2 B-1's depart Nellis AFB, at night.

[maddogmcrae]

Those afterburners are a beautiful sight!

[DoomDriver]

Those afterburners are way better than xenon lights!!!

[rokanraver]

the camera's mic was about to explode!!!!

[tito1rocks]

gotta love the afterburner flames :D

[babaganosh]

NICE VERY NICE!!!

[Pyrotrons]

WICKED WICKED video.......... TURN SOUND UP!!

[TheVideosfactory]

great video dude thanks

[startsem]

Fantastic vid, been there too, nearly got scorched! Luck the locals were kind and let me get some shelter under the trunk of there car.



[brmelez]

Outstanding video... !!

[DBLcable]

I was stationed at Nellis in 73-77 with 474th TFW 429th TFS F-111A. We would always get a good mix of A/C from other bases. F-105's from George, F-15's from Luke, all kinds of F-4's, A-7's, F-111's from Cannon and Mountain home. I worked swing and mid and saw lots of night launches. The best were the old century series with single stage afterburner. The noise would echo through the hangers. It would sound like a bomb going off!

[Mylitla]

Obviously NOT filmed with a calculator.

[kittypie070]

oohh god damn I think I'm in LOOOOVE all over again

what beautiful birds.

[mgibbs88]

It looks cool but is it necessary with the wings unswept and the flaps down to use the afterburners on take off?

[pdlip1]

@mgibbs88

FUCK YEAH!

[weswing04]

@mgibbs88 I assume they could do it without them, but with with a full fuel load, they would use a TON of runway. Full aug more than doubles the dry thrust, and they use about 5-6k? of the runway before nose up. And that's without any weapons on board ( I work at depot for this aircraft )

[FantasticBob7000]

@mgibbs88 I'm not sure they're running the afterburners, it may just be bright MIL power exhaust showing up bright at night.

[scoobysmith44]

I got to watch one take off right above me by about 200' at the end of a runway - breathtaking!

[JWaite09]

@scoobysmith44 And deafening. Even from behind the glass where I sit in Dyess Tower, they're insanely loud.

[flowizphatman]

im surprised u didnt go deaf

[Neutrinoghost]

How long do they keep the burners on for? It seems a bit excessive.

[kukanonote1]

Beautiful.........

[pg1171]

Ahhh! The smell of jet fuel is the smell of FREEDOM! The only thing better than jet noise in the morning is jet noise at night!

[Tstormer]

Man I love it! watched i 3 times

[Tstormer]

I lived an visited Las Vegas man at times. Saw a squadron of B-2's take off!

[Tstormer]

very cool! I been by there many a times...I lived in San Diego for 12 yrs. I added ya as a friend,. I have some WWII aircraft videos posted here. Though I'm currently at my other channel. (northwestvideos) And I have a San Diego channel coming up soon. Visited when I was in Portland OR. take care...will be back to view more!

[crushker]

Yea that night they kept launching things. Pretty loud...

[pkrippa]

Bad to the Bone!

[ObltKG4]

That is an incredible video mate. Thanks for posting this great vid....!!!! Love to be behind the throttle lol.

[Vash3k5]

120% Thrust please!!!!!!

[TehScar]

Awesome, pure awesome

[planecrazynl]

we're lovin it , thanks 

[WVBoy25401]

Sexy afterburner!!

[vince38curious2]

Damm that will rattle any filling loose !!

Thumbs up if you just love jet noise !!

[SkyHawk024]

@vince38curious2 imagine hearing that plane from the ground when it's below 300 feet and thats thunder over louisville's air show for ya!

[vince38curious2]

@SkyHawk024 Ok now you are just making me jealous. we don't get many airshows over here in AUSTRALIA The Aussie airforce doesn't have the same sort of presence in everyday life here as the US forces do. Maybe because our military is so much smaller. There is only 21 million of us and over 300 million in the states population.

[FoXakaFoX]

USA FTW

[UNSClead1]

Damn look at that heat plume. It's huge!

[WildBillHabiki]

damn they stay in burners for ever.

[drexeldrax45]

So.....Much.....Jetwash.......­that's soooo freakin awesome I love the afterburner it's gotta be 9 feet long.

[YZach]

Freaking awesome, that thing looks so mean at night.

[shadowblade145]

Look at the exauhst on that thing!

You could burn a whole chicken from 500 yards behind it!

[killjoy270]

that was an awesome day thanks for the post

[birdinator2]

They probably can take off w/o them, but it does look better with them

[Drakho001]

Can the b-1 take off without afterburners???

[shadowblade145]

@Drakho001 Oh yeah, but it's a lot less stylish and fast though.

[escaperoute2]

@Drakho001 of course it can