In the world of aviation, where one seems to have seen it all, there is still room for surprise, like the one we can see today.<\/p>\n
This event was recorded last Friday, May 5, at the RAF Lakenheath airbase, in England, and was published today by the YouTube channel of Ted Coningsby<\/a>, the nice teddy bear that I already told you about here<\/a>, who among other things has flown in a Eurofighter of the RAF and with the Red Arrows. This time, Ted was on the ground filming the taxiing at RAF Lakenheath of eight F-15E Strike Eagle strike fighters<\/strong> of the 494th Fighter Squadron \"Panthers\" of the United States Air Force (USAF), who have their base there.<\/p>\n Ted was able to record something very atypical: two rounds of eight high-speed taxis of the aforementioned fighters<\/strong>. \"This has never been seen before by the Ted Coningsby Channel and was very exciting to watch\"<\/em>, Ted says, noting that taxiing speeds are typically 16 to 19 knots<\/em><\/strong> (30 to 35 km\/h; 18 to 22 mph), but the taxis we see in the video exceeded 52 knots<\/strong> (96 km\/h; 60 mph). In fact, at the beginning of each high-speed taxis you see F-15Es igniting their afterburners<\/strong> for a few seconds, then turning them off and extending the large dorsal airbrake that all F-15Es carry (turn up the volume of the speakers, the sound is spectacular):<\/p>\n
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