MACH LOOP Canadian Air Force F-18 Hornets - 4k 

Would make more sense to have if their TOP canopy’s were tinted/blacked out too 😂

​​@@Av-vd3wkFighter pilots have explained how in a dog fight, those false canopies can indeed work to confuse the enemy.

I’m surprised we still have fighters in the air. That duct tape must be really adhesive.

@@paratrooper8882 We've got Red Green as our chief of maintenance...we're good to go lol

Early marine corps F18s had the false canopy painted on aswell

Indeed 🇨🇦👍

Canada does the traveling antique road show as well as they can because that's the budget they're given. 😉

😂

@@FirstLastOne you really need an education

@@alpearson9158 Would an education improve Canada's available aircraft? Surely you didn't miss the point did you?

I remember many years back. There was a significant number of CF-18's crashing during training. I heard it was because their combat training was so intense.

@@iblockpuncheswithmyface1490 Dude, it is, and they are psycho when their put their game face on, I swear! I went to an airshow in Alberta and the commander who flew that day came down the deck at 20meters high at 590 knots, and went full up vertical with full afterburners and he almost broke the sound barrier but it was the most insane thing I have ever seen a Hornet do!!! Full on respect for all fighter jocks man, because the punishment those aircraft put their bodies through must be nothing less than life shortening! There was an American A-10 pilot and his warthog there for the same day and even he simply shook his head walking back to his aircraft. that was one of the best airshows I have ever been to!

​@@oculusangelicus8978I hear the infantrymen are just as nuts. Doing jobs everyone else is too scared to do.

@@iblockpuncheswithmyface1490 Well, the Canadian troops were the ones assigned to do it by the British commanders in WW1 and WW2 because of two factors, 1. the Canadians were a breed apart from regular infantrymen, and had a drive to succeed no matter the challenge and second, the British officers sent the Canadians in because they didn't want to sacrifice their own troops, shameful if you ask me, but to their surprise and chagrin, the Canucks always managed to succeed. The German were scared to death of meeting Canadian special forces because they knew that if they weren't given an specific order to bring back prisoners, none of the Germans would likely survive. The Germans called them the black devils because they were every bit as hard core as fighting the devil himself and were on a level equal in tenacity with the Waffen SS. Ever since 2014 Canadians, because we didn't have the money to give to them, began to train and teach the Ukrainians how to fight properly, and today no one is ever going to pick a fight with the Ukrainians any time soon, and that is because we sent many Canadians spec forces over there and taught them how to really fight. After what has happened in Ukraine, no one will ever think to underestimate the fighting prowess of Ukrainians ever again. Because the Canadian military is so poorly funded, we have had no choice but to learn to compensate for the lack of top tier equipment with fierce fighting spirit, and the will to take as many of the enemy down before they themselves fall, and for the major part, we have been very successful at it. I was a member of the Calgary King's own Armored regiment reserve unit for a time in my youth. I wish we had the Leopard 2 like we do now, back then!

@@iblockpuncheswithmyface1490 World class snipers too.

The best fighter? Yeah tink? Save me... Ready?.... It;s....the one in the air.... the 35?...save me...this the ittle witch that can't.

I hope so too! Thanks for watching

@@DafyddPhillipsSoon Canadians will be getting the F-35s as well. the deal was made late last year or early this year.

Lived in Comox when they were at CFB Comox before leaving for Cold Lake Alberta.

Thank you. Thanks for watching.

Canada does the traveling antique road show as well as they can because that's the budget they're given. Painting a faux canopy on the underside is what one might call 'confusion camo' 😉

@@FirstLastOne lol, "antique' roadshow is very diplomatic. Canada was part of the original F35 partnership. They we cancelled because the new boss has no clue. Then he pissed around for 5 or 6 years years and finally now we're back at the end of the line to see if we can get some too. In the meantime I think Australia is selling us their old antiques as they take delivery of their shiny new toys.

@@FirstLastOne As an Aussie I've still a soft spot for the Hornet. Miss seeing that in the skies here. Probably the best looking of all the 4th + Gen jets.

​@@rreiter Canada will be getting Block 4. Australia, and other early buyers might get stuck with the most expensive advanced trainers ever built.

Many thanks 👍

@@DafyddPhillips Out of interest - do the aircrew ever contact you for copies of these as souvenirs? I can imagine some of the US guys would rather like a framed print on the wall when they get home 🙂

@@copperfield3629yes, some pilots occasionally get in touch for some high res pics. Always Happy to send them 👍

Many thanks

Glad you like them, thanks for watching 👍

@@DafyddPhillips I'm looking forward to your next work.

Canada hasn’t received any of its F-35s yet, first ones are supposed to arrive in 2025.

Thanks Steve. Yes, they are great looking jets ✈️👍

Excuse me BOTH? We have 2 WORKING ones???

@@hueyrosayaga We must - or at least did at the time Dafydd shot the video - because there's two in frame at the same time.

Heard them last week in Cold Lake.

@@hueyrosayaga I mean we definitely did at one point as this video proves!

Hahaha wish that was a joke! LOL it actually is...but when compared with how many the USA still operates even though they are on their way out the door, it might as well be 2! LOL I often hear them out in the North East sector of Alberta doing their thing (I'm a professional driver), and playing with those ultra expensive fighter jets like they were their own personal ride! Not too long ago a couple came by Edmonton and did a flyover the Edmonton Elks stadium for the Battle of Alberta with the Calgary Stampeders. That Stadium is right next to my house! You always perk up your ears when you hear those twin F404-GE-400 turbo fans screaming their low pitch howl in the air. You always know that there's no way that THAT is a civilian aircraft when you hear them, and make a b-line for the nearest window!!! LOL

Glad you like them, thanks!! 👍

Thanks Chris, appreciated 👍

My pleasure, thanks for watching

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching Alex 👍

apparently at risk with the likely government change

​@alpearson9158 Unlikely. If we get a change in government, it will be the Conservatives who will win and they wanted to buy the F35 when they were last in power in the early 2010s (luckily we didn't end up with the early block #s). When the Liberals came in in 2015-16, they canceled the early F35 order by the Conservatives, only to end up choosing the F35 again last year. In a way that worked out because we get a more advanced version with some of the early issues now resolved.

Back in 2019 I was at the airshow in Greenwood NS. The Blue Angels last year flying the Hornet before shifting to the Super Hornet. I always get the shutterbug/media pass good for four days of flying. Those Blue Angel ground crew were so busy with worn out aircraft that by Saturday the first public show they had the media aircraft and spare in the show and had robbed the two down aircraft of parts to keep the third trouble maker flying. The hours on those airframes is much higher than on Canadian Hornets which is why they were replaced in 2020. My hats off the the ground crews, they refused to allow the show to be modified at all. Now they fly Super Hornets which comes with it's own issues I understand thanks to so many of them being used as tanker aircraft during their life which drove up flight hours at sea. They have a smaller number of airframes to draw from so it's likely they will fly the later version for fewer years than the Legacy model.

@@jacrain9396 The Typhoon would have been better for Canada than the F-35.

@@cryptohunt2552 Why do you say that? Canada has a small air force, so each of those planes need to be the best of the best. Stealth is indispensable both offensively and defensively, and add to that the F35 has the best radar/sensors and gives the pilot unmatched awareness of the battlefield. Yeah the Typhoon has greater range, but that's what tankers are for, and it's not much cheaper as I understand it. It may even require more maintenance hours given 2 engines. The typhoon is good, but it's still 4th(or 4.5) gen. With less than 100 fighters, we can't afford to be operating fighters that will increasingly only be on par or slightly ahead of what potential opponents can throw at them.

Thanks Jacob 👍

Always a pleasure to watch this channel but pretty cool to see our CF-18s. (from British Columbia)

They are on exercise over here.

Thanks nick 👍

Thanks Stephen!, as long as you enjoyed the experience of seeing and hearing the jets that’s good. Catch up soon ✈️👍

The Hornet is an embiggened F-5. Some day I'd like to start with a Super Hornet but end up with a Super P-700. If you're a Hornet fan you'll probably find the Northrop P-700 (aka N/D-102) interesting. It's another member of that same design lineage. Northrop's -530 was almost a Hornet, it lost weight to become the -610/Cobra; McDonnell Douglas Model 267 ended up resembling an updated and navalized -530. Northrop submitted a significantly redesigned evolution as one of the Eurofighter proposals. The -700 looks like a Hornet's fuselage with a single tail and a tailless trapezoid wing configuration.

Thanks Scott, we occasionally het some classic jets through the loop but don’t know if any ww2 warbirds looping in recent years. A spitfire would be great ! 🤞

Approx 500knots.

Thanks for watching. It’s great to have your hornets over here 🇨🇦✈️👍

@@DafyddPhillips Canadian apologies if they shed any parts over the lovely Welsh countryside! 😂

A pleasure and thanks for watching ✈️✈️👍

Thanks roger 👍

It's still a formidable fighter jet to this day what a brilliant design

Thank you.

Thanks Lewis, hope you get lucky!! ✈️✈️🤞

unlike others they are actual working birds

Thanks for watching. 👍

Many thanks

Thank you.

@@DafyddPhillips I used to think, when Grumman was still on Long Island, that he Intruder was their favorite, even over the Tomcat. More in keeping with their heritage, plus the Tomcat was a nightmare to build. Plus the Intruder could blow the deck crew folks around

Bet they were great times jules. Thanks for watching

@@DafyddPhillips They were Dafydd but we certainly knew when the USAF had a day off, we went quiet for the day!! 😁🥱

Thank you!, hi mom was in Death Valley 🇺🇸✈️👍

Thank you ✈️🇨🇦👍

Thank you ! The dirtier they look the better in my opinion. Will have more footage of them in a day or two 🇨🇦👍

@@DafyddPhillips These are CF-18s from the 425 Allouettes " Je te plumerai " ( I pluck you ) from the Bagotville base in Saguenay where I live, I'm really happy that you captured them well. I can't wait to see when you capture them again. Thanks, Bye!

Yes 742 is a 425 aircraft but it's 433 squadron borrow some aircraft from 425 to be in UK for the deployment .

@@problemodude Thank you for the information, I didn't know about aircraft loans between squadrons. We will eventually run out of aircraft before the CF-35s arrive. Lol! Salut!

@@carolfortin1457 That's just a chance for the RCAF will become the best DCS players in the world.

Thanks for watching Alex 👍

Apologies for that. I mentioned the hornets in the title for their rarity in the Mach loop. We had some great passes from the f35s yesterday. I’ll post the video in a few days. Thanks for being here ✈️✈️👍

Happy you enjoyed it.

Thank you.