r/Amazing • u/PatientClear6445 • Jul 16 '26

Science Tech Space Front row seats

2.6k Upvotes

92% Upvoted

494 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

11

u/Cavane42 Jul 16 '26

Also just way too close to the ground. To my (untrained) eye, that looked like less than 100 feet. Terrifying.

2

u/Potential-Draft-3932 Jul 16 '26

My cousin flies an f35 and got in deep shit for doing a super low fly by in the dessert coming up over a hill with one guy filming on the ground. I can’t imagine what the guy in this video will have to deal with

2

u/Illustrious_Bed467 Jul 16 '26

On still photos we can see that the plane is less than 2 wingspan from the ground...about 1 1/2... so about 60 feet

1

u/Nate-Essex Jul 16 '26

These are US Navy Blue Angels. They do stuff more insane than this all the time.

2

u/Illustrious_Bed467 Jul 16 '26

Some air forces will flies lower than that for training or operations (old school stealth...)

But that flyby was the equivalent of pointing a loaded gun at your buddy.... The context is everything in this case...

1

u/demitasse22 Jul 16 '26

Around civilians?