RARE! US Navy F-5 Tiger II Demo - NAS Key West Airshow 2023

Pilots from VFC-111 "Sundowners" perform a special airpower demonstration using five beautiful F-5N Tiger IIs during the Friday airshow at the NAS Key West Southernmost Air Spectacular. VFC-111 serves as adversaries/aggressors, a dedicated "bad guy" force that mimics enemy techniques in order to train US Navy pilots.
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[@ditzydoo4378]

Hey! I know a MIG-28 when I see one Maverick... >~

[@daveblevins3322]

F-5 Tigers are probably the most beautifully designed, aerodynamic aircraft ever built.

[@guaporeturns9472]

Couldn’t agree more.

[@rubenomarbueno1134]

Lástima que no se llevo a producción su sustituto el F-20 TIGRE TIBURÓN DE MACH 2 😢

[@jordansamson6071]

"Holy sh*t, there's two of 'em!"

[@oliverjackson6633]

"MIG 28s, never seen them so close before!!!!!" 😊

[@one-metallica4156]

I’m hit the brakes he’ll fly right by.

[@tomjohnson5597]

But it won’t do a negative G pushover.

[@chenzac2539]

@@one-metallica4156you gonna do what?!!!

[@one-metallica4156]

@@chenzac2539 Whoo Splash 4

[@speckleddaddy]

F-5 body lines are so perfect

[@Judge102]

Agreed

[@rubenomarbueno1134]

Incomparable, mucho mejor aeronáutica que el F-35 actual 😅

[@jockstrapp21]

Those jets are still going after nearly 60 years. .excellent aircraft testament to a simple, easy to maintain design that has stood the test of time

[@uats12]

The mexican air force have . F-5E Tiger ll

[@GarrusVA]

MiG-21: Am I a joke to you ?!

[@rulingmoss5599]

@@GarrusVAYes, yes you are.

[@DeathDealer1825]

​@@rulingmoss5599wrong

[@matiasreyes3363]

The F-5 is a beautiful beast, in Chile 🇨🇱 we still have the F-5 operating, and they have updated them for many years, now they are called F-5 Tiger III

[@magoid]

Wow, I didn't knew the USN had a squadron of MiG-28s. I had only seem them in video on a 1980's documentary.

[@radio3499]

i know right!

[@williammcdowell3718]

@@radio3499 it's not the plane, it's the pilot.

[@Rogue-7.62]

LMAO 😂

[@Joumae_Saori]

Thats not a mig-28. The mig-28 is a fictional jet from top gun. And its not a documentary

[@zifnab_fizban1998]

Where are Mav and Mother Goose when you need em???!!!

[@WonderfulAircraft]

Evertime I see the F-5 it just looks like way too much fun to fly. It's such a tiny little sports car of a fighter jet, the pilots who fly it must have a blast.

[@seung-jinhong8399]

The F-5 is an old fighter indeed. The ROK Air Force still uses this one in active duty, so it's a very familiar aircraft to Koreans. It's great to see the F-5 in dynamic maneuvers.

[@thesovietvorona1007]

Almost wanna send Kai my design of a modernized f-5 that’s basically a way updated and upgraded F-20.

[@77knez]

My uncle was a crew chief on F-4's in Vietnam and worked on several different aircraft including the F-5. He said that the inside of the wings on these is a honeycomb design. He said you had to be careful while working around the wings because they were so small and fragile. I guess it's all about weight saving when you have small engines like these do. Still, they are awesome little fighters and they look great with the camo paint schemes.

[@terrenceescarda8951]

Fighter jets with camo paints are cool, especially the F-5.

[@taxizztop6052]

Excellent aircraft F-5 Tiger II, even after so many years it looks very modern.

[@slitter4606]

F-14 too

[@pawpawstew]

After all of these years, the F-5 is still a hot rod!

[@thunderamu9543]

This video made my day! I worked on all of the Mig and Baron F-5E/Fs up until the day we gold plated them and sent them out of Nellis in the late 80s. These jets are absolutely immaculate and the Gomers flying them are razor sharp! I haven't seen Tiger aggressors fly since 1989. These birds looked and sounded great! The Gomer diamond looks as good as the Blues'!

[@Dragnoxz]

Yea, the F-5 aggressor units chill at the Keys lol.

[@enricomandragona163]

Nothing like the sound of Turbo jet engines

[@jockstrapp21]

I had an Airfix 1:72 scale F5-E that was an Aggressor. easy to build, probably like at the Northrop factory as well , in the Snake paint scheme . Lovely

[@thunderamu9543]

Have two of those kits!@@jockstrapp21

[@argantoa]

Beautiful, sleek, and simple. One of my all time favorite aircraft. Thanks for the video and the good camera work. I'm glad to see these planes still flying and doing some high performance maneuvering.

[@Astro1derboy]

Love the T-38/F-5/F-20 family!!! 😎👍🏻

[@noahsplanespotting6405]

What a beautiful performance! Was even better in real life!

[@MartyBecker]

“MiG-28s. No one's been this close before.” 😂

[@chrishackett554]

We were there. Outstanding air show with something always flying. The F5 airframe is so prolific. As a kid if you drew what you think an Air Force fighter should look like it probably came close to the F5 profile.

[@kimchi2780]

Love the Tiger 2's so much. The Tornado, Corsair II, and Tiger II's were all posters on my wall as a kid (next to Kristi Yamaguchi and Sara Michelle Gellar of course!)

[@enricomandragona163]

🙄

[@EAFSQ9]

The F-5 Tiger is one of the most underrated aircraft ever designed and manufactured.

[@user-xi1fm8gz6s]

One of those jets that looks like it is going Mach 5, while sitting on the ground!

[@michaelharper3629]

My first job out of high school was working on the F5 assembly line in hawthorne California putting the center fuselage halfs together. Very cool airplane.

[@TypeZero31]

I literally live a few blocks away. There used to be a YF-23 and an F-20 back in the day there as well.

[@valianttmt8044]

The F-5E is still a superb fighter. I'm not surprised the Navy's upgrading their Tigers for the Aggressor Squadron and the fact they bought 44 retired Swiss F-5s says a lot. It's too bad new, more powerful and economical turbofan engines aren't in the works for this fantastic aircraft. Damn, this fighter is so beautiful.

[@_baller]

This jet makes the coolest air sounds

[@haraldweidemann225]

Amazing Show ! Oldies but Goldies !!! 👍

[@juangonzales7665]

this beautys are still in service here in Brazil!

[@jeffissimo1221]

A few years ago, VFC-111 visited JRB NAS New Orleans for an airshow and they played the aggressor role in opposition to a flight of F-18s. It was an entertaining demonstration to say the least.

[@pf6797]

MiG-28’s! No ones been this close before

[@user-144thFighterWing]

I'm proud to work on these F-5s engine components from VFC-13 NAS Fallon Nevada, VFC-111 NAS Key West Florida, and VMFT-401 MCAS Yuma Arizona. Keep flying to keep me busy at work 😂.

[@donaldelfreth553]

I remember well the USAFE F-5s assigned to the aggressor squadron at RAF Alconbury in the late 70s. Love those planes.

[@stephenbrown1077]

Rare treat indeed, thankyou for sharing 😀 👍

[@Duvstep910]

took me years to realize the T-38 is just a 2 seat version of the F-5 Tiger; pretty awesome fighter

[@nicholasgifford23]

Well kinda. The twin seat F-5 is quite different from the T-38, although they look pretty similar

[@Jabba.Da.Hutt_]

I think the T-38 is a trainer and the F-5 is a combat variant

[@Rogue-7.62]

Very, very different aircraft. You have too see them side by side and it really shows just how different. The F 5 is actually bigger for one, the wing design is also different.

[@evangalinsky2499]

No The T-38 is essentially the prototype for the F-5. The F-5 is vastly different, no matter how close they look on the outside, they're still different there too, and the insides are completely foreign to one another. Not even close. Especially since these are F-5E's (actually N/M's, modernized E's used as aggressor aircraft), but even the F-5A is dramatically different.

[@evangalinsky2499]

​@@Rogue-7.62 the whole nose section is also completely different. Especially on these (E/N/M models), but still so on the A and C models as well, even without a radar.

[@fifteenbyfive]

It's been said that the F-20 was the best fighter jet ever cancelled. Chuck Yeager loved it, that's enough for me to make up my mind. Watching these Tigers fly around I can see some F-105 in their fuselage, I can see some F-104 in their wings. Love the Soviet camo'd Tigershark Aggressor specimen, so cool. Please let me upscale this airframe by 10%, replace the engines and give it 15-20% more wing and I think I'll have an aircraft that we could sell today.

[@evangalinsky2499]

The changes you suggested are basically what the F-20 was lmao, and if you change it much more, you end up with an F-16 or F-18, since both of those took heavy influence from the F-5's.

[@fifteenbyfive]

@@evangalinsky2499 The F-20 could still be sold today not sure what's so funny about that? For a lot of countries it's having almost no air force and having some F-20s. It wasn't sold. It wasn't sold because it wasn't manufactured. It'd be easy to sell it. You wouldn't buy it. You'd waste money you don't have on a plane you don't need.

[@evangalinsky2499]

@@fifteenbyfive I never said it couldn't. I'm literally just pointing out the aircraft you described if allowed access to everything needed to modify the plane, is literally just the F-20. I didn't think my comment was that complicated.

[@fifteenbyfive]

@@evangalinsky2499 Bah. It would wax the F-20 99 out of 100 times and in short order for the avionics differences alone.

[@mrrolandlawrence]

tigers. my favourite military jet of all time.

[@gooniac33]

LOVE THIS!!!! I get to see F-5s regularly flying over my place as they RTB from training flights but never get to see them like this!! Gotta love it and wanna see more of this!!

[@michaelg.9791]

Screw the the Billion dollar shiny JUNKS, I LOVE these simple but EFFECTIVE Birds of GOATS ! Northrop should mass produce them with latest Gadgets & I bet they'll kick some azz still . 🤘

[@oldfriend327]

Thank you so much for this.

[@eddies987]

That is really cool. Showing my age but I got to see an F-20 Tigershark fly asa kid and walk up to is and sit in the cockpit! Fun stuff

[@swfcpilot]

The roll rate is fantastic.

[@TheKusa5]

Love to see a Tiger demo! especially by the Sundowners!

[@29madmangaud29]

I work on these just in MCAS Yuma, VMFT-401 , the F-5 is a WONDERFUL Airplane. It's powerful, fast, very small profile for the bad guys to see. It's inexpensive (compared to modern a/c). It can TURN GREAT! It's a fantastic aircraft for what we're using it for. It should/SHALL be used in this way for many more YEARS! I've been here in 401 for nearly 36 yrs.

[@thesovietvorona1007]

Maybe not fast but the rest of it yes.

[@PhD777]

Great stuff! Thanks for sharing!

[@johnosbourn4312]

This is an awesome video! Now one of those F-5s is painted in a Tri-Color Scheme from mid '44, representing an F6F-3 Hellcat from that time, and that scheme was rolled out for the Centennial Of Naval Aviation, eleven years, ago.

[@SHINR__]

About to see this tomorrow at Dyess!

[@rogersjolly1]

Nice! I saw VFC-111 about 10 years ago at NAS Meridian. Beautiful aircraft.

[@flavioc5389]

I love the F-5, it's such as sleek, beautiful plane!!!

[@agpereirav]

Outstanding video form one of my favorite aircrafts!

[@jgonzalesm6]

Aggressor squadron from Top Gun. Sundowners easily recognizable.

[@AA-xo9uw]

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[@thomas15082]

F-5s bought back from Switzerland. 😊

[@MichaelVanHeemst]

My favorite fighter

[@AnDrEw122100]

One my favourite old machines , these things are beautiful .

[@JerrysJets]

They look so sleek. Cool video!

[@nigel900]

Beautiful! 👍🏻

[@bc_photo]

So cool, was fortunate enough to be there to shoot Saturday's demo, hopefully they'll be back soon enough

[@alantoon5708]

What a SUPERB demonstration.

[@Midwest.photographer]

I will be seeing the F-5 at the columbus air show this year!!! SUPER exited to watch them!!

[@CMH-aviation]

I will be at the Saturday show. I dont remember seeing about the F5 and i get insider info guess i need to pay more attention LOL

[@pointnozzleaway]

Awesome stuff !!!👍👍

[@aigodlord]

Now THAT is showing off the home team!

[@ColonelJohnmatrix1000]

Excellent aircraft. The fact it’s still flying is incredible.

[@Mexicoaeroespacial]

Great video¡

[@tisyo0705]

Sick!

[@cvillalobos27]

Beautiful demo. The second coolest F5s in the world

[@nelsonbrandt7847]

Great performance VFC-111 Sundowners

[@Sam-rf8yh]

Such a beautiful aircraft.

[@josewilderpatinoalzate5135]

Gracias Geniales imágenes 💪👏💯🎉🎉🎉🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇨🇴🇨🇴🇨🇴🇨🇴🇨🇴

[@melvyncox3361]

Awesome.What a pretty little jet.Even better when there's four of them👍❤️😃!

[@larrymansfield9393]

Such a beautiful plane

[@marcgatto9675]

Them things look the business! Love em. In Canada they called em Lawn Darts. Fast AF and kinda dangerous. Thanks man❤

[@IronMan-ds5bi]

WHOA!

[@alexlo7708]

Of all the F5 air shows, Swiss F5 do the best.

[@jadams3427]

I think the F-5 is one of the finest aircraft ever.

[@mkii1964]

Wow!!!! 👏🏼👏🏼

[@Minutemman]

I would love to see this in real life, looked like one hell of a show!

[@chrishackett554]

We were there. From 1000 to 1430 when the Blue Angels took off, there was always something flying including this adversary squadron and an F35 and F16 demo along with several piston engine demo teams. Static displays were more spartan but still an amazing show.

[@Minutemman]

@@chrishackett554 sounds like it!

[@michaelnewman2133]

I know NAS KEY WEST well. As an Air Traffic Controller I was stationed there from 76 to 80.

[@delten-eleven1910]

I remember when USAF had the F-5s as Agressors, I saw them at Nellis in the '80s

[@ercanyesiltas]

If you like the look of f5s, you should look for Turkish Stars displays. You will be surprised seeing what these can do

[@-2772-]

I*m flying a tiger....rc model....one of my best flying planes

[@spencerhughes2255]

Nice video. Definitely something you don't see everyday..

[@megatop412]

Man they need to bring that display up to McGuire in NJ, I need to see me some F-5's. Great video

[@skywarp1]

Those nimble little bad ass fighters

[@DC_10]

6:29 Maverick: Talk to me, Goose. Goose: Roger. I got them. Contact...

[@feetfirstintohell6930]

One of the sexiest airframes ever built!

[@GR3Y_H4WK]

F5 Tiger II has the best high-speed flyby noise, change my mind.

[@David-mu5vb]

Belle Machine ! ❤

[@QMore-fp7wn]

Love that splinter camo scheme.

[@lorenamedina5509]

Hermoso avion

[@JohnSmith-rq8hw]

MiG-28’s! No one’s been this close before!

[@waffleeater223]

0:51 the F35 was like "dont forget about me!"

[@franciscochavez6806]

F-5 still kicking butt

[@whatsreal7506]

The scochie (sp?) Tiger... Lack of respect but in the hands of a good pilot, a beast

[@jeffreykelley8598]

Sundowners flew F4's in Vietnam, and later F14's before their retirement. Check out old clips .... They were some beautifully painted Fighters .

[@UraniusGuitar]

What incredible machines and how they have aged very well over the years in my country, Chile, are still operational under the Tigre III model. This version is unique in the world, if I'm not mistaken, an impressive plane.

[@albertusdrostable]

Great stuff! This must be the prettiest plane in use today!

[@thomasgoodwin2648]

CV FU(x) Corsair still #1. But honestly, Wouldn't want to bet my afterlife between these. F-18... F5II... oh GOD please don't make me choose! Soo beautiful...

[@EnsignFuntimes]

These jets are incredibly small in comparison to its contemporaries and I still love it the most out of everything flying. Still such a classic design

[@whiskeytango1744]

These jets are still as deadly in the skies with some Air Forces. The Thais have updated theirs to almost 4.5 gen versions. They might be an old design but they still have much good service life left.

[@plombeurjdf4360]

❤ f5 tiger ❤

[@mandyfox9376]

VFC 111 Sundowners ❤

[@andrslnks4804]

Die legendäre MIG 28

[@custodianfile]

nice

[@kimchi2780]

Nobodies ever been this close!!!

[@enricomandragona163]

Too bad The F-20 tiger shark 🦈 didn't go into production!! Chuck had the Right Stuff!!