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When your instructor first flew the canyon in an F-100 you know he is the REAL DEAL! Amazing!

Awesome video! I was one of the photographers out at that canyon that day. Cool to see it from this perspective.

@Hug_life

Ай бұрын

What days and times would you recommend going out there ??

16:15 the older instructor pilot, "warman", did a barrel roll after the canyon run. that was nuts lmaooo

@thenikonjones

4 ай бұрын

I do it in the sim all the time! :)

This seems like an exciting and adventurous aviation event, flying through Star Wars Canyon. Safety and situational awareness are paramount in such low-level flights.

excellent footage and editing! can't wait to do the canyon run myself!

Very nice perspective on that canyon flight.

Fantastic Neo & Warman !

Awesome video, Great to see the amazing views in STAR WARS Canyon.

Epic!! Great job guys everything was flown on-point! And 250kts always seems faster on video!

Beautiful!! Thank you

I love that the FAR's give enough flexibility to be able to do this stuff, when done safely.

Amazing. Best video you have made. Hands down. Thank you.

@A1FAHx

8 ай бұрын

That’s affirmative! 😉👍

Lots of great people in this video!

Incredible video, I always look forward to your content!

Great video. Thanks for sharing your adventure!

love the shots of the pilot manipulating the stick

So so cool! Goosebumps here ❤❤

Thank you for sharing that!

This was super awesome to watch!!!

Spent a day there in August of 2017. It was 117 degrees out there that day but was so worth it! I got some amazing photos of VFA-14 Super Hornets, VX-9 Growlers, 416th F-16D, Marine F/A-18Cs, a C-17 over the top and wrapped up with the F-15SA from Edwards!!! Will never forget it!

GREAT VIDEO!!! Very well done!

@SoCalFlyingMonkey

8 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

Great video! That was really fun to watch. Thanks

@SoCalFlyingMonkey

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Thanks guys, from an old vet.

Very cool flying, great editing and a dream job, just a shame you weren’t in the back seat!

Such an awesome video!

@SoCalFlyingMonkey

8 ай бұрын

Thank you!!

Man this was great

@SoCalFlyingMonkey

8 ай бұрын

Thanks man!!!

Best video of this type of flying. Wow!!

@SoCalFlyingMonkey

8 ай бұрын

I really appreciate that thank you

Great Video!

Wow!!! Super great! Excellent cinematography!!!! Best Aviation Video Award 2023!

@SoCalFlyingMonkey

8 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot!

Fun video. Great editing.

@SoCalFlyingMonkey

6 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!

I've flown an L-39 and they are absolutely so fun to fly. While I've not done the Star Wars Canyon, I have flown the "Finger Lakes 100 ft Deck" run - in the Vandy 1.

Grand Master Yoda of aviation videos you are 🙇‍♂️

Great footage! Eric, did you consider doing an extended intro similar to "Spaceballs" with the never ending L-39? Probably would add another 2-3 minutes of video time but would be hilarious! LOL

@SoCalFlyingMonkey

8 ай бұрын

yeah that would have been funny... :)

Looking at the title, I thought this was a joke and the video would be flying the family through the LAX corridor. Wow, was I amazed that this was more than even the title could express. Fantastic video! Epic!

@SoCalFlyingMonkey

8 ай бұрын

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!!!

I see what you did there with the intro… Love it. I hate Star Wars but that was fire 🔥!

TAKE ME, TAKE ME !😁 ... Thats just so COOL !.

I can already hear Poppins saying "No."

Awesome video. I can't wait to get my private pilot license.

awesome

Hey I was there :)

FAB.

Why was the computer monitor / video screen for the safety brief blurred?

@SoCalFlyingMonkey

6 ай бұрын

At the request of the event organizer so no one would try it on their own.

did you get a approval to run the Star Wars intro banner? lol.. anyways.. that looks like so much fun

This is so cool!

So what, Saturdays, Sundays and holidays to deconflict with military use?

@SoCalFlyingMonkey

7 ай бұрын

Military isn’t allowed that low in the canyon anymore…

@phila3884

7 ай бұрын

Interesting. I'm sure the accident had something to do with it.

Has the military started allowing below the rim runs into Star Wars Canyon after the F-18 crash? I thought those restrictions were still in place. Hope I'm wrong!!

@83Westwind

8 ай бұрын

Military has a altitude cap

@speedbrake

8 ай бұрын

Last I heard the military was limited to 1000 feet above the rim (maybe it's been lowered since then). This was a non-military flight so no military restrictions applied.

❤

Evo was a hacker and now owns a jet?

Ruskov buggies flying down the canyon. 😂😚🤪

Any X-Wings in formation?

@chrisschack9716

8 ай бұрын

I'd hate to see the arguments about who gets to be Red 5...

Really cool video. I'd love to sit in on a canyon run at some point. As always, great video, great story!

0:00 I don't know how I'm going to flying an L39 through my home

The video was missing those nice, long shots of the canyon going by. Too much jumping around from one angle to another.

@SoCalFlyingMonkey

Ай бұрын

When you make a video for everyone to watch for free on KZread you can include those shots! LOL

WHY are you claiming that the L-39 is a “fighter jet”? It clearly is not. Oh that’s right, the lie sounds cooler and gets more clicks than “trainer jet”.

@SoCalFlyingMonkey

8 ай бұрын

its a movie dude. relax. have some fun. (but also, the L39 did fly combat missions in a light attack role along with being used as a trainer. )

Why are you all wearing masks?

@speedbrake

8 ай бұрын

Warman wears one out of habit (Air Force). Other advantages: if you get smoke in the cockpit, you can turn on oxygen and continue to breathe; if you're pulling high G's you can use oxygen for increased G tolerance and better mental performance; if you have a depressurization event, you can remain conscious; and if you suffer a bird strike, the mask can cushion your face from direct impact from the bird.

@KuostA

3 ай бұрын

so is the oxygen always flowing, or only when u turn it on, or only when u draw in a breath, or how does ethat work? @@speedbrake

@speedbrake

3 ай бұрын

@@KuostA Normally oxygen is only flowing when it's turned on, and when you're breathing in - that's what the regulator does. Similar to a scuba diving regulator. There's also an emergency setting where you can have it free flow, which might be useful in a situation like smoke in the cockpit. For the flight in this video, we didn't have oxygen turned on at all, because we didn't need it (we weren't flying high enough to need it). But Warman's microphone is in his mask, so he has to wear it to use his microphone.

Can you make the subtitles optional? I deal with them by pushing them off the bottom of the screen. They are just a distraction. Swapping between the briefing and the flight, also may be great editing and production, but it just makes me skip the briefing. And in the end, it's like a modern action film, or an episode of top gear. There's so much cutting backwards and forwards and from inside to outside that there's no continuity. Sorry, great video production, but for me the final product sucks. I am sure you had a great day, but with the inline adverts and the broken timeline the overall effect for me is not a channel I would continue to follow. And as I watch the end... the too loud music? I'd rather hear the jet. Unsubscribed.

@SoCalFlyingMonkey

8 ай бұрын

the cool thing about art is that it's subjective. I had a great time shooting and editing this. Sorry it didnt land for you, but also... not sorry at all. :)

@mikegreene4152

8 ай бұрын

Wow, even though all this content is free, you just can't please some people. Great video, please keep up the great work!