AMAZING F-35 Cockpit View: Landing & Take-Off on Highway

Cockpit footage of two U.S. Air Force F-35A Lightning II fighter jets landing and taking off during a Finnish-hosted exercise on the Hosio highway strip in Ranua, Finland, on September 4, 2024.

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[RCS]

This pilot probably never imagined going on a nice weekend drive in the woods… in a jet.

[JayMaverick]

I drive on that piece of highway now and then. It's unreal seeing a familiar road with this huge technological marvel rolling on it.

[oceanmariner]

Nice to see the pilot's view there. Very scenic country. While fueling he should have got out and got a Christmas tree to bring home. The guy at the gas station forgot to do the windshield.

[sequoiasemperviren]

I miss being in Finland. Beautiful world. Marvelous people.
Sisu.

[thMaverick]

Imagine being a squirrel in that forrest thinking WTF is THIS!!!???

[kurttate]

I remember when the service stations would clean your windshields for free.

[Greippi]

Good to see some F-35s landing so we can get experience with handling them! Also cheers to the Eurofighters chilling out at the other end of the runway!

[jacobbaumgardner]

I love this camera angle. It’s typically hard to see what it looks like for the occupants of the planes, but this is amazing. Really feels like you’re apart of the jet.

[l.ka.]

In Switzerland we had the landing of F/18s this summer on a statestreet. Impressive.

[lazras]

Glad they actually faced the cameras foward, I don't like videos where the camera is facing backwards toward the pilot.

[paulpaulsen]

At the end pilot got a ticket for speeding 👮‍♂️

[모닝커피_XD]

Wow. This is probably the best F35 footage I've seen. Thanks!

[rufiorufioo]

If this isn't one of the smoothest, slickest looking aircrafts in the world.

[いもねこ-ok]

スタッフ「給油中はエンジン停止をお願いします～」
パイロット「えっ、窓拭いてくれないの」

[Erik-rphi]

That looks like so much fun. I wish I could had been a fighter pilot.

[davidelghammer]

The Finnish are bad ass mf's. Yay!!! NATO!! I'm Swedish and so proud of Sweden and Finland.

[Adam-lzcr]

Great to see this concept of finding an austere location being used as a landing spot to refuel and go!! Important type of training for the future conflicts.

[fergusuan]

This really gives a feeling for the "freight-train" momentum of landing a performance aircraft on such a narrow strip. Incredible machine.

[DjVortex-w]

There are several roads in the middle of nowhere in Finland that have been made straight and widened precisely to allow small aircraft, more particularly military aircraft, to land and take off. It's part of Finland's military defense strategy.

[tomservo]

finally getting some f-35 cockpit views