#F35 #cosford F35 Lightning from 617 Sqn to the skies above Cosford on Sunday 9th June 2024 🥇The RAF Cosford Air Show will be the first opportunity to see the aircraft’s brand new role demonstration at a UK Air Show
I was based at Brize during my RAF service in the mid 80s, lived in one of the accommodation blocks up near the NAAFI , fairly close to the airfield and often experienced close up views of aircraft coming in of all types, also had great air shows, probably still do.
Fantastic, that high alpha pass was great. Love to see the flight control computers moving the control surfaces in such an aggressive manner. Great footage 👌
I was at RAF Cosford for this, words can't describe how loud this thing is when in afterburner and especially hover mode. Absolutely ridiculous. Only thing that came close was a Vulcan bomber on full power.
Last month we had a couple of days where a lot of military hardware flew over where I lived, on the way back home to the US after an exercise in Europe. The F-35s where unmistakable. As where the Chinooks
I was also watching the show but unfortunately i had to go before the f35 come out so thanks for uploading my personal favourite was the typhoon its such a cool jet also the chinook was wicked as well as it come right over our heads😅
That’s an impressive display. Saw our variant here in Oz do a display recently. The transition to VTOL is technically impressive. Doing those high speed passes without a/b is testament to the big donk!!
I understand why the F35 is absolutely dominant on a battlefield with its capabilties, but damn, does the Typhon look more fun to fly and watch it doing so....
Very nice Elwyn, it was something else to see first hand, i just wish my hands were steadier while I was filming it, sign me up for lessons when you start them lol😂 ATB Andy
the F35 has fly by wire. That means there are computers between the flight stick and the wing control surfaces. So, pilot: Hold this steady high angle of attack. That makes the flight computers work harder. wind and weather: lots of small gusts of wind blowing over the airframe. And you now trying to balance the fighter on rear engine thrust, but you not flying very fast, are you? So, the control surfaces have to work very hard at what amounts to flying at stall speed. Result? Computer works like mad to fly the fighter in perfect steady and stability. Try looking at the rest of the aircraft and not the rear control surfaces. The result is 100% rock steady flying, but to do that the computers are fighting tiny gusts of wind that would affect how stable the fighter is. Toss in your very nose high, then it becomes a balancing act for the flight computers. So, the control surfaces are trying to do what the pilot is asking - please fly rock steady at a high angle of attack, balance most of the weight on the rear of the fighter. The pilot could NEVER react that fast, but computer controlled flight surfaces can - so computers move the wing surfaces like crazy to provide a perfect stable platform. If there was no gusting wind, then the flight control computers would not have to work so hard to keep the fighter perfect stable. So, this is the result of computers + fly by wire. They are working hard in that shot to keep the fighter balanced VERY high nose up. It not unlike you trying to balance a pencil on the end of your finger - you have to make lots of small and very fast movements. Same thing occurs in a hover - the pilot can even let go of the flight stick, and the fighter will hover EXACTLY at that current spot and location. However, if there is any gusting wind, you see the flight control surfaces and even the rear thrust control nozzle move around like crazy trying to produce a rock steady and solid hover - and one over the exact spot you were hovering over from the ground's point of view. Look VERY close at the hover video - 6:06, pay attention VERY close to HOW VERY FAST the rear nozzle is moving back and forth to create that stable hover - it near "jiggles" back and forth - and again the result of computer fly by wire.
Its all about the Pilot 👍!!! That awesome fighter jet would be only a hunk of lifeless metal without the one at the controls. But yes ! that is one special amazing plane ! Thank you for posting 👍❗
How loud is it compared to a hovering Harrier? I remember from my airshow days how that, the F-101 and the Vulcan bombers were some of the loudest planes at the shows.
I think you'll find that this role demo is the most the RAF have demonstrated in the UK to date! Yes they have demonstrated the hover and done a couple of flypass before but not as much as this
The f-35 has the world's most powerful single-engine fighter the engine produces about 45,000 lb of thrust it would be great if Lockheed made a twin-engine fighter jet using the same engines 👍
@@mknewlan67well the new SR72 is supposed be is a mach 10 aircraft I don't think those would work.. but if they used two it might go mach 3+ then use ram and scam jet for the rest of the way up to mach 10👍
Anybody else ever wondered how stealthy a fighter jet can be when it leaves huge visible vortices every time it turns? Ha haaa. Anyther great video elwyn, many thanks.
Great video thanks 🙏🏻 Apart from the hover the F35B really does appear stodgy in terms of agility. Constant bursts of burner just to turn. Appreciate it’s not a dog fighter but F35A puts up a much more energetic performance. Add to that it’s lower fuel fraction and bomb load and you kinda wonder why we didn’t get some Cs. Oh well!
@@ElwynR I read that the last scheduled USMC Harrier appearance at an airshow was about a month ago, but if you go to Havelock, NC you can probably still see them flying the pattern for another year or two.
Without the technical and financial assistance provided by the US taxpayer via the MWDP, the Pegasus, Kestrel and Harrier never would have made it past the drafting table.
About time they gave people ear radios so they can listen to the commentary and not have to listen to someone prattling on loudspeakers, you are there to hear the noise of the planes not useless information that no one really cares about. With ear pieces you have the choice of listening to the commentary or just watch and listen to the planes with out wearing your ear piece.
In Ben Dunnell - Cosford has one of the best airshow commentators in the business (he can be heard at Duxford, RIAT Fairford etc, he did the later Waddington shows too). If you had 'earpieces' - you'd still be listening to the same commentary, as on the loudspeakers!
Le budget pour cet avion est beaucouo trop élevé. Combien d'avions pour quel prix? Achat, maintenance et surtout un "fil à la patte" avec les USA (je n'ai ruen contre les USA, au contraire). Mais cet avion ne vous rend pas "libre". En cas de conflit chaque perte serait tres très couteuse. A méditer..
The mistakes that were made with the Harrier - primarily the hot gas ingesting compressor stall generating failures of the Pegasus - weren't repeated with the F-35B
Sorry , but this aircraft doesn't do it for me . I just don't like the look of it .................Typhoon , Rafale d Gripen , F 16 , F 18 and F 15 yes ......................F 35 sorry .
Bloody ell… didn’t even go upside down during the first 2 minutes… what a BORING display! No way near as good as they were 20 odd years ago, a shame! Good filming tho!
the F35B the we have bought is the Worst of them All. the F35A, and C variants are miles ahead of the Silly B model? that Huge Door, and folding Doors, are so heavy, and take up so much space, the aircraft has lost, everything that made it worth having the US Marines Corps, said no thanks, when they tried it, and it was built for them, as a AV8B replacement, and they turned it down
"the US Marines Corps, said no thanks, when they tried it, and it was built for them, as a AV8B replacement, and they turned it down"(sic) Complete BS, pogue. Barcalounger cabal experts like you generate a lot of laughs in the ready rooms of all ten Marine Corps F-35B squadrons around the world.
How boring watching aircraft do the same thing just in variations. Would prefer to see cockpit footage. It’s time pilots and authorities got onboard with this.
