NEVER SEEN BEFORE YOU WON’T BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED F-35 PURE SKILL & AIRMANSHIP • RAF LAKENHEATH

When you hear a pilot requesting a 'Low Approach' at RAF Lakenheath, it is always exciting. This F-35A Lightning of the 48th Fighter Wing went beyond and you will not believe what happened. In fact we had to watch it over and over again and on analysis, this really showed off the skill of these fantastic fighter pilots.
What is a Low Approach?
It is a when an aircraft will approach the runway at a low altitude (minimum altitude specified by ATC) and will pass low and go around. It is sometimes referred to as a low pass, and is essentially a go-around manoeuvre following an approach. Instead of touching down, a pilot may wish to go-around without touching down in order to expedite a particular operation.
Why do fighter jets carry out a Low Approach?
Well, practice can make perfect but can also burn fuel too. But, this manoeuvre can be useful in combat or if there is an issue with the runway. In combat, many aircraft will operate at altitudes as low as 100 feet and at high airspeeds to defeat ground missile radars and avoid sophisticated surface-to-air missiles, anti-aircraft artillery, and enemy fighters. On a more day to day scenario, there could be a last minute emergency on the runway. It could also be used a reconnaissance too.
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[@TedConingsby]

Ladies, gents and teddy bears we hope you enjoyed this video. It seems that although we believed the video to be a pilot making a wing wave on a low approach, many of you are suggesting it’s a kind of aircraft wing stall recovery. As a channel we are not pilots or experts in any way but if the latter conclusion is true, then thank you to all those that explained that. Both conclusions wing wave or not, we’ve never seen anything like it.

[@Ronald-Bumstead239]

That F-35 was pushed outside it's parameters, and the Flight Safety Computers correctly took action to prevent the Aircraft from Stalling. It's not a brilliant pilot, it's a brilliant Flight Safety Computer. I was at RAF Marham, when the Tornado was a new Aircraft. It had a SPILS system, to prevent stalling under extreme manoeuvres. When the Pilot exceeded the capability of the Tornado, you could see the SPILS system take back control. Exactly like this F-35. Forget the Pilot, it's the Aircraft that's the Star.

[@kitb4549]

Would the pilot be talked to about that?

[@olly7248]

@@Ronald-Bumstead239 ‘SPILS’ was incorrectly named as the the Spin and Incidence Limiting System… you can’t alter the incidence of the wing… I flew the F3 and ‘SPILS’ was a real pain tbh

[@cambtransport]

Well said

[@scottkelley1558]

The F-35 flight control system is always in charge. It allows the pilot to input whatever he wants to do, the computer determines whether to allow it or how much it can respond. Because of this, the plane is within control and there is no need to correct after the fact. Ground collision avoidance is an exception - it does take control over the pilot when it calculates a ground collision is going to happen.

[@ncooper8438]

The pilot was testing the flight control software, to make sure it worked. Maybe.

[@kuckoo9036]

That's a stall roll off. The tendency of an aircraft to roll in one direction post-stall, and it's actually a very dangerous event at such low altitude. Many aircraft have this characteristic though the behavior is benign-to-nonexistent in airplanes with high aspect ratio wings. However airplanes with very low aspect wings like the F-35 can exhibit a stall roll off that is very sudden and dramatic like what you saw here. I can almost assure you this was unintended. The F-35's FBW system saved him here.

[@TedConingsby]

Thanks for the info. Never seen this before

[@kurtv4946]

You are correct.

[@maxbee4460]

I question that was an action of the pilot! I suggest it was the aircraft self recovering from what was a high speed stall?

[@heinz-dietersindhoff7344]

@@maxbee4460 highspeed stall without highspeed 🤭

[@mazepilot]

@@heinz-dietersindhoff7344 so many fighter pilots here, chatting. Pure TopGuns. 😆

[@jimr7154]

I’ve watched it several times now And I concur The flight system saved the plane and the pilot from a low level departure/ stall

[@margobaxter8344]

Brilliant! Where else would you see and hear this combo? An F-35 wing wave especially for Ted, plus low approach & howl accompanied by an ice cream van jingle! 🤣. USAFE amidst the vital importance of your service, you bring awe, surprise and great joy to Ted Coningsby Squadron & that's thousands of people. Thank you ❤

[@TedConingsby]

Definitely if you go down to the woods today you most certainly get a wonderful surprise; F-35 low approach with wing wave

[@daveysurt8803]

Incredible aircraft and incredible crew. Thank you 48TH FW 🫡❤️🇺🇸 The TCS love it

[@TedConingsby]

Oii oiii Davey thanks man. Well, it is the 48th FW innit

[@davidocearbhail9184]

Good days in the 48th FW back in the mid 90’s… except for mad cow disease.

[@ianprice2298]

Agree with those posters that pointed out how sketchy that second aircraft was, the pilot did not have the energy to make that climbing turn like that.

[@leegalen8383]

What a thrill it must be to fly those beauties !

[@sonny1597]

Out here is Arizona I stay at the AF Auxillary field at Gilla Bend .. the F-35's from Luke AFB do touch and goes there .. see this maneuver done all the time. Almost seems like they practice this as part of their drill. One afternoon we got to watch a couple of F-22's doing touch and goes .. Wow! They make the F-35 look slow and you can see why the 'Fat Amy' nickname.

[@roypowell3450]

Wonderful again from Lakenheath, even an ice cream backing track...What next!

[@TedConingsby]

Hehe, the ice cream teddy bears picnic was the gold dusting on the salmon that

[@EdwardCoates-zk2ug]

The way that the F35 pilot pulled up then banked his aircraft so quickly demonstrates the skills that they have learned. Nicely captured for us, thank you Nikos.

[@TedConingsby]

Oii Oii Edward thank you very much

[@yak55dvr39]

Honest airplanes talk to the pilot. My Yak has told me many a time “too much pull, not enough speed - wing lose lift - I’m going to snap on you - just watch”. Easy fix - stop pulling so hard and begin flying again (and hope the judges missed the little wing snap). Not a problem at altitude in the box or practice area. Low and slow in the pattern - Not such a good idea. With some aircraft, a little wing snap may induce a spin which is not easily recovered from and ends up losing way too much altitude. I am no expert on the F-35, but that looked like the wing momentarily lost lift due to too aggressive a pull. Recovery may have been by pilot or automatic recovery system. My money is on the pilot.

[@MisterJ.J.]

Sign of power! Show of force! 🇺🇲🇬🇧💪

[@paul8161]

To all the service personnel thanks for keeping us all safe 🙏 👍 and for putting your personnel safely on the line for our freedom we all take for granted. Great job and a great channel ted.❤

[@TedConingsby]

Thanks so much for this Paul 🤙🏼

[@paul8161]

@@TedConingsby no problem, I'm allways pro forces as my late dad was ex forces. I have alot of time for anyone willing to serve to keep us all safe, and I enjoy seeing the military stuff to. So thanks again. To you and others.

[@AnnCox-kp3pc]

Exceptional piloting skill from the 48th FW and TCS... and was that Wing Wave intentional Excellent

[@TedConingsby]

Oii oiii Annie thank you so much. This was so cool

[@ellesee7079]

Amazing skill from the pilot! And I honestly think RIAT should be subtitled 'TheTeddy Bears Picnic', going forward!

[@TedConingsby]

Ooohhh yeah sounds like a good title to us Ellesee

[@andywhite40]

Beautiful!! Amazing skills!!!

[@TedConingsby]

Oii Oii Andy 🤙🏼

[@AaronOxfordExmouth1989]

When a mear wingwave just isn't enough! That definitely is a first! Absolutely amazing skill from the pilot, I bet the thought was, Squadron leader Ted is inspecting us, I'd better show just how good I am! Crazy and brilliant capture!

[@TedConingsby]

Oii Oii Aaron thanks man

[@captaina8697]

What skills on show, a wing wave while yanking and banking…..stunning ❤🫡

[@TedConingsby]

Absolutely awesome skills

[@user-ts5qg4mn2e]

This looks pretty cool. The pilots in the F-35 Lightning II Aircraft must've had a lot of practice. Our favourite part was The Wing Wave. The pilot in the aircraft was very polite. Overall, all of it looks amazing. Keep up the good work.

[@MrCssm]

Это умный самолёт. Сейчас даже в автомобилях руль напрямую уже не связан с колёсами, всё идёт через компьютер. Предполагаю, что особых навыков именно пилотирования последние версии уже не требуют, так как за основными параметрами следит компьютер и просто не даст угробить самолёт (и в том числе не даст превысить перегрузки опасные для пилота) какие бы команды пилот не давал. И это при том, что чтобы от этом размышлять мне даже не надо быть пилотом

[@justmemimi7338]

Great footage, thank you. But bears have sensitive hearing. Please get Teddy some ear plugs. 🧸💜

[@annieg5487]

Exceptional piloting skill and well deserving of a

[@TedConingsby]

Oii Oii Annie 🤙🏼

[@IanWright72]

48th fighter wing Never disappoint, amazing pilots 🇺🇸 🇺🇸🫡🫡 great camera 📷 work Nikos

[@TedConingsby]

Thanks Ian

[@MarkZupancich]

Still a thrill. RAF Mildenhall 75-76.

[@patmurphy6318]

A proper wobble

[@seancook1965]

The shockwaves off the aircraft’s body. Phew!! 😮

[@matthaxx7137]

Interesting... Did he deliberately push it close to departure from controlled flight so that the Flight Control System corrected - twice?

[@Gabbysara]

Hopefully getting to see one of these beauties at old Buckingham air show in a couple of weeks it would be incredible.

[@robertriester4778]

Nice!

[@mbterabytesjc2036]

It looks like RAF Lakenheath has changed a bit since I was there in 1978-1980 working on the F111-F. At the time the reventments were being erected. I wonder if the reventment doors were ever fixed.🤔

[@davidwilliams1959]

I was at Lakenheath in the late 80s. I don't recall any problems with the doors. Saw lots of great strike footage from the Gulf War.

[@jheuver5272]

Top video,greatings from the Netherlsnds !!

[@TedConingsby]

Oii Oii thank you

[@DanielWalker67]

I love it. The Pilot is a legend. That why we love Lakenheath and the 48th FW. Where I think we just witnessed the re-invention of a wing wave. Yes that actually happened. Super cool footage 😎 👌 👍 😍

[@TedConingsby]

Oii oiii Dan thank you

[@briankelly5816]

Big shout out to Ted!!

[@TedConingsby]

Oii oiii

[@janclark3208]

Amazing flying! Without this channel though we wouldn’t see it! Thanks so much Nikos and Ted! 😊

[@TedConingsby]

Oii oiii thanks Jan

[@paladin0654]

This happens almost every day in Ft. Worth Texas at Carswell during post fab test flights.....you need hearing protection shopping at the Commissary.

[@TedConingsby]

The focus here is what happened to the second F-35 in the video

[@paladin0654]

@@TedConingsby That's what my comment addresses mate....test aircraft are pulled into what looks like a 6-6.5 turn.

[@grabir01]

Nice wave. It appears these pilots love the handling of these space craft.

[@sylsec]

what an amazing move, you got to love those pilots and TCS

[@TedConingsby]

Ooohhhhhhh yeah 🤙🏼

[@jeffreyolivito8810]

You never mess with the best 💀💀👍👍

[@janeknight8245]

Brilliant 😊

[@TedConingsby]

Ooohh yeah

[@markspence3295]

It looked a little like over controlling tbh. Did he snatch the controls a little harshly?

[@sharynwilkerson9900]

Great Great Video! Love the teddy bear, too.

[@TedConingsby]

Oii Oii thank you very much

[@julieann3290]

I love the wing them f35 pilots are exceptional thank you Lakenheath and Ted and nikos

[@TedConingsby]

Oooohhhhh yeah

[@SeaWolf999]

Awesome 🙌 Not the same experience as the real thing but I have the Meta 3 VR Headset with the software, “Warplanes (Air Corps)”. It has an F-35 VTOL in that and it’s pretty cool. It also has an F-16, A-10 a couple of others and a few helicopter gunships. You can wing-wave the aircraft too. There’s a Free Flight mode where you can use the aircraft for Display practice. Not that I’m a pilot in real life but it’s great experience for the wannabe 🫡👍

[@AndrewLloydAviationFilms]

Looked like he flew through the jet wash of the previous aircraft and the on board flight system corrected.

[@Nurhaal]

Yeah I uh... um... So i know the airplanes very... very well... uh... kinda my job... That Pilot was a bit too... frisky... with the controls. That was the FCS self recovering and preventing a full on stall. What IS cool though is that this wouldnt have been possible before the last bloc upgrade because the FCS software is still being updated to fully unlock the jet the more we learn how it really flies. In the past, the aircraft wouldnt have even allowed that level of input to encourage to risk of a stall so blatantly at that bank angle. Now it does, because the software updates are that good.

[@KennethRrvik]

This is one of the cool things - these systems *allow* the pilot to be frisky - or rather, to fly to the edge of the envelope.

[@vx.calibre2901]

That clip should be in the recruitment video

[@TedConingsby]

Too right

[@donkoh5738]

It's been said the F35 can almost fly itself as rookie-proof ? Seemed like the pilot got a little ambitious, but the jet kicked in and instantly corrected the flight control inputs??

[@timpgpilot2530]

That was my first thought.

[@TedConingsby]

Nah, legendary wing wave

[@aaron0288]

I think as much as people on this channel want to believe it was a wing wave, I believe this is 100% what happened. And not necessarily due to the the clever systems in the F-35, but any FBW fighter. I’ve seen an F-16 do this on take off at RIAT too. As someone else has mentioned here, not due to pilot skill, rather lack of at this moment in time. Pushed it too far and the computer kicked in. I’m not for one instance saying this pilot isn’t skilled or qualified but he/she simply got a little too ambitious, and probably got a little slap on the wrist for this, especially with it being all over KZbin.

[@aaron0288]

@@pongokamerat8601you could be right, but I think I’d rather them find those limits while practice dog fighting 10,000ft over the North Sea, rather than 100ft over the runway.

[@michaelsnow7252]

@@aaron0288 yeah i seriously doubt anyone would do a wing wave on a tight climbing turn, not seen that in a display sequence....

[@jeremyhaberman8481]

That was another Thank You to all the great work you do Niko's 😎😎😎👍

[@TedConingsby]

Oii Oii Jeremy thank you very much 🤙🏼 ooohh yeah

[@richardbrown3434]

Pure awesomeness 👊🏻🤙🏻🇺🇸 ⚡️

[@TedConingsby]

Oooohhh yeah 🤙🏼 never seen this on a low approach before, so awesome

[@BabsR]

another example of just how skilled these pilots are

[@TedConingsby]

Oii oiii Babs 🤙🏼 absolutely proper skilled

[@QuintonSpeed-x7x]

Hi Davey

[@victormanuelpolanco922]

Unbelievable, low airspeed and high alpha and so much stable!!!.

[@user-pb8vc8vp8w]

To think a Buccaneer could easily fly below this plane going in the other direction for good measure. Don't doubt me on it.........there's plenty on You Tube verifiying they were operational @ 20 feet. The tongue-in -cheek flight instruction was 1 : reach take-off speed, 2 : retract landing gear & 3 : DESCEND to operation height. Just sayin' !

[@TedConingsby]

The F-35 and most aircraft can do that but it depends what they have been cleared to do

[@davei1928]

Didn't really know what i was looking for and when i saw it i thought , big deal . But after reading the comments i have a little bit of a idea of what you're saying . So respect to the pilot . ( I think ) 🙄🤔😉

[@Dannysoutherner]

I remember Lakenheath. I see the 20 and 42 antennas still look the same.

[@knoxyish]

awesome skills but the teddy bears picnic jingle... brilliant nikos an ted an the rest of the bears squadron you tube legends!!!

[@TedConingsby]

Oiii oiii thank you very much. Proper skills and legends at the 48th FW along with a teddy bears picnic theme tune

[@jonathancsmelko2361]

awesome

[@TedConingsby]

Oohh yeah

[@bernardusjones9814]

Oii, I scream, you scream, everyone screams for ice cream 🍦

[@jackmorrison8269]

Dancing on those pedals

[@timpgpilot2530]

Flight control computer save?

[@TedConingsby]

Legendary wing wave

[@JohnMcMahon.]

Intro & outro reminds me of Sooty from Rainbow 😊

[@stephenwhitnall322]

Like a dart

[@TedConingsby]

[@andrewrothnie7275]

Amazing nikos efaristo

[@TedConingsby]

[@troyjollimore4100]

Well, you know how great drivers get held-up by automobile safety systems like stability control? The plane was second-guessing the pilot, and probably getting it wrong.

[@Radio478]

Fantastic ❤

[@TedConingsby]

[@richtaylor2129]

Sweet!!

[@TedConingsby]

[@cobeeble]

If you watch the plane relative to the red & white tower in the background the plane appears, to me anyway, to start losing altitude before the recovery.

[@ramadaxl]

I have a Teddy bear similar to that...the difference being is that MINE wears a Kilt ! ( seriously !).

[@3orion33]

Thank you for posting this !!!!!!!!!

[@TedConingsby]

No problem Linda, glad you enjoyed

[@JoeSmith-ig3pr]

Stability control at work.

[@davedevonlad7402]

Looks like the pilots were testing how far they could push it before the computers on board took control at low and slow altitude and speed. I guess the pilots have to know in real life "not just on simulators" how these aircraft react to certain situations. Edit, I don't believe it was in danger or a dangerous move, it just looked dramatic at a low level. Also was it because it was in a landing configuration/set-up and they pushed it to its limits when in that configuration, i believe the pilo was testing the systems and how the aircraft responds.

[@sjwilloughby-greene8214]

💚💚💚💯

[@FloatingCroc]

Mav’s behind the wheel

[@viperdriver82]

I think it might have been wake from the preceding F-35

[@bertrandbarbe245]

over g over g...

[@pauletteschiowitz8989]

Is this the same craft that can hover because it was seen over Florida by the beach. It was just hovering.

[@TedConingsby]

This is an F-35A, which does not hover. The one you are referring to is an F-35B

[@tornagawn]

Such a beautiful aircraft…

[@TedConingsby]

Ooohh yeah 🤙🏼

[@abelcurtis9598]

That was nice Nikos and a massive Oii Oii and Nikos I have Ted coningsby lost long brother at my house

[@TedConingsby]

Oii oiii Abel

[@jonathandyment1444]

0:45

[@radamus210]

Whatever it was? I see some amazing control authority whether it's man on the stick, computers and gyro's` that's impressive. Point is, Wow for me.

[@TedConingsby]

🤙🏼

[@user-rm6jc2kb6l]

😊

[@patrickmitchell3192]

Morning plane crazy wing wavers if I hadn’t seen it I would have believed it if nicos an super star ted said more cheesie wavers please gesssss it’s a dream and I haven’t woke up yet brand new good for you

[@TedConingsby]

Oii oiii Patrick thank you so much

[@EP65]

Ahh yeah

[@TedConingsby]

Oii Oii

[@Ignaz366]

OVER G - OVER G

[@martinkasper197]

Oi oi

[@TedConingsby]

Oii oiii

[@trevormann8221]

Great aggressive flying boys, keep it up.

[@TedConingsby]

Ooohh yeah

[@richardsuter2816]

13/7/24 you need to be in Darwin for Pitch Black 20 Nations going nuts for 3 weeks Lov your content

[@juliebeard880]

Well that was pretty awesome stuff, never cease to amaze me, skill/clever 💯

[@TedConingsby]

Oii oiii Julie, the pilots of the 48th FW are just AWESOME

[@juliebeard880]

@@TedConingsby I think they all are, but the 48th FW pull it outta the bag, even pulling a jingle out too 🤣

[@beepeeify]

[@TedConingsby]

Oohhh yeah