These High-Speed Low-Level Clips Will Make You Feel Like You’ve Got the Stick

This series of three video clips (plus bonus!), shot during late January of 2016 at Rainbow Canyon (AKA the Jedi Transition or Star Wars Canyon) captures the sheer speed and thunderous sound of high-speed low-level tactical jets in eye-watering HD video. The video was shot from a place adjacent to the valley called Father Crowley Point. The videos were uploaded to YouTube by ManteganiPhotos. Watch out for the BONUS video clip too!

Part 1

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Part 1 features a VX-9 Vampires F/A-18C Hornet, a VX-9 Vampires EA-18G Growler, a 412th Test Wing F-16D Viper, a VFA-122 Flying Eagles F/A-18E Super Hornet, a VFA-122 Flying Eagles F/A-18F Super Hornet, a VFA-2 Bounty Hunters F/A-18F Super Hornet, a VX-9 Vampires F/A-18F Super Hornet, a 175th FS Lobos South Dakota ANG F-16 Viper, and a VFA-122 Flying Eagles F/A-18E Super Hornet.

Part 2

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Part 2 features a VX-9 Vampires F/A-18E Super Hornet, a VFA-147 Argonauts F/A-18E Super Hornet, and a Flyvevåbnet (Royal Danish Air Force) Joint Strike Fighter Test Support F-16BM Viper.

Part 3

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Part 3 features a VX-9 Vampires F/A-18F Super Hornet, a VX-9 Vampires CAG F/A-18E Super Hornet, a VFA-122 Flying Eagles Desert Adversary F/A-18F Super Hornet, a VFA-15 Valions F/A-18C Hornet, a VFA-2 Bounty Hunters CAG F/A-18F Super Hornet, and a VFA-146 Blue Diamonds CAG F/A-18E Super Hornet.

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Bill Walton
Bill Walton
Bill Walton is a life-long aviation historian, enthusiast, and aircraft recognition expert. As a teenager Bill helped his engineer father build an award-winning T-18 homebuilt airplane in their up-the-road from Oshkosh Wisconsin basement. Bill is a freelance writer, screenwriter, and humorist, an avid sailor, fledgling aviator, engineer, father, uncle, mentor, teacher, coach, and Navy veteran. Bill lives north of Houston TX under the approach path to KDWH runway 17R, which means he gets to look up at a lot of airplanes. A very good thing.

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