---
title: "Celebrate 4th Of July With This Exhilarating F/A-18 Super Hornet Cockpit Footage"
description: "Who needs fireworks when you have a pair of F414 afterburning turbofans, a steam catapult, and an AIM-120 missile to fire off?"
date: "2020-07-04"
modified: "2020-07-04"
authors:
  - name: "Tyler Rogoway"
    job_title: "Editor-in-Chief"
    link: "https://www.twz.com/authors/tyler-rogoway"
url: "https://www.twz.com/34585/celebrate-americas-birthday-with-some-of-the-most-exhilarating-super-hornet-footage-ever"
categories:
  - "Air"
  - "F/A-18"
  - "Fighters"
  - "Naval Aviation"
  - "Navies"
  - "Sea"
  - "U.S. Navy"
tags:
  - "360 video"
  - "4th of July"
  - "ARMAAM firing"
  - "cockpit video"
  - "F/A-18E"
  - "Golden Warriors"
  - "Navy"
  - "Super Hornet"
  - "VFA-87"
---

# Celebrate 4th Of July With This Exhilarating F/A-18 Super Hornet Cockpit Footage

![](<https://www.twz.com/wp-content/uploads/images-by-url-twz/content/2020/07/32432423fsf.jpg>)
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Nothing screams "USA!" like exhilarating footage shot from inside the cockpit of a U.S. Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet. Set to a soundtrack by M83, this video has everything: high-speed flybys, intense canyon carving, sunset [catapult launches](<https://www.twz.com/20193/this-f-a-18f-pilot-rattling-off-his-launch-checklist-will-make-you-want-to-join-the-navy>)—it even has a 'whooshing" AIM-120 AMRAAM launch right at the beat drop!

Shot and edited by Lt. Richard Hanrahan, a Naval Aviator flying with [VFA-87 "Golden Warriors,"](<https://www.twz.com/14344/heres-the-definitive-account-of-the-syrian-su-22-shoot-down-from-the-pilots-themselves>) it is one of the best uses of 360 action-cam technology in the cockpit we have seen to date, and Instagram seems to agree. The Navy should just run this as a recruiting commercial. Why hire an agency at all when you have your own aircrews putting out this level of content?

https://www.instagram.com/p/B\_M-nEplcV4

Bonus clip! Another high-speed flyby, but this time with a high-g pullup that you can feel in your bones (advance to the second piece of content past the portrait):

https://www.instagram.com/p/CCHa8YzlmNs

Well done Lt. Hanrahan and the Golden Warriors and happy birthday America!

*Contact the author: Tyler@thedrive.com*

## Author
Tyler’s passion is the study of military technology, strategy, as well as foreign policy, and he has fostered a dominant voice on those topics in the defense and national security space. Tyler was the creator of the hugely popular defense site *Foxtrot Alpha* before developing *TWZ*, which he continues to lead as the Editor-In-Chief to this day.

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