US Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet Low Altitude Training

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....and you wonder why the US owes 20 Trillion.

Ah the difference between the men and the boys. The size and price of their toys! Man, to get paid to fly those things. Jealous!

Amazing! Thanks for taking us along for the ride!

Министерство обороны США походу держит под строгим секретом количество авиакатастроф))

i'm curious, for these training flights, do they basically just let the F-18 pilot fly wherever he wants (within a certain territory range) and it's just free flight?

Mama ,I miss her so much

OMG...no room for error.

Rides as rated by screaming skull factor: Marry-Go-Round = 0 skull, kiddy ride roller coaster = 1 Skull, Linus Launcher = 2 skulls, Wipeout = 3 skulls, La Revolucion - 4 skulls, Sol Spin = 5 skulls, Silver Bullet = 6 skulls, Montezooma's Revenge = 7 skulls, medium speed Nap of the Earth jet fighter = 8 skulls, High speed nap of the earth jet fighter = 9 skulls.

I wonder what it sounded like when he is going up those river canyons. I heard a Brit warplane training for the Farnborough Airshow. It sounded like it was ripping apart the sky. Nothing like a commercial airliner or business jet. This will probably be the only way to do stealth in a few years (upcoming radar technologies.)

Click like if Top Gun Maverick brought you here

How much to ride this ride?

Those guys get good money for that.
I'll do it for free !

Great footage! That canyon run was dope!!!

That was nauseating to watch.

In the helicopter world from a ( UH-60 Blackhawk pilot ) this is what we call Nap of the earth (NOE ). Yanking and banking. FYI all roads have wires Welcome to the club

The Hornet is definitely my favorite 4th gen fighter.

For what purpose does the pilot permanently rotate the aircraft? Or he can't keep the plane horizontally?

Yes!

Hope we don't run into each other... Little Cessna country

I don’t even get that low in my Piper Cherokee, haha!

THAT'S AWESOME! I WANT ONE! 😃

SALUTE!🤎💙💚🤗🌟

Amazing!

Imagine being out for a walk on one of those ridges and seeing that thing scream over.

Is his height above the stream bed about 220 feet do you think?

Top Gun 2

Maverick.

Anyone know which river the pilot enters at 3.35?

Some of the footage looked similar to the “ impossible mission run” from TopGun Maverick

Going ballistic, Mav! Go get 'em!

This would easily be one of the most exciting these to do.

The ULTIMATE, quintessential RIDE-along..! Talk about adrenaline rush, IF ONLY…

Amazing DCS has got so realistic :)

Its like the mission in topgun maverick

Seeing real footage, I'm struck both by how well simulators like DCS capture the experience, but also the little things they miss. For one, most such games lack the level of cockpit glare that real fighter jets have. But mainly it's a subtle aspect of the planes move: real planes, weighing as much as they do, have a lot of inertia, and so motion isn't as instant and light as games make it feel. There's a slight delay and period of acceleration when the aircraft is turning that games don't quite seem to get right that drastically impacts how well they capture the experience of flying.

I need data here...how fast at coast aproacg in knots and the average speed in the valleys❤ nice video much love

The Fighter Pilot Podcast has a video of the “Sidewinder Low Level” ending at Jedi Transition that is on the average is better than the best of this video. Actually I think it is better than that new Topgun movie as it is real and not a computer cheat. The highlight is the F-18 threading between the “Needles” on a knife edge. Many times more intense than the “Mach Loop” in Wales!

This reminds me the top gun 2 low altitude scene in the movie

No altimeter tones, "Bitchin Betty" volume was turned down on this rip

Well Done!

That was awesome. Felt like I was in The back seat. Airplane🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Their trained to stay alive. That's why we pay taxes.

what do you think? going through the river canyon, is it for real or is it not. Seems a bit to low to slow for manouvering an f18. Might be wrong.

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