Way too low insane 22 eurofighter typhoons landing at RAF coningsby 17 th June 2023

Way too low Insane multiple euro fighter typhoon landings !!!!!!

[@ericwilliams2317]

"Way too low" & "Insane eh".........That's the one thing I've always noticed about aircraft, just how insanely low they have to get 'TO LAND'!🙄🙄

[@gazza2933]

Insane alright but it's not the jets!

[@Fip999]

Best thing is to keep aircraft no lower than 30,000ft upon landing. Just need a big step ladder

[@LIBERTYCAP2612]

😂😂😂

[@johncameron6853]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@andrewcox5145]

Surely getting low is a pre requisite to landing, getting quite low I’d imagine is pretty useful otherwise you are never going to land.😂

[@Rob-hc5ry]

Part of the training is that it’s necessary to get really low to land an aircraft … it helps to get the wheels to touch the runway .

[@JohnSmith-uy7sv]

that was part of what I said. Maybe they are practicing for aircraft landing. read mine above.

[@sobzuk]

Your humour was too subtle clearly.

[@Rob-hc5ry]

@@sobzuk I think it was….

[@andrewb2475]

You don't say Sherlock!

[@Rob-hc5ry]

@@andrewb2475 🕵️‍♂️. 🔎😎

[@philclark7346]

I don't know what is more shocking the planes or that guys cow shorts.

[@venumx9521]

🤣😂🤣😂

[@alexbarham6606]

Definitely the shorts!!!

[@BigBossOlly1]

Lol i saw tht too

[@stevemercer952]

I'm not an expert, but I think you have to get pretty low to land. If you stand at the runway threshold, then that's you way too close, not the plane way too low.

[@basdebruin2355]

I think you’re spot on. It might be handy that landing a plane always have to finish with contact on ground/surface/whatever. The parachutes pilots are using seems to be for emergency, not for regular landing. In case of using these parachutes, the plane, at the end, be ‘to low’ as well for his well-being. So, one might consider, the ‘to low’ aspect of this all might be matter of circumstances. 😊

[@charlestaylor9424]

​@@pepwaverley2185possibly it was deliberate to discourage the spectators. I've seen a Harrier used for that. Some travellers set up camp next to the airfield at Farnborough, next week was the airshow so every couple of hours a Harrier turned up and hovered for a while. They lasted two days.

[@jamesmaybury7452]

Better to overrun the runway 100m at taxi speed than to underrun it 100m at landing speed !

[@charlestaylor9424]

@@jamesmaybury7452 depends, at the end of the runway at Heathrow there is a sewage farm. You might survive the crash but nobody is coming to get you.

[@darylb5564]

I’m a pilot. One of the most important part of any textbook landing is you have to come in low😂

[@ShaunBakerUK]

My Dad was stationed at Coningsby in the late 60's. Me and my mates used to sit on the crash gates, just yards from the runway, We were only eight year olds. We would watch Vulcans, Victors, Lightnings and Phantoms landing and taking off. Just imagine being 100 feet away from a Vulcan taking off. As mischievous lads we would sneak around the base and go places we shouldn't go. What an adventure. I will never forget my childhood in the RAF.

[@Buggsy61]

Can relate to that. Same experiences at RAF Akrotiri in the early 70’s plus a U2 that wasn’t really there. Great memories.

[@kwalts88]

My dad was RAF. We have Tornados on our base - I miss the roar of those planes. When they moved on, we had Harriers.

[@ShaunBakerUK]

@@Buggsy61 Hi. Yes they are great memories. I'm 63 yers old. I remember many little adventures we had as children in the RAF. ....Yet I can't remember where put my keys. !!

[@ShaunBakerUK]

@@kwalts88 Hi. You're lucky. I never saw the Harrier. The most modern fighter we had at Coningsby in the 60's was the Phantom. For me it is the most beautiful aircraft I have ever seen. I too miss the roar.

[@ukqwerty999]

@@ShaunBakerUK Nice story, Lightning is pretty impressive taking off :)

[@marcfleischmann9911]

This demonstrates excellence in flight training! Every one of those planes executed their approach exactly the same way!

[@Barrybullthiefpouters]

Don't think it does ..simple landing conditions are good to fine . So nothing majorly excellent about any of the approaches tbf

[@jimreilly6933]

Computers !

[@ericwilliams2317]

As you would hope, and expect.

[@cidertom5140]

@@jimreilly6933 not always it can be skill too.

[@cidertom5140]

@@BarrybullthiefpoutersI think it does as there could be an emergency - not saying it is, but if you get it wrong…

[@67theavatar]

Saw Typhoon at Blackpool airshow last year and it was awesome. The sound of it made me emotional. It was totally mind blowing. The speed the thunder the manoeuvres. I am envious of the people who got to be there to experience so many coming in to land. Outstanding post. Thank you

[@subtyrant]

I remember standing there 50 years ago watching Phantoms do the same thing, but a bit less gracefully. That was the year I saw German F104s on a squadron swap at RAF Wattisham. It was quite a sight to see Lightnings and F104s flying in formation. And, of course, in those pre-digital days I'd run out of film.

[@sarahhall738]

Phantoms were noisy things give me a jolly green giant helicopter any day.

[@NealGutierrez]

Such an elegant and deceptively simple design. Love the Typhoon.

[@PeterOtoole-bj3gm]

Sarah talk to me please are you OK peter😅

[@HM2SGT]

*I see Beau Brummell setting another fashion trend with dress shoes, calf length socks, two tone bovine pattern shorts & oxford shirt...*

[@majorlaff8682]

Yes, quite the trend-setter. But he still got his 3:05 minutes of fame. So looking forward his next fashion statement.

[@typhoon2827]

In the next episode we'll learn how aircraft have to actually leave the ground to take off.

[@lindaj5492]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@neddyseagoon9601]

Surprising just how close the ground they get on take off...

[@ericwilliams2317]

Ah, so that's how they do it then?🤔

[@deckiecurry9893]

Once in lifetime experience right there

[@Exploringcornwall1]

I was at Coningsby 88-90…best feeling ever was being sat in my little mini metro at the threshold with the Tornado F3s taking off or landing. The resonance though the car was immense! Will never forget that feeling.

[@LeeW553]

I used to stand at that very spot when I was younger and Coningsby was a Tornado base. It's the approach to the runway and as other people have commented, usually as a plane lands it has to fly pretty low at some point preferably near the runway. The pilots know people are there to get a buzz, so they buzz them.

[@markfox1545]

They're not buzzing them, they're landing.

[@rogertoaster9385]

The pilots are not landing any different than they would always land. Making a more shallow approach than usual just to "buzz" watchers would add a lot of unnecessary risk for a really dumb reason.

[@neilcunningham8938]

​@@rogertoaster9385 true also the police have to move these people away from this spot quite often as that fence is where the guidance lights are

[@scottcutler7749]

Reminds me of when my Dad used to take us up to the end of the runway at Boscombe down, just for the thrill!.. mid/late eighties/early nineties. Dad stuff !!! 😁 R.I.P Dad.❤

[@arturo468]

That's not too low - a perfect approach and landing.

[@dougaldouglas8842]

Yes, but you must understand that the uploader is a pilot, Typhoon pilot, one who is claiming that each pilot was wrong. Now, know your place :)

[@cidertom5140]

@@dougaldouglas8842telling someone to know their place is bang out of order. Uploaded?

[@dougaldouglas8842]

@@cidertom5140 ?

[@venumx9521]

perfect everytime on approach

[@ericwilliams2317]

Yeah, I was being sarcastic.

[@BLACKWOLF-1911]

Those typhoons are beautiful air planes.

[@fourbeepaws]

They are coming in to land, its the people who are insane to stand so close to the end of the runway😮

[@oxcart4172]

I remember a quote from a documentary called 'Airplane!" Pilot: "We're gonna have to come in pretty low to land this thing" Stewardess: "Is that difficult?" Pilot;: "it's just something that you have to do when you land!"

[@Eccles_Hall]

As impressive as this is…it doesn’t come close to that fella’s cow print shorts 👍🏻

[@lindaj5492]

Had to rewind to see those shorts! 😂

[@tooyoungtobeold8756]

That's all of the RAF, right there.

[@TheTimelord62]

It's not it all as there are typhoons based in Scotland that are there for rapid response. Every day for weeks there out playing games with Russian jets that come far to close to Scottish air space. With a bunch of monitoring planes.

[@only1thatmakessense]

LOL they used to fly round the midlands when i was younger, never see them anymore

[@davediamond7228]

they are also flying the f-35 b

[@krashd]

Attacking your own is nothing to be proud of.

[@only1thatmakessense]

@@krashd humour is useful for all sorts of reasons personally I dont think that was an attack , more of an observation

[@brhbrh6326]

Given the state of the the UK's armed forces after years of cutbacks one was pleasantly surprised to see so many aircraft on finals!

[@josephppopp7493]

Like really, really Cool 😊

[@tomatoes3]

Love the fact that no body worries about their hearing , they will in years to come though.

[@majorlaff8682]

'What? What did you say. Can't hear you. Speak up! No, louder!' Me, fifty years later after my misspent youth on the range without ear protection.

[@douglas_brighty_tan127]

My goodness that is incredibly liw approach and great video!! 😁😊

[@Aereaux]

Please define "way too low." I believe that way to low would be trying to land below the level of the runway.

[@ossian108]

😂

[@JohnMcMahon.]

Great footage and an amazing experience for the kids. Once in a lifetime thing that. 👍😉

[@iJulioRocha]

Damn, this is actually my dream to watch it in person

[@ginobragoli1448]

Wow what an experience

[@barrytaylor760]

The young lads faces , loving it

[@josemoreno3334]

That looks like fun.😁

[@paullaw3382]

Didn't even know we had 22 operational aircraft.

[@georgebiddle9554]

Awesome footage 👍👍

[@johncamp2567]

That is remarkable on video….I can only image how it looked, felt, and sounded in person!!

[@awhisperinthewind4253]

must be one hell of a buzz

[@loadapish]

Yummy spent jet fuel

[@dougaldouglas8842]

Been there, and would recommend going to an air show where they are featured. It is a lifetime experience. It is a magnificent looking plane, absolutely stunning, and the sound is a roar that surpasses anything, a beast of a sound, puts other fighter jets into the background.

[@cdnmetelhead4013]

My dad would pack the car with kids and take us to YYZ to watch planes take off and land. It is one of my most cherished memories with my dad.

[@hornplayer1228]

They have to be low in order for the wheels to contact the runway before they get to the other end.

[@davidslater9713]

Good point!

[@ericwilliams2317]

Spot on! You could be a pilot yourself I reckon😉

[@christopherx7428]

If anyone thinks the planes are passing over them too low, then they shouldn't be standing there! Looks like a perfectly normal approach for landing to me.

[@dougaldouglas8842]

They need to go to the Valleys, and that would astound them to see pilots flying at shoulder height, you on the road above and a plane just zoon past, pilot sitting there, looking ahead, and dive-bombing helicopters. You have to have some guts to be in a helicopter, to rise above the mountains, and then dive down, straight down, face first.

[@Harolddespui]

I was waiting for that one pilot who was thinking "okay, let's scare those folks by going REALLY low. 😎

[@SeanE1978]

What was 'way too low' or 'insane' about this? Absolutely standard landings at Coningsby......🙄

[@GaryFOBrien]

Clickbait

[@only1thatmakessense]

Touch and gos apparently

[@user-kb7vt3nh4u]

Wow Wow Wow !!!😲

[@jimbo4377]

All aircraft get insanely low when they are LANDING ! doh.

[@ericwilliams2317]

Who'd have thought eh?

[@louisebell8005]

Love this video. One for my bucket list.

[@Ebutuoymaii]

These kids have never seen Concorde take off from Heathrow. Now that sound will rip your heart out and depress your lungs. RIP Concorde.

[@sarahhall738]

If you are in line with the runway which I think you are there you should not be surprised if they come in that low!!

[@petcatznz]

The only insane thing here is placing yourself (and kids) that close to the path of the most dangerous flight phase of any aircraft.

[@ossian108]

Indeed.

[@DaveTaste]

And that twat on the fence.

[@MoosefromCanada]

🤣👍🫡

[@spuff1984]

I wouldn't trust my kids running with a spoon but I trust a highly trained pilot with a multi million pound jet. The odds of them making a fatal error is slim at most.

[@dougaltolan3017]

Snowfkake

[@sleepyrasta14820]

The typhoon is a great plane but my favourite will always be the tornado i was in the cadets when i was younger we used to go to RAF leuchars for flying and i remember loads of tornados lined up near the runaway while i was taking off. Great memories.

[@cidertom5140]

Mines the spitfire, pure beauty. easy to fly. Not much to go wrong either no electronic gubbins .

[@PHPJN7]

Love the ground effect these delta wings are generating

[@Scaleyback317]

Those kids will never forget that experience.

[@jaymays8800]

Gotta be hell on the ears but still such beautiful approaches and landings. ... J

[@mavericktriple9488]

At least we still got a few planes left, A impressive sight watching the typhoon land, but a deadly weapon when they are used in anger.

[@paulmuir9088]

Brilliant stuff

[@ivor1957]

Incredible !!!!! 😮

[@daleclarke4317]

Strange that each of the planes had their landing gear down...maybe its a requisite for landing safely, just like flying low

[@U2QuoZepplin]

Don't get me wrong ,The Typhoon Euro Fighter is a nice plane. But it doesn't beat my favourite , which is still the Harrier Jump Jet which they were still using up until surprisingly recently. Then there's everyone's favourite the good ol' Spitfire too. One other thing which occurs to me is how much these planes remind me of Concorde .

[@majorlaff8682]

Feel free to correct me, Quo, but the last time I looked, a while back, India, Spain, Italy and America were still refining them and using them. I remember seeing one take off at a Catterick military display in the 70's. My favourite, too.

[@sophieaustin3982]

You'd have loved the matador display at Riat (Royal International Air Tattoo)

[@wesbrit630]

Am a huge fan also. Something dodgy went on when we sold all our harriers to US marines for nothing like what they worth and US used them for years, probably still do we upgrades.

[@craigfeltham3318]

I can’t stop seeing those cow shorts!! 😂😂

[@KatsCats2619]

Awesome😊

[@passkat]

To see one land like that must be cool but to see 22 is special. love them jets

[@simons.2948]

Looks like normal approach to me as threshold looks close

[@EZapar]

That is awesome!!!!!!

[@zigman8550]

That's cool that you can stand that close to the end of the runway. That would be verboten in the U.S.

[@waynetemplar2183]

Never mind being so low, have you seen those crazy pilots flying with their wheels out? Nutters!

[@meirionowen5979]

That's the coolest vid !

[@piglex1]

Ideally they should be at 0 feet when they touch down.

[@only1thatmakessense]

​@@DIRTYdeeds613i think he means radar

[@hb1338]

@@DIRTYdeeds613 AGL.

[@joangalt6270]

How are they "way too low"?? They're making their LANDING RUNS! It looks like they've cordoned off a little spot for people to stand while this process is happening; mighty nice of the RAF! I was in the USAF and our govt. would NEVER allow civilians to stand this close to the flight line!

[@Buckblacket]

I didn't realise we had that many Typhoons unless they were just pretending to land and go around in a constant loop.

[@sticky70]

It’s the typhoons from the trooping the colour fly past I think? All 18 of them. 👍

[@paulefc1971]

Think we have about 100 operational typhoon aircraft

[@jennybrewer7193]

Pure beauty ❤️

[@smurf100000]

Spectaculare

[@Rodney0Brown]

Great stuff.

[@tonyradmilovich3154]

So where is the insanely too low part? Those final approaches were on a perfectly fine glidepath. If people chose to put themselves near the boundary fence, that's their prerogative, but don't put shade on competent pilots doing their job.

[@user-mu5co4wp4i]

….das nennt man vertrauen _Of technology_ ..und dabei Spaß zu haben beim schauen 👀

[@mikekellum6238]

Forever recorded into history, those black and white cow pattern short shorts…..lol

[@carmenlottner297]

Watching them take off is even better!

[@EmArgh]

Nothing says muppet more than the guy in the blue shorts

[@majorlaff8682]

Leave him alone. He looks delightful ... ly ridiculous.

[@DoaenelDantesClipsTV]

Hey great catch mate! Can i feature this in one of my upcoming episodes? Of Course you will get credit for it! Thanks

[@peterwoods5048]

Try the West Beach at Lossiemouth. Just great flying.

[@MrSpanks]

It blows my mind how LOUD these things are when doing maneuvers!

[@dougaldouglas8842]

Have you ever heard them in real life? I can see why they call it the typhoon. I have heard these beasts at airshows, and nothing like it, a huge boom and roar that sounds like a giant taking to the air.

[@MrSpanks]

Ghosts of The London Underground Part 2@@dougaldouglas8842 Same here - I've seen them twice at airshows. I can't understand how something can be that LOUD!!! 🤣

[@dougaldouglas8842]

@@MrSpanks Same here. How can they be so loud?

[@my_dear_friend_]

A well-written headline get you 'clicks'.

[@spoonunit03]

Too cool! :)

[@terrycallow2979]

Didn't realise we had this many planes.

[@Planespotter518]

I believe the RAF have 130 operational typhoons in service 👍👍👍

[@0666alf]

I can remember watching Phantoms in that same spot many years ago.

[@stevecommons3822]

And, in 1963/64, I remember standing near the runway threshold on the Dogdyke side as Vulcans came in at night. Now that really was dramatic! Incidentally, on quiet Sunday mornings I recall learning to drive on that runway.

[@CJB-]

That was after the mock dogfight with the Lakenheath F-15's. All the Typhoons were shot down although they did claim one Eagle.

[@thebritishengineer8027]

I was at Duxford when a Typhoon showed us it's arse then gunned it... You could feel the jet wash from 150m away, I can believe it when they says it's the fastest climbing fighter.

[@jaguar3248]

I have never understood spotters that stand in the undershoot, directly under approaching aircraft. I had to move one at Lossie who got most upset when i said standing on a double ladder directly in the path of approaching aircraft was a really dumb idea.

[@johnaldred6864]

Fantastic....what spectacle...👍

[@dougaldouglas8842]

This video does not do justice to this plane. The noise, when taking off, is horrendous, deafening, a beast of sound. I have been to airshows, and when I could not see what plane was taking off, until it came over the houses, the Eurofighter was like a typhoon. You knew when it was on the runway. I love this plane. The U.S claims it has no plane as good as this that we have.

[@schmurgen5242]

That must be the entire serviceable fleet!!!

[@Maddog697-to3dz]

Herd of people being crazy? These folks are just plane ✈️ nuts.

[@donepearce]

I've never heard of a landing being too low before. What do you suggest? Maybe a couple of hundred feet above the ground - and then a ladder to get out of the plane?

[@roytaylor2161]

Lucky devils. It's a free airshow!

[@paulhodgins]

If you think its too low...Don't stand there!!

[@Corkyrooster]

Great angle

[@TransoceanicOutreach]

2:13 'Ridiculously gorgeous' you mean 🙂

[@wacojones8062]

First rule never stand on the centerline of the approach path. I have been buzzed too many times including one moron in a P51D who was cutting the tops off field corn. I dumped my bike and belly flopped into a ditch to avoid getting hit. F-104G almost took me of the ledge I was sitting on Wyoming German pilot training to deliver a nuclear weapon. Beautiful LABS delivery just below Mach one on the approached. Found out later the scoring beacon was a mile up the canyon from my hunting stand.

[@barrygrav3004]

Wow that's awesome, how many was there, 12 - 14... Seen similar at Lossiemouth when I was working on their TFST project. But not as many as that. Seen alot of performance take offs. Does the pilot see all these folk hanging around I wonder??

[@Planespotter518]

It was The king’s birthday parade in London 17th June 2023 22 typhoons left raf coningsby to fly in formation over London 👍👍👍

[@bakerstreet101]

This like it was a fun afternoon!

[@CAPEjkg]

Love to see it when parents take their kids outside and watch the planes and become kids again.

[@markliebe]

excellent

[@donaldkepple4927]

The typhoon is sweet awesome fighter

[@cidertom5140]

I would have guessed that they’d be allowed to do that seeing as they are allowed to go under radar to be avoided Bering detected and can go in as high or as low as they want. Plus they are our defense and doing it tactically. I see no problem there. Civil aircraft are allowed to do it too in emergency such as bird strike.

[@paullycett3325]

ive been to conningsby many times the pilots landing is text book, professional & excellent - my experience is some pilot will abort landing on aporoach before flying over the road at the airbase perimeter especially if someone standing directly in the flight path /runway approach - Fun it may seem but it's potentially dangerous, not sure if it is prohibited at conningsby i always stand to the side of the approach flight path Never under it

[@andym1548]

Stood just there a couple of years ago when one of the had to hit the thrusters and do a Go Around... loudest thing I've ever heard.... had to drop my camera and cover up so never doing that again without ear defenders! Pretty Awesome though 🙂