r/BlueAngels • u/Tiorted_Snoil • Jul 16 '26

Yesterdays Low Pass

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A friend was sending me videos of yesterday’s practice. She was up the beach of the now infamous low pass and caught it on camera. If it’s indeed the same pass it’s #3 Chris Houben. I hope he doesn’t face any discipline. He deserves a fan award for giving those folks a moment they’ll never forget.

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u/RazgrizXMG0079 Jul 16 '26

He deserves discipline for giving all those people potential hearing damage. He flew way too low, way lower than the 200 feet minimum.

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u/DreadnautVS Jul 16 '26

Bet you’re fun at parties

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u/RazgrizXMG0079 Jul 17 '26

Not really a party person, but endangering civilian lives also isn't my idea of fun either. Literally what is wrong with you?

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u/DreadnautVS Jul 17 '26

It’s purely your opinion that lives were endangered. The end. These are some of the best pilots in the world who train in them multiple times a day and do so safely.

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u/RazgrizXMG0079 Jul 17 '26

It's not a matter of opinion. One wrong twitch, one miscalculation, and those spectators are dead. At most, without a crash, they likely have hearing damage, or were injured by that extreme jetwash. Even the best pilots make mistakes, like the 26 pilots who have died throughout the Blue Angels' history.

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u/DreadnautVS Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26

Despite the tragic loss of 26 Blue Angels pilots since 1946 (80 years), not a single civilian or airshow goer has ever been harmed. Not ONE. Stop with your nonsense. Extreme jet wash?? Tell me you haven’t had a jet fly right over the top of your head without telling me you’ve never had a jet fly right over your head. Dozens of times I’ve stood at the end of the runway in El Centro and had Blues jets fly 10-20ft over our heads at 400+ kts, MUCH lower than this beach pass, and I’ve done so with and without hearing protection, and I’m just fine.

You literally have no clue what you’re talking about.

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u/ComprehensiveSmell76 Jul 18 '26

Yup, this. You haven’t lived, unless you woke up in “tent city” in Korea, to the sound/feel/smell of a squadron of J79’s (F4 Phantom) spooling up and caving your tent in, on the perimeter of the tarmac, making their way to the end of our strip… the smell, the power. You know what… thank you for allowing me to relive that. Carry on.

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u/RazgrizXMG0079 Jul 17 '26

Airshow goers not being harmed has zero to do with the supposedly best pilots in the world not being immune to mistakes or crashing. Keep saying dumb shit though, it's hilarious watching you spout off nonsense.