2 x F-18s

4 chutes seen

Edited Sunday at 06:46 PM1 day by F-15E WSO

Holy shit! Hoping everyone is ok.

Don’t know if this is legit footage or not but crazy they all got out if real.

All 4 seats getting out with chutes is crazy in that situation

Man, that could have been really bad and crazy lucky that they all made it out without issue. That was really weird how both jets were in sync after hitting each other. And also...WTF? How did they manage to do that?

Two has some spalining to do...parroting other holy cow lucky they all got out and didn't get tangled up.

I thought it was AI at first...they were stuck together after first contact.

Another good question is going to be why do we have Growlers flying air show profiles? Did you really need an LDHD two ship to do a routine that would probably look exactly the same in slick hornets?

Hopefully someone kicked some rudder because lead got lucky with having enough space to eject.

Since everyone made it and are OK: Rejoin to the piggyback position? Is that a new Ace and Gary maneuver?

Nothing to see here…

Perfect diamond chute formation finale. Was prebriefed.

1 hour ago, jonlbs said:

Nothing to see here…

Perfect diamond chute formation finale. Was prebriefed.

Timing and spacing was good. Two, your PLF was a little off. I saw feet, butt, head. Remember to roll on your side next time.

Kind of reminded me of the B-17 and P39 mid air in Texas.

What the actual F two?

And that was the Demo team?

Were these Growlers from the same squadron that crashed on the low level last year at Whidbey? Doing a little research and I’m ascertaining that all Growlers are based in Whidbey?

Edited 8 hours ago8 hr by Vito

Looks like they failed the blind exercise...

Glad they all made it out!

3 hours ago, ClearedHot said:

What the actual F two?

And that was the Demo team?

I was there Saturday and thought they were really sloppy and spread out but gave the benefit of the doubt to the 30kt winds. Maybe they are new to the demo team, but it was sad display compared to having seen the same demo team in the past. Certainly nothing like the Viper demo.

Blancolirio said their airshow flying was an additional duty. Well, that should just about take care of the airshow demos in the Growler. Glad they all got out, but why a colossal waste of money and not a good look for Naval Aviation.

Edited 2 hours ago2 hr by precontact

We need about 300% more Growlers…but yeah, let’s burn some on airshows for no good reason. Dumbasses. Glad they’re all alive.