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Help a sea-level guy understand what's happening here.
Did the microburst launch the yellow tow planes in the air and the pilots just took control?
It's amazing footage! Glad our Air Force pilots are excellent at what they do.
Almost right. The microburst hit, and the planes started to move and even go to flip. The pilots applied forward power to control the aircraft, and in two cases had enough airspeed to take off. The first one to take off actually *had* to launch, otherwise, the plane would have rolled on the airfield.
Heads up flying!