2 F-15 Eagle unrestricted climbs

2 F-15 Eagle unrestricted climbs

[@benrichey2593]

“We’re going to film these jets doing an absolutely mind blowing vertical maneuver, so whatever you do, do NOT elevate the camera at any point.”

[@jconradh]

Right. Why would we want to see more (eyes roll)?

[@will7its]

We were all waiting for them to start filming the ground.....🤠

[@no_name5005]

Dude def wasn’t looking at the camera and was just watching it 😂

[@will7its]

That was the "top secret" part.......🤐

[@raya.2041]

Or use the zoom so you’re just looking at some tiny dots.

[@GrummanBearcat]

The F-15 has always been one of my favourites. I live in the East of England and enjoy regular at home air shows. A few mornings each week I get to see 2 or 3 USAF F-15s from Lakenheath practising their air combat manoeuvring, and sometimes in the afternoon get to see the RAF Typhoons doing the same. We also get the Battle of Britain flight and the Red Arrows passing over on their way to London and the South. My ear is attuned to the sound of Merlins; as I soon as I hear them I call out 'Lancaster!' and my wife races to the back garden to give them a wave.

[@FarmerDrew]

CHEERS FROM OHIO! I'm finding myself saluting the sky here in Dayton, with all the C17s flying aid to Ukraine.

[@Redcoat11]

Eyy I used to live in mildenhall

[@yourlastfoe]

So glad to have you and the UK as our ally. We give you state of the art weapons and you helped us develop our Delta Force and DEVGRU. A match made in heaven for us and a match made in hell for our enemies. Cheers.

[@laarbpad2107]

This is a good life! Your wife seems like a cool lady.

[@Aphexion]

Gosh, that sounds amazing. You are so lucky, let me tell you! I live in Argentina and here we don't have a sh*t. The F-15 became my favorite fighter since I played Ace Combat Zero when I was a child. I hope I get to see one in real life someday

[@garyparis8981]

Back in the early 80s when I was a young Air Force POL troop, the F-15 was the first fighter I ever refueled. Still one of my favorites!!

[@paulwhite5840]

I went from B-52s to F-15s in '83. Both still give this weapons troop's goose bumps.

[@alecbarr7210]

WHO THE HELL!!!

[@Vqnro]

Crazy I’m an EE troop and I just joined but thank you for your service🇺🇸

[@Jameski07]

WHo THE HELL???

[@FlyingHighVeteran]

@@Jameski07 POL! I wasn't POL but remember those at MX Calls. I was a Crew Chief--A-10, F-15C, D & E, RF4C Phantoms, Predator & a few others I got to work.

[@marcweeks9178]

My 20-year-old son is an avionics tech for the F-15E Strike Eagle at Seymour Johnson AFB. These afterburner roars are the background music to his life now.

[@sjp35productions6]

As us old timey USAF vets would say, “It’s the sound of Freedom.”

[@amishmike1]

@@sjp35productions6 As us old timey former Eagle Drivers would say, "Just shut up and get the aircraft ready. If we step late, it's your fault."

[@sjp35productions6]

@@amishmike1 I was just a firefighter so I wasn’t privy to such conversations. Besides, I was a SAC trained killer©️, Son of LeMay©️. B-52s were my baliwick. We did enjoy the occasional visit by the fighter jocks.

[@amishmike1]

@@sjp35productions6 Great to see your son carrying on the family tradition of AF service. -52s need firetruck nearby at all times since they're 100 years old 🙂 Great aircraft though and SAC was a first-rate organization. I came in after it left us though but I've read the history and heard the stories.

[@lawyerlarrry]

Thanks for his service. 💪🏻🇺🇸

[@davidoldham7476]

Back in the 70's while waiting inside a plane to take off at the St. Louis airport I saw an F-15 roll out of one of the then McDonnell Douglas buildings across the way and taxi to the end of a runway. It went screaming down the tarmac and took off vertically. I was very impressed.

[@davisc1926]

I lived in St. Louis for 14 years and they also used to have some F-15's based at Lambert with the Air National Guard years ago. Even if you were waiting at a gate when one took off, they shook the entire terminal.

[@patrickshaw8595]

That's nothing. In '78 I was a student at an aircraft mechanic school across the runway from Mac & Doug's Airplane Shop in Tulsa. I was asked to drive the golf cart while one of the instructors showed a couple foreign visitors around our grounds. Picture this - the instructor was picked because he an ex USN Phantom Jock and both visitors had on their Republic of Korea AF flight jackets with their national colors. They were in town getting their ROC Phantoms worked on by Mac & Doug. Of course the golf cart had a radio that allowed us to hear Tulsa's tower talk to their traffic. I was directed to pull up to a good spot to watch a takeoff. Minutes later a brand new -15 seemed to lazily amble down the runway and at about halfway just point the nose straight up, engage full burners and proceed to slow roll it's way completely out of sight into the clear blue sunny Oklahoma sky. The ROC Jocks looked at each other and then completely lost their cool like girls at a rock concert... "HOW HE DO ??!??" - while making spiraling upward hand motions, they said, hysterically excited. The Instructor just smiled and drew himself up to all 6'4" and said "Badass Muhfuggin' American Airplane - THAT'S how !" Proudest I ever been of aspiring to be a licensed American A&P Aircraft Mechanic and helping to Keep Her Moving.

[@douglasdixon524]

We had F-4 Phantoms at the guard base right next to my neighborhood in Arkansas in the 1970s and 80s. The house shook so much, the storm doors and our windows would flex back and forth from those awesome jets and their afterburners.

[@davidweiss8710]

Back in the 90's I was in a plane headed back from STL to DSM and was on the side of the plane with a view of the runway and the pilot came over the comms and said "to those of you on the right side of the plane you're in for a treat as the F-15's will be doing a "Viking Takeoff" which looked just like this video. It was amazing to see!

[@wmdandridge9021]

I saw that too, shook all the windows in the airport!

[@colormeup82]

I will never forget my first time seeing the Oregon Air National Guard F-15's doing a unrestricted climb. I had stopped next to the runway to eat my lunch before going to work when i saw them taxing to the runway. I had seen them take off many times before but it was still exciting. As the first one floated off the runway i noticed it not really climbing, and then the wheels went up. About the same time i realized what was happening, it just shot strait up and felt the rumble through my body as it screamed away. I felt like a kid again waiting for the other 2 to take off.

[@geraldtrudeau3223]

Back in 1966 I was a brand new one striper in the Air Force, and my first active duty station was at Edwards Air Force Base. At that time they were doing a lot of work on the SR-71, the X-15, and even the B-70. That would be the second one after the first one crashed. It took them a while to get the second one up and flying because they had cannibalized so many parts of it to get the first one up and flying. Anyway, the Flight Test School out there used the F-104 Starfighter for an awful lot of their work. A truly beautiful airplane. One of the things that was always impressive was when they did what was called a Zoom Flight. That's what they were called, when they did this maneuver you just saw where they would hit the end of the runway pull, the stick back and shoot practically straight up, like a rocket, until they ran out of airspeed. They even attached a rocket to a couple of them, just above the tailpipe, (called it The NF-104), so when they ran out of airspeed, they would fire the rocket, and shoot right up to the edge of space. If you ever watch The Right Stuff, you saw how that worked out. It was always fun to watch. Those were heady days. That was just a small reminiscence, and thank you for indulging me.

[@dr.jamesolack8504]

Bunch of Kelly Johnson masterpieces. What a genius of a man he was.

[@HEDGE1011]

Gerald, I so appreciate you sharing those memories! I can’t imagine how awe-inspiring seeing some of those things fly would be. You started your USAF career off right! 🇺🇸

[@geraldtrudeau3223]

@@HEDGE1011 Thank you for your reply, Hedge. I was there for a little over a year with my wife, and our daughter was born there. It was an amazing place to be especially at that time. One of my most Vivid memories was coming home from work one day, and as I was walking in, from the car, I heard airplanes overhead. When I looked up I was treated to the sight of the B70 bomber flying low overhead in formation, with the SR-71 following just behind. I couldn't help but make the comparison of a crow flying in formation with a swan. That image has stuck with me to this day. One other time I had to leave our shop,(I was a personal equipment specialist at the time), and go to a hanger down the flight line. It was early morning the sun was still low in the sky off my right, and as I passed one I hanger, I turn my head to the left, and in the wide space between the two hangers was a B-52 facing me head-on about 50 feet away, with the X-15 hanging under the wing. I'm guessing they were prepping for a flight. But the sun lit the whole thing up like a tableau, just for my benefit, at least that's what I like to think. It was an interesting year and a half, for a 20 year old kid from Wisconsin who would never seen these things except as pictures, in magazines are newspapers. If you're old enough to remember the old Six Million Dollar Man series, it opened with a crash of a test vehicle. The footage they used was of one of the lifting bodies that were being tested at Edwards at that time. The day that crash happened, I came into work, and was sent to the flight Ops building. When I walked in there was a TV set playing with that footage of the crash that happened that morning, and everybody was very excited about it, but not in a good way. I don't get a lot of chance to talk about these things anymore, so I really appreciated your reply, and I thought you might like these additions.

[@HEDGE1011]

@@geraldtrudeau3223 Amazing stuff, Gerald! The swan and crow metaphor is astounding but completely relatable. I always thought the XB-70 was an amazingly sleek and beautiful plane. I do remember the $6M Man (watched it as a kid) and totally recall the footage of the accident in the opening. I was inspired by these amazing planes among others and the Apollo program to become a USAF pilot; I ended up flying C-9s until I went to the airlines. I did get to transit EDW a few times and there was always interesting stuff around, but nothing of the magnitude of your timeframe of course! I’m so appreciative of your comments! Best always!

[@geraldtrudeau3223]

@@HEDGE1011 Thank you. I consider myself fortunate to have been there at that particular time. Growing up, I was interested in aviation, and had seen pictures of many of these aircraft, but after joining the Air Force, I was actually fortunate enough to go to a place where I could see so many of them up close and personal. It was a special time in my life, that I didn't fully appreciate until I got older.

[@abmonkey33]

I love the sheer roar of the engine as they go vertical. The raw sound of it, just like a mini Saturn V rocket heading for the stars 😊

[@needdamemes2757]

that roar is why I lost 30% of my hearing range while I was in ...

[@charlesdjones1]

Great analogy.

[@jayscott8583]

I hear these every single day for the last 14 years 3 to 4 times a day to be honest it gets old quick.

[@needdamemes2757]

@@jayscott8583 enjoy it, one day you will miss that sound.

[@jayscott8583]

@@needdamemes2757 not unless I move my house is on the approach path.

[@mojomanmurph1925]

What a beast of a plane still to this day. Seen them climb straights up at a air show to like 40,000ft in a few seconds. Freaking amazing.

[@mikesobeski9644]

It is absolutely unbelievably mindboggiling amazing! My Air Force pilot wife ( now retired) trained in a T-38 Talon, back in the early 1980's. That plane could accelerate from 0 to 838 miles per hour in less than 4 seconds.

[@morry19965]

F-15 held record for 0 to 50000 feet…2 minutes !!! It’s got a very impressive power to weight ratio

[@mikesobeski9644]

@@morry19965 that is ridiculously fast.

[@mikesobeski9644]

@@morry19965 Morry, do you have any info on the B1-B Lancer? There's one in my neighborhood. Just curious.

[@fallinginthed33p]

@@mikesobeski9644 that's classified.

[@lucaas]

That was awesome, great shot! Would you be okay with me featuring this in my series Weekly Dose of Aviation? Of course you will be credited both in the video and in the description.

[@picturethat2833]

Yes, go ahead.

[@BillyN31]

You have to experience it first hand! The sound and feeling it puts in your chest is incredible.

[@rickojames]

Amen to that. First time I saw/heard/felt it I was about 1/4 mile away near Pease AFB in Portsmouth NH. The roar and vibrations were incredible.

[@baneblackguard584]

watching F-15s do this as a kid was one of the most exciting things I saw as a kid. The thought that an airplane could do that was jaw dropping, (not to mention the sound) F-4 sounded cooler flying past, but nothing beat the sound of an F-15 hitting afterburners and racing straight up into the sky till you couldn't see it anymore.

[@theaceofspades485]

I cant imagine the wiring nightmare surrounded by fuel,engines,and complicated computers packed in every sleek curve you see. 😬

[@changyi13]

Yeah it was interesting, had one night rewiring a 100 pin connector that was crazy

[@noodlechicken4169]

The cloud in the middle at the start looks like a covenant supercarrier

[@MinistryOfMagic_DoM]

Always good to see one of my pieces of work flying. From maintenance to engineering I've been with these things for a few decades now and it never gets old seeing your hard work put into action.

[@hinglemccringleberry9389]

You're giving yourself WAY to much credit there, bub. You make it seem like you invented the damn thing.

[@rkwatchauralnautsjediparty7303]

A glorious thing to witness. I happened to be driving on a street parallel to one of the runways at Elmendorf AFB when we heard the afterburners right before the climb. It went vertical right next to us. A glorious thing to witness.

[@383mazda]

My dad flew eagles in the 80's and said he'd take me out to the runway to watch them take off - I don't have any specific memory of this (I was younger than 2 at the time) but to this day watching jets takes off is one of my favorite things to do.

[@helluvatime4562]

Beautiful!! When I was a kid in the late 70`s my dad used to take me to Womack AFB and we would watch the F-15`s and get those awesome hot dogs they had there. What wonderful memories I miss you dad.

[@FLACguy]

Reminds me when I was a kid back in the early 70s watching Air National Guard F-104s performing unrestricted climbs in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

[@Beltfedshooters]

I watch an SR-71 do this straight up after takeoff until you couldn't see it anymore. Truly impressive seeing its raw power.

[@JamesJoyce12]

F-15 Eagle - still 104 to zero.

[@cab6273]

The F-15 Eagle. When you absolutely, positively have to shoot something down right now.

[@robertbeane8792]

Great video! My dad retired from Barnes E-8 he worked with Pat Shaugnessy (RIP)!

[@chrisjones6030]

At high school in the mid 70's the airforce came recruiting and as part of their pitch had an f15 come in slow over the neighbouring War Memorial, pitch up and tail walk the length of the oval then just disappear vertically. Didn't join the airforce but the Eagle has been a favourite ever since.

[@chrisn7188]

BAF. I live on the approach end of runway 2. It’s always a pleasure to hear those F-15’s . It never gets old.

[@robertlowe29]

Good old Barnes! Love seeing these boys fly over the house!

[@tracysellman1562]

Old Air Force buck Sargent here, now that what we in the 1980s called "Going Vertical" the F-4 Phantoms and the F-16s used to love that stuff, had a Friend that flew the SR 71 Blackbird and his call sign was Rocketman. I use to love to hear him call on the radio" Rocketman is now going Vertical to angels 60 at Mach 3, See you later guys! " and you could hear the crack of the afterburners kick in and the sonic boom in the background. I still remember that every time I smell anything that resembles JP4 jet fuel. Aww, the good old days!

[@erbenton07]

Good job filming! No shakiness, very clear, and nicely framed.

[@elwoogie1963]

NEVER gets old watching these.

[@viperdriver82]

Love that sound ...i need to go to an Airshow ASAP

[@WBDE]

As a 19 year-old in the summer of 1973 I was very lucky to get a summer job at the massive McDonnell Aircraft plant at the St Louis airport working on an assignment with the very first blocks of the then-new F-15. I am amazed that after almost 50 years, the plane I worked on still has an important place with the military.

[@mikesobeski9644]

When I was a kid, the U.S. air force base we were at had a small area they shared with the R.A.F, royal air force. They flew the Avro Vulcan around the skies over town almost daily. If you've never seen it, look up Avro Vulcan.

[@bloodybritbastard]

The Vulcan howl was glorious! I got to hear it on her last season flying in 2016.

[@johnc2438]

Yeahhh... saw a couple of them take off from Hickam AFB in Hawaii, wayyyy back in 1969. Beautiful planes, just beautiful.

[@mikesobeski9644]

@@bloodybritbastard Cool, I miss that plane. It flew out of Offutt Air Force Base in Bellevue, Nebraska almost daily, You could tell it was the Vulcan just by the roar of the engines!

[@Jeremiah71603]

The way this video is a near perfect loop made this video even better, turning an otherwise short musical piece into a true epic that would make Tchaikovsky proud.

[@ericsvalland4417]

Saw this every week at Elmendorf AFB, AK back when I was stationed there in 86-88. Elmendorf was the gateway to Asia, and we had a constant flow of VIP's passing through weekly (sometimes daily), so the base would put on a mini airshow for them. Rumor had it one of the pilots was a former Thunderbird pilot.

[@wendyharmon365]

Very cool! You had a front row seat for sure!

[@karlbrundage7472]

I was in the Submarine Force, stationed in Pearl Harbor when the Hawaii Air National Guard transitioned from F-4 Phantoms to F-15 Eagles. One day I drove out to the end of the Reef Runway of Hickam Field/Honolulu International and watched as one of the new Eagles departed, engaged full afterburner, reefed into a pure 90 degree departure and literally flew up until he/she couldn't be seen from the ground. They did the same trick the next Pearl Harbor Day ceremony: The "missing man formation" came across the harbor as Taps was playing..... Then the third finger of the formation went into afterburner and went pure vertical. That plane climbed out of sight as well. My reflection was: less than one-hundred years after the Wright Brothers first flew in powered flight....... Damn

[@jhantupal4620]

Top Secret anti-gravity drive/engine confirmed. Isaac Newton would've been so proud.

[@user2C47]

No anti-gravity device. Just insanely huge turbines.

[@thomasnikkola5600]

Since the demise of the Tomcat 15 is my new fav

[@ryanvandoren1519]

Tomcat was the coolest of the legacy fighters. Just a little over complex with those wings, I think.

[@angelprincess4414]

I was a young airman stationed at Langley AFB when the Eagles arrived. I worked in the backshop as an airman and then a contractor and lastly as civil service. I miss those days.

[@engmcgill]

Hey, I was stationed at Langley AFB from '77 through '80 and worked in the F-15 avionics shop. It was my first real job out of high school and I made some good friends there that I still talk to today. I don't miss the heat, humidity, noise, and smell of JP4, but it was the first step to a long career in tech and I'd do it all again.

[@CharlieK92004]

The raw sound in person is amazing! Not just your ears, but in your chest all the frequency that your ears don’t hear.

[@jayscott8583]

the first dozen times yes after 14 years not so much lol

[@jaredeastwood7814]

Every time I watch a video like this, it still amazes me what these aircraft can do.

[@masterclimber1]

I know those jets! Love it every time they go “to the moon” Never gets old!

[@robertbeane8792]

I see Mt. Tom in the back…I live off 202 in South Hadley …when they take off and go East they come right over and when they come back sometimes tree top ….then a left turn and land..C-5M from Westover and C-130s from CT (flying Yankees 103rd Maintenance Depot!) my dad used to maintain Stanley Tools (Merlin 3B -TailCode (210sw)..and I would see the A-10s early 80s from AirKaman across from the 103rd! Great memories!

[@brianwaskow5910]

That brought a tear to my eye.

[@AmJaxineer]

Amazing how strong those hard points must be to be able to hold on to loaded fuel tanks like that, but still jettison them when called upon.

[@patrickwalsh2884]

The F-104 in vertical sure was cool to see too. Saw F-15 do the unrestricted climb at the German AFB I was stationed at (Memmingerberg/Memmingen JagBo G34). 1978-1981.

[@tk45440]

great job filming in landscape! good video

[@suasponte8363]

That was cool to watch in Bagram waiting on a flight.

[@Whitesp44]

Beautiful bird. Sounds like they're tearing the sky in two. Awesome

[@videowatcher495]

I gal I went to school with, her husband was a loader for F15 before being a loader for some kind of dual purpose fighter/bomber. I loved hearing the few stories she had from watching them or from her husband telling her things. I was little when the F15 was in it height as the meanest, now there are fewer being flown. I miss those days.

[@mattinglystravels9333]

A couple of year's ago, we were staying at the Kenai Alaska Elks Lodge, when I witnessed 2 Raptors perform similar departures. Unbelievable to watch.

[@nemo227]

This reminded me of the time back in the nineties: I was on a passenger plane descending to Lindberg Field in San Diego. As we passed Miramar airfield I saw a couple of jets zooming up and I was thinking, "Holy crap, so that's how fast fighter jets climb." I was hugely impressed. I'm still impressed.

[@thomasallan8113]

Years ago I saw two f-15's take off together at the Tulsa A/P hit the afterburners, and point their noses straight accelerating into the clouds.

[@slobert1970]

saw an F15 at an air show on Whidbey Island in Washington state do this climb. the sight and sound was unbelievable. Hard to pick a favorite fighter jet but that day the F15 stole my heart.

[@kingpetra6886]

Now that's what we like to see out of a high performance aircraft. And it all looked so effortless.

[@commodoresixfour7478]

About once a year I get to see this from my rooftop. :)

[@robertyoung3444]

Thank you for what you do

[@billbabcock1833]

In the mid-60s as a young teen I was living on base at NAS Key West with my grandparents. My grandfather was a Captain and in charge of the crash crew. Many afternoons after school I would sit outside his office just off the runway and watch the F-4 Phantoms take off and land. They would often do unrestricted climbs. While nowhere as fast as an F-15 (they were subsonic for those who might not know) it was an amazing thing to watch.

[@jamesc9674]

The F-4 is NOT subsonic. Mach 2.2, almost as fast as the F-15 at Mach 2.5

[@billbabcock1833]

@@jamesc9674 I stand corrected.

[@Darren4352]

@@jamesc9674 Good catch James. I almost lost it when I read that post! 🧐

[@kiq4767]

F4's supersonic capable

[@revengefullobster4524]

I saw the F4 while the Blue Angels were still flying them. There were impressive, but didn't have the thrust to weight ratio of the F15. The F15 is one of the few that can accelerate while going vertical, but the F4 was still a great aircraft.

[@timseidl8705]

Hey that's Barnes! I used to live just a few miles from there.

[@FarmerDrew]

Mmmmmhmmm I could feel that in my sinuses, cleared em right out, thank you very much!

[@dallassmith7067]

i was like "damn thats a nice bronco" and then a fuckin lambo just casually strolls by😭

[@bitburg40]

I was an avionics tech on f-15s and was lucky enough to re-enlist my 1st time in the back seat of an f-15e then we took off doing a max climb and had an awesome incentive ride.

[@Tonyrg1988]

I was directly under an f15 doing this maneuver at an airshow. It was amazing. The time it took to not be able to see it in the sky anymore blew my mind.

[@williamr8562]

In 1975 I was stationed at Luke Airforce base. It was awesome to see this on a daily basis. It was also crazy to watch the German pilots landing in F-104's...also nicknamed the flying coffin.

[@Buddhi011]

The widowmaker 😳

[@Buddhi011]

@Barry Hoffman the starfighter f104 was known as the widowmaker

[@surrealtom]

@@Buddhi011 so was the Porsche 911 930 :)

[@peetsnort]

I remember seeing one in missouri in 1983. Painted white. on a clear day in St lois go straight up into the bluest sky till i couldn't see or hear it. I was utterly impressed

[@chriscardaropoli4227]

Great video. Is this Barnes in western ma? Have watched them from do this from the trucking company I work at and looks familiar. Always loved them but have to admit loved the a-10!

[@stevecoe6072]

I agree... Looks like out in Westfield.... I cant decide between the F-16 or F-15..

[@claudevieaul1465]

Filmed with a camera from the 80s too. That's serious commitment.

[@jamesm7624]

I live near the N. end of the runway where every USAF F-15 pilot has to come for Air to Air combat training, I get to see some pretty cool stuff ;)

[@joelanderos23]

F-15 can climb forever since it has more thrust than weight.

[@bradleydobie3891]

well at least until the engines run out of air to breathe.

[@joelanderos23]

@@bradleydobie3891 true.

[@peetsnort]

And they probably go faster as they burn off theweight of the ton of parrafin

[@peetsnort]

@@bradleydobie3891 thats the moment they will shoot off the satellite destroyer missiles

[@tommissouri4871]

They were one of the few that could accelerate straight up.

[@NVArt001]

I used to watch them do that every week when my dad was stationed in Bitburg, Germany. The would punch holes in the clouds.

[@chase1069]

Damn bro, nice to see the 104th fw (my home air ng squad) doing cool shit

[@matthewunger6029]

Both with the torches lit!!!!

[@bobfeller604]

Beautiful!

[@protorhinocerator142]

Gotta love that power.

[@MustangsTrainsMowers]

Two fighter jets flew about 1/4 mile from me, about 100 feet above the tree tops after forcing a private plane down at The Lake Elmo Airport in the middle 2000’s. George W was speaking in Minneapolis and some dummy from the S.E. US flew into the area without checking flight restrictions. I definitely HEARD the roar of the jet engines over the sound of my lawn tractor while I was wearing over the ear headphones.

[@HooliganLuke]

I know that runway/layout anywhere, that's the 104th FW, Mt Tom in the background. I served as a firefighter there. I miss it quite a bit sometimes.

[@BobbyBleacher]

This is one of the funnest things we do in this jet.

[@pnzrldr]

I was standing 50m off the threshold at Tuzla Base, checking on one of my Company's Abrams tanks (guarding the ECP) in Bosnia in 1999 when an F-15 did this. It was during the Kosovo campaign and it had put in for maintenance, as we weren't operating from inside Bosnia at the time. The pilot kept it even lower, the pitch up seemed even more aggressive, and he deployed a bunch of flares during the climb. A friend had relayed a gift copy of "Spirit of St. Louis" to me through the tank commander, which I was holding in my hand when this happened. It was a surreal moment.

[@willstar7750]

Is this in Westfield, MA? Looks like the airport across the street from my office.

[@CueDriver]

F15 to F22: son, we were perfecting that maneuver before your were and ink spot on paper.

[@BrightBlueJim]

Um. Ink spot on paper? What does that mean?

[@coma13794]

Going to guess this was at Barnes, MA? I see the "MA" letters on the tails, the airport layout and those hills to the northeast. It's a great airport.

[@havoc1482]

Yep, definitely Barnes. I work downtown and these guys are screeching over head all day. Gets old real fast.

[@benthere2667]

Yeah! But can it do a reverse Himmelman with a triple axle?

[@lonnieholcomb2078]

where was this shot at, definitely not Mtn Home AFB :P

[@williamv9058]

I've seen these planes do unrestricted climbs at airshows before. never get tired of that.

[@mikethetuner]

Back in 1980, the Blue Angels came to town to put on a show (in F-4s at the time) and they brought along an F-14 and it did “the climb” just like this and it was incredible…

[@electriceye3942]

The Eagle is such a beautiful plane.

[@tommissouri4871]

This was a regular show at Lambert Field as it was the quickest way for the F-15s from McDonnell to clear out of the controlled air space of STL. I was on the ramp in a Cessna 172 out of the old Mark IV (?) with a friend once behind a couple of F-15s and F-4. The tower told us we might want to hang back a bit. I couldn't get any pictures as our prop messed them up.

[@michaellane4762]

I worked across the field from them , and one day because they had "VIPS" at the field a flight of 6 ships went out and ALL of them "put it on the tail! It was f- ing awesome!! I could feel it in my chest! I can only imagine what it is like in the cockpit!

[@Edgeofhumansoul]

Nice 👍 F 15 Eagle ... Beautiful fighters

[@1suoiraciv954]

That was one of the best things about being in the USAF, that and they let me work on F-15 Eagles

[@NYCamper62]

Had the privilege of seeing these strike Eagles take off like this live. It truly is - aviation porn.

[@zmanindy]

Miss working the ramp in STL back in the day seeing the MO ANG F15 do this or the fresh of the production line McD F18 do the same

[@KevinRedmondWA]

Major props to the cameraman.

[@3MinutesofAviation]

Awesome capture! May I feature this incredible first takeoff in one of my next episodes? Of course with a link back to your original video. Keep up the great work!

[@picturethat2833]

Sure, glad you liked it!

[@3MinutesofAviation]

Thanks! What was the location of these takeoffs?@@picturethat2833

[@picturethat2833]

104th Fighter Wing, Westfield-Barnes Regional Airport.

[@BrightBlueJim]

1980, Langley AFB, Norfolk, Virginia. Not far from D.C. It was a common event to see the F-15 taking off and going directly into an accelerated vertical climb. In this video we see them already flying when they go into the climb, but back then, it was take off and go into that vertical climb before they even got to the end of the runway.

[@stickbreads6719]

'hey bro, wait up'

[@patrickkenyon2326]

When you have someplace you gotta be, and a short time to get there.

[@LTTUSA]

Smooth camera work 👍

[@buttonworld77]

Seriously you should have heard when a flight of lightenings took off from Binbrook back in the day. Absolute carnage.

[@frankiecrocker]

Damn! I got goosebumps!!