I love how after all this time and experience watching takeoffs, you still show full excitement like its your first time.... Speed/power NEVER gets old.

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

Thank you very much. Nikos’ enthusiasm is natural and is unlimited. He won’t ever stop getting excited.

The inversion followed by a 180° roll at the top of the climb is a commonly used technique to level out the aircraft without pushing into high negative g, which is quite uncomfortable to experience. It is also better for the airframe.

@marioschmitt4435

9 ай бұрын

It’s called Immelman Turn. Closest to a rocket launch an aircraft can get

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

@patrickweaver1105

9 ай бұрын

@@marioschmitt4435 An Immelman turn is a half loop with a half roll at the end used to changed direction. That was an aileron roll.

@2whl4re

9 ай бұрын

@@marioschmitt4435 That is not an Immelman. And nothing to do with rockets. Time to get back to class.

@primrosereceptionist611

9 ай бұрын

@2whl4re -The F-35 did go ballistic all lift was supplied by the the engine not the lifting surfaces.

Best I ever saw was an English Electric Lightning, mid runway from 10ft went vertical punching a hole in the clouds, the noise was tremendous.

@andrewsmith7395

9 ай бұрын

Yes indeed, I also remember seeing an F15 doing a similar…… off the deck, wheels up , go vertical, far more impressive than the F35. The F15 was at waddington a good few years back.

@chrismillard3044

9 ай бұрын

Back in Kent Raf Manston in the 80s 1 Jaguar and a lightning doing short and ballistic take off.

@Cheeky-fingers

9 ай бұрын

My father flew some of the last Electric Lightnings in service. The variant that had finally become an effective fighter rather than a short range interceptor. So much is still classified about its performance. Awesome aircraft.

@andrewsmith7395

9 ай бұрын

@@Cheeky-fingerswould that have been RAF Binbrook by any chance

@johnmansell5097

9 ай бұрын

@@andrewsmith7395 I had in my head Leconfield, but was quite young at that time so could have been Binbrook. The air show was all lightnings and spectacular it was too.

I was very lucky to work as a contractor one day on the air force base, we got very very close to the planes while they taxied and take off, the noise and vibrations made the hairs on your arms stand up and gave me goose bumps all over, it was amazing

i love the teddy bear in the end!

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

Oii Oii thank you

Thank you Lakenheath for bringing us the F-35!

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

Oii oiii David 🤙🏼 ooohhh yeah

Awesome! I remember when i was in the RN FAA being on detachment at RAF Lossiemouth (way back) we used to watch the Lightnings take off. Just a few feet off the runway the wheels came up, the nose came up and it was straight up, like a missile and the noise was deafening! What an awesome sight!

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

Ooohhh yeah

@MrAdopado

9 ай бұрын

Exactly ... rather more impressive than the delayed vertical shown in this video.

Never seen better than the English Electric Lightning for this trick.

Was stationed at RAF Lakenheath in the mid-60's. Crew chief on F-100F, the two seater version. Had a ride in the back seat during weapons delivery training while TDY to Wheelus AFB in Libya. No unrestricted climbs in those old birds.

@crushthis123

9 ай бұрын

Than you could appreciate the clime of the Avro Arrow and it's 68,500 clime rate without the Orunda engines that were classified

@TedConingsby

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for serving

Another super unrestricted climb video/stream. Super duper that was by the Aircrews. Well done on capturing that Ted & Nikos.

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

Oiii oiii Margo 🤙🏼❤️ thank you very much

Goosebumps to anyone who has experienced a unrestricted climb.

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

Ooohhh yeah

I went to Lakenheath with the Air Training Corps in about 1960. It was occupied by the USAF at the time, so the food in the mess was unbelievable. Lots of thundering jets around, it was brilliant.

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

Nice

@BeyondLimits3D

9 ай бұрын

In what way was the food unbelievable?

@xThrawn

9 ай бұрын

@@BeyondLimits3D The air force has the best food in the armed services, with the Navy in a close second place.

@BeyondLimits3D

9 ай бұрын

@@xThrawn Awesome

@knoxyish

22 күн бұрын

@@xThrawn and then the army-- not stew again!!!

😱😱..wow!!!..now that was a take-off!!!👌....I am a keen aircraft photographer and always enjoy watching these F35s at displays. I have some fabulous photos of them taking off with that afterburner glowing!!..made for some awesome photos! .!!!... Great video, and thanks for sharing it, mate!👍😁 cheers

Pilot: Tower please dorect me to the nearest refueller. Tower: You had a full load on take off. Pilot: Did you see my climb tower?

I was at an air show at RAF Finningley circa 1968/9 when an English Electric Lightning from take off, went vertical through the sound barrier…awesome.

@nigelclinning2448

9 ай бұрын

😂

Love watching an actual stealth fighter that works, great content!! thanks!

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for the show, my grandson is serving in the USAF at Lackenheath. His English mother will be glad to see this, I am from West Ham originally and came to USA to live in 1978 with our two daughters. Christian Loos. I hope you see this.

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

Oii oiii 🤙🏼 thank you so much and respect and honour from all of us at the TCS for your grandson serving. Ooohh yeah

Was at an air show in 1977 at RAF St Mawgan and saw an EE Lightning take off and go nose up, but a lot sooner than the F35 here.....WOW! Never forget that...

Had two of these down at Culdrose recently. drew quite a crowd, noise was immense .....seriously impressive aircraft.

oi oi! great use of my taxes and beautifully filmed thanks Ted xx

That was a great roll out of the top of the climb. 😎

the little bear in the beginning haha i love it

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

Thank you

Very well done capture of the -35 sir, hats off to you!

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

Thank you

That was Beau-to-ful!

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

Oohhh yeah

Anyone who says the new gen aircraft are rubbish need to see this. Slam the throttles forward, stick hard back and smash the vertical air speed number off the top of the screen. Beautiful sight. And that little bum wiggle they always do about 5 seconds after brakes off on the LN tarmac ripples is super cute. Thank you once again TCS for bringing the scenes. Aahhh yeeeaaahhh.

@AdmV0rl0n

9 ай бұрын

The F35 is rubbish - but not in this area. Its a relatively small plane with 43k lb thrust. With that thrust level it should out perform anything.

@alanmusson8710

9 ай бұрын

English electric lightning, still better!

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

Oiii oiiii thank you. We are a military aviation channel and embrace the old with the present. We also appreciate feats in engineering, the F35 is a remarkable aircraft. Ooohhh yeah

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

It’s not about thrust, it’s not about speed as we are not talking about racing cars. It’s a combat aircraft, a fighter. It’s BVR is phenomenal which is more important than thrust. Over 100 miles to lock on targets, now this is performance. No external fuel tanks with a healthy range of 1200 miles, get in.

@AdmV0rl0n

9 ай бұрын

@@TedConingsby One of the reasons the plane is frankly garbage is that for all the hype, it simply doesn't match up well, and its fan boys love falling on their face. Its certified for Aim9x, Asraam, Amraam - so you have at best 40Mile range. Block 4 requires a new engine, as the program falls on its face yet again, and that block 4 is now never likely to be achieved on the B model. It's quotes as being a mach 1.6 aircraft - which given its thrust is pretty lame. But that 1.6 rating isn't one the plane can live with. Its got substantial limitations in place and thats before covering its terrible avail rates. None the less, on take off, a moderately small plane with 43k lbs thrust is bound to be impressive.

Lived at Wittering in 1968/69/70. We had Lightnings, Vulcans, Victors, and the Harrier conversion squadron. Real boys stuff!

Awesome start to a Thursday morning, coffee and an unrestricted.... fantastic.

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

Ooohhh yeah unrestricted climbs and your fave morning drink always good for breakfast 🤙🏼

Nicely done Ted!!! Awesome 🎉

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

Oiiii Oii Kirk & Bear 🤙🏼 thank you

Always love seeing your clips Teddi you highlight the best stuff👍❤️😁

@TedConingsby

8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much Alix

Two words say it all for me Amazing & Fabulous.

@TedConingsby

7 ай бұрын

Ooohhhh yeah good choice of words

that pilot is a beast

Ooohhh yeahhh, full send Valkyries

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

Oii oiii Davey 🤙🏼❤️ ooohh yeah proper ‘Til Valhalla’ SENT!

Best I saw up close was an F-15 back before stealth…in 1978. Vertical after a short run, full afterburner take off. Unforgettable. 😊

When you absolutely positively have to be there before noon!!

That grt better everytime you watch it. Brilliant. Great filming too. The shot that makes it

@Paul-jl3nf

9 ай бұрын

Get a room! 🤣🤣🤣

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

This was unreal, never seen a sharp turn inverted on an unrestricted climb before. We have seen similar but not as quickly done like that

Commander: send it high altitude Pilot: saynoemow

That was awesome love it ❤from 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

Ooohh yeah

I like the truck in the background, casually driving past the *** end of one of the most lethal planes in the air...

That is class. Think it should be known as the Ted departure. Excellent stuff.

@TedConingsby

8 ай бұрын

Lol yep, I think you are right

Keep in mind these aren't even the upgraded F-135 ECU engines, these are the original ones that were already very powerful. After Pratt & Whitney completes the Engine Core Upgrade to all variants of the F-35, not only will they be significantly louder💪it will also increase thrust by at least 10%, reduce fuel burn by 7%, increase range by 8% & increase electrical & systems cooling by more than 50%. The same engines the F-35 uses is also being used in the B-21 & the 6th Gen NGAD is using it as a base starting point with the goal being an engine that produces a minimum of 45,000 pounds of thrust. For those that may not know, the F-135 engine was developed directly from the F-119 engine used in the F-22.

In the spring of 2006 at The Yankee Springs Air Museum at Willow Run Airport, Ypsilanti, Michigan, I saw a jet fighter (I never did get which one it was) do a climb like this F-35 in this video. Incredibly loud, but straight up. Wow.

@TedConingsby

8 ай бұрын

Ooohhh yeah

Perspective is everything. Zoom-ins miss much action. Nice video!

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

Niiiiiiice!!!! Couple of skips with the ignited calor bottle at the rear. Love it!!!👍

Wife and I stationed at the Heath, both of us ATC, 83 to 86. Got a ride in a 111 up over the Wash. Just so quiet inside, so deserving of the Electric Jet moniker. Kinda miss seeing our squat control tower over next to the fence and radar antenna.

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

Awesome, a thank you to you and your wife for serving 🤙🏼

Giving the people a show! And what an awesome piece of technology

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

The F35 is the noisiest jet fighter I have ever heard, and I've been to several air shows, stretching back to the 1970s. Only a single engine, but the roar and sense of power from it is awesome. Reminds me a bit of an AC Cobra sports car climbing up a hill, probably the most impressive sound I've heard from a car engine.

@hb1338

9 ай бұрын

The loudest military aircraft I ever heard was the Sea Vixen.

@deang5622

9 ай бұрын

Never heard the Vulcan then?

@wayinfront1

9 ай бұрын

@@deang5622 I was referring to jet fighters, not bombers. The Vulcan's brief runway howl was impressive, but still doesn't match the thunderous roar of an F35. And the Vulcan wasn't very noisy once airborne. One startled me, back in the '60s, by suddenly and silently swooping up from below some cliffs near Margate. It was like some massive bat with wings spread out. Didn't hear the engines until it was above me.

..best intro tune ever. Also impressive climb!

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

Oii Oii thank you

Superb climb and the roll out at the top he / she was certainly inverted at one spot

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

@trunkmonkey9417

9 ай бұрын

Yep. The aircrew rolls 180 degrees at the top of the vertical climb then pulls back on the stick bringing the aircraft to inverted level flight, then rolls 180 degrees again to right the aircraft, maintaining acceleration and positive G the entire time. If pushed over would result in negative G and that's hard on the eyes and brain, (can cause retina damage/brain bleed) as well as loss of consciousness at 2-3 (negative) Gs. The method used is better, smoother and "natural" feeling.

@hb1338

9 ай бұрын

@@trunkmonkey9417 Airframes don't like negative G either.

@trunkmonkey9417

9 ай бұрын

@@hb1338 No, they do not. 🤓 (Retired USAF Aircraft Maintenance, Flying Aircrew Member, Aero Repair, Engines, Hydraulics and some other bits...)

Yeah...the Brits had a fighter that could go STRAIGHT UP from takeoff in the Fifties. It was called the English Electric Lightning!

@grahamstephenson9393

9 ай бұрын

i watched the dancing diamonds from the afterburner as the pilot piled on the throttle on the EE lightning, Made your lungs vibrate sitting on my chopper bike at the fence. So loud and powerful it made you nervous as it went vertical from the get go.

Great tracking.. Very cool!

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

Thank you

That was a wicked blast off

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

Ooohhhh yeah. It sure was Colin 🤙🏼

Ted videos are Amazing love you guys. Alan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@TedConingsby

8 ай бұрын

Oiii oiii Alan 🤙🏼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 thanks for joining us ooohhh yeah 🤙🏼

As an American vet I always love seeing our fighters or other aircraft doing there thing out in the wild...I am Navy so if you want to see and hear rivalry...talk to Navy fighter pilots and AF get together...

The F-15 Eagle can go supersonic in a vertical climb. My favorite jet fighter ever.

@TCK-9

8 ай бұрын

And still loved by pilots and the us air force. Although most F15c squads are getting moved to F35s, some are getting the new F15ex. They tweaked some things with the wings and rest of the airframe to make it more stable and faster, along with electronics to allow for a new 'hypersonic' 1000 mile missile that only they'll have for a while.

2000 to 2004 for me at Lakenheath, good times.

Back in the late 1960's I remember watching English Electric Lightning's do this, but going into a vertical climb much faster, pretty well just after take-off. However, that plane did have 2 engines, stacked vertically in the fuselage! In fact I saw this spectacle many times at the annual RAF Finningley Battle of Britain air displays.

@nigelclinning2448

9 ай бұрын

The EE Lightning’s 2 RR Avons put out 16,360 lbs thrust each with afterburner, the F-35A’s single F135 puts out 43,000 lbs.

@gdok6088

9 ай бұрын

@@nigelclinning2448 The EE Lightning must have been a lighter plane. I seem to recall it had an insanely good power to weight ratio.

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

Aircraft in the UK cannot break the sound barrier over land unless it’s a QRA.

@digitalradiohacker

9 ай бұрын

@@gdok6088 The EE is 1.03 thrust to weight empty. The F35 is 1.07 so is marginally better. The really impressive stat is that the two aircraft are separated by 50 years in aircraft development. Makes you wonder where we'd be if the TSR2 project had gone to export and we'd continued developing from there.

@gdok6088

9 ай бұрын

@@digitalradiohacker Thanks for the info. That's very close, thrust to weight and as you say 50 years apart. Seeing an EE stand on its tail was always incredible. Yes, so sad they cancelled the TSR2 - the usual political short-sightedness.

That was a very short take-off run too. WOW! You could see the Afterburner plume pumping out the thrust..............COOL!

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

Ooihhh yeah

Thank you Ted for this vid....very impressive‼️‼️‼️‼️ Ohhh Yeahhhhhhhhh.....🚀🎉🌞👍

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

Oii Oii thank you

Worthy of a new subscriber!

@TedConingsby

8 ай бұрын

Oiiiii oiiii thank you so much 🤙🏼ooohhh yeah

Superbly beautiful on that amazing unrestricted climb from the F-35A 😨😨😍😍🤩🤩

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

Ooohhh yeah

@douglas_brighty_tan127

9 ай бұрын

@@TedConingsby awesome 😎

holy moly that is so awesome

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

GOOSE BUMPS AND PRIDE OVER WHAT UNREAL PLANES ARE BUILT AND THOSE PILOTS ARE FEARLESS. WHEN THEY RETIRE IF GIVEN A PIPER CUB, SURE THEY WOULD LIKE IT, BUT I WOULD THINK NEVER BE LIKE FLYING AGAIN. GREAT VIDEO. READ ALOT OF COMMENTS AND MANY OTHERS HAD GOOSE BUMPS. LOVE THE PLANES SPECS ON THE SITE AS WELL. WOW SPEED AND ALTITUDE UNREAL TWO THUMBS UP TODAY FOR SURE

That spin @2:35 is beautiful =]

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

Ooohhh yeah

Great camera work!

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

Oiii oiii Chris thanks so much

That is so cool send it Ted. To infinity and beyond

@TedConingsby

8 ай бұрын

Ooohh yeah 🤙🏼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I did jobs at Lakenheath in the late '80s , loved working with USAFE !

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

Ooohh yeah

Here we go, into the wild blue yonder, here we go, into the sun! 👍

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

Ooohh yeah

It has a new engine, second to none in the world !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

seems a huge debate over diff planes climb rate i will add this the last flying ee lightnings were in south africa they put an f18 hornet up against a lightning the lightning out climbed the f18 to 18000 ft .a fantastic beast of a plane in its day .as for the f35 in nikos video amazing climb and roll out the pilots at lakenheath all have amazing skills ! very good capture ted and nikos !!

Thrust:weight ratios >1 are truly a wonderful thing! During Typhoon development, the test pilots at Warton were banned from showing off one of its party tricks (pulling up to a vertical climb as soon as the tail would clear the ground) due to concerns about tail strikes and (the bit that really impressed me) heat damage to the runway from the efflux. I have heard that from more than one engineer who worked at Warton in the early-2000s, and given what we see Typhoon do at airshows I'd say it's plausible!

@i-love-space390

9 ай бұрын

These F-35 pilots took off rather sedately and then waited until gear up at maybe a couple of hundred feet to pull up for the unrestricted climb. No danger of tail strike.

@TedConingsby

8 ай бұрын

@donkmeister

8 ай бұрын

@@i-love-space390 Bunch of wimps, that's why 😉 It honestly wouldn't surprise me if you need to enter a special trials mode to attempt a "Typhoon test pilot" take-off in an F-35, a (fully-functional) F-35 is impressively good at keeping the pilot from hurting himself by doing something stupid.

Outrageous!

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

Ooohhhhh yeah 🤙🏼

Way back sometime in the late 1960’s I witnessed a Marine F-4 Phantom do an unrestricted, full after burner climb directly over me as I sat in my boat on the Beaufort River during the Beaufort Water Festival. The announcer told everyone on the loudspeaker that they better pay attention because what they were going to see wouldn’t last very long at all. The pilot did a low level pass and turned the plane directly vertical. Those two fiery holes disappeared into the sky in just a matter of a few seconds. The sound was incredibly loud and then it was gone just as fast as those two fiery holes were gone. I was then, and remain to this day amazed!

@fiveyorks

9 ай бұрын

F-4s are very loud!

@chuckkline2970

9 ай бұрын

@@fiveyorks and smokey!

Hi Ted, first time chatter here. I just watched your F35 mass take off video from 2 month ago. Do they release a schedule of any sort or were you just lucky to view this spectacular event?

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

No public schedules are released. However, they do know when we are there so perhaps find out where we are 😎

22,000ft in 25 seconds isn’t all that bad. Thank you for the video!

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

Oohhh yeah

Awesome!!!

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

Yup. That's how you top-over from a steep climb without pulling neg Gs and maybe redding out. Was actually expecting that, given the roc. Then there's the fuel system, though I really don't know how the 35's is set up. Who among us wouldn't LOVE to have the tech manual?

I live in Southern Idaho in an area that doesn't get a lot of overhead jet traffic. Maybe one or two aircraft per day at high altitude. Just as the first F-35 stroke the burner going down the runway, one of them flew overhead so that flight actually had 3 jet engines instead of 2 LOL

Nasty! 🤙

Feels so weird not seeing F-15Cs at Lakenheath.

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

There are F-15E Strike Eagles there

@ironroad18

9 ай бұрын

@@TedConingsby just not the same. Air Superiority Eagles are the only true and pure Eagles.

@TedConingsby

8 ай бұрын

@@ironroad18 F15E Strike Eagles have an advantage having a WSO, this is very effective

Has to be an absolute rush!

Awesome stuff! Ted you better get your anti G fur in tiptop condition for your ride with the Valkyries (cue music from Wagner!)

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

Hehe, I do indeed. Gotta get the special coating in tip top condition as I know how they fly. Can’t wait

That has got to be such fun to do! 😉😎

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

Ooohh yeah

That's Beary cool!

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

Wow!! Words fail me. Cheers for that! BTW, ever thought of pinning Ted's beret on? It keeps toppling off his little bonce 😅

@EleanorPeterson

9 ай бұрын

What? Pinned on? Noooooo! 😁The self-ejecting beret is a design feature!

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

Oiii oiii thank you so much. No, we can’t pin it, it would hurt 🤙🏼

Awesome power

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

Magnificent

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

Oohh yeah

Would love to see a vertical drag race between a Lightning and a Lightning II, despite it probably being a walkover for the former!

@harriergr7728

9 ай бұрын

@@phillipbanes5484 no competition, by the time the lighting ll‘s computer had warmed up, the lighting F6 would be at 40 000 ft!

@56Gumball

9 ай бұрын

@@harriergr7728 Exactly! 👍🏼

@stevecurd3944

9 ай бұрын

@@harriergr7728 definetly & twin RR Avons no contest

@speckgens

9 ай бұрын

@@phillipbanes5484funny you mention this. I would like see an F-35 equipped with external tanks. I think it would look awesome.

@sichere

9 ай бұрын

The old EEL could be off the ground in 10 - 12 seconds from a standing start and is a lot quicker in the air than the F35. From mach 0.9 the F35 can only get to mach 1.4 by the time an EEL is hitting mach 1.8

What percentage of fuel is used in full afterburner climbs like that? I'm just curious. Thanks!

I was on the John F Kennedy flight deck in the eighties watching hornets stop in midair to rotate straight up that was great. That 35 toped that. Thank you.

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

Ooohhh yeah

@neddyseagoon9601

9 ай бұрын

I watched a Hornet at a North UK airshow in the late 80s... on it's tail pointing straight up as at about 40mph it cruised the length of the runway then went stratospheric like Thunderbird Three, right in front of the crowd. So close we could feel the heat.

I use to love watching planes do a max climb!

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

They look like a stupid shopping buggy until the wheels are up. LOL.

I believe that roll, as he levelled out at the top of the climb, was so that the g-force on the pilot would be positive. You can withstand more positive gs than negative.

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

Possibly

What was that? Looked like an Immelmann to me. Cool vid!

That is just Awesome. What a shot of the rate of climb and the rollout was something else. Cool as! F35 on one Saved that one to my playlist. Yeah boiiiiii 😅😂❤

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

Oiii oiiii Daniel, can’t believe this departure was so awesome

Thats some flipping climb rate!!! El Rapido😊😊😊

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

Oohh yeah

Wow, probably melted the Tarmac aswell 😢😢. Put a shiver down my legs. There goes the warranty on those engine's 😂😂😂❤❤.

@sichere

9 ай бұрын

Notice how they only put full reheat after take off for that very reason.

I just love planes

@TedConingsby

9 ай бұрын

Ooohh yeah

Does the F16 still hold the climb to altitude record ?

The mind boggles how there is a carrier variant with a hook & the variant we use which can land much more safely on carriers 😅

FCF.. Functional Check Flight. On F-16s after 30 days broke, or after certain maintenance a FCF was required before the plane was returned to service. They were gassed up, and stripped down. They would rotate the aircraft but not lift too far off the runway. Pull the gear up and you could get this cushion of air between the plane and the ground. Then at EOR, pull back on the stick and let the wave pop you up.