WEBVTT 00:00.379 --> 00:02.712 What's the secret to a good paper plane? 00:02.809 --> 00:04.142 Don't have me make it. 00:15.109 --> 00:17.220 Oh no. See, look at that, ugh, offside 00:17.220 --> 00:19.469 of wings already. It's terrible. 00:19.610 --> 00:21.888 Symmetry will be uh the correct answer. 00:22.110 --> 00:24.332 And you need some elevator. See in the 00:24.332 --> 00:27.260 back it's, that's I'm first Lieutenant 00:27.270 --> 00:29.437 Alexander Grant. I go by Stitch and I 00:29.437 --> 00:31.860 fly the Eurofighter typhoon for the 00:31.870 --> 00:34.459 mighty Lichen Wing in Germany. I am 00:34.470 --> 00:36.526 Captain Patrick Pierce. My call sign 00:36.526 --> 00:39.310 this Hobbit. I fly F-35s out of RF 00:39.319 --> 00:41.263 Lakenheath for this competition 00:41.263 --> 00:44.020 today. The way it was worked out is we 00:44.029 --> 00:46.140 were given a slip of paper. We had a 00:46.140 --> 00:48.251 location in which we're going to meet 00:48.251 --> 00:50.473 up at a certain altitude. We would not 00:50.473 --> 00:52.640 know who were fighting until we turned 00:52.640 --> 00:54.418 in and at the merge. So as our 00:54.418 --> 00:56.418 aircraft passed by each other, I'm 00:56.418 --> 00:58.585 like, oh boy, there's a Euro fighter 00:59.319 --> 01:01.479 which is actually pretty cool. I've 01:01.509 --> 01:04.989 never seen an F-35 so close. When 01:05.000 --> 01:06.944 we train in Germany, I only fight 01:06.944 --> 01:08.833 other Euro fighters and you don't 01:08.833 --> 01:10.944 really understand what your advantage 01:10.944 --> 01:13.000 is and today with the Euro fighter 01:13.000 --> 01:15.056 having a little bit more thrust than 01:15.056 --> 01:16.889 the F-35, for example, I could 01:16.889 --> 01:18.611 definitely understand what the 01:18.611 --> 01:20.833 advantage of my aircraft is and we were 01:20.833 --> 01:22.722 ever facing each other. He would 01:22.722 --> 01:24.778 probably kill me beyond visual range 01:24.778 --> 01:26.833 even before I even knew he was there 01:26.833 --> 01:29.056 because of stealth capability. I don't 01:29.056 --> 01:28.569 have that. So what it looked like 01:28.580 --> 01:30.660 today was a lot of, one of these 01:30.669 --> 01:33.730 maneuvers in which Stitch was saddled 01:33.739 --> 01:35.961 up behind me and is able to get a gun's 01:35.961 --> 01:38.183 employment. I can actually see the gun 01:38.183 --> 01:40.350 rounds counting down when I employ the 01:40.350 --> 01:42.350 gun. Even though it's not loaded, 01:42.350 --> 01:44.572 it's just simulated. You can just feel 01:44.572 --> 01:44.110 it in like the pit of your stomach. 01:44.120 --> 01:46.760 You're like, man, this guy just won 01:46.769 --> 01:48.880 the fight and it hasn't even ended yet 01:48.880 --> 01:51.047 for another like minute or so. So the 01:51.047 --> 01:52.825 entire goal is like, if you're 01:52.825 --> 01:55.047 defensive is to survive and then create 01:55.047 --> 01:56.880 an offensive scenario as much as 01:56.880 --> 01:58.991 possible. The best way to do that 01:58.991 --> 02:00.936 is put them out front. I wish now 02:00.936 --> 02:03.047 you're no longer defensive and you're 02:03.047 --> 02:05.158 at the defender, he will probably be 02:05.158 --> 02:07.380 able to tell that I'm going in for guns 02:07.380 --> 02:09.602 by pointing my aircraft at him and if 02:09.602 --> 02:11.825 I don't have my closure under control, 02:11.825 --> 02:13.825 I'm way too fast. He can basically 02:13.825 --> 02:15.936 just break and then I'm like, oh, I 02:15.936 --> 02:18.047 know I'm shooting behind his tail and 02:18.047 --> 02:20.269 now I'm defensive, you're underneath a 02:20.269 --> 02:22.436 lot of Gs. If you will, you're going 02:22.436 --> 02:24.380 through some pretty extreme flight 02:24.380 --> 02:26.547 dynamics. If you're 200 pounds, that 02:26.547 --> 02:29.729 equals 101,800 pounds of what your body 02:29.740 --> 02:31.684 feels like. At that time, you're 02:31.684 --> 02:33.740 looking behind, you're looking up, 02:33.740 --> 02:35.796 you're looking around and underneath 02:35.796 --> 02:37.962 that kind of strain, it puts a pretty 02:37.962 --> 02:40.018 big physical strain on your body. I 02:40.018 --> 02:42.184 would say I turned my head up to seven 02:42.184 --> 02:42.179 Gs after that. I don't do anymore, 02:42.190 --> 02:44.210 but that's not good for the neck. 02:52.279 --> 02:55.630 on three ready. All right 1, 2... 02:57.410 --> 02:59.929 Well done.