Uploaded October 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Savage F-18 Hornet flight display by the Swiss Air Force at Sanicole International Airshow 2022!!
Against a cloudy background and a wet sky, the Swiss Hornet tears, cuts and rips through the heavens, pulling clouds and vapour fluff all around, roaring and whistling as if embodying an otherworldly supernatural being cometh from the depths of hell itself to devour the unwary in a pure unrestrained show of godly powers! :D
Jokes and poetry aside, I'm pretty sure you have all watched TopGun: Maverick at this point (great movie!), and although the title is obvious clickbait, you gotta give it to the swiss pilot that he pulled quite the show with the Hornet in these wet-weather conditions! :D
Those extreme loaded rolls with all the LERX vortice fluff swirling around were quite the treat! :D
Not to mention the tight turns, post-stall spin, knife edge pass and transonic flyby! :)
And this ain't Hollywood, y'know! ^^
The F-18 Hornet is a twin-engine, supersonic, all-weather, carrier-capable, multirole combat jet, designed as both a fighter and attack aircraft. Designed by McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing and Northrop), the F-18 was derived from the latter's YF-17 in the 1970s for use by the United States Navy and Marine Corps.
The F/A-18 has excellent aerodynamic characteristics, primarily attributed to its leading edge root extensions, that coupled with a digital fly-by-wire control system, allow the Hornet to remain controllable at high angles of attack. The trapezoidal wing has a 20-degree sweepback on the leading edge and a straight trailing edge. Canted vertical stabilizers are another distinguishing design element, one among several other such elements that enable the Hornet's excellent high angle of attack ability, including oversized horizontal stabilators, oversized trailing-edge flaps that operate as flaperons, large full-length leading-edge slats, and flight control computer programming that boosts the jet's maneuverability.
The Hornet is also notable for having been designed to reduce maintenance, and as a result, has required far less downtime than its heavier counterparts, the F-14 Tomcat and the A-6 Intruder. Its mean time between failures is three times greater than any other Navy strike aircraft, and requires half the maintenance time. Its General Electric F404 engines were also innovative in that they were designed with operability, reliability, and maintainability first. The engine, while unexceptional in rated performance, demonstrates exceptional robustness under various conditions and is resistant to stall and flameout.
The engine air inlets of the Hornet, like that of the F-16, are of a simpler "fixed" design, while those of the F-4, F-14, and F-15 have variable geometry or variable intake ramp air inlets. This is a speed-limiting factor in the Hornet design. Instead, the Hornet uses bleed-air vents on the inboard surface of the engine intake ducts to slow and reduce the amount of air reaching the engine. While not as effective as variable geometry, the bleed-air technique functions well enough to achieve near Mach 2 speeds, which is within the designed mission requirements.
SPECIFICATIONS
Crew: 1
Length: 17.1 m
Wingspan: 12.3 m
Height: 4.7 m
Wing area: 38 m2
Aspect ratio: 4
Airfoil: root: NACA 65A005 mod.; tip:NACA 65A003.5 mod.
Empty weight: 10433 kg
Gross weight: 16769 kg
MTOW: 23541 kg
Fuel capacity: 4930 kg internally
Powerplant: 2 × General Electric F404-GE-402 afterburning turbofan engines, 49 kN thrust each dry, 79 kN with afterburner
Maximum speed: Mach 1.8 (1915 km/h at 12000 m)
Cruise speed: 1062 km/h
Range: 2017 km
Combat range: 741 km air-air mission
Ferry range: 3334 km
Service ceiling: 15000 m
Rate of climb: 250 m/s
Wing loading: 450 kg/m2
Thrust/weight: 0.96 (1.13 with loaded weight at 50% internal fuel)
More info here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_F/A-18_Hornet
International Sanicole Airshow official homepage:
sanicole.com/en
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3:40 - Full demonstration, uncut
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Savage F-18 Hornet flight display by the Swiss Air Force at Sanicole International Airshow 2022!!
Against a cloudy background and a wet sky, the Swiss Hornet tears, cuts and rips through the heavens, pulling clouds and vapour fluff all around, roaring and whistling as if embodying an otherworldly supernatural being cometh from the depths of hell itself to devour the unwary in a pure unrestrained show of godly powers! :D
Jokes and poetry aside, I'm pretty sure you have all watched TopGun: Maverick at this point (great movie!), and although the title is obvious clickbait, you gotta give it to the swiss pilot that he pulled quite the show with the Hornet in these wet-weather conditions! :D
Those extreme loaded rolls with all the LERX vortice fluff swirling around were quite the treat! :D
Not to mention the tight turns, post-stall spin, knife edge pass and transonic flyby! :)
And this ain't Hollywood, y'know! ^^
The F-18 Hornet is a twin-engine, supersonic, all-weather, carrier-capable, multirole combat jet, designed as both a fighter and attack aircraft. Designed by McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing and Northrop), the F-18 was derived from the latter's YF-17 in the 1970s for use by the United States Navy and Marine Corps.
The F/A-18 has excellent aerodynamic characteristics, primarily attributed to its leading edge root extensions, that coupled with a digital fly-by-wire control system, allow the Hornet to remain controllable at high angles of attack. The trapezoidal wing has a 20-degree sweepback on the leading edge and a straight trailing edge. Canted vertical stabilizers are another distinguishing design element, one among several other such elements that enable the Hornet's excellent high angle of attack ability, including oversized horizontal stabilators, oversized trailing-edge flaps that operate as flaperons, large full-length leading-edge slats, and flight control computer programming that boosts the jet's maneuverability.
The Hornet is also notable for having been designed to reduce maintenance, and as a result, has required far less downtime than its heavier counterparts, the F-14 Tomcat and the A-6 Intruder. Its mean time between failures is three times greater than any other Navy strike aircraft, and requires half the maintenance time. Its General Electric F404 engines were also innovative in that they were designed with operability, reliability, and maintainability first. The engine, while unexceptional in rated performance, demonstrates exceptional robustness under various conditions and is resistant to stall and flameout.
The engine air inlets of the Hornet, like that of the F-16, are of a simpler "fixed" design, while those of the F-4, F-14, and F-15 have variable geometry or variable intake ramp air inlets. This is a speed-limiting factor in the Hornet design. Instead, the Hornet uses bleed-air vents on the inboard surface of the engine intake ducts to slow and reduce the amount of air reaching the engine. While not as effective as variable geometry, the bleed-air technique functions well enough to achieve near Mach 2 speeds, which is within the designed mission requirements.
SPECIFICATIONS
Crew: 1
Length: 17.1 m
Wingspan: 12.3 m
Height: 4.7 m
Wing area: 38 m2
Aspect ratio: 4
Airfoil: root: NACA 65A005 mod.; tip:NACA 65A003.5 mod.
Empty weight: 10433 kg
Gross weight: 16769 kg
MTOW: 23541 kg
Fuel capacity: 4930 kg internally
Powerplant: 2 × General Electric F404-GE-402 afterburning turbofan engines, 49 kN thrust each dry, 79 kN with afterburner
Maximum speed: Mach 1.8 (1915 km/h at 12000 m)
Cruise speed: 1062 km/h
Range: 2017 km
Combat range: 741 km air-air mission
Ferry range: 3334 km
Service ceiling: 15000 m
Rate of climb: 250 m/s
Wing loading: 450 kg/m2
Thrust/weight: 0.96 (1.13 with loaded weight at 50% internal fuel)
More info here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_F/A-18_Hornet
International Sanicole Airshow official homepage:
sanicole.com/en
If you dearly enjoy my content, please consider supporting me on Patreon!
patreon.com/Airguardian
Chapters:
0:00 - F-18 Flight demo highlights
3:40 - Full demonstration, uncut
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![DASSAULT RAFALE, Crazy Agile Flights! ✈️ MAKS 2013 [Remastered]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/evW2jX2CREc/mqdefault.jpg "DASSAULT RAFALE, Crazy Agile Flights! ✈️ MAKS 2013 [Remastered]
Dassault Rafale Solo Display Team showing off the great agility of this superb fighter at MAKS 2013 International Air and Space Salon.
Back in the day my footage was quite shaky but now I have better means of stabilization and color grading so I wanted to resurrect a few videos and give them a bit of polish... Hope youll appreciate the effort! :)
The Dassault Rafale (French pronunciation: [ʁafal], literally meaning gust of wind, and burst of fire in a more military sense) is a French twin-engine, canard delta wing, multirole fighter aircraft designed and built by Dassault Aviation. Equipped with a wide range of weapons, the Rafale is intended to perform air supremacy, interdiction, aerial reconnaissance, ground support, in-depth strike, anti-ship strike and nuclear deterrence missions. The Rafale is referred to as an omnirole aircraft by Dassault.
In the late 1970s, the French Air Force and French Navy were seeking to replace and consolidate their current fleets of aircraft. In order to reduce development costs and boost prospective sales, France entered into an arrangement with the UK, Germany, Italy and Spain to produce an agile multi-purpose Future European Fighter Aircraft (which would become the Eurofighter Typhoon). Subsequent disagreements over workshare and differing requirements led to Frances pursuit of its own development programme. Dassault built a technology demonstrator which first flew in July 1986 as part of an eight-year flight-test programme, paving the way for the go-ahead of the project. The Rafale is distinct from other European fighters of its era in that it is almost entirely built by one country, involving most of Frances major defence contractors, such as Dassault, Thales and Safran.
Many of the aircrafts avionics and features, such as direct voice input, the RBE2 AA active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar and the optronique secteur frontal infrared search and track (IRST) sensor, were domestically developed and produced for the Rafale programme. Originally scheduled to enter service in 1996, the Rafale suffered significant delays due to post-Cold War budget cuts and changes in priorities. The aircraft is available in three main variants: Rafale C single-seat land-based version, Rafale B twin-seat land-based version, and Rafale M single-seat carrier-based version. Introduced in 2001, the Rafale is being produced for both the French Air Force and Navy.
The Rafale was developed as a modern jet fighter with a very high level of agility; Dassault chose to combine a delta wing with active close-coupled canard to maximize manoeuvrability. The aircraft is capable of withstanding from −3.6g to 9g (10.5g on Rafale solo display and a maximum of 11g can be reached in case of emergency). The Rafale is an aerodynamically unstable aircraft and uses digital fly-by-wire flight controls to artificially enforce and maintain stability. The aircrafts canards also act to reduce the minimum landing speed to 115 knots (213 km/h); while in flight, airspeeds as low as 15 knots (28 km/h) have been observed during training missions. According to simulations by Dassault, the Rafale has sufficient low speed performance to operate from STOBAR-configured aircraft carriers, and can take off using a ski-jump with no modifications.
SPECS
Crew: 1 or 2
Length: 15.27 m
Wingspan: 10.90 m
Height: 5.34 m
Wing area: 45.7 m2
Empty weight: 9850 kg - 10600 kg
Gross weight: 15000 kg
MTOW: 24500 kg
Fuel capacity:
· 4700 kg internal for single-seater
· 4400 kg internal for two-seater
Maximum fuel: 16550 L (5750 L internal + 2300 L in 2x conformal tanks + 8500 L in 5 drop tanks)
Powerplant: 2 × Snecma M88-4e turbofans
· 50.04 kN thrust each (dry)
· 75 kN thrust each (with afterburner)
PERFORMANCE
Maximum speed:
· 1912 km/h / Mach 1.8 at high altitude
· 1390 km/h / Mach 1.1 at low altitude
Supercruise: Mach 1.4
Combat range: 1850 km on penetration mission with three tanks (5700 L combined), two SCALP-EG and two MICA AAMs
Ferry range: 3700 km with 3 drop tanks
Service ceiling: 15835 m
g limits: +9 −3.6 (+11 in emergencies)
Rate of climb: 304.8 m/s
Wing loading: 328 kg/m2
Thrust/weight: 0.988 (100% fuel, 2 EM A2A missile, 2 IR A2A missile)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dassault_Rafale
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