Spettacolo aereo di montagna pazzesco con l'Eurofighter Typhoon

Video from the channel Prop Clear about Eurofighter Typhoon, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 21:25. Language: English. Video type: Air show.

The video follows German Air Force fighter pilot Noble and his Eurofighter Typhoon through a display day at the Swiss mountain airfield of Mollis. The aircraft is a Tranche 1 single-seater, one of the oldest in the fleet, although it is fitted with the same engines as the newest ones. The pilot, based at Neuburg, narrates his entire flying programme in the first person with a cockpit camera.

After the external check, the maintenance crew hands over the aircraft, the final checks are made and it takes off. The display is flown by hand inside a box one nautical mile wide by three long, right against the mountain. It includes a maximum-performance take-off with a five-to-six-G pull, a Cuban eight started at around 450 knots with nine-G pulls, slow flight at around 130 knots at 1,000 feet, a vertical climb on afterburner and a slow roll with the nose ten degrees up. An ascending spiral follows up to flight level 120 and a descending spiral. With the display already closed, whose minimum is 500 feet, he makes a fast pass at 300 feet and lands using the airbrake and brake parachute. In the final interview, the pilot explains that the maximum indicated speed of 500 knots is set by regulations, not by the aircraft, and that the first manoeuvre serves as a warm-up against the G-forces. His best memory is the Pitch Black exercise in Australia, which his wing flew to with stopovers in Abu Dhabi and Singapore.

During the external walk-around the pilot points out the canards, the fly-by-wire flight control, the Martin-Baker Mk 16 zero-zero ejection seat and the two 90-kilonewton afterburning engines, which produce more thrust than the aircraft's weight. He also shows the arrester hook, the air-to-air refuelling probe, the carbon brakes with cooling fan and the formation lights. He mentions 13 weapon hardpoints for stores such as the Meteor, the AMRAAM, the IRIS-T or the GBU-48 bombs. Mollis's runway is 5,800 feet long, compared with the usual 8,000 feet in NATO, which is why the brake parachute is needed. Finally, he explains the anti-G equipment: life vest, inflatable trousers and a helmet weighing around two kilograms that feels like 18 at nine G.