SEND IT! F-35A MASS TAKE OFF RAF LAKENHEATH USAFE • 48TH FIGHTER WING 493D & 495TH FIGHTER SQUADRON
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- Опубликовано: 30 май 2023
- Twelve F-35A Lightning II comprising of the 493d Fighter Squadron (Grim Reapers) and the 495th Fighter Squadron (Valkyries) at RAF Lakenheath "launch" one after the other in a mass takeoff. The TCS have never seen 12 F-35As takeoff like this before!
493rd are the legendary GRIM REAPERS. They were briefly deactivated with their F-15C and F-15D in April 2022 but have been re-equipped with the F35A.
The 495th Fighter Squadron who became the first overseas USAF to operate the F-35A...ooh yeah! They were reactivated after 30 years on the 1st October 2021
Which is your favourite at RAF LAKENHEATH, the F-15E or the F-35A?
The F-35s at Lakenheath are the A variant and they have some very unique characteristics of the three main variants. They have a 'Vulcan-like' howl and although they cannot hover, they are the variant of the ABC that can pull +9Gs. They are incredible to watch and hear.
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Love atching the Tiffies!
When we did this in 1981 with F-111s , it was called a elephant walk. A really awesome thing to see.
My dad was there too, and about the same time.
My dad was stationed at Lakenheath back in the 1950s. He passed away in 2021, but would have been very proud watching this. Thanks for posting!
Some of my kin was stationed there also back around the fifties and sixties.
Thank you for your dads service. And i send my condolences
I was stationed there in the late seventies early eighties. At the time we were flying F-111s and FB-111s. Love those days.
Thank you so much Jay for sharing this. Respect and honour to your Dad for serving. May he rest in peace … blue skies 🤙🏼
@@TedConingsby amen to that
Nice work, Ted!
I flew F-111Fs out of Lakenheath from '89 through '92. Wonderful place. So cool to see these magic jets taking off from the same runway.
What an awesome plane that you flew.
F-111... wow... thats one sic bird...
Craziest air-to-ground support that i have ever seen in my life. Was like getting help from a dragon that flew so fast that ya didnt even see it...
Thanks to you and yours, sir..
... from me and mine... 🍻
~POG
I was there at the same time. Hydraulic mechanic. What squad where you in ?
I was stationed there from 88 to 91 then at Mildenhall until 01 would love to see this live now
Oiii oiii 🤙🏼🇺🇸 oh wow thank you for serving sir 🫡 Thank you for your comment
We just received our 1st F-35 B's aboard MCAS Cherry Point,NC, a few days ago. Looking at 6 squadrons with 10 planes and potentially more. My father was a Sergeant Major of the 2nd Marine Air Wing back in the day which they will be apart of. These will be replacing the Harrier and Hornet variants. Proud to be an American who loves the Sound Of Freedom
God bless America
Loves the sound of freedom??, then why is the USA operating a protection racket around the world? Why is it starting wars everywhere it goes? Why ???, money for your big boys.? Freedom, you don't know the meaning of freedom.
@@brnhnd07 LOL, hell no..
Semper Fi Marine your father I m sure is proud of you where ever he is.
lol I remember the harriers that would just hover over my hanger there.
That was FANTASTIC! The sound alone was mesmerizing. Excellent pro camera work. Very well done. Thank you!
Thank you so much
I was an Intelligence Officer stationed at RAF Fairford during Desert Storm in 1991. We were a Provisional Heavy Bombardment Wing flying B-52G's and KC-135's. Always an impressive sight when we launched 4 and 6 cell B-52's strikes fully loaded with munitions and the supporting KC-135's on missions over Iraq. The B-52's would line up for the "elephant walk" down the taxi way and take off in close order. One day the Security Police came to me to report that a group of about a dozen older British gentlemen would gather just outside the perimeter fence to watch every takeoff. So I went out to ask what they were doing there. They were very polite and explained that they enjoyed watching the aircraft launch and that they recorded the aircraft tail numbers to document where the aircraft were based and where each plane had been deployed over many years. Aviation buffs are an interesting lot!
This is what we do! And thank you for serving our country
@@TedConingsby - I've never had the privilege of visiting the U.K. yet, but I've always admired the Grenadier Guards!! I love their uniforms with the bear skin hat!! As you know, they're not just the Queen's "guards" but highly trained combat soldiers of the British Army!!
From 05:40 to 10:40, they got twelve planes in the air. That's pretty impressive to see in a five minute period and they're not even rushing the take-offs. Would be interesting to see them do an emergency scramble.
Emergency take off they could cut that better then in half.
Jonathan Presly: don't forget to allow for breakdowns!!
See my comments above about Weifang airport.😊
They probably had all 80 airborne in less than 10 minutes.
Barely had 1 pair left the tarmac, and another pair were rolling.
@@jeffreystanley7884 even that isnt good enough.
They need to roll them down the runway in pairs.
As soon as 1 pair is airborne, the next pair are rolling.
Totally awesome, awesome spectacle..
These are USAF pilots - that are going pretty slowly and leisurely. Navy and Marine Corps pilots take off hella faster than that.
I've seen Navy pilots IRL take off either in pairs or alternating between CATs. As soon as the first two planes have cleared the flight deck - here comes another pair setting up for the CAT shot. Or one plane is setup for a CAT shot - and as soon as it launches the next one is already lined up for a shot. Back to back.
I've also seen Marine pilots in AV8-B Harriers up-close IRL during my last cruise on the USS Wasp as a Marine. They took off 5 at a time off of an Amphibious Assault Ship - aka, a "baby carriers" (and the F-35Bs are much more capable). They lined up on the flight deck tail to nose and use the thrust from the planes directly in front of them for extra lift when taking off. It's extra, extra bonkers when they do it at night - out at sea where it's pitch black.....
It's really impressive how they train when simulating wartime conditions - it's much faster than in regular peacetime exercises......
That bit of grass behind the viewing area is where I took my first ever steps 55 years ago.
Ahhh the sounds of FREEDOM!
For whom?
Fantastic video! As a child in the '70's and '80's used to holiday on my late Grandfather's farm near to the twin bases of Bentwaters & Woodbridge. Many a day while walking in the fields, or by the Deben estuary, used to see the F4s (think they were the 'D' variant) and then the A-10s. I will never forget when the F4s went vertical into a climb, the roar was something else, especially if the wind was with you, and at times you felt it reverberate in your body if they were that close. Even now, 50 odd years later something I will never forget and feel very privileged to have seen.
Great memories stay with you
When I was 13, I worked on a summer program at a small kitchen out there, literally in the middle of the flightline. I used to ride my bike to work, along The main runway watching the F-15 Strike Eagles Land and takeoff. When we first got there, they still had
F 111’s.
I was stationed there in the 48th Fighter Wing back in 1972-1974 we had the F4's would have LOVED playing with these:)
What you’d call being in the right place at the right time to witness such a collosal amount of fire power departing
Oiii oiii Nigel 🤙🏼 This is why we put our noTEDS to let the pilots know we are there 😎
Nah, this was no accident. He knew they were gonna do this.
absolutely! what a catch!
A sky full of lightning! What a sight and with thunder to match 😮
ooohhh yeah
last month I got to watch a couple of A-10 Warthogs doing live fire practice. Hearing that hum and seeing the smoke come out of the gun barrels along with feeling the percussion is something else.
Very nice! I used to build the center fusalage for those in Palmdale, CA. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside to see them fly.
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I was stationed at RAF Lakenheath in the mid 80s when they were flying F111s. They always took off using after burner. Really neat to see at night. At the end of the exercises we held at least every other month they'd do a "baby elephant walk" launching everything that would fly. Amazing to watch and noisy!!
Got Ted. Karen
Awesome. And that's just the tip of what we have in this country, either our own or with the allies.
Oiii oiiii Shane 🤙🏼🇺🇸ooohhhhh yeah
Aye F35 awesome piece of kit it’s just a pity the US is governed by clowns with a Cecile OAP frontman for the cameras . Politically they are weak and ineffectual and in no position to do very much despite all the Gucci hardware given they have sold off a third of their strategic fuel reserves and run down their ammunition stockpiles by giving it to that shitehoose proxy war all while deliberately running their economy into oblivion. The end of the dollar as the global reserve currency is nigh. It’s almost as if it’s all deliberate 🤔 . Still hopefully 809 NAS will formally stand up this year 👍🏻🏴🇬🇧
The west doesn’t have the manufacturing capacity to sustain high intensity conflict for more than a few weeks . Aircraft are not much good without air fields or Carriers . In a real war those would be destroyed or sunk . F35 may be good at bombing countries without advanced air defence . Against an enemy with advanced air defence these f35s would get easily shot down . They would not even reach their target,
Great entertainment though
It is awesome but maybe compromised. We know the F35 program was hacked. The air force immediately started the B21 bomber program NGAD program. Because of that the current stealth programs may be vulnerable
Not even the tip, the tip of the tip of the tip of the tip yada yada yada
Holy sh........ Incredible. Amazing. My face is aching just from smiling so much seeing it on YT. I can't imagine what it must be like to actually be there
Ooohhhh yeah
What an ausome day at the ‘Heat!!!
What an amazing sight to see all those launches! You bunch of lucky dogs!
Was a USAF Crew Chief on F-111D’s and my first “Elephant Walk” was at dusk in New Mexico! Awesome sight! Thx for the Vid!
This was pretty spectacular. What a line up! Wouldn't it be great if the buses lined up like this every morning!? Many thnx USAF aircrews & Ted, fab stuff indeed.
What's a bus? 😂
@@gazza2933 LOL 🤣! We'll, it's got big wheels & picks passengers up & transports them to where they want to go 😁
@@margobaxter8344
About four times a week where I live. 😁
@@gazza2933 once a year in Edinburgh then they all come along at once! 🤣
@Margo Baxter.
The buses Do line up side by side in Holloway bus Garage to Roll out in the morning. We just don’t all go at the same time 😅
I kinda look at these pilots and a full squadron like this lining up and taking off like this as star wars and these pilots in Control of their starships…what a machine…this was one of the most awesome aviation videos I have seen.
Thank you very much 🤙🏼ooohhh yeah
D Stew: have you not seen BETTER planes in a show of strength or are you just blinded by the sales brochures. F35 = US inability to design serious aircraft...Failed to design and make their own VTOL. Failed to design and make a supersonic airliner. Their warbirds are mostly hot air and dusty feathers.
I was stationed at Lakenheath ‘69 to ‘71. At that time we had 3 Squadrons of the F-100’s. Had TDY assignments to Spain, Italy and Norway. Have lots of good memories of my time there.
Thank you for serving
My dad used to take me to one end of the runway at Kelly AFB…in San Antonio to watch the F-4’s take off..this reminded me of those days.
LOOKS AT THIS! Absolutely Fantastic video!
Oiii oiiii Chris 🤙🏼 LOOK AT THIS proper good that 🇺🇸🇬🇧ooohhhhh yeah
It looks like the USAF is finally getting up to speed. This was a common thing with F-16's on a daily basis when I was in during the 90s. Our squadron alone would typically fly a 12 turn 12 turn 8 turn 8 on good days. Then you include the other 3 squadrons of 16's and one on EF-111's and it makes for busy days.
You are dating yourself. The F-16 is an old but still very capable bird and the F-111; RIP. In my day in the Vietnam War, we had F-4's, A-1 Sky Riders, the A-6 Intruder, and the A-4 Skyhawk. All of which were pretty much jet age WW II aircraft with no precision weapons. Calling them in for close air support was crossing my fingers that they knew where the enemy target was to our front, otherwise we could be the target. Scary stuff.
@Phillip BanesNearly everyone that's served in any of our great nations armed forces, have all enjoyed Germany.
@@phillipbanes5484 - I wish I could go back to the U.S. Air Force! I got out way too early (4 years active, and 4 years ANG). I should've put in at least 20-25 active.
My disabled son was invited to RAF Brize Norton with a group of disabled youngsters . When we arrived everthing around us went with Miliarary precision. The welcome, the food, the care anf the love. Time to go on a flight they announced . Really. We boarded an aging Tristar Fuel Tanker. We were joined by two squandrons on Tornados. Down the runway we went then high over England and out to the North Sea. The Tornado pilots teased us, one minute they were on our port side, the next on our starboard side waving at us. We watched as the other Tristar refuelled a Tornado. Then they explained it was our turn to refuel another Tornado behind us. We saw North Sea oil rigs below us as we tuened back close to the Norwegian coast back to England.
I joined the Pilot and navigator in the flightdeck. They had their route planned on a big paper chart. It was just incredible to see these guys at work.
It was a training day for the RAF and they wanted to share it with less fortunate families.
Back on the ground the young Tornado pIlots joited us, walking from their jets with all their combat gear on and facemasks and helmetts. If the girls present were quivering at the kness i dont blame them!
The Commander of the base gave a speech. He thanked US for comng ! For supporting their day.
A memory i will cherish for a lifetime.
Since that time we have witnessed wars in various parts of the world. I would suggest to any 'leader' contemplating taking on The RAF, go take a training mission. You will soon change your mind.....❤
This is a beautiful thing! Born on Burtonwood AFB 1953. I love America.
You know, in almost every country the people are proud of their country, their traditions, their culture, and their heritage. I'm no different. As an American, I'm proud of my country even with all of the problems we seem to have today. My dad flew B-17's our of Knettishall, England during WW II and was shot down over Germany on July 26, 1943. I became a POW and survived the War. He stayed in the Air Force and became a B-47 and B-52 pilot and operations officer until his sudden death on active duty in 1971, at the age of 51.
One of my uncles was an Air Force fighter pilot during the Korean War and was a double ACE flying the F-86. He also flew over 90 missions into North Vietnam during the Vietnam War as an Air force Colonel. He retired as a Major General.
Another of my uncles was a Captain in the Army Green Berets in the Vietnam War and was severely wounded. He's in his 80's and still walks with a limp.
Another of my uncles was an Air Force interceptor pilot flying the F-106 during the Cold War and retired as a Lt Col.
My brother was a Marine infantry office and served 2 plus years in the Vietnam War until he was severely wounded and spent over a year in a hospital. He retired from the Marine Corps as a Colonel after 30 years of service.
I served 21 years in the Marine Corps as an infantry officer with 3 years in combat. My first full time job our of college was as a Marine platoon commander in the Vietnam War 1968-69. Hard year. I lost too many good Marines killed and wounded, but I somehow managed to return to the States OK. I spent 2 more years in combat supporting host nation counter-insurgency operations during a major civil war in Central America. Not as dangerous as Vietnam, but very dangerous. My final tour of duty was with the US Special Operations Command and I retired from the Marines in 1989.
But perhaps the most interesting member of my family was my grandfather. He was an Army surgeon in the early 1900's in Panama and my mother was born in Panama in 1919. He participated in the campaign against the Mexican bandit in the 1920's on the US / Mexican border. He was General MacArthur's senior medical advisor in the Philippines when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. He ended up being the senior medical advisor to General Eisenhower during WW II. General Eisenhower tasked him to investigate the famous incident when General Patton slapped a patient at an Army field hospital in Italy for being a coward, which caused Patton to publicly apologize to all of his command. And he was tasked to investigate the little known but potentially public relations disaster at the "incident" in the port of Bari, Italy. He retired as a Brigadier General.
The greatest honor in my 77 years has been to lead Marines both in peace and in combat. Except for family, nothing compares to those 21 years.
Now at 77 I am privileged to see my country to produce the strongest and most advanced armed forces in the world. The F-117 "bomber" because it was not a fighter, first flew in 1981 before the world knew what stealth aircraft were. The B-2 stealth bomber has been flying since 1987. The F-22 has been flying since 1991. The F-35 has been flying since 2006 and is now either operational or on order with 17 countries besides the US. There are now over 800 F-35's operational around the world with over 600 in the US and production is still continuing.
Now the US has prototype 6th generation fighters and bombers flying that will be in production within the next few years.
When I was a Marine platoon commander in Vietnam 1968-69, the equipment we had was mostly from WW II and the Korean War. The only means I had to navigate and call in artillery and close air support was a standard issue compass and old French maps that were out of date. My mind can't comprehend the lives that could have been saved in Vietnam if we had had the technology that our military has today; it is just mind boggling the technology advancements than have been made since 1968.
And BTW, the video of the F-35's makes want to go back in time and serve my country again.
Oiii oiii 🤙🏼 Thank you so much for sharing this in depth personal history and memories. Firstly, on behalf of the TCS we’d like to thank you for serving.
I’m glad our videos want to make you rejoin. Have a great day 🤙🏼🤙🏼
I was brought up in the village of Coney Weston just on the edge of Knettishall airfield - 1956. Sadly, not much of it remains but there is a museum about 2 miles away which honours the memory of those who served there and a memorial plaque near the airfield. So much happened in such a short time with so many live lost; still palpable today in some locations. All the best.
I've been getting more and more into military aviation over the last two years, and I reckon this is the best channel I've found yet. Thank you Ted. Marham is the closest active base to me, next being Lakenheath and then Mildenhall. Your videos never disappoint and always leave me with goosebumps. Can't wait to visit Lakenheath in the summer!
My first visit and I agree 😎
Oiii oiii Alfie 🤙🏼 thank you so much for your awesome comments. Glad you enjoy our videos. Enjoy your visits to the bases and hope to see you there one day. Thanks again 🤙🏼ooohhh yeah
At one end of the runway at Mildenhall they had what they called "spy corner" back in the mid 80s. They had signs on the fence there with the types and specifications of the planes flying there. Wondering if they still do?
Both raf bases are cool
I was able to see both of them in the mid 90s
I’m from Cambridge and often worked on here and mildenhall and many more RAF bases always a great experience plumbing on those properties
Incredible images!Thanks for them.
Glad you enjoyed 🤙🏼ooohhh yeah
That’s awesome footage great angle you were in thanks for sharing 👍👍👍😎
Thank you very much. Glad you enjoyed 🤙🏼ooohhh yeah
I loved at the beginning when they were staging, the first bunch, how the tops of their tail wings looked like a perfect line. Beautiful birds.
Tail wings = Horizontal Stabilizers
Nice one! I can still remember when RAF Lakenheath had F-111s!
oooohhhh yeah
Wow! That was amazing. You can actually feel the power of that Pratt & Whitney F135 vibrating the chest, even through a video. What a machine!
Ooooohhhhh yeah 🤙🏼🇺🇸
Impressive display of quick reaction takeoffs, (but I am guessing they were being careful, and could do it faster). That was just a bit less than 1 Billion bucks worth of the most powerful weapons on the planet, taking flight. Godspeed to the crews, both in the air and on the ground!
It sure wiped out all I paid in taxes last year.
I live about 1 mile from the runway at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona, Luke is a training base for F-35 pilots. We have an airshow everyday!
Awesome! I was stationed there from 1978 to 1982. The sound of those fighter jets was the sound of freedom!!
I was hoping with them 6 abreast they were gonna take off together in formation. Now that would be a sight worth seeing :)
Absolutely amazing!! The experience of being at LN to see these brutal beasts take off is incredible. Great footage Nikos 👌🏻
Oiii oiii Richard. Thank you so much ooohh yeah
I graduated From RAF Lakenheath c/o 2000...I remember Vividly The 15s Now they Have Both?!!! Okaaaay!!!Heath!!!
Yes, both F15E and F35A
@@TedConingsby Preciate you Mate!!!🙏🏾🤘🏾🙌🏾🦅🤙🏾
Scottish Yank from Texas, proud to help build these, proud to help protect our allies.
Ooooooohhhh yeah 🤙🏼 thank you for building them
Very well executed and very well recorded, thank you 'Ted'!
Thank you very much oooohh yeah
What a freakin' capture!!! That was amazing!!😍
Thats something you don' see everyday nice one.....
oooohhhh yeah
That was a real treat. Thanks for the enthusiastic commentary, and knowing when to let us just watch.
I worked on the base a couple of years ago, got close up to these planes when they taxed and took off, the feeling was unberlievable, all your hair on your arms stood up
Ooohhh yeah
going to Lakenheath friday, cant wait
Sounds amazing! I love Lakenheath
Ooohhh yeah QCF 🤙🏼
Absolutely incredible !!!! The noise is amazing.
Ooohh yeah
Those turn and burns are beautiful! I bet the pilots loved it!
What an impressive scramble! Sick, very sick!
🤙🏼
Impressive but I'm old enough to remember seeing mass take offs of F-100 Super Sabres at Lakenheath.
Hi there John, I remember when I paid a day visit to RAF Sculthorp in Norfolk during the mid-1980’s and I saw the old Sq of the F-100 Super Sabers that used to be based at RAF Lakenheath!
They were just stored out in the open at RAF Sculthorp !
Now that's an awesome alarm clock
Oooohhh yeah
I build these freedom birds at Lockheed and it’s the greatest thing I’ve ever done, proud to see em fly every day
Wow. Thank you for being a part mod bulging these Magnificat aircraft 🤙🏼🇺🇸
F-4's were flown from Lakenheath in the late '70's. When the F-4's took off heading west, everyone in high school stopped talking until the planes passed. If the whole squadron was flying, that could take several minutes. F-4's are really loud.
I was there 83-87. When the F-111s took of I'm sure the same thing happened. I know in the wing commander's office off the east end of the runway you could barely hear people talk in the building when they took off.
The beautiful sound of FREEDOM!!!! God bless the USA
Freedom for whom? The ability to kill poor people halfway around the world is not freedom.
A year ago I had one of these F35's fly low and slow over my location.... purely intimating, couldn't phantom this many, don't think me bowels would stand up too well
As I said to the boss...I was surprised at the amount of power that this aircraft can generate.
Very impressive.
Oiii oiii Gazza 🤙🏼 Such a pleasure to meet you for the first time and so happy you got to see the F35! It really is an impressive jet. Similar power to the Typhoon except with one engine! Ooohhh yeah
@@TedConingsby
Boss an honour to meet you and Nikos. 👍
It's the most powerful jet fighter engine ever made
@@NoWonderDragon
Even more powerful than Corcorde's?
@@NoWonderDragon - roughly 43K pounds of thrust for one engine is insane!
Was lucky enough to be there on 25-05-23 and saw 12 of them all take off and go almost vertical.....and they were taking off the other way so they went vertical right in front of the viewing area!
The only downside was low cloud so they disappeared fairly quickly.
ooohhh yeah
Been at Eglin AFB while F35's are taking off. They are loud! Never gets old.
This was absolutely awesome ! Thank you for sharing !
Oiii oiii 🤙🏼 thank you so much and glad you enjoyed
Your now one of my favorite plane spotters. I love your comments and interaction in the videos. Great footage. Are the F35s extremely loud?
Oiii oiii Kelan 🤙🏼 thank you very much. Funny you mention about how loud they are. Check out today’s video and you will see how loud it is in decibels ooohhh yeah
Awesome! I'd love to be in the cockpit of one those lining up. Thanks for posting!
Enjoy 🤙🏼 ooohhhhh yeah
Awesome video Ted! Such a beautiful sight!
Holy teddy bear fluff guys.... How fantastic! Well done 💖
Oiii oiii Lesley thank you ooohhh yeah
A veritable swarm!
I was stationed at Lakenheath from 1982 thru 1986, I like the F-35. but I have to say the F-111F was a much more impressive sight on mass launch.
I worked at upper heyford from 1980 until it closed, must agree the F-111's were my favourite as well. there are some great videos on you tube from that era if you look for them.
Wow that must have been an awesome sight that. Thank you for serving 🫡
One of my uncles was a F-86 fighter pilot in the Korean War who was a double ACE by shooting down 10 enemy aircraft. As a brigadier general, he commanded a wing of F-11's and liked them. He flew with them both in exercises and in secret missions as any leader does. He thought the F-111 was a great plane, but he liked the F-4 and F-86 better because he was at heart a fighter pilot and not a bomber pilot.
The F-111 was truly an amazing plane for its time.
The Elephant Walk is more than just an impressive mass of aircraft ready to takeoff; it was supposed to be a drill to get as many birds into the sky before a nuclear strike that would only give them 20 minutes at most. The Elephant Walk today I think is more just a PR stunt rather than some strategic exercise.
My dad was a B-52 pilot during the Cold War and 12 B-52's needed to be in the air in less than 15 minutes. They did what was called at the time a "minimum interval"" takeoff in which each bomber following the lead bomber had to manage the turbulence of the bomber in front of them. It was a dangerous technique, but necessary because of inbound ICBM missiles.
@Mark Edwards: Yup, F111’s at LN & UH regularly practiced mass launches with min spacing (up to 4 aircraft rolling down the runway at the same time). I don’t recall anyone ever having to abort.
Thank you for your service
Omg. That was just awesome. I can’t imagine actually being there to see and hear this. Did you know of this in advance Ted?
I plan on going to Lakenheath in a few weeks so will check when your there nearer the time .👍
Oiii oiiii Steve 🤙🏼 The pilots knew of us being there in advance 😎 This is why we put our noTEDS ooohhh yeah
@@TedConingsby You use the same excitement at the end with an “Ohhhhhh yehhhh” something me and my mates always to say to each other
Gread Vid! Thanks for Posting.
Wow.....I SO miss Lakenheath AIR SHOWS!!!! and Chicksands, upper Heyford et al......dammit! The SMELL of paraffin & BURGERS!
I really thought they were going to parallel take off simultaneously when they lined up on the runway like that, practising something we've never seen before. But they did it one at a time, queuing up like old school. When they get a.i. controlled take offs and landings we might actually see multi synchronised take offs.
And AI jets blowing one another up if they get in the way of them 😂
Nah you're giving ai too much credit man. Look at all those Tesla crashes
Real formation departures and landings were banned a few years ago, USAF and RAF with the exception of display teams. Shame. It makes departures in crappy weather more demanding.
However, it's been a while, and common sense make have now prevailed. Best option is normally to get airborne in close 3 ships, then others with, say, 15s intervals. Hi, lo, hi separation.
Leader in each 3 ship would use less than normal power to give the other 2 some flex. Join-up is done in a turn for lead/lag positioning.
Then other stuff!!!
around 500 feet for a take off, impressive as hell.
Wow, what beauties. The sounds of freedom. By the way, a sharp and clear video. Wow! Watching these beauties fly I hear the song You're Simply the Best (Tina Turner).
Thank you very much Diana
Loved my time at Lakenheath. Back in the days of the F4 and F111
The 12 F35's taking off the other day was one of the best things you've put on RUclips. 👍 👍
Oiii oiii thank you very much. It was most impressive
Nothing beats a Mass Takeoff in 4K... Nothing!
Ooohhhhhhhhhhhh yeahhhhhhh
Great job to capture this take off, more F-35’s than RIAT!
Thank you
I was in the 35th Tactical Fighter Group at RAF LAkenheath from 1971-1973! WEAPONS MECHANIC!
I remember we had a Red X issused on the canopy's of the F-4's during the morning. The last F-4 was taking off as the messege came thru and the canopy came off at the end of the runway. So he had to fly in the 300 mph wind and land...!
Oiii oiii thank you for serving 😎🇺🇸
Very few sights could be more impressive than this.
- 12 F-22s
- a flight of any of the USAF’s strategic bombers
Comes to mind…
f35 elephants walk as they call it
This was not an elephant walk. This was just a series of F-35's taking off. The elephant walk is much more impressive and results in a much faster takeoff rate.
Awesome video, thanks for sharing.
Amazing how each pilot has a slightly different style of taking off. The speed at which the after burners cut in, runway length used, aggression of movement and hold duration of the elevators during the initial pitch up, all demonstrate that these are individuals flying these highly automated aircraft, not computers.
I hope these boys can defend us from the World Economic Forum & their New World Order
Let’s hope they save more lives …..go serve my friend
I already served & it looks like I’m going to have to do it again
Amen. Amen.
That was fantastic filming, great blokes.
Oiii oiii Chris thanks man 🤙🏼oooohhhh yeah
amazing nico,s an ted!! i bet the noise was unreal!! they khew you were there so put on a show!! oioi!!
Oiii oiii David 🤙🏼🇺🇸ooohhhhh yeah
What a treat, thank you for uploading! First Class footage that!
Thank you very much
Glad you had a good day bring the noise
ooohhhhh yeah
Never gets old.
Absolutely brilliant! Thanks for the video.
I've never seen seen a line-up of fighter jets this cool!
Ooohh yeah
what an aircraft, and what a treat to find this video.....awesome.
Oiii oiii thank you and glad you enjoyed Oooohhh yeah
Thats some serious morning run. Good catch !
Awesome. Thank you so much for sharing.❤❤❤
You’re most welcome
That was a great way to start my morning.Thank you Ted!
Oiii oiiii 🤙🏼 enjoy ooohhhhh yeah
I was just recently at hill afb in Ogden Utah home of the f 35’s lighting, & what a treat to see em coming & going like gangbusters!
Such great quality. New sub! Thanks for sharing!
Oiii oiii Stephan 🤙🏼 thank you very much and welcome to the Ted Coningbsy Channel. Hope to hear from you again soon and join us in the live streams
My Father was in the 48th FBW. He was stationed in France during The Korean War.
Wow. Respect and honour 🫡