Some of the most incredible military aviation photos taken in recent years have come at a point along the low-level military training route in California known as “Sidewinder” where a deep canyon,, opens up into a vast dry desert valley.

This portion of the route is known lovingly as the “Jedi Transition” which

It goes by Rainbow or Star Wars Canyon, but it's officially known by those who blast through it as…

Although we have seen images from outside of the cockpit as aircraft thunder through this famous crevasse, in nature, this video takes us inside the cockpit as a Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet driver muscles their way through the Sidewinder training route and down into the Jedi Transition. Notice the stick inputs needed to point the Super Hornet in the right direction down in the thick atmosphere just above the ground.

The Harrier is a massive Rolls Royce "Pegasus" turbofan engine with wings. Although not supersonic,

Here is a view from the outside of a Hornet ripping through the Jedi Transition:

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