AERO Gatineau-Ottawa 2019 | USAF F-35 Lightning II Demo Team

USAF F-35 Lightning II Demo Team
AERO Gatineau-Ottawa 2019
Gatineau-Ottawa Executive Airport
Gatineau, Quebec
Sunday, September 9, 2019

IN THIS VIDEO: Hello everyone! Welcome to AERO Gatineau-Ottawa 2019! Great to be back since AERO 150 of 2017.

Here is the major headliner of the show of this year, the USAF F-35 Lightning II Demo Team and my first time seeing them with their full demonstration. Unfortunately, due to security restrictions and RWY length, the team couldn't operate out of the Gatineau-Ottawa Executive Airport so they were based out of Ottawa/Macdonald–Cartier Int'l Airport instead where we went to see them before the show started.

The pilot for the demo was Capt. Andrew Olson, call sign 'DOJO' in his second year as the F-35 pilot for he was also the one in 2018 with the Heritage Flight Foundation. DOJO was cleared into the box with surface to 3,000ft flying a mid-high low show due to the cloud cover that came over the box in the afternoon. Nevertheless, the shear raw power of the F-35 became fully exposed and the crowd absolutely loved it. Majority of the crowd too were wearing red Canada F-35 hats on them too with Lockheed Martin written on the back. Surely looks like the Canadian Government took notice of the USAF F-35 Lightning II and a potential to make this aircraft the replacement aircraft for the RCAF CF-18 Hornet. Enjoy the video everyone!

Cheers,
Ernest G.

© Ernest Gutschik Aviation 2019

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