F-15 Vertical Climb After Take-off

Oregon ANG F-15

[@roberts1677]

Finally, someone from Oregon who knows how to drive faster than 55 mph.

[@jacobantal01]

Lol

[@jamisonk.097]

Your comment likes is exactly at 55 LOL

[@Cesmust]

I’m from Oregon, this is so true it’s not even funny.

[@danielmconnolly7]

Sammy Hagar's cousin...

[@creoleDJ]

😂

[@lw216316]

Control tower - F15 you are clear for take off F15 - roger control tower- F15 , have you cleared the end of the runway yet? F15- not yet control tower - F15 what is taking so long? F15 - I'm going straight up. control tower - oh.

[@StephenJ117]

Ha!

[@xblitzx]

I love watching you guys take off from work. I work directly across the river from the end of the runway(the buildings to the right of your head at 1:07.) It's the most entertaining part of my day LOL. I never thought that would be a 15,000ft climb. It's so quick in person. Lots of respect for you guys, and i'll be seeing you tomorrow hahaha!

[@buntzi]

Absolutely incredible! And the voice of the pilot...Like reading the grocery list. Awesome!

[@MiLoTi85]

This stuff is awesome. I can watch this kind of videos all day long and not be bored.

[@rbuswell]

Breathtaking! To think the first trainer was put into service in July 1973. It's still a better plane than many of the latest fighters from other countries.

[@martydoran2389]

I was lucky enough to get a ride in a F-15B in 1985. Did a max takeoff and everything. Most awesome thrill ride BY FAR I have ever had!!

[@patsfan71771]

amazing video! I wish it was longer. I would never get sick of watching video's like this. Thank you for posting!

[@USFighter]

Absolutely amazing. Wish I could be a pilot.

[@koitorob]

Nah, but I'd be a passenger!

[@K6III450MHZ]

That can never get old

[@BuzzDyou]

That's friggen outstanding!! 25 secs to 15 angels (15,000ft)... I'd give my left arm, leg, eyetooth and nut to fly one of these Eagles. Well done pilot! You can actually hear his breathing, and the G-forces at climb, a li'l grunt.

[@FarmerDrew]

Haha yes sir! Me too! G-suit was having fun sitting him upright

[@aandc2005]

F15 were designed on computers with maybe 50kb of memory in the 70s. The equivalent horsepower since its thrust is around 50,000 horsepower isn't that fucking awesome!!! F15 designed in the seventies still kick ass today! One of the greatest military jets ever made!!👍😊

[@FarmerDrew]

Never a loss in 50 years... Even the Raptor pilots said that in a real dogfight showdown, they'd swing back and call in the Eagles to outpull and outclimb

[@redmetalneck1]

Look at the ground...goodbye. Hauling. Awesome.

[@craigfoster3431]

Never. Gets. Old.

[@shadownor]

Nothing on earth is like the sight of an Eagle going balistic. I was a 462 back in the 80's. I got a ride in a clean B. :) Those pilots do good work. Happy Hunting. Check Six.

[@pharronrhodes3792]

Has to be one of top 3 best jobs in the world . Period!

[@planesguy]

I did that w/ a Cessna 150. So fun until the plane started to stall :p

[@Lodoz]

ah man, i used to be a crew chief on f-15e's at Lakenheath.. i miss it so much...

[@alarmfannh]

And I refueled them when they came to Aviano. Miss it every day!

[@Sparky151427]

It's actually eithe an F-15B o D. Cool vid. I love all vesions of the F-15.

[@johnkendrick367]

That was bad ass. Yeah the F-15 is my favorite fighter jet. As well as the F-14

[@billparadise1]

I was a jet engine mechanic in the Air Force. It's called an incentive ride.

[@danielvlasceanu]

Good video, good quality. Thanks!

[@StarbuckViper]

Excellent stuff ... regardless of the angle of accent qualifying it to be "vertical" or not...the guy in that seat is damn well lucky look at the ROC!

[@Binlocloc]

I've worked on every model except for the foreign variants. I started out at a test facility and since there isn't anything left to test for these birds i've moved to a normal fighter squadron.

[@irelandbloke]

Awesome !

[@blackhawkce]

I'm pretty familiar w/ the F-104, its looks and performance are VERY impressive for a plane of it's time. I looked up the EE Lightning which I knew of somewhat.. but not much. I did my reading and I must say that it's fascinating. Thanks for mentioning those aircraft! Jane's published performance specs who the F-15 out climbs (rate/absolutely ceiling), out-ranges, out-speeds both these acft. :-)

[@MurphyMonster]

Thats the kind of job you would love to go to every day

[@gfreely]

That is one of the best feelings in the world! Second only to a full loop....

[@krsfromprp]

Great view and climb!

[@suasponte8363]

Never gets old

[@coryboy345]

Very cool!

[@deekamikaze]

ive been on the ANG base at KPDX its pretty cool. i got to see an f15 do an unrestricted climb to test its engines, i was there with CAP.

[@guitarspeare]

so cool!!! It is just awesome to see

[@XDrifter2]

as of September 28th 2010, "Position and hold" is now "Line up and wait"...

[@Nastafar]

me too. I love this plane.

[@paradiseroad6405]

..."excuse me while I kiss the sky"...Purple Haze...Jimi Hendrix...

[@shiddyangler]

This would be the most amazing feeling in the world. I respect the men/women who can do this

[@billace90]

Dude pulling some serious G’s right there!

[@ColinBlountPhotography]

Same in Springfield. They just do touch and go's and after they takeoff again, the pull vertical.

[@aandc2005]

Danm thats incredible!

[@epramos6800]

My younger brother flew for the US AF and spent 22 years as a 'Eagle Driver.' He now flies Private Charter in those fancy Gulf Stream G2000s, G450s, G550s and G6..

[@blackhawkce]

I'm going to look into that, that's some pretty good trivia right there (the 1984 U2 intercept). What was it for? For show?

[@anathema987654321]

amazing... Thanks dude 5 out of 5

[@sol2wit781]

Now that’s a F-15 in a steep climb

[@Oceans_Resurrection]

Very beautiful

[@purechaos78]

This is the video that inspired me to go into the airforce

[@skipplet]

@eggroll9000 You're only hearing the audio from the intercom system. In the jet, it's louder (not uncomfortably loud, but there is white noise from the wind and engines).

[@itchycam]

I am not sure if this clip was the Pilot's own project, or a workplace vid. What is impressive is that it appears the audio from the radio and the pilot's mike (to you know-it-alls; I know it's called the ICS) are being fed directly into the camera, or sync'd later on from another recorder hooked up. If the pilot did that on his own initiative, good on him!

[@skilzed]

That's so crazy! I wish my seneca could do that!

[@gacwalker]

There are at least a dozen variations....the trainers are easily identified as two seaters and some reconnaissance set ups are also two seats

[@randallbliss6293]

Love It!!

[@beatleshrink]

I like how ATC tells him to "turn left" and because he's already vertical, he essentially goes upside down to execute the left turn! "Never ask a military pilot if he's flies fighters. If he does, he will already have told you. If he doesn't, why embarass him?" (Nothing against our military long haul drivers, of course.)

[@GABRIEL1030]

amazing

[@TheModelGuy]

There's a man that loves his job

[@Khan12078]

@billparadise1 is it easy to ride these fighter jets now with all the technology and stuff.

[@b.3397]

DAMN thats gotta be fun as hell.

[@Setsnaz1vdv]

To what level of G force did he get , when he tock off Verticaley??? Nice Video Thanks!!! :-)

[@MrPianoplayer3000]

Awesome, I wanna be a F 15 pilot one day!

[@krishpatel3244]

how did it go

[@HTVEGC]

Okay I'm joining.

[@boundaryzero]

he left 5000' in a matter of seconds... such awesomeness compared to the dull airline bus route, routine

[@ISNOTDEAD11]

like a rocket!!

[@dtimp7]

@hunterhalo2 that isn't the pilot, it is the back seater. Probably an incentive ride. I got one while I was in....pretty intense!!!

[@tomcatpilot13]

i hope that'll be me in that cockpit someday.

[@STMAswimmer1]

Actually my little troll, you CAN get an incentive ride in an F-15E. Also, the F-15E has one pilot and one WSO (weapons system officer), not two pilots. Granted the F-15E does have flight controls in the rear cockpit. If you're trying to see if someone is bsing you about getting an incentive ride though. Just ask where they did it because F-15 bases are becoming fewer and farther between. You were correct about the D model being used for training. GJ.

[@tommytmt]

3D TV could be used on a single engine fighter because it was: the F-16 VISTA...and it wouldn't have added almost any weight the the F-15, and if it did it wouldn't matter, a tail-heavy plane isn't necessarily a bad thing...the SU-27 family is a VERY tail-heavy design.

[@XmXFLUXmX2]

Fucking scary, awesome work pilot!

[@Keometheus]

Iv always thought that jet fighter pilots looked cool because of their uniform and helments, expecially their knowledge and those sexy planes lol

[@Atlasias]

How did you get a ride?

[@bigchiefmingingbolok]

an F104 went above 100,000 ft in 1959 doing a zoom climb and in 1984 flt lt mike hale intercepted a u2 at 88,000 ft, also doing a zoom climb during a NATO exercise, they were well known for their "thirst" but you'll never beat a lightning for going vertical

[@JEFFMM71]

now thats what i call geting up to altitude.

[@m-1264]

Respect

[@CarlosAguilar-dj4ph]

And just like that he climbed to 15,000ft... Whoa! Takes forever in a piper pa28 ._.

[@FPSGameClips]

+Carlos Aguilar That's the difference between a ~30million dollar plane and a ~100'000 dollar plane :P

[@K6III450MHZ]

+FPSGameClips Yip

[@tenacious645]

I was thinking the same hahaha

[@fleuryfan2930]

your damn right about that

[@elpicudoair]

nice!

[@66gt40lm]

@billparadise1 You don't "ride" in F-15E's, it was probably an F-15D. the E model is for two pilots, the D model is used for training/incentive rides.

[@JessicaMay531]

I crapped myself just watching that, let alone doing it.

[@coastalman226]

that was wicked

[@billparadise1]

When I got a ride in an F-15E we did a climb like that.

[@145Slap789]

Can't get any better than that! USAF....

[@purechaos78]

This is the vid that made me want to go the the air force academy

[@Swoldemort500]

@BuzzDyou as true as this is i think giving your arm and leg to fly one would bring up some complicaitons in doing so lol

[@lagendarock92]

yup,what kind of F-15 did ur have worked,Strike Eagle??for sure man,i loved the F-15 and F-16...

[@Mr777scary]

Nice work, if you can get it.

[@71superbee3]

A rocket .... with wings

[@NameWasInvalid]

Unrestricted climbouts :) Gotta love em.

[@juliopenales2724]

The pilot looks like a TIE fighter pilot😉😉

[@patrickwilliams2339]

Thats a good day at the office.

[@ferrariguy6389]

Wow

[@notar1]

@Phoenix054 you mean the air traffic control ?

[@thekoiponds]

cooooollll...i wanna try it..

[@Battery9876]

you try to keep the center of gravity at the same place usually. The VISTA was a prototype.. not sure the USAF would have wanted its entire fleet with nozzles that can jam even if it's rare. Like I said, not a single air force has wanted TV on their F-15s/16s. Of courtse it would have been a threat to the F-22 also. And I think they preferred to invest in more AMRAAMs to avoid WVR fights in the first place..

[@onitatum4074]

Had I been in this jet the G force might of made me crap my pants lol

[@CHECK6-963]

@Tay651 Were you at Orange County?

[@orlandoengland9184]

GO HIGHER!!! 👆This has got to be the BEST job in the WORLD!!!👏👏👏❤💯

[@Jpgundarun]

There's a Golf course right next to the air base.

[@Shadyx36]

What branch is this? I don't think Navy...

[@hajireda]

grate

[@vladsinger]

remarkably quiet in here.

[@gavinrapp13]

are you a airforce pilot please respond.

[@kristinawhorey3837]

3.0 for 15 thousand hell yeah ballistic