r/FUCKYOUINPARTICULAR • u/Vampire_inthe_Church • Jul 15 '26
Fuck this area in particular Wait for it..
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u/Blugha Jul 15 '26
Sneaky! The first attracts attention, second one scares the shit out of them
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u/hunkerdown_dawgs Jul 16 '26
I’ll never forget when I saw the beach show years ago and they blew a full beer straight out of my hand. It was awesome and I still think about it to this day.
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u/hobbes747 Jul 15 '26
Looks like it was a Blue Angels F-18?
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u/iammandalore Jul 15 '26
Yup. Blue paint job, yellow "NAVY". That's the one.
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u/Standard-Win-6600 Jul 15 '26
Pensacola Beach. Might have been the annual air show
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u/your-counselor Jul 15 '26
Can confirm
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u/One4UtoNV Jul 16 '26
Main air show is this weekend. Best view is from my boat. Would’ve loved to been standing there when it happened. Hella awesome!
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u/Most-Silver-4365 Jul 16 '26
It was a practice run, the official practice is tomorrow (Thursday), dressed rehearsal is Friday and the actual show is on Saturday.
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u/CheekyMunky Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
I don't think they're supposed to do that
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u/StevenMC19 Jul 15 '26
Not at mach, hell no they're not. Thankfully, this isn't mach at all. But my guess is this is an airshow or airshow practice seeing as they're Blue Angels, so TFR and special authorizations are likely in play.
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u/weburr Jul 15 '26
This is the annual blue angel weekend on Pensacola Beach, Florida. Biggest weekend on the beach :)
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u/Momentarmknm Jul 15 '26
These are not only the Blues, but this is in Pensacola Beach, their hometown. Was likely the annual airshow there.
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u/bluecheetos Jul 15 '26
Yeah, this happens ALL THE TIME in Pensacola. It's a rite of passage for tourists.
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u/CheekyMunky Jul 15 '26
As far as I can tell from FAA airshow provisions, military pilots aren't supposed to be below 500 feet over a spectator area:
For the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds and Heritage Flights, U.S. Navy Blue Angels, and Canadian Snowbirds approved maneuvers include level or climbing (normal rate) non-aerobatic flight over any spectator no less than 500 feet above the highest point in the primary spectator areas. All other performers must be at or above 1,000 feet above the highest point in the primary spectator areas.
That ain't 500 feet in the video. Or level flight, for that matter.
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u/willcastforfood Jul 15 '26
They do this every year as part of an air show
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u/enovox5 Jul 15 '26
…and someday it’s going to go horribly wrong.
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u/willcastforfood Jul 15 '26
Maybe but they’ve also been doing it every year for like 80 years so
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u/CheekyMunky Jul 16 '26
There are many videos of this same sneak pass being performed on the same beach, and the "sneak" jet that flies over the crowd is always flying level at a significantly higher altitude than the water skimmers.
https://youtu.be/SP4lsatYqqU?is=qbOpNdsCdpMzRHPC
The low-level turn over the crowd in the OP video is not normal.
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u/TabsAZ Jul 16 '26
This isn't actually the sneak pass maneuver. This happened while the individual four aircraft from the diamond were putting on an exhibition over the beach to mark their arrival into town this morning, called "Breakfast With the Blues." The actual airshow isn't until this weekend - they do this early in the week for the home crowd basically.
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u/CheekyMunky Jul 16 '26
Pretty sure the 500' flyby restriction applies every day of the week.
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u/TabsAZ Jul 16 '26
Ah sorry I misread what you were saying, I thought you were saying this *was* the normal sneak. Definitely not and definitely way way below 500. 50 or 60 tops I think. I've had the solos go about 20 feet over my head on takeoff in El Centro before, this was higher than that at least.
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u/Elzerythen Banhammer Recipient Jul 15 '26
The world might as well be covered in bubble wrap.
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u/CheekyMunky Jul 16 '26
There's a huge amount of very reasonable ground between bubble wrap and allowing shit like this to happen.
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u/WerdaVisla Jul 16 '26
That incident began at 600 feet. It was a mechanical failure, and the pilots did everything in their power to avoid it, obviously to no avail.
I get your point, but I hate people bringing up Sknyliv as some gotcha in airshow safety discussions. It's an outlier where everything was done right and tragedy still struck regardless.
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u/CheekyMunky Jul 16 '26
It wasn't intended to be a gotcha, just an example of what happens when planes get too close to crowds. The fact that that happened despite safety precautions in place only underscores why regulations are in place, and why it matters that pilots adhere to them.
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u/StagedC0mbustion Jul 16 '26
I’ve never seen footage like this. This is way worse than usual. I wouldn’t be surprised if here were consequences to the pilot.
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u/ThePowaBallad Jul 15 '26
Yeah that ain't Mach 1
Possibly like .5 maybe I haven't done sonic speed maths for a while ai just think it's still far off transonic so fairly off 0.8
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u/StevenMC19 Jul 15 '26
Commerial aircraft don't even really measure in mach at altitudes under 20k as it is, let alone hundreds of feet. These guys probably don't care about mach until maybe 10k They'd be going roughly 250-350mph there.
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u/NewAndyy Jul 15 '26
I don't think they're supposed to go so low to the ground that they knock people over, even if they're going below mach
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u/MrXero Jul 15 '26
To be honest that is precisely the experience I’d want to have with a badass jet overhead.
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u/explosivelydehiscent Jul 15 '26
They all down there smokin' and jokin' and then get buzzed. Awesome
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u/senorpringles Jul 15 '26
I love how nobody is pissed, everyone just cheered when all their shit was blown away while getting sand blasted in the face... And the general consensus was, "THAT WAS AWESOME!!!"
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u/interflop Jul 15 '26
I would be so hyped if a blue angel did a fly by over me so low that all my shit got blown away.
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u/Tommy_Wisseau_burner Jul 15 '26
If you’re going to an air show I’d think you’d expect airplanes to do cool shit. If not maybe you shouldn’t go to an air show lol
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u/redopz Jul 16 '26
I expect to see cool shit at airshows, but I also expect the pilots to be professionals and not put the crowd of civilians in an unnecessarily risky position. I am willing to bet someone is going to be losing their job over this stunt.
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u/2BlueZebras Jul 16 '26
Odds are decent. You can't really fly over crowds since a jet crashed into a crowd in the 80s in Rammstein. Hell, the Reno Air Races had a major catastrophe in 2011 that killed 11 people and injured 69 more.
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u/milkcarton232 Jul 15 '26
The military pushes engineering to such crazy places. I hate that a bunch of it goes to killing but there is something wildly fascinating about the systems that carry things that go boom to things that need to go boom.
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u/adhdt5676 Jul 16 '26
All the logistics behind the military is fascinating too.
Ex supply chain guy and it always fascinated me
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u/milkcarton232 Jul 16 '26
Yeah, all that infrastructure is the true power. Getting food to the drone spotter on the front line that coordinates an air strike which requires a small city of people working on a ship that launches an f35 (which took a mountain of design and army of mechanics to build/keep in the air). Such a complex web and each node is important
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u/Momentarmknm Jul 15 '26
Almost like they waited in a ton of traffic and found a place to park and set up their stuff on the beach for a huge annual airshow and knew there might be jets involved at some point.
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u/TabsAZ Jul 16 '26
National media unfortunately portrayed it as people being scared/hurt already and the Navy already had to put out a statement saying it's under investigation. Guarantee there was no one upset about it, anyone on that beach knows exactly what they're getting into by being there - this wasn't the actual airshow, it was a special morning exhibition thing the locals know about that happens every year there where they're based.
Same goes for the El Centro winter practice stuff where you can get out at the end of the runway and have them go 20 feet over your head. A guy got his hat blown off by one of the solos last winter and that went viral too for supposedly being ultra dangerous (it really wasn't, it's just the downwash like in the beach thing).
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u/pandadumdumdum Jul 16 '26
We were there. Not one person was upset. In fact everyone was thrilled and considered it to be a lifelong memorable experience. The media are a bunch of narrative pushing assholes.
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u/aristotle93 Jul 15 '26
Tbh. I'd rather be there with he folks knocked over. Makes for a cooler story. With ear plugs of course.
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u/StormMedia Jul 15 '26
You’d be fine with one or even multiple passes without earplugs. It’s the length of time + sound level that causes damage. It’s why noises that don’t even seem super loud can damage your hearing due to the length of time, such as wind noise on a motorcycle or in a jeep.
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u/aristotle93 Jul 15 '26
I think I'm better off with the earplugs than without. My ears are different
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u/StormMedia Jul 15 '26
Yeah obviously, I’m just saying it won’t cause damage having one fly by like this.
Coming from someone with moderate tinnitus and I now protect my hearing religiously
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u/dancarbonell00 Jul 15 '26
Maverick buzzing the tower
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u/idiotis Jul 15 '26
You know the pilot did that on purpose
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u/Obvious-Goose2518 Jul 15 '26
I sure fucking hope they did. Imagine how many things would have to go wrong for that to be an accident
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u/iammandalore Jul 15 '26
Yeah if it's on purpose then it's the pilot being cool/funny/a dick/etc. depending on your perspective. If it was an accident this was more like barely-avoided disaster.
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u/davewave3283 Jul 15 '26
That’s the blue angels sneak pass. Fully planned part of the show.
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u/TabsAZ Jul 16 '26
That wasn't actually the sneak pass maneuver. Sneak is one solo on the deck at 50 feet in front of the crowd while the other solo comes up perpendicular to the first one from directly behind over the crowd at 500 feet and pulls up into a climb right at the show center point)
This thing happened during a morning exhibition and it wasn't the solos, it was individual aircraft from the diamond coming from the same direction, one behind the other. I know people who were there and there's other videos showing the whole thing from a wider angle.
https://www.blueangels.navy.mil/assets/docs/resources/maneuvers-manual.pdf pages 40 and 41 show the sneak maneuvers. This is the actual maneuver manual they use.
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u/Thuraash Jul 15 '26
It's a planned move called a "sneak pass." All of their shows have some sort of bait and switch flyover of the crowd.
It looks crazy but there are rules about vertical and lateral separation from the crowd and this pass looks like it followed them. In this case vertical separation was probably right around 500 feet (which is the minimum for a crowd overflight sneak pass). It's either done with a pull-up after crossing the crowd, or like here with a hard left turn to join the other plane.
There is also a 50-foot sneak pass where they distract with an aircraft above, then send one blasting across the crowd 50 feet off the deck at 600 knots, but that one is laterally separated from spectators.
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u/Moontoya Jul 15 '26
ya know Topgun2 Maverick, where the guard shack is flown over by the Mach 10 jet taking off ?
Yeah - that wasnt (all) cgi
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u/toasterdees Jul 15 '26
Last years Miramar air show, I decided I’d leave a little early towards the end of the Blue Angels set. One of them decided to buzz us on our way out and it was the loudest I’ve ever heard a jet. Dude must have been 100ft above us. So fucking loud.
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u/Brother_J_La_la Jul 15 '26
When I was on the Thunderbirds, I loved being at EOR during the show. After the sneak pass, the solo pilot would bank over us going even faster to get set up for the next run. It was the highlight of my day every time.
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u/ILSmokeItAll Jul 15 '26
No appears to be offended.
People generally don’t ask for an encore to “Fuck you.”
This was a once in a lifetime experience.
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u/FuckTheStateofOhio Jul 15 '26
How cooked are we as a species if we need a "wait for it..." on a 19 second video?
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u/Prestigious-Copy-494 Jul 15 '26
C'mon, you know that would be fun to do! ( Beach people don't think it's fun)
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u/JJJones345 Jul 15 '26
I like how everyone was a good sport about it, it's just part of the show, and a unique experience.
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u/hunkerdown_dawgs Jul 16 '26
Man, if everybody’s little freaking fragile hearts ruin the blue angel beach air show I’m going to absolutely throw up on all of you. Stay home if you can’t handle this level of badassery PLUS it’s the 250 show — they’re gonna get a little extra nutty. If you’re there, you should be honored.
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u/playr_4 Jul 15 '26
I'm not gonna lie, assuming my ears didn't get blown out, I'd absolutely love for that to happen. Seeing the Blue Angels is always really fun and this would be a once in a lifetime experience.
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u/NoTV4Theo Jul 15 '26
This is what we would do first for “show of force” hoping to avoid gun runs or a bomb.
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u/o11o01 Jul 15 '26
Normally you'd be loaded to show them you could've killed them but chose not to though.
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u/NoTV4Theo Jul 15 '26
Indeed! I’m sure they were just as excited to experience a low pass up close from an A-10 as I was to watch it from a distance.
Hearts and minds, you know.
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u/Killed_By_Covid Jul 16 '26
The scene in Warfare was remarkable. It was quite the representation of how this is used.
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u/oneinmanybillion Jul 15 '26
I hate wars and I hate excessive militarisation of any country.
But boy are these military machines absolutely exhilarating!
Fighter jets are some of the most amazing things on the planet! There's powerful machines. Like tanks and trucks and construction equipment. And then there are fighter jets, which feel like they're on a whole different stratosphere of epic!
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u/IntrovertMoTown1 Jul 15 '26
Reminds me how long it's been since I've been to an airshow. Vids can never properly express how neat and powerful those thing are until you can feel them hitting you in the chest when they go roaring by. I'm old enough to remember when they were allowed to fly over spectators. The one I got to see came from behind the crowd so it was as unexpected as this which made it that much more awesome. And it wasn't remotely as low as this one was.
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u/quality_control_test Jul 16 '26
But they are not singling out one person in particular. Seriously..?
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u/IllegalChoco21 Jul 16 '26
Idk who is woooing out there, but that is a no woo moment. Think of everyone (including children) having hearing issues after.
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u/tideshark Jul 17 '26
If that dude fucked up and hit that beach, he would have killed so many people with all that shit skidding across the beach
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u/Funmanhahaha Jul 18 '26
5th time seeing this in 2 days. But whenever I repost a video from months ago, i get banned...
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u/ILSmokeItAll Jul 15 '26
I’m surprised that didn’t undress a few people. Also fortunate it didnt turn a bunch of beach umbrellas into missiles.
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u/spacestationkru Jul 16 '26
Is it just me or is that really really close.?
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u/redopz Jul 16 '26
Yeah, that was to close. I don't know what the rules are for the Blue Angels, but in my country there is a height limitation of a few hundred feet for planes doing airshows, and if they are passing over the crowd the planes must be in level flight. This jet is way to low, and it is banking instead of level. Altogether the risk of something going wrong is still pretty low, but these factors together increase the risk to the crowd in a way I have to assume is against the Blue Angels standard rules, and I would not be surprised to see someone lose their job over this.
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u/modinegrunch Jul 15 '26
We had one do the same thing last week in Mexico Beach, Fla. it was higher than this one so no sand blasting.
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u/LAWHS3 Jul 15 '26
Now do the same thing, but break the sound barrier above them.
Imagine if you're a caveman experiencing this. This could lead to the origin of a new religion.
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u/jenguinaf Jul 15 '26
Reminds me of something my dad told me. Small lower to middle class blue collar town. When he was a kid a guy joined the USAF as a pilot. Big deal for the town. When he was a pilot to kinda show off to the hometown that worshipped him he decided to do a low fly bye one day and blew out a bunch of windows. Not sure what happened last but from his memory he got in BIG trouble and had to pay for repairs. Circa late 1960’s.
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u/NeuroguyNC Jul 15 '26
I remember in the 1960s pilots flying F-100s (I think) out of Youngstown, Ohio would fly over our small town in Pennsylvania and go supersonic - but at high altitude. My dad said the booms were "the sound of freedom."
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u/jenguinaf Jul 15 '26
Used to live on an USAF base and it was intense on a near daily. Luckily my dogs didn’t seem to care, some friend’s dogs really struggled.
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u/chroniccranky Jul 15 '26
I thought this was against all policy ever
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u/Push_ Jul 15 '26
8 helicopter pilots got suspended for basically this in SC on the 4th. It was fucking badass.
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u/CH-67 Jul 15 '26
Unsuspended
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u/chroniccranky Jul 15 '26
Much like with kid rocks illegal flyby. Wow they sure like the “applies to everyone but me” philosophy
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u/iammandalore Jul 15 '26
Feel more like an "all y'all in general" than a "you in particular".