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Fuck that guy in particular

Tbh, I’d prolly do that too if I could.

Or die trying

I fucking hate YouTube videos. I wish there was a way to permanently filter...

can you point to a video on this sub right now that isn't youtube? maybe just unsubscribe, that's your filter.

98% of videos on my feed are not YouTube.

I didn't ask about your feed overall, I'm telling you this subreddit in particular is 99% youtube links so maybe reconsider your participation. It's an easy fix to your problem, that's all.

That's fair

When I was a kid, my dad and I were driving in the California desert heading to the Palomar observatory. On an empty highway completely without warning our car was blasted by a low flying F-16 that had snuck up on us from behind. I was instantly under the dashboard and my dad was shrunk in his chair shouting expletives (being a commercial pilot he was super pissed) It was the biggest "jump scare" I've ever experienced.

Beats reddits horrible video player any day

That must be so wild to see coming at you.

Some o-rings were made out of seat cushions that day.

In Falcon culture, this is considered a dick move.

Nah. Just downwash.

Here is the normal link for anyone who doesn't like Shorts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBcebV9qpEk

I should have posted this instead.

Sandblasted.

not for the viper culture.

My dad used to call it “punchin’ donuts”

I mean he still does, but he used to, too

I really wish there was more context to this. Where did this happen? Why did they need to show this pick up truck force? WTF is going on here!?

Don't think so, the plane was long gone by the time it hit

Shockwaves don't move big masses of air and they don't produce those vortices

https://youtu.be/BaRb46vv_bQ?t=17

My grandparents had a lake house, water front. One day a pair of jets were flying 'low' over the lake and looked like they were coming directly at the house. For some reason I thought they were going to crash into the house! In reality they were probably 1000 feet or more.

Man i don't know WTF you did to get shown some force by a f-16,i would really rethink my life choices if i was you.

So THAT'S what they meant in the movie 13 Hours :)

Pretty common move from air forces around the world. The car must have wandered where it shouldn't (near a military base or active patrol zone) and it's a harmless way of making a signal and clear warning.

For example during french operation in Africa it was common for Mirage 2000 pilots to fly full gaz just above militants that got a bit too agressive towards ground forces (agressive meaning starting shooting, and wouldn't let go just by normal exchanges of fires). Most of the time they will just shit themselves and leave.

It could also be a dick move from bored pilots.

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Don't need to go supersonic with an F-16 to make an unholy mess of someone's pants. Also, certain flight authorities seriously frown upon going supersonic except in designated areas...

Way back in time a pilot that was doing his 'checkout' flight(last before his term was over) here in Norway, did a low-level over the base(just a smidge off the approved path), and went vertical with full afterburner above one building.

'Unholy hell' is one description I've heard from one of the guys in that building...

I was driving one evening near London Heathrow airport, when Concorde took off with afterburners in full flame right above me. My reaction was just the same as your Dad's...and biggest jump scare I've ever experienced too.

It's really something seeing those birds in action. I pity anyone stuck in a trench with those guys circling above.

Dont understand why people would have such a hate boner for shorts and rather watch the exact same video on the exact same platform just because its not in the short format lol

No shockwave => subsonic.

same reason you're right here: we like to read the comments.

I don't like shorts either but they have comments

To be fair, assuming you made an honest mistake and get actually lost, ending up driving down a military road...I don't think having a fighter jet kick up dust is explaining the circumstances very well....

Just seems like a helicopter or jeep with megaphone telling you to turn around might get the message across in a less panic inducing way

Because shorts are fucking garbage - they're objectively inferior in every single way.

They're made for devices with less detail control, so no video seeking, no audio control, limited video real estate.

They're made for the sake of the "try to make you swipe for hours and hours" algorithm.

And the single worst thing about them - They're forced on me, I can't avoid them - I try to hide them on youtube but that only "temporarily" hides them from the front page. The youtubers I generally follow now spam shitty shorts too and reddit doesn't let me filter out all youtube shorts.

Shorts, tiktok - all that shit can go burn,

It's a 9 second video lol.. if it was a 10 minute video broken down in to 10 shorts then yeah fair enough

Shorts have comments

File it under d. For donut.

Now those "Speed Enforced by Aircraft" signs make a lot more sense.

I suppose it’s safer for the warner since the vehicle could contain an explosive. Tough to damage the jet, easy to damage a responding jeep or helicopter.

I’m jelly. Sad I never saw her fly.

And I’m sure there’s damage to the car from the dust/debris swirling around.

I worked near Heathrow, and every day you could hear the amazing sound as Concorde took off at about 11.00am. The engine roar would fade, and all that was left was the wailing of car alarms, from cars parked nearby. The raw power of that plane was incredible.

Not a plane but occasionally helicopters will buzz 1WTC in NYC and it’s pretty nuts. They’ll be flying within what looks like 100’ and you can clearly everyone inside. Close enough to hear the windows shake. And not just once but for a few laps.

It’s always military (blackhawks) or coast guard (also blackhawks)

I can't imagine the noise of those engines. The sound of the jet was incredible. I've experienced "sneak up" flybys at airshows but this was that x1000

I'm glad that planes don't do this...

Yes. Yes you should have

I use Apollo app

That's reason enough. But thanks for your unselfish understanding

Crop dusted

Why

IIRC this was the Iraq war like 2007?

The US was using sonic booms as shows of force for a while. It stopped because residence were complaining.

In this case (again IIRC) this was a suspected suicide bomber (VBED) who was hesitant to approach a checkpoint.

This sort of stuff screams “I can delete you whenever I want to.”

That sounds like a good way to have your Mirage shot up with AKs.

Lol

Can't shoot them if you can't see them coming

Because shorts are annoying garbage that offer no benefits over standard YT videos, in fact, all they do is take away features normal videos have and cover the video playback with stupid bullshit.

Talk to me Goose

but that's the point.

Lots of things are now being crudely edited and cut down for the sake of shorts, and then people go and post that crap on reddit.

If I may interrupt with a useless bit of information:

Black Hawk - Army

Seahawk - Navy

Pave Hawk - Air Force

Jayhawk - Coast Guard

Your point is nonetheless diminished, I merely meant to bring this useless bit of trivia to your and other readers attention. Carry on.

Yes

Resist the tiktokification of our web.

What’s Space Force’s helicopter called?

Too much force.

You absolutely know he had an over-g. Ugh

Word. We were told in tech school that the Secretary of the Air Force’s wife is who named it the Falcon. Not finding any supporting info for this. As a crew chief, it’s a Viper till the day I die.

Because I want to see the RESULT of this fly-by. Was the car run off the road? Did it do multiple flips into a ravine? We're the doors literally blown off or the windows shatter? We need answers.

How can you hate youtube videos? what the hell would you rather watch them on?

The reddit player is legit atrocious

streamable that threatens to delete random videos unless you subscribe to their subscription

Yeah but none of that is shown in the video on normal youtube either

Star Hawk.

In actuality, though, they would use the Pave Hawk if they had need of an S-70 based air frame.

Cheeto Hawk, in honor of the branch's infamously orange founder. He thought it sounded like Cheetah Hawk but fell asleep texting with cheeseburger grease on his tiny fingers.

I heard about this one a few years back. Didn't that shatter the guy's windshield and glass flew into his eyes, blinding him for life? His 7 year old daughter was with him when the truck craashed into the ditch and she's paralyzed for life?

Go 'merica.

Look up the new "Boom" by Overture. Hoping we see them in the skies by 2030.

Yes, but the format isn't optimized for them. You have to hit a separate button to open a portrait mode comment window. It's horrible.

They're going to need an engine first. They literally don't have one.

ugh... damn! this is shitty. excessive use of force for sure.

I hope this is not true, I actually tried to search for sources on this, but I found none.

Because shorts are the same thing as videos, just with less options, also called "Worse". Would you buy a car with only 3 wheels, or one of the cylinders deactivated? There's just no reason to use them over regular videos.

> "Boom" by Overture

It's literally just a model right now. Usually takes a bit longer than that to develop an aircraft, test parts, get manufacturing set up, get it approved/qualified by the FAA, then sell it. Not to mention how many companies and "idea" planes pop up already.

Unfortunately, without an engine or half-way working prototype, they haven't really even taken the first steps in development, at least not the challenging ones. If they already had made progress, I'd say they have a chance, but it's still way too early to have any hope.

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It was basically borderline impossible to hit propeller aircraft with average rifles/guns during WWII. You're not hitting a jet, you probably won't even get your gun up before it's already passed.

Usually I just take the seat with me when I leave.

Need to find the person who shit in my pants.

Pretty much anything that involves approaching a military facility you shouldn't, especially if they have active training at that time. That's better than how some places handle it. You get one warning to turn around, if you keep approaching they open fire until you're neutralized. IIRC, it happened at the NSA entrance years ago, two dealers didn't read the signs towards the entrance (it's very clear it's a restricted area) and panicked.

Got anything remotely approaching a source on that chief?

TBH, malefic viper culture is pretty much being a dick.

yes youtube is like "we tiktok now" its fucking useless

I just cringe whenever I see "Fighting Falcon" anywhere on the web. Yeah, maybe for a manufacturer's brochure back in the 1970s. Every Air Force guy I have ever talked to calls them Vipers.

Where I grew up, I used to live under the flight path near Heathrow. Around 6pm everyday it was deafening, but you got used to it. Never stopped being amazing.

Ok but what about this incident

If they don't understand why it happened why would they leave. Seems like it should be meant to explain if that is the point.

It's too late, I'm already deaf from the lack of volume control. RIP my ears.

>If they don't understand why it happened why would they leave.

If you're confused when a military aircraft buzzes you in a restricted area, you shouldn't be driving. The reality is the military doesn't care if you understand or not, that's not important. Their job is to keep random people off restricted areas, if you can't tell someone wants your attention when you're repeatedly buzzed by aircraft, that's on you. This is commonplace in secure areas. Just look up what happened at the NSA entrance on the east coast when two dealers took the wrong turn. Same would happen at any other restricted area.

They have a lot more to lose by not keeping the place secure.

I think getting blasted by a jet that low that imparts that much down blast is a pretty clear "turn the fuck around" instruction in any language...

After a half hour of Tineye / searching, the best I can find is this comment on a previous posting of the video:

"Theater, and there were reports on the driver and what may have been in his vehicle. He's still alive and well to my knowledge."

https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/det4m7/comment/f2z82dz/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

And by that logic I should already know I'm in a place I shouldn't be. Clearly the scenario is when I'm oblivious to my error. This will only scare me into a panic.

How the fuck do you get that logic from what I said?! Do you think the pilot cares if you know if you're there or not? Cos they sure as shit don't. You know what a lot of people do when they panic? Turn tail and run away. It's an innate response. Sure, some clam up. But a lot don't and will do everything to remove themselves from the situation. Think about it, would they do this if it wasn't effective?

Because for the flyover to have the effect you want I have to know I'm somewhere I shouldn't be. Are you ok? Have fun scaring randos and then blowing them up because they're confused bud.

So. Your first thought when you got blasted by this would be to just continue driving onwards? Did you watch the video? The car and it's occupants got their shit rocked. That's a pretty clear signal to literally everyone on the planet besides you that maybe something is up and you should probably not keep doing what it is that you're doing. But sure, tell me more how you'd just plow on like someone with a room temperature IQ...

I hate YouTube shorts why can't I cast it? Why can't I get rid of the prominent pause button? Truly a terrible youtube feature

I was talking about the phone experience. Which is identical whether it's a regular video or short. Both would be in portrait and require to press a button to read comments

I probably wouldn't know wtf just happened. Use your imagination for two seconds.

I am using my imagination. I'm using it to try to see this from the point of an idiot and am obviously failing. I say again, why would they do this if it didn't work? And who gives a fuck if you knew what happened or not? You'd bug the fuck out of their as quick as you could. You wouldn't be hanging around to find out if it happens a second time. It's like being in an unfamiliar part of town and hearing something out of the ordinary. You don't hang around, you get out of there asap. This is that turned to 14. I swear, it must be tiring for you, having your two brain cells constantly fighting for third place...

Terrain pull up pull up over g over g

From one pedant to another: saying “your point is nonetheless diminished” implies that their point is diminished. Nonetheless means “however” or “despite anything to the contrary”. You could have said “Nonetheless, your point is undiminished.”

Is there an extension to replace the /shorts/ with /v/ automatically in the URL? This will convert a short to normal playback but I've been doing it manually.

Got hit with a killer "sneak-up" flyover from a distant air show. We were at a pier on a beach looking at the air show going on miles away across the water. The planes would come out over the lake, but never closer than maybe a half-mile or so. Suddenly a jet comes from the land side of our view (behind us) and the sound blasted us all at once. Entire pier of people were jump-scared by that one.

I went to Pensacola for college, which is the home of the Blue Angels. You can often see them practicing from the beach. When they are going fast and heading straight towards you... you don't hear them until they are right on top of you or even past you. It's terrifying because they are super loud too. It's amazing how something that loud can be so sneaky.

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Noooo! YouTube shorts make me understand why people use tiktok

In what way is the short of this video worse than the normal version?

People use Tiktok because it is addicting as hell.

The problem is that the rest of the platform is optimized for landscape. If I'm watching a YouTube video on my phone, it's in landscape mode.

Because they give you the same thing as normal videos, but with even less options. They do nothing better, and offer less in total.

Not arguing that, but you wouldn't read the comments while watching in landscape on your phone either since that's not even possible

*hamberder grease

I rarely read comments on my phone at all, but I do on desktop, which is also landscape. From my perspective, it's a long-form landscape experience, and the shorts simply suck.

I'd purposely drive way over the limit to get buzzed by a fighter jet.

Dad was in the RAF and we lived on various bases my entire childhood.

In that entire time nothing was as loud as watching a Vulcan flypast at an airshow in the mid-70's. I remember a can of Coke resting on top of the car being shuffled across the roof as it flew by.

I'm envious of you. I never saw a Vulcan, but fell in love with them when I saw a documentary about how Vulcans were used in the bombing of the Falkland Islands. So audacious to use moth-balled aircraft for one last mission, to fly half-way round the world as a reminder that even mainland South America could be targeted if needed. Old technology that still carried an unexpected punch.

If you've not seen it, highly recommend the following documentary about the story of Vulcans going to war. https://youtu.be/D3ZdOo9dtC8

I haven't seen any but never looked into it. I just do it manually too and copy / paste the video link to a normal youtube video.

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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qBcebV9qpEk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBcebV9qpEk

People can't tell the difference between an F-18 and a F-16 😵

Could you fucking imagine if that actually was a VBIED that had a huge payload (many did in Iraq) and decided to blow up as the jet passed over and then crashed the jet? That would have been absolutely fucking insane.

> Pretty common move from air forces around the world.

Not really. As far as I'm aware, the pilot for this was severely punished.

Ah yes, I did not realize my error. At least my point was undiminished!

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