F-18 Super Hornet - Breaking the Sound Barrier!

Footage of an F-18 Super Hornet of the Golden Dragons Squadron breaking the Sound Barrier off the port side of the USS John C. Stennis.

[randomcrazyvideos]

Legends say the guy still trying to figure out the camera...

[StefanGPD]

Literally going so fast you see it before you hear it. Imagine out in the battlefield, if you hear that in the battlefield. You weren’t the target.

[bdtv]

Poor Guy standing in front lol I have a feeling he was expecting to "hear" the plane coming . Too bad 😂

[maffis]

Seen the comments after watching guy in front missed the shot hahaha

[Agent_]

I was thinking "what if the guy in the front actually missed it" only to find out he actually did XD

[haildarthvegeta]

I’m highly sure this guy who was adjusting his camera, will never forget this moment and completely hates himself every day. 💀

[johannmckraken]

Saw this done only once, it was 1960 and I was just six. My father had taken me to Miramar NAS and an F-8 Crusader did a supersonic pass down the runway. He warned me that the sound would be behind the aircraft and it would be loud. He was right! Left a lasting impression on me and I’ve built many models of Crusaders over the years.

[bigmanchungie]

Guy: *looks down for a second*

F18: wanna see some real speeeed bitchh

[Rick-orkq]

I was a kid in the late 50's early 60's and they were allowed to do this anywhere, until they broke to many windows, when you would hear what sounded like thunder on a perfectly clear day you knew. I grew up about 30 miles from a SAC base. The 52's use to come back from Nam painted in the jungle scheme sometimes so low you could look right into their bellies.

[cristiannicolas]

The jet is moving so fast that it took 6 years for YouTube's Algorithm to finally catch up

[silverray]

I was in the navy several years back and our CAG commander stripped down an F-18 and as soon as he was launched from the deck he was in full afterburner and turned straight up. Within a few secs you couldn’t see him anymore. Was absolutely incredible to witness.

[jaysgood]

Plot twist: The guy was secretly remote controlling the jet.

[ledpudding]

Took my parents on a day cruise on the USS Roosevelt. They did an airshow; landed, catapulted, broke sound barrier. Being in the navy had its perks. They loved it.

[peteb]

I was serving with the British Army in Northern Ireland in early 1974, at the height of the war/ 'troubles' . I was a combat signaller, and we heard a huge bang so I radioed it in to 'intel'. A couple of days later, a message came 'from above' that many, many, had reported this huge 'boom' right across Northern Ireland . It transpired that 'Concorde', which was still doing test trials, and had gone supersonic over Northern Ireland.

[GizmoRob]

Front row camera dude: "I'll still got time to get my camera setting perfect. I don't hear the plane yet."

[asc_missions]

Supersonic flight is just over a year older than me. I grew up in the unofficial test path heading west 170 miles from Malmstrom AFB, Billings Montana, before there were any laws against rattling civilians' windows (or teeth). They'd take off and in less than 15 minutes we'd hear a crushing boom and by the time we looked up they'd already turned around and set to run over us again. Pretty cool if you don't mind scared dogs, runny eggs, sour milk and stampeding bison.

[ydidishitmyself]

Civic with fart cannon and 100 billion hp: "are you challenging me?"

[nicktecky]

56 Squadron flying English Electric Lightnings were the display team back in the day. I saw them at the Biggin Hill BoB display when the solo dropped into the dip at the west end of the runway, having crossed the town at zero feet and accelerated to Mach1 while coming down the runway, you could see the compression wave clearly. When he got to the east end of the runway, the pilot stood it on its tail and went vertical until it disappeared on a perfectly clear day. We were still trying to find it when the rest of the team flew down the runway at zero feet from the opposite direction. That was LOUD, what an opener!

[aderynmawr]

Poor guy messing with his camera, probably thinking that he’d hear it approach! 🤣
My 80 year old Dad still likes to tell anyone who’ll listen that he probably saved my hearing when I was a couple of years old. They were having a kind of mini (very unofficial) air show at an RAF base in the 60’s. My Mum tapped Dad on the shoulder while he was talking to someone and said “That plane’s not making any noise - is it ok?” Dad had barely enough time to leap towards my pushchair and clap his hands over my ears before the old English Electric Lightening made a bang and all the windows in the nearby hangers fell out. Apparently I jumped up and down in my pushchair shouting “Again”. I’d love to have the chance to hear it again.

[gtoyadhatagyab]

The Stripped Shirt guy: *look up* "It's not here yet, lemme set the camera a bit"

F-18 a second later:

The Stripped Shirt guy: "OH COME ON!!"