There was definitely something up with one of the elevators. In that turn around maneuver around 2 min the aircraft snaps pretty hard and recovers. When it does pitch up at 3:30 it tumbles not just pitches. During the takeoff, it might have hit one of the elevators on the ground and knocked something loose or stripped a servo gear.

Real bummer for the pilot on what looked like a pretty nice F 18.

PaulD