3 Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 323 F/A-18 Hornets takeoff at Portland International Airport {PDX} 

Nothing like 5th-Gen fighters on alert status to get the blood flowing first thing in the moning.

I wonder what time the pilots had to wake up :)

@Ben Chu Thanks. Now I can move on with my life instead of refreshing the browser every 15 minutes.

dang, cool

I understand 110%

just started working on a new hotel near PDX and F15s take off there for training every day. no matter how many times they fly by i cant help but stare, and god damn they sure are loud. They always fly out in pairs

EA-6Bs I would have to say are quite louder, I deal with both 18/EA6 and there is a distinction.

it's not that bad. I live RIGHT BESIDE the runway at CFB Trenton and it's a airshow daily and nightly.

@@justinandersondrivehomerad647 A few years ago when the horizon plane was hijacked in seattle, they scrambled the jets from portland and I was at work. I believe 4 took off and were hauling ass to seattle. When they are not just doing patrol or training, they are STUPIDLY loud. Most of the time, it just drowns out anything else nearby you normally hear but when they take off for a reason, it is deafening.

Wish they’d never shut down El Toro.

I was there with MAG-11, HMS-11 in 1980. I remember when the Black Knights (VMFA-314) got the first F/A-18s in the Corps. What a show that was! It seems everybody in the Corps was there. You could tell the 323 F4s by the two black stripes and white diamonds on their tails. I think they’re flying F-35Cs now.

@@ejs129 They had to. Too bad, right? The jet fuel they dumped back in the day ruined it. I was there in 1981. I considered it one of the best duty stations besides Quantico.

These pilots are trained to concentrate on the action and the needs of flight. They are just "showing the flag" as forces members put it. Just wanting the Portland area to know that if something happened USMC Miramar will send fighters within a surprising amount of time if you cause trouble. Note the Southwest engine failure just now. The woman pilot commentating for the plane just happened to be one of a few American military pilots and she certainly showed her skill and grace in a crisis keeping to standard FAA communications with air traffic control centers until she was safe. that is skill.

It's terrible you can't use missles only guns

Its every kids dream until reality of life kicks in

@@fatherthomas1575 They should have done some show of force over CHAZ

Well they prob feel badass, i know i would. You gotta work hard and be REALLY SKILLED to be a pilot tho, so they deserve it

That is one alarm clock that does not have a snooze button

Thank you, I love seeing the f18s.

Those JET JOCKEYS have the koolist toys.

Those are Bugs, the Cats were retired in 2006. Retired Baby! :)

Yes.

Yes!!!

dude yesterday, I got to flew a f-22 raptor

@@highschoolvlogz889 haha liar

McDonnell Douglas

High bypass ratio = less noise

@@JRAPHAEL0 Obviously that's true (for a number of reasons including acoustic shielding from the bypass stream). I was bringing attention to a distinct effect associated with Lighthill's eighth power law from acoustics.

Their powerful jet engines lack the outer fan ring that surrounds the fast-moving jet stream with a medium-speed ring of air.

@@j.a.3138 They still have it, but the bypass ratio is much much less for military engines

Semper Fi

+SKBenergy thank you

Travis Heck the f15s do . Not these guys

+J Williams thanks for watching. Also this is Portland international airport in Oregon, not Portland international jetport in Maine.

Thank you.

They cut after burners off shortly after take off, so they stack up against each other, all 3 together in no time

@Johnny Rep -Except in Portland. I wish there were more normal people in that city so they would stopping voting the clowns into office who have allowed civil disobedience to happen like this from last week. www.breitbart.com/law-and-order/2021/01/16/watch-protesters-hamstring-portland-police-efforts-to-help-to-armed-suicidal-man/?fbclid=IwAR3uoZMNBvtV_GfxJkYz7faRh6ZWyNdpHnXidGqm9_xXxAe4S7PEkp_4HK4

These are visiting Marines, not the local Air National Guard.

Simple version. F16 single engine fighter bomber. F15C dual engine air superiority fighter. F15E dual engine fighter bomber. F22 is dual engine stealth replacement for F15. F35 is single engine stealth replacement for the F16, F18 and AV8B-harrier. F22 and F35 have "supercruise" capability-can fly supersonic without afterburner. The F16, F15 and F18 need afterburner to fly supersonic. The stealth feature and newer radars of the F22 and F35 give them an advantage making them almost invisible to enemy radar.

I work at this airport. Theres a military hanger at the PDX airport. So seeing these things take off is almost daily thing for us here

I am pleased with how much effort the Australians put to national defense.

Just warning the world that the USMC will see to it Portland is protected in a crisis.

These are NAVY pilots not Marines

“They” indeed do let them. I mean you need an 8000 ft runway to get easily approved, but on weekends we could take the jets to whatever runways people wanted to generally. Would get out training sorties on the way. But unless we had a hometown reason to stop, our selections were to maximize good times off. Our typical weekend flying out of Miramar was PHX, LAS, FAT based on training ranges and good overnights :)

They dream of flying Tomcats.

Thank you

That was their call sign at El Toro. VMFA323 was the Snake Squadron. WS, Whiskey Sierra

VMFA-323 are the Death Rattlers.

I worked there at the FBO for many years and Navy or Marine jets would frequently visit on the weekends conducting several flights

Shyam as a direct answer to your question it takes hard maintenance and difficult logistics to maintain a base of even 3 aircraft at a particular location. Keep in mind the USMC would prefer a commanding officer for a unit including support services to be a former active pilot. Most of the details are classified for good reason but even the most basic needs and mechanical support would multiply mechanical and base support staff quickly with just a few planes.

Must be a military hater. If so leave and go to a better country.

actually its pretty common at PDX

lol yeah Not once in a Life time Thankfully but Exhilarating