6 F-35C Lightning II's from VMFA-314 Black Knights MCAS Miramar. Full afterburner takeoffs from sunset to dark at NAF El Centro. The landing gear is left down as they all do multiple touch and goes to simulate carrier landings at night.
Not only is it an incredible sunset but then add in those awesome burner take off!! Nothing and I mean nothing with one engine sounds anything like the F-35s!!! What a beast!! Great capture!
I just recently found out that MCAS Miramar has activated its second Navy F-35C Squadron, which is stellar. I can't help but feel Fighter Town USA vibes from this. ✌️💯🔥😎🇺🇲
" MCAS Miramar has activated its second Navy F-35C Squadron"(sic) There are no Navy F-35C squadrons at Miramar. VMFA-314 and VMFA-311 are Marine Corps F-35C squadrons not Navy.
1:47 top gun style takeoff and the sunset in the background looks like a shot from the ending of top gun. Wish the Mighty F-14 Tomcats were still flying the skies miss them
Another classic. I'm still rocking out to the "Cool The Engines" video I found here about 16 years ago. Great to see you have been going strong for so many years!
finally seeing F35 with long and watchable afterburner, I thought the thrust was build deeper to conceal the afterburner and maintaining the stealth status
The Black Knights are in town from MCAS Miramar. Dude, this is awesome, as all of your content really is. I look forward to you and Mike keeping everyone up to speed with your productions. This is fantastic. The Charlie is a beauty!! That afterburner, damn!!! 🤩🔥🌀🇺🇲
amazing footage spencer. Miss being out there with you guys filming winter training for the blues and all the other traffic that passes through El Centro
Very interesting video to see. Anytime I would go down to San Diego area I would stop by off of on Harris Plant Rd and would watch the 35's take off with full afterburners at night. Really cool to see an actual video from them taking off up close. Really good video!
No external fuel tanks...need to maximize the internal fuel. Even though they're only heading back to 'San Diego' from El Centro (I'm assuming)...those enormous engines in AB would suck the internals dry VERY quickly.
It’s standard Navy fighter ops. You will notice all afterburning Navy AC do this and it’s for the reason the guy above you mentioned. In the Air Force you can always count on a huge tanker and multiple places to land so they are more liberal with the AB.
That would be the XF-84 Thunderscreech which is powered by a turboprop. The F-35 isn’t anywhere near as loud as the XF-84 which legit made ppl have seizures and shook the air traffic control tower so hard that some of their equipment was malfunctioning. It was also able to be heard 25 miles away while taxiing. For example, you can only hear an F-35 taking off in full AB about 13-18 miles if the conditions are right. Now imagine the noise when the XF-84 goes full throttle
Hey I’m visiting San Diego in a couple weeks and I want to go see the F-35s or F-18s at Miramar. How do you know when they are taking off or doing exercises and stuff? Like is there a schedule or basic hours that they fly or certain days? Thanks!
I live a few miles from Miramar and sunset ops is a cool thing.....hard to not be distracted on the I-15. These are very loud jets and the plane was built around the engine......which is massive.
And his other job at home is on his new lawnmower 🎉 Honey how was your day? Great take out the trash, check the kids ok cuz the dryer is buzzing. [flying is much better]
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Why turn on the afterburner only when taking off? Isn't that a lot of fuel consumption? Is it impossible to take off without turning on the afterburner when taking off?
Landings are more abusive on those landing gears than take offs. Even at long strip like a Nellis, the Navy and Marine land with the equivalent of controlled crash. Air Force landings are silky smooth with the front wheel staying up in the air for a very long time before kissing the tarmac
