RIAT 2023 FINLAND F-18 PULLING INCREDIBLE G-FORCES 4K 

7 years US Navy aviation electrician and attached to F/A-18 C hornet with tons of flight deck experience. I have watched endless airshows on the beach and at sea (supersonic low altitude flyby) and this is the most impressive flight demo of a legacy hornet I have seen. Very cool.

Finnish F18 never disappoints. No one else can make a non thrust vectoring plane do what thrust vectoring can do. That slow flat spin was beautiful to watch

With Kapteeni Henri Toppari at the controls, an F/A-18 looks capable of giving a Raptor, or its ilk, a run for the money. Brilliant Demo, caught brilliantly.

Minutes 2:14 to 2:22, what the hell was that?. Actually the best performing jet in 0 airspeed conditions. Those elevators are gold such a great responsiveness and super powerful in pitch control. Great display, Finnish pilots know very intimately their mounts.

Having the spatial awareness to do that confidentially is a gift very few men have. Superb again Dafydd, well done Sir. Never favoured the Hornet of all the teen series, might have to rethink seeing that. Love the Finnish flag on the air brake.

Incredible display! I've never seen an F18 flown to that level. I honestly didn't think an aircraft of that generation was capable of such a thing.👏🤯

Did anyone notice him waving to the crowd during the high alpha pass at 5:37 That guy may well be the best Hornet pilot of all time.

I thought the Finland flag coming up on the airbrake was a neat touch!

I've seen plenty of Hornets in action. This demonstration displayed something I was not aware that the Hornet was capable of. Very awesome.

I used to live in an area where Finnish air forces did their training. I was used to seeing displays like this weekly. The term "knife fight in a phone booth" is an apt description for what I saw. It as quite amazing to watch the F-18's defy gravity as they turned and tumbled in tight circles at low speeds in the sky. Occasionally they would break off and gather some speed and then start again. The noise was incredibly loud and the windows at our house would shake. It was quite different to how Mig-21 and Drakens fought. Their circles were much larger but the speeds they flew were also higher. Good times.

This is the best demo I have ever seen. The F 18 is truly awesome as is the pilot. Just perfect..😊

Take a good 4th gen plane and a very skilled Finn pilot and you can see much of the same flying that is bragged about with the Su57. This Finn pilot is truly skilled. And now he is in NATO! Bravo Finland.

Great video! ❤ I went to Turku Air Show last month and I have to say I'm proud of our pilots 🇫🇮

@2:12-2:25. Wow, never seen a move like that! Respect for both man and machine 👍👍

We went to RIAT for the first time this year, and I was really looking forward to seeing F18 and other jets, and F18 really gave us goosebumps! I felt like a thrilled little boy!

This display shocked me honestly, had no idea the hornet was that agile

I was at RIAT on the Saturday & I honestly think this was the loudest plane there! Remarkable 😎

one of the better hornet demos ive seen wow. The Finnish Flag on the speed break is an awesome touch

Yeah, fins never cease to amaze me. Car handling and now Fighter jet maneuvers. Wondering how they made F-18 do this. Never seen it with any american jet.

The angle of attack the Hornet can pull is ridiculous. That's a fantastic jet that I feel like is very underrated nowadays. I remember a Swedish Gripen pilot saying that of all the fighters he went up against, the Hornet is the most scary in a dogfight.

One hell of a pilot

I'm so proud of our boys! Truly hats off!

I can't wait to see these guys fly F35 in few years!

I'm clapping... and I wasn't even there. Wow. Perfection.

OMG! 0:55+ Had to rewind & watch that crazy manoeuvre several times 😳. Never seen a fighter jet do a headstand before. And 2:38 - I thought only alien spacecraft & dragonflies were supposed to be capable of 90° instant turns…

Fighter jock élan: puttering along in a high alpha pass, trembling on the edge of a stall, while waving to the crowd. Brilliant. 😃🤙🏼 Thanks, Daf!

I love this noise but once I was in Finnish military exercise and our tent was 100 meters away from nine F/A-18s. 0600 in the morning mechanics started to heat up motors one-by-one... NO NEED to set up alarm clock.... :X

Impressive plane, impressive display.....I'm impressed ;-)!

The F-18 Hornet looks like an X-Wing fighter on planet Earth! 💪

Excellent camera work there, thank you. Seen the F-18 a few times, never ceases to amaze.

That loaded roll at 0:47 was awesome.

Our pilots been trained pretty well :)

Awesome video as usual; I too was amazed at some of the maneuvers!!

I got to watch one of the last shows the Blue Angels put on in the Legacy Hornet. It was incredible, but nothing beats a solo demo when they really push the aircraft. Great video!

I did my military service targeting these guys and the flying was exceptional. Can't wait to see what these guys come up with the F35 in a few years.

G!!! Thrilling from start to Finnish! Crackin footage fella!

Thank you for another wonderful video. I really like it where there are clouds so you can really see the slip angle of the plane. It really shows the amazing performance of the plane and control of the pilot . 0:53 is a perfect example....you could never see that with a perfect blue sky.

And that positive G levelling off at the beginning...that's gotta hurt.

I enjoyed that camera work. I even saw the pilot waving, haha. The ballet was pretty amazing...those eerie slow spins are somehow most fascinating.

Impressive and just awesome. Shows what we can be capable of when technology is appropriately matched with human piloting skills!

Finns know how to do the Top Gun stunts

I can't believe i missed this! I would have loved to be there

That was impressive.

Since the Swiss werent there, the Finns had to represent for the vintage Hornet - and he did well 😊

6:52 - 7:10 dang it , that was great!!!

The Finnish defence force have uploaded a video from the cockpit of this display if anyone is interested: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LTq1O-19rm0.html

That dude can fly.

Nothing turns like the Classic (legacy) Hornet!

One reason why I like planes and jets is that their flying is the biggest "fuck you" move towards gravity. Especially skilled flyings like these make's it look like the pilot is constantly mocking gravity.

Mind-blowing!!! 🤯👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

So privileged to build these sexy birds. So sad that last of the supers will be rolling off the line next year.

Drifting in a fighter jet. Brilliant. 👌

LOVE IT!!!

Cracking display. If I remember haven't both the Finns and Swiss upgraded their F18's to zero angle of attack making them really agile

Howdy Big E! Okay that fella is smoking and drifting ! Imagine another fighter with them and it’s a real dogfight! Great shots! 🤠🇺🇸🇨🇱🥃

Imagine showing this footage to WW2 era pilots. They would think its alien technology

I do not think a life insurance agent will ever consider these pilot his next customer.

And that was just a Hornet, not a Super Hornet. Imagine what this pilot is capable of at the controls of a more advanced fighter.

I love the way the hornet looks different in the air compared to most western fighters. Everything screams not only high-G, but also high-alpha. You don´t see that on most western fighters.

Ohh, wow! Beautiful!

Speachless ! wow

at 4:33 "the cobra"

Such an impressive and stunning aerial display of the F/A-18C Hornet performing those jaw dropping moves 😎👍

Respect

Very cool! 😎👌

waaaauw! super many thanks! those rolls are.a bit of a signature 'trait' of that pilot :) very cool display. AND VERY WELL FILMED! caught it all in prisine detail :D thank yous!

Camera work almost as impressive as the flying. 👍

Hi Dafydd, awesome footage, mate!! This F18 is astonishing to watch the way it pushes into the banking, and the manoeuvrability is amazing, fair play to that pilot!👌 Great display!!.. just out of curiosity Dafydd did you manage to get a video of that Replica Messershidt Me262?..Great video as always mate!👍📸..Regards Paul

Excelente demostacion de dominio y control de este piloto, realmente me sorprendio en un F-18 tan altas cargas G de Manera consecutiva y precisa incluyendo la "patada y palanca" muy bien.

Komiaa. Awesome.

Similar display as a Rafale, kudos to the pilot o7

Awesome.... ❤

Very nice.l

Wowee

Well done pilot🫡

Well done Dafydd! 👏

As a rule, the army never provides real data about machines, they are usually underestimated. We all know why. And the Hornet, a beautiful machine. I'm not surprised by its capabilities - the name obliges. Hornet.

for a few moments I felt in the air Dafydd...thanks 🤩

Setting an entry level for the new Finnish pilots in NATO.

♥🔥

The genius of this cobra neck, or whatever it's called, is that plane is not changing center of lift before during and after the turn. Does take a little skill to fly tho.

Kapteeni Henri Topparilla on homma hanskassa.

🤘

Những người phi công lão luyện bay biểu diễn trong rất đẹp mắt rất tuyệt...👍

Yah brilliant. I reckon that hornet was lean too...like bingo fuel on final!

Considering our typhoon is supposed to be more maneoverable the F16 and F18 make it look obsolete.great filming by the way .

Back in 2011 after the Hornet solo I heard an aviator of either USAF or USN saying in surprise: A Hornet can do that?!

Can't thank you enough, Dafydd.

Shoot, I could pull that many Gs on my bicycle! When I land after riding off a 200 foot cliff. 😁

Freedom deliver from Finland 😎

That's a spicy bicycle.

Incredible!

neat by the way FINLAND JUST ORDER 64 f-35 s to replace there f-18s

Những người phi công con cưng của đất nước, Vì dân quên mình... tuyệt vời 👍

While most engagements would obviously happen beyond visual range, this is still impressive display 🙂

It's bad weather again. Wish this was in Finland.

6:22 Knife edge

Nice shooting! 40x lens? Or longer?

Compared to a flanker or a mig 29 varient, the hornet looks like a kitchen utensil. But it will hang with a flanker on the 1 circle..so hell yea steak knife..!!!

That was insane.......................