I was based at Brize during my RAF service in the mid 80s, lived in one of the accommodation blocks up near the NAAFI , fairly close to the airfield and often experienced close up views of aircraft coming in of all types, also had great air shows, probably still do.

Thank you too!

At times it looked like it was paddling through the sky

I’ve never seen the B or C in person but the A still shocks me how loud it is. F15 flew after last years airshow I was at and it sounded half as loud

You are welcome!

Many thanks 👌

You're welcome! 👌

Many thanks Jeff 👌

Many thanks 👌

It was a cool display, shame the weather wasn't better

Shame a helicopter was starting up for the whole duration of the Hurricane flight 🤬 one of its attractions- the Merlin Engine sounds - drowned out 😭

Many thanks 👌

Rock on!

Glad you enjoyed it 👌 just a shame no Sun

@@ElwynR true some sun would have been good

Lol, it’s like it’s doing moonwalking like Michael Jackson or airborne walking 😂😂😂

🤣 I was struggling a bit, having a bit of trouble with my shoulder 🤨

@@ElwynR my arms are still aching now from waving my 300 f2.8 around with the video on top 😁 but enjoyed every minute of it 👍👌🇬🇧✈️🇺🇲

It's a good question. I've net seen anything quite like that before.

Roll control/stability.

the F35 has fly by wire. That means there are computers between the flight stick and the wing control surfaces. So, pilot: Hold this steady high angle of attack. That makes the flight computers work harder. wind and weather: lots of small gusts of wind blowing over the airframe. And you now trying to balance the fighter on rear engine thrust, but you not flying very fast, are you? So, the control surfaces have to work very hard at what amounts to flying at stall speed. Result? Computer works like mad to fly the fighter in perfect steady and stability. Try looking at the rest of the aircraft and not the rear control surfaces. The result is 100% rock steady flying, but to do that the computers are fighting tiny gusts of wind that would affect how stable the fighter is. Toss in your very nose high, then it becomes a balancing act for the flight computers. So, the control surfaces are trying to do what the pilot is asking - please fly rock steady at a high angle of attack, balance most of the weight on the rear of the fighter. The pilot could NEVER react that fast, but computer controlled flight surfaces can - so computers move the wing surfaces like crazy to provide a perfect stable platform. If there was no gusting wind, then the flight control computers would not have to work so hard to keep the fighter perfect stable. So, this is the result of computers + fly by wire. They are working hard in that shot to keep the fighter balanced VERY high nose up. It not unlike you trying to balance a pencil on the end of your finger - you have to make lots of small and very fast movements. Same thing occurs in a hover - the pilot can even let go of the flight stick, and the fighter will hover EXACTLY at that current spot and location. However, if there is any gusting wind, you see the flight control surfaces and even the rear thrust control nozzle move around like crazy trying to produce a rock steady and solid hover - and one over the exact spot you were hovering over from the ground's point of view. Look VERY close at the hover video - 6:06, pay attention VERY close to HOW VERY FAST the rear nozzle is moving back and forth to create that stable hover - it near "jiggles" back and forth - and again the result of computer fly by wire.

Yes 👍

Thai is louder

B version

I think you'll find that this role demo is the most the RAF have demonstrated in the UK to date! Yes they have demonstrated the hover and done a couple of flypass before but not as much as this

Erm, not really. There's a huge amount of machine intelligence and augmentation in this weapons platform. It would be utterly unflyable and operable without this incorporation...

It would! A new F22 😍

@@ElwynRa brand new SR-71.

​@@ElwynRyeah good idea!

​@@mknewlan67well the new SR72 is supposed be is a mach 10 aircraft I don't think those would work.. but if they used two it might go mach 3+ then use ram and scam jet for the rest of the way up to mach 10👍

I know this. I put one in my 1978 Toyota.

Me too 👌

My understanding is they haven't ruled out the A model in future

I thought they had orders for A version too.

Should convert carriers to emals and switch out to C versions

problem has always worried me -------like driving down the motorway with your hood up !!

I agree 👌 should cach the harrier later this year 🤞

@ElwynR yeah I carnt wait to see it at riat agree

At least the Harrier could “Take a bow!”, I’ve not seen the F35 do that yet.

Can those be seen 80 miles away?

I believe that this display is a very toned down display after Beo Wolf 🐺 display last year at Huntington beach California

@@ElwynR ah ok, I’ll take a look at that. Yes it has done a more “active” display before. Your footage is fantastic as always.

no VTOL

The B while capable of vertical takeoff is STOVL and won't be armed with nukes.

"A nod to the BAe Harrier."(sic) BAe didn't get involved until long after the GR.1 had achieved IOC.

Yes me too! Hopefully get to see the Harrier next month 🙏

@@ElwynR Is there a Harrier at an air show somewhere? Are you going to the US to see one of the few USMC squadrons before they retire them?

@@RCAvhstapeare the Spanish ones still in service?

Yes the Spanish will display their Harrier next month and I hope to be heading to the USA September

@@ElwynR I read that the last scheduled USMC Harrier appearance at an airshow was about a month ago, but if you go to Havelock, NC you can probably still see them flying the pattern for another year or two.

Yes thanks to the Tories they have ripped Great off Britain 🤨

It’s a harrier situation

Uk builds and designed 20% of the F-35B.

Without the technical and financial assistance provided by the US taxpayer via the MWDP, the Pegasus, Kestrel and Harrier never would have made it past the drafting table.

@@fakkattak4963yes but it seems Lightning does in fact strike twice

18 $M more than F16 but with loads more capability’s

@@robertpatrick3350 et la maintenance par rapport au F-16?.....

In Ben Dunnell - Cosford has one of the best airshow commentators in the business (he can be heard at Duxford, RIAT Fairford etc, he did the later Waddington shows too). If you had 'earpieces' - you'd still be listening to the same commentary, as on the loudspeakers!

​@@pburr1973 if you chose to...

Thanks for your input 👍

Great video, many thanks - best to just ignore the ‘haters’.

Battle penguin 🐧

The mistakes that were made with the Harrier - primarily the hot gas ingesting compressor stall generating failures of the Pegasus - weren't repeated with the F-35B

Not a display its a demo 😂🙄

@@ElwynR Ah I understand! 👍👍

Its for war not beauty contests.

"the US Marines Corps, said no thanks, when they tried it, and it was built for them, as a AV8B replacement, and they turned it down"(sic) Complete BS, pogue. Barcalounger cabal experts like you generate a lot of laughs in the ready rooms of all ten Marine Corps F-35B squadrons around the world.