This is what landing an F-16 fighter jet looks like from inside the cockpit.
During my flight with the United States Air Force at Edwards Air Force Base, F-16 pilot “Hash” brought us back down towards the runway after an incredible high-performance flight over the Mojave Desert.
From the cockpit of the F-16 Viper, we descended towards Edwards, lining up with the runway before touching down at one of the most iconic flight test bases in the world.
This is the raw cockpit footage of our approach and landing at Edwards Air Force Base.
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Cool wristwatch at 00:12. What make/model is that?
2021-1216, Homestead AFB Evacuated.
At 1700-hours a 500-pound bomb fell off an F-16. It rolled down to the bomb storage area. All 3,200 Airmen at Homestead were evacuated off base.
At 0740-hours the next morning, all was clear.
2016-0602 AF Thunderbird F16 Runs Out of Fuel.
AF MAJ Alex Turner was part of the AF Thunderbird air show at the AFA graduation. President Obama was the guest speaker. Obama was 20-Minutes late and spoke for 20 minutes longer than he was supposed to. at the end of Obama’s speech, the Thunderbirds were to do a flyover. MAJ Turner’s F-16 ran out of gas on the way back to Peterson AFB and crashed. MAJ Turner and LTC Hammond the CMR of the Thunderbirds were fired.
President Obama has been late a total of 35 hours for events during his presidency he operates on C.P.T. (Colored People Time.)
2016-1225, AF Determines the Crash was Caused by Mechanical Failure.
2007-1019, Injured Pilot Lands F-16.
Flying above the Gulf of Mexico in the early afternoon, MAJ Booth Johnston steered his F-16 Fighting Falcon upward @ better than 500 mph. The nine-G turn pushed Johnston, who stands 6-foot-3 & weighs 200 pounds, into the fighter’s seat, a sensation not much different from hundreds of other times during his 2,500 hours in F-16s. Then something snapped. Near the top of Johnston’s spine, the disk between the fifth & sixth vertebra suddenly popped out of place, pinching the nerves that connect his brain with his feet & hands. & just as suddenly, Johnston was fighting for his life.
Barely conscious & in excruciating pain, he struggled to maintain control of the plane. Today, he can only guess @ how to piece it all together. “I don’t remember that day much,” recalled Johnston, then assigned to the Texas Air National Guard’s 147th Fighter Wing @ Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base near Houston. Johnston suspects the disk blew out as he turned his head to spot his wingman, MAJ Steve Sambell. Sambell didn’t realize anything was wrong with Johnston. “All I could tell was that he was flying the airplane,” said Sambell, also assigned to the 147th.
Then, Sambell heard Johnston declare, “Knock it off!” The radio call to halt the mock dogfight. Johnston sounded as if he was in too much pain to explain what happened, Sambell said. When he asked Johnston a question, Johnston grunted back with a “yes” or “no.” The pilots turned toward Ellington, about 20 minutes away. Despite the pain & the loss of feeling in both his arms & legs, Johnston kept the F-16 on course. With Sambell helping guide him & others on the ground communicating with him over the radio, Johnston touched down @
Ellington & brought the plane to a safe stop. The Air Force is recognizing Johnston’s extraordinary efforts on that day, Oct. 16, 2007, with the Koren Kolligian Jr. Trophy, given annually to an aircrew member for outstanding feats of skill, alertness, ingenuity or proficiency that avert an accident or minimize the severity of the mishap. Named for LTC Koren Kolligian Jr., who was declared missing in the line of duty when his T-33 aircraft disappeared off the California coast Sept. 14, 1955, the trophy is the service’s only individual safety award personally presented by the Air Force chief of staff. A date for the presentation @ the Pentagon hasn’t been set.
The pain from his injury & then three days under heavy sedation have left Johnston without a clear memory of how he landed the plane. Those who heard Johnston’s strained radio calls & watched him land the F-16 believe they know what happened. “His experience kicked in,” Sambell said. “His second nature kicked in.” Twenty minutes after calling “Knock it off!” Johnston was being lifted out of the cockpit by emergency crews. “I remember a snippet of a guy in a silver suit pulling @ me,” Johnston said. Johnston was loaded into an ambulance & taken first to the base medical clinic, then to Memorial Hermann Southeast Hospital, about four miles from the base. Johnston was injected with morphine, Valium & Vicodin. He was out cold. “On the third day, I started to realize I was in the hospital,” Johnston said. “How did I get here?” Johnston recalled thinking. It took four more days before Johnston could walk a few feet & was allowed to go home, where his parents took care of him. However, his treatment was far from over.
Civilian doctors struggled for two months to figure out what exactly was wrong. By Johnston’s count, there were 20 X-rays, two CAT scans, three MRIs & a sampling of spinal fluid. Looking back, Johnston sees now that the doctors were confused because they had no experience with the effects of high-performance flying. “It was like a puzzle to them,” he said Finally, an Air Force flight surgeon advised the doctors that a high-G turn could have the same impact as a sudden blow. That did it: Doctors soon discovered the damage to Johnston’s upper spine. “They found I blew out a disk, causing a pinched nerve @ cervical 5-6,” the pilot said. An operation to relieve pressure on the nerves was an option.
Neurosurgeons warned, though, that he risked paralysis if the nerves were accidentally damaged during the procedure. He decided against surgery. Today, without surgery, Johnston has full use of his hands & feet. He’s even back working out. “When I go to the gym, I can lift about half of what I used to,” he said. Piercing headaches continue, however & Johnston can’t sit long without back pain. Because of his medical problems, Johnston, now a LTC, can’t pass a fighter pilot’s rigorous flight physical. While Johnston recovered, the 147th wing switched from flying F-16s to flying remote-controlled MQ-1 Predators. Even operating an unmanned aerial vehicle from the ground would be too taxing for Johnston because he can’t stay seated for long periods. Instead, Johnston works as the wing’s special security & antiterrorism officer. He expects to be medically retired someday because of lingering headaches & back pain.
Johnston can’t even take a final retirement flight in the back seat of an F-16D because he could reinjure his back. He misses the experience of flight. “Every time I see an airplane, I miss it,” he said. “I’m not anxious to get back into an F-16,” Johnston said. “I really want to walk.
2006-0526, Aviation, NCO of the Year Dies in Flight.
AF Airman of the year taken on an incentive flight aboard an F-16, tail number 84-1326, his oxygen system malfunctions, and he dies in flight. This was the only AF Aviation accidental death in FY-06.
So a two seat F16B or D.
A+ Fuel management!
Joshua Control approves
The AFFTC is out there. The airshows are top notch.
WTF, CUTTING BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN TWO PILOTS???? WHAT BS
Why even use AI for thumbnails. Just take a frame from the video, it’s just as cool
Bro sounds like Jason breathing in there.
I though this was DCS…. 🙂
Enjoy it now, because AI and drones will eliminate all human pilots.
Please can I join you on your amazing adventures 🤩
DLSS 5 looks amazing
I hit 12 T&Gs @ EAFB long time ago. ( from one approach- C152) LOL
Crazy good timing with the fuel, Buddy 🤣🔥🔥
Damn bro ur living my dream, i got 40 hours as a student pilot hoping to get into the USAF academy after school, looks amazing