn’t see any carrier in the video and the comment was about thrust to weight ratio.

@@LTVoyager I didn't see any carrier either, and my question was about the Eagle YOU mentioned.