BOEING F18F US NAVY SUPER HORNET DEMONSTRATION (airshowvision HD)

Airshowvision present one of the Worlds' most awesome and versatile warplanes - the US Navy F18 Super Hornet.

In this video the aircraft is carrying 6 air to air missiles on it's underwing racks, as well as the usual sidewinder missiles on the end of each wing, giving the aircraft a high all up weight. Despite this disadvantage, the Hornet still delivers a high G display.

Included in the demo is the spectacular push-pull manouvers, the slow pass, a square loop, and a tough landing.

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[templarknight618]

does it have thrust vectoring or not? cause it looks like with the moves its making

[airshowvision]

@templarknight618 No it doesn't have thrust vectoring.

[groov539]

Dayum... I didn't realize the F-18 could do all that stuff.. No doubt is the all-time greatest fighter a/c of all time and has probably logged more hours than any other although F-14 and F-16 has seen much service as well.

[airshowvision]

@groov539 With all due respect to both yourself & the F18, I think the award for greatest fighter plane of all time would probably go to the Supermarine Spitfire from WWII - with an awesome record in combat, over 20,000 produced, & a service life of over 15 years; unmatched at that time.

[foxvw]

1:51 the Gs on that must hurt like crap. That is one of the most painful maneuvers a jet pilot can do.

[airshowvision]

@foxvw When you watch the demos you tend to forget the agony the pilot is probably going through pulling the high G's - it's pretty painful for the cameraman too at times! That square loop near the end is a back breaker to film I can assure you, and very, very difficult to film in one shot. You wont see that shot very often.

[thegunnerboy99]

thumbs up is bf3 brought u here

[thatoneguy12ize]

thumbs up if bf3 didn't bring you here and you don't need pussy ass games to see a great plane

[akngac5]

@foxvw

Correct, our bodies are designed to handle positive G forces, we are naturally acclimated to it. The negative G forces are damaging.

[foxvw]

@akngac5 right but the negative G force at my reference are much more difficult to handle than positive Gs and could make a pilot pass out or rupture blood vessels in teh brain even under 7 gs.

[akngac5]

@radarvc35

You are spot on with your statement. The rules applied to U.S. demo pilots completely trivializes our aircrafts true capabilities, not to mention many forget to couple the manueverability with the AESA radar, the joint helmet system, and advanced weapons delivery systems onboard.our fighters.

[akngac5]

@templarknight618

It's complex fly by wire system gives it a superior ability to maintain as much control even when conditions are highly unstable, or the aircraft is at the point of departing (stalls).

[akngac5]

@foxvw

The Superhornet has a G limiter of 7 Gs, however, for emergencies, this limiter can be disabled. This pilot pulled no more than 7 though. I've worked on Supers and legacy hornets for eighteen years now.

[radarvc35]

@aagjew I think the maneauvers flown in this video debunk your notion that it is not a good air to air fighter. It was carrying a large weapons load during this performance and still did some increditable stuff. Oh and dont forget U.S. pilots are not allowed to go all out at airshows like some others are! You were probably only seeing about 1/3 of what it can actually do.

[Wawaweewaj]

@templarknight618 it doesn't have thrust vectoring however it has such large flight surfaces that it can pull ridiculous maneuvers