RAF LAKENHEATH THUNDERSTRUCK - - PLAY THIS LOUD!
Song - Thunderstruck - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhg9bYNLvOg )
Artist - AC/DC - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB0JSO6d5ysH2Mmqz5I9rIw )
Writers - Angus Young,
Malcolm Young.
About this video
We’re delighted to have been granted licence by Sony Music Entertainment to use a classic
AC/DC track on the back of hot action from RAF Lakenheath, the home of the 48th Fighter Liberty Wing.
As well as Hot-Pit exercises with 493rd Squadron, we caught F15E’s of 492nd and 494th Fighter Squadrons on exercises from the USAF base in Suffolk.
This was filmed to a live audience from a public viewing area at RAF Lakenheath. If you visit, please respect the locals and take your litter home.
Big thanks to our Legal Guru for arranging the licence and for the boys from AC/DC for being cool about it, hope they get to see it. Hope all the boys and girls (Pilots and Ground Crews) from Lakenheath enjoy this one, it also goes out to Station Commander Jason Camilletti
Want to watch the full uncut show? head here: https://youtu.be/i8lX41YjQ9A
Licensed to BigJetTV via YouTube Licensing (No. MGA/CRP/139/2021) by:
SME (on behalf of Epic); LatinAutorPerf, Australian Music Corporation Pty Ltd, Abramus Digital, LatinAutor -
PeerMusic, CMRRA, ASCAP, and 12 music rights societies.
For Licensing inquiries, please contact Isobel Leventhorpe on [email protected].
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"As a retired USAF and Vietnam Vet, I highly approve of this!"
— @billirvin9057 👍 195
"In the late 70's when I was there, our F-111F's would take off in full AB, and the farmer at the end of the runway would complain that his cows would not give milk because of the loud noise."
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"I remember taking my father to Lakenheath for the first time and the shock on his face when the F15s reheat kicked in and the car was shaking. For those people who have never experienced it, well its loud real bloody loud, and the new F35s are even..."
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