😵😵 As a demo pilot myself the guy behind the stick in this F-18 demo is clearly very experienced! Believe me when I say not all F-18 demos are this awesome, of course you’ll get the loops, screws, stalls, etc. with any fighter demo but that is literally the 2nd time in my life I’ve seen an F-18 go full vertical on takeoff straight into a full loop! The 1st was The USN Blue Angels! Damn! This pilot threw that Hornet around like he was whipping an F-22 or an F-35 with advanced avionics & thrust vectoring! WOW! Those folks got a treat there live with that pilot & that demo!!
@@randallwatson7881 This is semi-correct sir. Swiss army is militia (except some special branches), but Swiss airforce has decomissioned last militia squadrons by 2017 (They flew the F5 at that time). Also the DeHavilland Venom, Vampires and the Hawker Hunter where operated by militia pilots (sometimes farmers or also the average office guy) and they performed well. Howsoever I'm pretty shure the Mirage III (as part of surveilance squadron (the socalled ÜG) was first jet only operated by professional pilots and in my moderate knowledge the F/A 18 was and is only operated by professionals. At least this guy, Cpt.Rossier is ptofessional military pilot, that I could confirm on airforce website! But I got your point.... its funny idea to think about a mach 1,7 postman ;P But about militia system in switzerland: - Any country in the world a guy with a assault rifle without any kind of uniform enters a punlic train, people start yelling " Attention, a terrorist!" - In Switzerland a random dude with assaul rifle, no uniform anters a train, everybody says: " Oh look that unfortunate guy has report for duty!"
That was likely the best show & filming I've ever seen. Obviously had limited air space with no bad seat in the valley. It was like ballet. The moves were graceful and, to me, unique. Likely not but it must have been the location of the camera. Great perspective, like the Mach loop or Rainbow canyon but like an outdoor amphitheater. Just awsome, awsome!
Classic ballet with an Hornet. Outstanding display! Thank you so much for uploading. Sion is a great place to spot. Halfway up the mountain there is a little restaurant where you can sit on the terrace drinking a "tasse kaffee" and watch the jets go by.
I have watched your amazing video of F/A-18 Hornet performing in last year's Sion Airshow for countless times and I guess this is the same pilot who flew in 2019 and the reason is that I have never seen any other Hornet display in which pilot could demonstrate such incredible maneuvers regarding the fact that this aircraft doesn't have any TVC (Thrust Vectoring Control) system. However, the super skilled pilot flies it as if it has. By the way, the camera is just as fantastic as the display itself. Thank you so much.
Fabulous display, "aerial ballet" - lots of super high G maneuvers too. Afterburner climbs are amazing. That pilot sure knows his plane. Thanks for that really excellent footage. :)
Wow this pilot has mad skills on a very capable aircraft! Always loved the F18 and enjoy watching pilots taking her to its limits. It amazes me how fighter pilots, all fighter pilots, can withstand all the forces these maneuvers must put on their bodies. Even with G-suits it's quite extraordinary...
Just brilliant!!!!. He displays absolute mastery of the fishbowl those towering mountains around him are. It may not be 5th gen. but his evolutions in the vertical are on a par with its later siblings. This pilot is badass!!!!.
That pilot also flew at Athens Flying Week 2018, last September, one of the most amazing displays I've ever seen! Completely changed my mind about how capable this aircraft is with the right person in the cockpit.
i agree with you ,the place is beautiful, i was there too and i must stay that the view of elwyn was wise on the mountain in front of the meeting . i filmed this th-cam.com/video/A7yWic6kOPQ/w-d-xo.html
Great pilot ..the Blue Angles with their fleet of Hornets should take a leaf outa this guys book.. He us doing moves I thought were not possible with the Hornet..
So if the US military want to bring the F-18 into the modern age they don’t need to upgrade the flight systems or add thrust vectoring, just put a Swiss pilot at the controls! 😄 what an amazing pilot!!
@@rabbit9979 the F-35, they will replace their Hornets, but what will happen to their F-5, Will they retire a lot of F-5s and place their hornets for the Reservists or keep the hornet for extra fighters in the fleet to support the F-35 like how Norway has F-35s with their F-16s, the Swiss might do the same thing by keeping two types of fighter jets in their fleet
Some amazing skills and another wonderful video. I don't think I've ever seen a video that shows the plane's slip angles through the air as well as this one. Thanks!
Le pilote est incroyable ! Il connait bien sont oiseau ! Magnifique ballet aérien ! Comme quoi même sans géométrie variable avec un bon pilote l'appareil est capable de prouesse hors norme !
sadly it is only irregularly every few years and breitling has stopped sponsoring aviation completely, but this sumer there will be the zigermeet, in an even smaller valey and also with the swiss hornet solo display (and patrouille suisse, ef2000, gripen, rafale, ...)
what was the maneuver at 1:41 called. haven't seen this one before. One fine pilot and one fine aircraft. my current favorite jet fighter is the F/A-18 Super Hornet U S Navy Spec.
The hornet can‘t do 100% the cobra maneuver. Indeed it was the cobra maneuver but not conpletely done. However this F/A 18 Pilot should be 1 of the best in the world.👍
It's funny. The Hornet has been my favourite fighter my entire life, possibly favourite aircraft in general. I spent years scouring over videos, images, going to airshows, playing the simulators. I thought I had it ALL figured out in regards to it's capabilities. I would then look at the SU-27's, the Viper's and the Raptor's and think "man, I wish the ol' '18 had it in her". Then a few weeks back I heard CW Lemoine's commentary on a DCS fight and as to why he (a former hornet and viper pilot) won't play it publicly incase he were to accidentally let slip "classified manoeuvres" as the Hornet is active military hardware. That comment had me intrigued, but now I am truly amazed. What else is this thing hiding!?
And that friends is how you throw an airplane around in the sky. You rarely if ever see American pilots do this kind of flying, esp. maneuvers that depart from controlled flight. I know the Russians love showing off, but it is not a practical combat maneuver. Nice to see a good old Hornet ripping it!!
it's still within the Hornet's flight envelope actually. Hornet FCS won't allow the plane to depart. guess Swiss pilots really played around with these things.
It also depends from the fact that Swiss F/A-18s have higher G capacity than those supplied to US Navy and Marines. Never quite understood the need to go on to Superhornet if you had this readily available.
@@delten-eleven1910 there's maneuvers done for demonstration and those reserved just for combat. US pilots only do those maneuvers seen here (and more) but only during combat training. They don't do them at demos
@@CheddarTeddy Yes, those airframes only have so much in them. Our CF-18s are being extended out past 2025 now. Many airframes over 7,000 hours now. We thought our carrier capable fleet would be durable in RCAF usage, but air off the LERX was killing the vertical stabs.
just goes to show you dont mess with a country that has bases built into the Alps, and every household owns a military rifle, make there own pocket knives lol!, and can fly like that to!
I'm no pilot, but this highly skilled Swiss military pilot is flying the F/A-18C/D earlier model of the Hornet, which has since been upgraded to the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet. The Super Hornet is quite a bit bigger than the earlier version, longer fuselage, bigger wing, & rectangular engine inlets with more powerful engines, as opposed to the oval inlets on this legacy Hornet. All in order to carry more ordnance. Truly a remarkable aircraft that has proven itself in many encounters in combat!!!!!
Elwyn R I went to Sion to see this display because I love aviation and I live a cuple cities away (Saxon ~20km away) Rien que d‘y repenser ça me donne la chair de poule 😂 mrc bcp pr tt
my best guess is the pilot deliberately pulls high AoA at top of the loop, allowing him to trigger the pirouette logic of the Hornet FCS computer, thus creating the TVC-like cobra-spin. seems that the pilot spent a LOT of time playing around with it.
From what I know Switzerland asked for a re-inforced airframe before purchasing the Hornet models... adding electronic and software equipment on their own - so this is pretty much a 'step in-between' the regular Hornet and the Super Hornet. Bad news for display lovers - the swiss airforce is cutting down appearances at foreign airshows in the near future, until a replacement for the older F-5 has been chosen... might even be the real Super Hornet, or french Rafale.
The swiss re-inforced the airfraime with 800 structural parts in titanium. The swiss installed their own software. The swiss push, as you can see, the hornet three times harder as usual. This is a regular swiss pilot. All of them are able to flight the hornet like him.
For sure this pilot is top of the class -- incredibly smooth and always in control. There were some moves I've not seen in an F/A-18 before.
😵😵 As a demo pilot myself the guy behind the stick in this F-18 demo is clearly very experienced! Believe me when I say not all F-18 demos are this awesome, of course you’ll get the loops, screws, stalls, etc. with any fighter demo but that is literally the 2nd time in my life I’ve seen an F-18 go full vertical on takeoff straight into a full loop! The 1st was The USN Blue Angels! Damn! This pilot threw that Hornet around like he was whipping an F-22 or an F-35 with advanced avionics & thrust vectoring! WOW! Those folks got a treat there live with that pilot & that demo!!
This has to be the best F18 demo ever and one of the best demo in general I ever saw.
It was great to witness it 👌 just a shame there's no more airshows there 😢
I'm in SoCal, been to Miramar forever, Nellis, Edwards, El Toro, and I have NEVER seen an F-18 display like that! That guy is seriously a bada$$.
miramar gang rise up
also American airshows have AOA restrictions. thus why you never see things like this.
Yes indeed, he is!! Cpt.Nicolas Rossier "Vincent" is the name of the dude
@@flo9575 Guess he's a postman or a something in his day job? :) y'know, Swiss military being a milita etc :)
@@randallwatson7881 This is semi-correct sir. Swiss army is militia (except some special branches), but Swiss airforce has decomissioned last militia squadrons by 2017 (They flew the F5 at that time). Also the DeHavilland Venom, Vampires and the Hawker Hunter where operated by militia pilots (sometimes farmers or also the average office guy) and they performed well. Howsoever I'm pretty shure the Mirage III (as part of surveilance squadron (the socalled ÜG) was first jet only operated by professional pilots and in my moderate knowledge the F/A 18 was and is only operated by professionals.
At least this guy, Cpt.Rossier is ptofessional military pilot, that I could confirm on airforce website!
But I got your point.... its funny idea to think about a mach 1,7 postman ;P
But about militia system in switzerland:
- Any country in the world a guy with a assault rifle without any kind of uniform enters a punlic train, people start yelling " Attention, a terrorist!"
- In Switzerland a random dude with assaul rifle, no uniform anters a train, everybody says: " Oh look that unfortunate guy has report for duty!"
Russian pilot- you don’t have thrust vectoring.
Swiss pilot- hold my beer.
2:15 insanity. Thank you for the spectacular video work Elwyn R
That Swiss AF pilot flies the Hornet like it's a 5th generation jet.
That was likely the best show & filming I've ever seen. Obviously had limited air space with no bad seat in the valley. It was like ballet. The moves were graceful and, to me, unique. Likely not but it must have been the location of the camera. Great perspective, like the Mach loop or Rainbow canyon but like an outdoor amphitheater. Just awsome, awsome!
One of the best F-18 demonstrations I’ve seen!
Brilliant flying and brilliant camera work. The Swiss have excellent pilots. Thanks Elwyn.
This is why I like to watch various countries air shows. Some of these maneuvers we never see in USA demos.
Classic ballet with an Hornet. Outstanding display! Thank you so much for uploading. Sion is a great place to spot. Halfway up the mountain there is a little restaurant where you can sit on the terrace drinking a "tasse kaffee" and watch the jets go by.
Had the pleasure of watching this when he cane to Scotland last year... hands down best display from a fighter.
I have watched your amazing video of F/A-18 Hornet performing in last year's Sion Airshow for countless times and I guess this is the same pilot who flew in 2019 and the reason is that I have never seen any other Hornet display in which pilot could demonstrate such incredible maneuvers regarding the fact that this aircraft doesn't have any TVC (Thrust Vectoring Control) system. However, the super skilled pilot flies it as if it has. By the way, the camera is just as fantastic as the display itself. Thank you so much.
Fabulous display, "aerial ballet" - lots of super high G maneuvers too. Afterburner climbs are amazing. That pilot sure knows his plane.
Thanks for that really excellent footage. :)
His?
@@ChiffChaffJen the pilot is a man.
Wow this pilot has mad skills on a very capable aircraft! Always loved the F18 and enjoy watching pilots taking her to its limits. It amazes me how fighter pilots, all fighter pilots, can withstand all the forces these maneuvers must put on their bodies. Even with G-suits it's quite extraordinary...
That pilot sure new how to handle that raw power! Another fantastic video!
Just brilliant!!!!. He displays absolute mastery of the fishbowl those towering mountains around him are. It may not be 5th gen. but his evolutions in the vertical are on a par with its later siblings. This pilot is badass!!!!.
Well done the cameraman who captured the stunning display superbly
That pilot is insanely brilliant wow
Great camera work and amazing flying by the pilot. Can't stop watching this. I've been watching CF-18's for years but never saw anything like this!
WOW! Lots of skill on display---both pilot and camera operator. Good job guys(or gals). The F/A 18 is still a force to be seriously considered.
Boy that pilot can certainly fly the hornet at one with the machine awesome camera work as always elwyn thank you for posting
That pilot also flew at Athens Flying Week 2018, last September, one of the most amazing displays I've ever seen! Completely changed my mind about how capable this aircraft is with the right person in the cockpit.
Nice but these pilots can't keep up with UFOs. W Percival
He has become one with the Hornet.
The sound is incredible
That should give the f-22 raptor demo team a wake up call!
Yes!!
Jesus wept.. a 360 .. TWICE....I am in LOVE!!
What a location. Absolutely spectacular!
i agree with you ,the place is beautiful, i was there too and i must stay that the view of elwyn was wise on the mountain in front of the meeting . i filmed this th-cam.com/video/A7yWic6kOPQ/w-d-xo.html
New found respect for the F/A-18 👍
Great pilot ..the Blue Angles with their fleet of Hornets should take a leaf outa this guys book.. He us doing moves I thought were not possible with the Hornet..
Great pilot, great jet, great filming.
No thrust vectoring needed. Great Pilot, Great machine.
So if the US military want to bring the F-18 into the modern age they don’t need to upgrade the flight systems or add thrust vectoring, just put a Swiss pilot at the controls! 😄 what an amazing pilot!!
So true! Never seen a US Navy Hornet maneuvered like that.
Switzerland just decided to buy new jets...
@@rabbit9979 lovw it
@@rabbit9979 the F-35, they will replace their Hornets, but what will happen to their F-5, Will they retire a lot of F-5s and place their hornets for the Reservists or keep the hornet for extra fighters in the fleet to support the F-35 like how Norway has F-35s with their F-16s, the Swiss might do the same thing by keeping two types of fighter jets in their fleet
I always tell my boys...feeling is what is needed too😊
really impressive pilot skills on display ---WOW!!!
How you track these jets so well is beyond me! Awesome!
Absolutely stunning backdrop and amazing demonstration of the F/A-18. Unbelievable movement! Nice quality video Elwyn...Keep up the great work.
This pilot is amazing and shows the old hornet is still relevant.
Finally, a steady camera during an air show! Congratulations! And great job from the pilot!
Absolutely stunning performance! Outstanding camera work also, really enjoyed, thanks
Superior flying talent! Hard to believe the F-18 is considered "old!"
Living in Switzerland, they shoot like 1000ft above my house every week, I love it.
Fantastic video!! Great job tracking the plane without shaking. Super!!
Are you kidding me?! Damn, not even a Super Hornet. I knew the Hornet was highly maneuverable, but wow, cant believe what I just saw. Incredible.
WOW, great job from the camera-man and a great job from the pilot, awesome.....
Great camera-work, sick pilot, no canards, and no thrust-vectoring ✋🌞
Wow, that pilot is really good. Great camera work. Love the F/A-18
1:39_1:52 wow! Giving the SU35 a run for its money!
well, not the vectored 35. but the venerable 27
Awesome camera work and amazing piloting. Great video. 👍🏻👍🏻👏🏻
Some amazing skills and another wonderful video. I don't think I've ever seen a video that shows the plane's slip angles through the air as well as this one. Thanks!
Superb camera work Elwyn, keeping that F18 in frame throughout: 👍🏻. Plus that display was something else. Thank you!
Le pilote est incroyable ! Il connait bien sont oiseau ! Magnifique ballet aérien ! Comme quoi même sans géométrie variable avec un bon pilote l'appareil est capable de prouesse hors norme !
Thank you so much for sharing Elwood fantastic flying and filming 👍👍
Absolutely outstanding!
I gotta go to this show next year! :DDD
sadly it is only irregularly every few years and breitling has stopped sponsoring aviation completely, but this sumer there will be the zigermeet, in an even smaller valey and also with the swiss hornet solo display (and patrouille suisse, ef2000, gripen, rafale, ...)
Very cool video and one of the best i ve ever seen. High level pilotage. And f 18 is capable of doing some elements in su 35 style
Someone: How maneuverable your flying brick has to be?
The pilot: just right
I have to agree with all of the other comments. Excellent flying and camera tracking. Well done!
Good flying and excellent camera work, wow!!!
thanks for sharing! it's pretty awesome! the jet is floating through the sky, a real beauty!
Quite amazing footage, thanks! Incredible are the maneuvers this pilot and plane are capable of achieving without thrust vectoring.
Stunning footage as always Elwyn and wonderful tracking!
Amazing camera work @
Elwyn R
what was the maneuver at 1:41 called. haven't seen this one before. One fine pilot and one fine aircraft. my current favorite jet fighter is the F/A-18 Super Hornet U S Navy Spec.
I guess it's called "Cobra" but not 100% sure if thats right
The hornet can‘t do 100% the cobra maneuver. Indeed it was the cobra maneuver but not conpletely done. However this F/A 18 Pilot should be 1 of the best in the world.👍
Looks like a Lomcevak, although usually you need the torque from the propeller to help
Yippee-ki-yay, Mr. Falken!
better than USnavy demo ; pilot pushing the limits
*Thank you for your wonderful videos, you can see that they were made with love!* 💛
It's funny. The Hornet has been my favourite fighter my entire life, possibly favourite aircraft in general. I spent years scouring over videos, images, going to airshows, playing the simulators. I thought I had it ALL figured out in regards to it's capabilities. I would then look at the SU-27's, the Viper's and the Raptor's and think "man, I wish the ol' '18 had it in her". Then a few weeks back I heard CW Lemoine's commentary on a DCS fight and as to why he (a former hornet and viper pilot) won't play it publicly incase he were to accidentally let slip "classified manoeuvres" as the Hornet is active military hardware. That comment had me intrigued, but now I am truly amazed. What else is this thing hiding!?
I was there, and I thought "I am witnessing something special in F/A-18 flying". Great work Elwyn.
i got cold sweat watching this.
Fantastic, the best !!!
That is one skilled cameraman .... and Pilot of course.
And that friends is how you throw an airplane around in the sky. You rarely if ever see American pilots do this kind of flying, esp. maneuvers that depart from controlled flight. I know the Russians love showing off, but it is not a practical combat maneuver. Nice to see a good old Hornet ripping it!!
I bet it drives the U.S. pilots nuts to have the reign in what they'd like to do.
it's still within the Hornet's flight envelope actually. Hornet FCS won't allow the plane to depart. guess Swiss pilots really played around with these things.
mimim Whatever they did, it’s cool as hell!!
@@mimimimeow All legacy hornets have the expanded flight envelope. The Swiss do a great job of demonstrating it.
It also depends from the fact that Swiss F/A-18s have higher G capacity than those supplied to US Navy and Marines.
Never quite understood the need to go on to Superhornet if you had this readily available.
I didn't know the F/A-18 could even do some of those moves.
Classic hornet is often forgotten how maneuverable it is, never seen USN or USMC drive 'em like this.
@@delten-eleven1910 there's maneuvers done for demonstration and those reserved just for combat. US pilots only do those maneuvers seen here (and more) but only during combat training. They don't do them at demos
@@CheddarTeddy Yes, those airframes only have so much in them. Our CF-18s are being extended out past 2025 now. Many airframes over 7,000 hours now. We thought our carrier capable fleet would be durable in RCAF usage, but air off the LERX was killing the vertical stabs.
Great video as always Elwyn!
Fantastic display by Swiss pilot.
just goes to show you dont mess with a country that has bases built into the Alps, and every household owns a military rifle, make there own pocket knives lol!, and can fly like that to!
John do you know that we also have sekrit bunkers in the alps?
Amazing aircraft, excellent camera work
Very good show, very very good pilot.
Must be that new variant with the thrust vectoring upgrade 🧐
CapnT it is an old F/A -18 C variant
I watch this once a week
It was such a good location 👌
I'm no pilot, but this highly skilled Swiss military pilot is flying the F/A-18C/D earlier model of the Hornet, which has since been upgraded to the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet. The Super Hornet is quite a bit bigger than the earlier version, longer fuselage, bigger wing, & rectangular engine inlets with more powerful engines, as opposed to the oval inlets on this legacy Hornet. All in order to carry more ordnance. Truly a remarkable aircraft that has proven itself in many encounters in combat!!!!!
The best ever
THANK YOU TO NOT HAVE ADDED MUSIC THAT SPOILS THE VIDEO!!!
By the way INCREDIBLE work done by the pilot and the camera.
Our pilots are amazing 👍👍👍
Glad you liked it!
Elwyn R
I went to Sion to see this display because I love aviation and I live a cuple cities away (Saxon ~20km away)
Rien que d‘y repenser ça me donne la chair de poule 😂 mrc bcp pr tt
i wasn't aware chuck norris started flying.
my best guess is the pilot deliberately pulls high AoA at top of the loop, allowing him to trigger the pirouette logic of the Hornet FCS computer, thus creating the TVC-like cobra-spin.
seems that the pilot spent a LOT of time playing around with it.
Great video man, that pilot can fly that F-18!
Wohoow, Amazing stuff!!
Wow, Wow, Wow, Fantastic!
Awesome video. Do you post still images anywhere? Would love to see more of your work.
Matt , just put Elwyn R in to you tube .... you won't be disappointed.
Stunning footage.
I've been there ! So cool !
From what I know Switzerland asked for a re-inforced airframe before purchasing the Hornet models... adding electronic and software equipment on their own - so this is pretty much a 'step in-between' the regular Hornet and the Super Hornet.
Bad news for display lovers - the swiss airforce is cutting down appearances at foreign airshows in the near future, until a replacement for the older F-5 has been chosen... might even be the real Super Hornet, or french Rafale.
The swiss re-inforced the airfraime with 800 structural parts in titanium.
The swiss installed their own software.
The swiss push, as you can see, the hornet three times harder as usual.
This is a regular swiss pilot. All of them are able to flight the hornet like him.
Elwyn great video and stunning angle. May I ask you where you stand when shooting ? Is is Nendaz or something like this ?
Great Nice Capture✈
Excellent! What is the approximate altitude there?
The base of the valley is about 500 m above sea level. The mountain tops in the background are between 2500 m and 3500 m above sea level.
6:35 this is the craziest fucking thing i have ever seen. period.
Espectacular!
Great video! Wow
Sukhoi who? Those high alpha maneuvers were insane!
What a plane what a pilot
1:40 that was insane
06:36 thrust vector what?