F-15 Eagle & Testing Typhoon | w/ Craig Penrice 

As an American I say, thank you for your time, expertise and professionalism.Long live the Queen, long live our friendship.

What an awesome bloke. Besides having flown a small airforce, he also adopted three kids

I served as an armourer on 11Sqn 84-88 and fitted Craig's ejection seat!! My wife (also an armourer) had just bay-serviced it! Family business or what?

Love the way he just drops in at the end that he's flown a mig 29. What a career. Legend

2 ejections, Lightning, Hunter, T-38A, T-2, F-15, F-14, F-16, Hornet, P-51, Typhoon, MiG-29... that's a blessed career if I ever heard of one.

You just have to love the way he plays down everything, his very humble experience flying hundreds and hundreds of hours on almost everything that mattered back in his day and the amazing strokes of luck he had in his career including the ones that saved his life. I hope there never is an RAF without Scots because that'd be a tragedy.

What an aircraft stud. I could listen to this guy for hours. As an American, it sure is good having the U.K. as an ally, and having such skilled pilots and amazing aircraft on our side.

What an a amazing career. The USAF hit the lottery getting this guy for a time. This channel is hitting the aviation lottery.

I for one recognize the pride the British Electric Lightning was for the English. It was so fast, and was so unique and beautiful.

Tomcats. Eagles, Vipers, Bugs, Lightnings, Typhoons.....man, this guy flew everything worth flying back in the day! It'd be a dream just to see that many up close, let alone fly them :D

I did not know Craig personally, but in the mid-1980s I was a Fighter Control officer at RAF Staxton Wold, near Scarborough and control of the Lightnings was our bread and butter. I was controlling Craig when he banged out. He also mentioned intercepting a Learjet which had depressurised, similar to the Payne Stewart incident, the crew believed to be dead through hypoxia. I was on duty at RAF Boulmer that day, although not controlling the QRA and it was the only time that I was aware of orders being passed to shoot down an aircraft if it started to fall out of the sky over the UK mainland. I understand that it ran out of fuel over the North Atlantic.

This gentleman... A one of a kind. I look up to him the same way I look up to astronauts.

What a career legend of the sky flying all these incredible machines

How did I miss this amazing interview. What a career and fab array of Aircraft. Lightning, F15 and Tyhoon. Wow!

My father was a surgeon at RAF Ely and I was a patient there, I remember a pilot being brought into my ward who had broken bones after ejecting from his aircraft. Who knows, it may have been Craig.

It’s awesome that the UK and US are such great friends and partners especially considering past history and yet they are able to work together and in this situation get Mr. Penrice the training he needed to become the best test pilot he could be while providing the UK with someone who could help them build the best possible versions of their aircraft. They many to build an amazing aircraft as a result. Just goes to show that enemies can become best friends one they get past their egos. It’s great that that same relationship exists with Canada and Australia. Thank you Mr Penrice for your service to both the UK and US. God Bless!

What a career!

Thanks Craig,what a career,I was in hospital with a graduate of The Test Pilot School at Boscombe Down,Squ Ldr Peter Collins,he’d flown 119 different types of aircraft during his career including Dassault Rafale,I bet Craig knew Peter,Both great aviators.

His story needs to be made into a movie! Awesome dude!

Thanks to the UK for being such a great friend through the years. Like people, the USA and UK have occasional differences, but in the end both can count on the other when needed.

"Well, this isn't going to end well".... typical RAF pilot understatement! :D

This pilot is another worthy candidate for the skilled aviators hall of fame!

This channel has a ridiculously low subscriber rate for such great content. Anyone who liked this should tell some like minded friends

Hey,I thought I was the only one that his iconic airplane was the buccaneer but this MAN s took me by surprise.awesome career ,respect

the guy has mad skills, much respect.

I felt the excitement when he mentioned the P51 what a great life he has had

One of the best interviews I’v watched, what an amazing life this guy has had so far, definitely lived some of my dreams.

Fascinating stories he told, much respect! And all the more interesting due to my tiny role in the Typhoon programme (avionics development at Warton).

Amazing man, so humble about his achievements .......could listen to this man talking honestly and from the heart all day, thank you for the upload, fantastic. What a career , just finished reading Captain Eric "winkle" Browns book which is just as breath taking when you consider the aircraft he flew, once again thank you for this upload.

such down to earth gentleman

Fantastic man! You could not make his life story up. A Boys' Own comic hero and an excellent communicator to boot.

Wow amazing career and story. Thanks for sharing

Thanks for this, seems like a good bloke to have a beer with. On a side note, why on earth are people downvoting this video????

Holy moly...the list of aircraft this guy has flown is astounding

What a great channel this is, I love listening to the experiences of the people who have flown these aircraft.

Balanced interview. He felt comfortable

Excellent interview, well done.

Great bloke what a pleasure to watch and what a great career he had for himself 👍

I love how he says they let me fly the P-51 as the carrot to keep them interested...flying that WW11 bird is a dream of most of the later generation of aviators...

I love the Royal Navy Buccaneer. Such an awesome Navy interceptor/bomber. Classy like a Jaguar or a MG. Classic British design

Great interview with Craig.

This career was made when the western world still held together - we were unbeatable then.

Again more interesting stories, I’m glad he survived to recall.👍👍👍

What an amazing guy... inspirational

Top notch presentation

The best aviation interview I've ever seen. What a lucky man, and the right man for the job. Fascinating video!

What an interview.

What a great interview, fascinating stories. And thanks to the interviewer for just letting the subject talk.

What great stories. Those early MB seats with the face blind were notorious for back injury since pulling the handles down can so easily put you in exactly the wrong posture for what comes next. For shame I can't remember if there was a manual separation lever, but it was a long time ago. When I was at A2E2 in around 1990 a Mig-29 arrived from the Former East Germany. The pilot told me he'd ejected several times, all due to catastrophic engine failure. Probably just as well then that Craig didn't make it into the 29 cockpit or he might well have had yet another disparity between numbers of take-offs and landings in his logbook.

There's a fine Cornish surname; Penrice. Fascinating interview. Thank you very much!

So very interesting, we are so lucky for these wonderful people make sure things work correctly, all the hours of paperwork, the effort put in is staggering. Thankyou SIR. 👍👍👍

Great questions asked during this interview, and the humility of the British fighter pilots is really refreshing.

watched it from beginning to end very very interesting

WHAT A GREAT BLOKE!!!!!!

My god! This is no joke, the amount of aircraft he has piloted. Unreal, glad he teaching our guys.

This man and Eric 'Winkle' Brown, wow. Lions Rampant

Interesting to hear about the Typhoon performance and climb rate relative to other jets, the F15 in particular. Surprising!

Brilliant interview great down to earth guy

One of the most impressive pilot careers I've ever heard of. And fun! What a huge bless! And he doesn't seem to be a tiny bit cocky (which would be quite understandable).

This was amazingly interesting. Thank you for sharing.

Love to hear stories like this from our UK brothers across the pond 🇺🇸🇬🇧 Wow what a amazing career! Getting to fly all those iconic fighters including the P-51 what a treat. Thank you for helping us train our pilots and everything you have done for us we appreciate you

Great, interesting interview. What a lucky guy.

Good to hear you Craig. Thanks for keeping the averages down for the rest of us 😀

Captivating to listen to this guy..... What a legend.... And not a dick when he is talking about what he has done.

Awesome interview, very interesting. Great to hear from someone who's flown such a variety of amazing aircraft.

Awesome man and interview!

It sounds like he attended TPS at NAS Pax River, when talking about becoming a test pilot.

My grandfather grew up with James Martin, inventor of the ejector seat, who developed a feel for engineering and an ingrained altruism by attempting to automate farm machinery for his widowed mother.

Much respect. Verical take offs = Dusting the Runway.

love the way he says "oh P51 mustang" 🙂

WOW HES FLOWN SOME GREAT PLANES!

What a genuinely interesting and humble guy Craig is. Hugely impressive resume, needs to write a book or have his career video documented. Three of a number of my favourite aircraft feature in my top 10, Hawker Hunter, such an elegant design. English Electric lightning devastating power for its era and beyond and Typhoon under appreciated in my view with all the bluster of US stealth fighters etc. Typhoon has to be one of the very best ever made. As much as I loved watching the lightning go vertical it must be appreciated that the Typhoon is a much more powerful aircraft with an appreciably Higher thrust to weight figure and therefore climb rate. However one top trump stays with the lightning at least 70,000ft, I believe there are stories of Hale getting up to 80,000ft that is just amazing.

What a career! Great stuff.

super guy , not have been near a typhoon but have been under a lightening when it vertical and disappearing from sight , the typhoon must be a real rocket ship

Bless you.

This man had a dream job

Certainly’ what a career and what an interview. I really enjoyed it to the tops. My hat off to this type of air jockeys that are not longer in service. Nowadays is a different breed. One of my favourite interviews so far in AI channel.

That 9" of water saved his life. What an understated dude.

Absolute legend :)

The man is from my neighborhood... give or take 200 years. I like him already. Thanks, Mike for another great show.

Fascinating interview. Thank you.

Superb video,thanks guys

Typically British person. Understated. Absolutely enjoyed this chat. Quite a wild career.

Excellent interview.

Fantastic insight of a military pilot and the vast experience on various aircraft..and not bitter after his flying career curtailed due to his injury. 👍

Highly interesting! Thanks! Fighter pilots strikes me as being very clever and well balanced people in general. I guess they have to be.

Excellent interview! I thought it was going to be too long but I found myself watching it through to the end. Well done!

Super interesting and insightful!

Greatness!

Respect for this man 👊😎

Really enjoyed that!

Great interview!

This guy really motivates you to work hard! Fascinating interview and a fantastic guy!

What a great interview! A very engaging guy to listen to, loved his stories and thoughts on the various aircraft he's flown, very interesting, I feel a live Q&A coming up soon 😉 well done for a stonking interview again Mike !

Great to hear these positive comments on the Typhoon. I knew she was a killer system.

Very good interview, and lots of interesting experiences and respect, right up until 41:25.

Brilliant story. A true hero

Enjoyed that, thanks.

What a great interview! Many thanks!

Awesome interview!