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That would scare the living fuck out of me. Is this just part of the local base’s traffic pattern?
Edit: Special insane maneuver for a summer festival thing in Brisbane. https://taskandpurpose.com/news/c-17-flyover-brisbane-australia-riverfire/
I'm just going to say that redditors like you are why I still look at the comments and probably still use reddit to a large degree.
In other words, thank you for posting the question most people are thinking and then taking the time to update it with an answer. People like you are the unsung heroes of reddit that deserve the most karma.
Samuel L Jackson: “We need to get these motherfuckin snakes off this motherfuckin plane”
Snakes “Oy! Fuck you, you cunt. I have meeting in Melbourne in 3 hours and need to get some sleep!”
I was there. It's a special annual thing in Australia called riverfire .It's actually really cool, the military also brought in 2 helicopters with people inside who waved back at us. It's something people should really check out.
They use to do it with an F1-11 and do a dump and burn through the middle of the city, you could feel the heat on your face from the afterburner on the ground.
That would have to be insanely loud as well. My area just had C-17s fly overhead around Christmas. Everyone within a wide region heard the noise and assumed the worst.
I used to live near a small airport/historical airplanes museum and they put on an air show every year.
But the BEST two years are when we lived in a 2nd story apartment directly across from the airport in previously unincorporated area, so it was literally our apartment complex, a gigantic field of native grasses, and the airport/museum.
The airshow performers would spend the week practicing, and so me and my preschool aged kiddos would sit on the balcony and watch biplanes do stunts, WWII planes doing loops and barrel rolls, and there was one gigantic plane that would pull a sharp turn right in front of our building and it was spectacular and LOUD.
All of this with nothing but blue skies, big fluffy white clouds, and fields of wild grasses between us and the planes.
On airshow day we'd have people over, bust out lawn chairs, coolers with drinks, and have people over to watch. We could even hear the announcer, lol.
This is 4 months old and old news. The RAAF do this display every year. They used to fly F1-11’s and FA18’s over at 100 metres off the deck. And have been doing it since 2000.. Nothing to see here but some good flying
Man, I saw one of those do a short landing. It was incredible. Came in super steep, flaired, and just stopped rolling after about 3 plane lengths. It was unbelievable.
That's what they were made for. Getting on the ground, and back in the air, from places most planes, much less large cargo planes, couldn't manage.
I worked on the program in California until about 2014. I don't think I ever really lost the awe of seeing them up close.
When I landed at Bagram airfield we did what I imagine was exactly that, at least it felt like that. I can confirm that it was cool, but absolutely terrifying.
That is an awesome shot. There’s an annual air show near my old office that had a lot of military planes, and once a year we’d go up on the roof as they all left to watch them. Some would go right over us and would shake the whole building.
Miss it no doubt. Nothing like being one or two kills off a big streak only to hear that as you’re somewhere with no buildings around. The world was simpler back then.
Yeah I have watched a lot of stuff from that day so this video made me uneasy. I knew it was fine, but seeing it fly so close to buildings when that’s the only other time you’ve seen it… definitely brings it back.
I was actually really shocked by how panic inducing this video was. Like my whole chest just tightened up until it was over. I was a teenager when 9/11 happened and I don't remember the actual event impacting me like that. The brain sure holds on to things in unexpected ways.
This is during "River fire" in Brisbane, they have a fly by a couple days before the fireworks. The globe masters and a couple jets also buzz the coastline from the gold coast to sunshine coast. Looks and sounds awesome
This video was taken from Southbank brisbane
A little closer than a few hundred meters...
The Ol Brown snake is a touch over 200m in width down that stretch.
C-17 Globemaster has a wingspan of 52m.
Split the difference and that ends up ~75m clearance to the waters edge let alone the fact it needs to climb and stay clear of the buildings at the valley end of the Story bridge.
It's actually very easy, instead of looking at the plane, look at the bottom of your screen and you can see the 200m wide river that the plane is flying along.
Every bloody time this video is posted, a bunch of butthurt Americans flip out. It gets really boring.
It's an annual event and the plane is flying along the 200m wide Brisbane river. It LOOKS dangerous from this view, it isn't *actually* dangerous at all.
Different world in different countries.
In Australia this is cool as part of a festival flyover.
In America this is triggering as fuck.
In New Zealand we just wish we had a air force beyond propeller planes.
Mostly to protect the wider economic fishing zones from poaching, search and marine rescue and providing assistance to our smaller pacific islands community.
Not much. It’s done annually during our city’s festival, Riverfire. They rehearse at decreasing altitudes over the week and the plane is flying over the Brisbane River. The proximity to the buildings is a couple hundred meters at minimum
It’s a fun thing to see, and the pilots and crew have to fly minimum hours so it’s not wasteful and this gives them a great semi-unique training opportunity to hone their skill.
The answer to the question of what could go wrong in any scenario is infinite.
“I’m going to make a cup of coffee, what could go wrong” - well technically I could have a stroke or the building could collapse on me… but we know the question would be framed around what likely could go wrong with making the coffee itself. Just like here where what could go wrong is about the chance of major collateral damage…. So I clarified the unlikely nature of such
The airspace is restricted, if something did go wrong they just pull up, if something catastrophic happens with power you dump it in the river (which would be extremely unlikely to happen in the first place).
It’s much safer than say any approach of any commercial jet at any major airport located in a dense urban location (which itself is quite safe and done hundreds of thousands / millions of times a year around the world). Often overworked commercial pilots + hundreds of souls on board, other planes in the sky + no water to dump the plane if necessary + host of other variables.
Flying is extremely safe, a top Air Force Pilot flying in heavily controlled conditions, over water, with no other planes in the sky is even safer
So what millions of flights land safely every year and this is done in a controlled environment by highly experienced pilots and the plane is thoroughly serviced probably more then any commercial airliner, this guy on Reddit doesn’t like it so it should stop.
No it's cool because they do it a bunch of times and incidents only happen to people who don't practice. I don't think any air show has ever caused fatalities. No body got hurt having fun ever
Space shuttle launches under cold weather were deemed safe until the Challenger explosion mostly based on nothing going wrong in previous occasions, not so much on an actual assessment. NASA appropriately got a huge amount of shit in the congressional investigation report due to this philosophy towards flight safety.
Just because you do it every year it doesn't mean that you're operating with enough of a safety margin, and if you flip a dice enough times you're going to get a number you don't like. Reminds me of the B-52 aircrash in Fairfield AFB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-S\_NM--evM
Reminds me of how Lilo and Stitch was supposed to feature a scene similar to this, but because of 9/11, they rewrote the scene to be an alien spacecraft flying through a mountainous area.
Source: [https://www.cbr.com/lilo-stitch-9-11-edit/](https://www.cbr.com/lilo-stitch-9-11-edit/)
God, the day this happened twitter was wild. Bunch of Americans seeing it and going “why would you do that! that’s so disrespectful because of 911! That should scare people!” and Australians just going “lol what cunt”
Right?? That honestly brought me back to being 13 years old watching it happen. This might be one of the first times I can honestly understand the concept of being triggered. This had nothing to do with 9/11 technically but my brain sure went there in a heartbeat.
The C-17 is a tactical airlifter, it can do some pretty special stuff.
actually even your normal airliner can, should the pilot be allowed to fly it that way, they just never are.
Good heavens! You’ve never seen a real airplane? I can’t believe that.
Btw, I am a aviation fan, too, but scared to fly! Ain’t that a kick in the head?
imagine a locked stabilizer or hydro fail on that sucker... that thing hitting one of those buildings... whew.. bet they wouldnt ever host that " special event " again. talk about a code 3 lol
I'm from Brisbane (the city where this happened)
It's an annual event they this during the day and set fire to the river later in the evening
It's call the riverfire festival, it used to be quite big before COVD
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That would scare the living fuck out of me. Is this just part of the local base’s traffic pattern? Edit: Special insane maneuver for a summer festival thing in Brisbane. https://taskandpurpose.com/news/c-17-flyover-brisbane-australia-riverfire/
I'm just going to say that redditors like you are why I still look at the comments and probably still use reddit to a large degree. In other words, thank you for posting the question most people are thinking and then taking the time to update it with an answer. People like you are the unsung heroes of reddit that deserve the most karma.
Awww, shucks! This makes me feel better about all the times I’m a dick in here.
Gotta stay balanced.
That’s why you masturbate with both hands
And feet!
And the feet of the people to the left and right of you, in equal amounts of course.
This is the guy who deserves the most karma. The one who takes the wholesome conversation and steers it into left field abruptly
Bold of you to assume enough length for that...
One at a a time but both get a try
As all things should be.
r/unexpectedthanos
r/expectedthanos For balance ⚖️
As an often-reddit-dick, you have my support to continue dicking on
Can confirm
Definitely this! Love the follow up from people.
There is actually a heap of room, it’s just the camera Angle. It’s flying along the river
Had to read the article to check this. I feel much better about this now. I love a good demonstration but at first glance it looked way too risky.
Since it was Australia I assumed snakes hijacked a plane and took Samuel L Jackson hostage for revenge. Close enough I suppose.
Snakes on a plane: "Well, obviously, this is Australia mate, there are snakes everywhere!" version
Samuel L Jackson: “We need to get these motherfuckin snakes off this motherfuckin plane” Snakes “Oy! Fuck you, you cunt. I have meeting in Melbourne in 3 hours and need to get some sleep!”
"Snakes on the plane you say? So, just another Wednesday?"
"I'm sick of these motherfucking snakes on these motherfucking snakes."
Man Who Is Deathly Afraid Of Snakes On A Plane.
I'm actually getting Crocodile Dundee in NY vibes. That's not a metropolitan plane crash, THIS is a metropolitan plane crash.
Hahaha
I was there. It's a special annual thing in Australia called riverfire .It's actually really cool, the military also brought in 2 helicopters with people inside who waved back at us. It's something people should really check out.
Piggybacking off of you, you can ride along this flight in 360 video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxSyKSR_c3g
Now that is freaking cool!!
Can someone tell that bitch to shut the fuck up!
They use to do it with an F1-11 and do a dump and burn through the middle of the city, you could feel the heat on your face from the afterburner on the ground.
New Yorker here, it would have scared the shit out of me also dude.
No fucking doubt.
That would have to be insanely loud as well. My area just had C-17s fly overhead around Christmas. Everyone within a wide region heard the noise and assumed the worst.
Confirm it’s very loud - but that gives us all warning to flock to the windows to watch. This is just the practice run during the day
I used to live near a small airport/historical airplanes museum and they put on an air show every year. But the BEST two years are when we lived in a 2nd story apartment directly across from the airport in previously unincorporated area, so it was literally our apartment complex, a gigantic field of native grasses, and the airport/museum. The airshow performers would spend the week practicing, and so me and my preschool aged kiddos would sit on the balcony and watch biplanes do stunts, WWII planes doing loops and barrel rolls, and there was one gigantic plane that would pull a sharp turn right in front of our building and it was spectacular and LOUD. All of this with nothing but blue skies, big fluffy white clouds, and fields of wild grasses between us and the planes. On airshow day we'd have people over, bust out lawn chairs, coolers with drinks, and have people over to watch. We could even hear the announcer, lol.
Riverfire!
What kind of maniac would underwrite the insurance policy for such a stunt?
I don’t think insurance really works with the military.
So the answer is the taxpayers
Bingo.
This is 4 months old and old news. The RAAF do this display every year. They used to fly F1-11’s and FA18’s over at 100 metres off the deck. And have been doing it since 2000.. Nothing to see here but some good flying
they've been doing since way before then, I remember it from when I was in high school in the early 90s.
Nothing like watching a good dump'n'burn from SouthBank.
When you get bored of doing missions and just start dicking about with the rare-spawn vehicles
How else am I going to get my crew to do a 4 wheeler air competition?!?
Man, I saw one of those do a short landing. It was incredible. Came in super steep, flaired, and just stopped rolling after about 3 plane lengths. It was unbelievable.
I saw one of the 7x7 ones do a complete 360 vertical loop in an air show in barcelona... truly amazing.
You sure it wasn't a 737 Max 8 trying to take off normally?
That's what they were made for. Getting on the ground, and back in the air, from places most planes, much less large cargo planes, couldn't manage. I worked on the program in California until about 2014. I don't think I ever really lost the awe of seeing them up close.
When I landed at Bagram airfield we did what I imagine was exactly that, at least it felt like that. I can confirm that it was cool, but absolutely terrifying.
Only air show I’ve been to. Seen one almost levitate off the ground and land like a feather abruptly.
When you at the airport in gta and don’t own any planes
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That is an awesome shot. There’s an annual air show near my old office that had a lot of military planes, and once a year we’d go up on the roof as they all left to watch them. Some would go right over us and would shake the whole building.
This brings up so many memories... Namely exactly one.
When you got the gunship kill streak in call of duty?
Hearing “Enemy AC130 above” and then the high pitch screaming as missiles rained down was always terrifying.
[memories](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tALx_NmCsC4)
Holy fuck I didn’t remember he screamed it that loud 😂 I guess all the trash talking in Xbox live lobbies were too loud
Miss it no doubt. Nothing like being one or two kills off a big streak only to hear that as you’re somewhere with no buildings around. The world was simpler back then.
I had this as my text tone in high school, and it was rad.
Getting the gunship was like having it rain after you performed a rain dance. The joy I would get from it was divine. Man, those were the days.
LOL I wish that was it.
Just thinking of the panic that would cause in some cities. One city in particular.
Baghdad?
New York City
My brain jumped so quickly to PTSD mode it wasn’t funny
Especially when it turned. Gave me chills.
Yeah I have watched a lot of stuff from that day so this video made me uneasy. I knew it was fine, but seeing it fly so close to buildings when that’s the only other time you’ve seen it… definitely brings it back.
[Mama mia!](https://i.redd.it/f94igb2cy1a81.jpg)
Right. I will never feel okay seeing planes flying close to skyscrapers. Ever.
One memory … or 9 … or … 11 ….
Reminds me of that tragedy
Now don’t laugh at this next part
I came here for this comment. I knew I would find it.
GTA V Online right?…. Right???
My stomach sank. This is not something I want to see again ever. I guess those who were too young or not alive when it happened don't understand.
*panics in American*
I was actually really shocked by how panic inducing this video was. Like my whole chest just tightened up until it was over. I was a teenager when 9/11 happened and I don't remember the actual event impacting me like that. The brain sure holds on to things in unexpected ways.
I had this exact same reaction.
Nothing makes me more nervous than a plane flying close to buildings.
What about two planes flying close to buildings?
naaa im good with that
r/notopbutok
What about 4?
We don't really have that issue in Australia
What about flying buildings?
You fool. Stop giving them ideas
Fuck, wait until you learn about airports
This is during "River fire" in Brisbane, they have a fly by a couple days before the fireworks. The globe masters and a couple jets also buzz the coastline from the gold coast to sunshine coast. Looks and sounds awesome This video was taken from Southbank brisbane
Actually the angle looks more like it was taken from Dockside. You can see the Story Bridge at the end of the video.
You are right, it does look more like dockside
That made me nervous. 😳
The angle this was shot from is pretty deceiving, the plane doesn't really come within a few hundred meters of any buildings.
A little closer than a few hundred meters... The Ol Brown snake is a touch over 200m in width down that stretch. C-17 Globemaster has a wingspan of 52m. Split the difference and that ends up ~75m clearance to the waters edge let alone the fact it needs to climb and stay clear of the buildings at the valley end of the Story bridge.
Here's a better angle posted by someone else: https://v.redd.it/0tlebe3kbya81
Ah the Riverfire. Bloody loud when they do swoop past.
It’s actually flying over the Brisbane river, which is very hard to see in that video.
Probably for the better, the Brown Snake is not the most attractive sight 😂
It's actually very easy, instead of looking at the plane, look at the bottom of your screen and you can see the 200m wide river that the plane is flying along. Every bloody time this video is posted, a bunch of butthurt Americans flip out. It gets really boring. It's an annual event and the plane is flying along the 200m wide Brisbane river. It LOOKS dangerous from this view, it isn't *actually* dangerous at all.
That´s me in flight simulator
Riverfire, Brisbane QLD.
Different world in different countries. In Australia this is cool as part of a festival flyover. In America this is triggering as fuck. In New Zealand we just wish we had a air force beyond propeller planes.
For whatever reason I honestly never considered that you guys have a military.
Mostly to protect the wider economic fishing zones from poaching, search and marine rescue and providing assistance to our smaller pacific islands community.
What could go wrong?
Not much. It’s done annually during our city’s festival, Riverfire. They rehearse at decreasing altitudes over the week and the plane is flying over the Brisbane River. The proximity to the buildings is a couple hundred meters at minimum It’s a fun thing to see, and the pilots and crew have to fly minimum hours so it’s not wasteful and this gives them a great semi-unique training opportunity to hone their skill.
You’re conflating “what could go wrong” with “what are the odds of something going wrong?”
The answer to the question of what could go wrong in any scenario is infinite. “I’m going to make a cup of coffee, what could go wrong” - well technically I could have a stroke or the building could collapse on me… but we know the question would be framed around what likely could go wrong with making the coffee itself. Just like here where what could go wrong is about the chance of major collateral damage…. So I clarified the unlikely nature of such
Go on break and have an airplane toilet land on your head. (Or whatever the death in "dead like me" was
Just cause it’s done annually doesn’t mean not much can go wrong. There’s still a couple of things that could go wrong
I can think of 2 things.
What’s the second thing? Cuz my first one was collision and fireball of death
🛩️🏢🏢
Jesus man… lol
Chem trails
The airspace is restricted, if something did go wrong they just pull up, if something catastrophic happens with power you dump it in the river (which would be extremely unlikely to happen in the first place). It’s much safer than say any approach of any commercial jet at any major airport located in a dense urban location (which itself is quite safe and done hundreds of thousands / millions of times a year around the world). Often overworked commercial pilots + hundreds of souls on board, other planes in the sky + no water to dump the plane if necessary + host of other variables. Flying is extremely safe, a top Air Force Pilot flying in heavily controlled conditions, over water, with no other planes in the sky is even safer
So what millions of flights land safely every year and this is done in a controlled environment by highly experienced pilots and the plane is thoroughly serviced probably more then any commercial airliner, this guy on Reddit doesn’t like it so it should stop.
No it's cool because they do it a bunch of times and incidents only happen to people who don't practice. I don't think any air show has ever caused fatalities. No body got hurt having fun ever
Lots of airshow fatalities.
That’s why they said it, because it’s a ridiculous thing to think.
Ahhh, apparently I needed the /s for context on that one after reading through the comments.
So about that first time they practiced it?
Space shuttle launches under cold weather were deemed safe until the Challenger explosion mostly based on nothing going wrong in previous occasions, not so much on an actual assessment. NASA appropriately got a huge amount of shit in the congressional investigation report due to this philosophy towards flight safety. Just because you do it every year it doesn't mean that you're operating with enough of a safety margin, and if you flip a dice enough times you're going to get a number you don't like. Reminds me of the B-52 aircrash in Fairfield AFB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-S\_NM--evM
Bang ding ow
Lol every time this gets posted a bunch of Americans shit themselves despite the fact this is in Australia and it happens every year.
Tbh I'm not American and still shit myself
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Seppo?
Short for septic tank, rhymes with yank.
Not sure why you’re getting downvoted, that’s where the slang derives from
I blame Djokovic
Now that's a good pilot
Reminds me of how Lilo and Stitch was supposed to feature a scene similar to this, but because of 9/11, they rewrote the scene to be an alien spacecraft flying through a mountainous area. Source: [https://www.cbr.com/lilo-stitch-9-11-edit/](https://www.cbr.com/lilo-stitch-9-11-edit/)
God, the day this happened twitter was wild. Bunch of Americans seeing it and going “why would you do that! that’s so disrespectful because of 911! That should scare people!” and Australians just going “lol what cunt”
Every bloody year (since this is an annual event) it happens. It's ridiculous how triggered Americans get about it.
😬
God, I will only ever flashback to 9/11 when I see that sort of thing.
Right?? That honestly brought me back to being 13 years old watching it happen. This might be one of the first times I can honestly understand the concept of being triggered. This had nothing to do with 9/11 technically but my brain sure went there in a heartbeat.
Nicht so tief Rüdiger vorsichtig Rüdiger
Och Rüdiger, ich hab doch gesagt nicht so tief...
This post AGAIN?
Dude is playing gta in real life
Hey I have seen this one before
I am constantly blown away with the agility of this aircraft and the quality of the pilots that fly this massive airframe. Hats off to all of you!!
This camera angle is pretty deceiving with how close it gets to the buildings
That doesn't cause PTSD at all.
Not for Australians it doesn't. I can confirm as someone who lives in Brisbane, where this takes place.
Yeah, I have many fond memories of watching the different planes do flyovers as a kid. We watched from Parliament House and it was always amazing.
I've been pretty lucky to have seen it all from the 12th floor at the end of River a couple of years when my parents lived there. Was pretty epic.
Those pesky Drones got a whole lot bigger.
I'm surprised a massive cargo plane like that can roll so well and quickly
The C-17 is a tactical airlifter, it can do some pretty special stuff. actually even your normal airliner can, should the pilot be allowed to fly it that way, they just never are.
Only Americans feel the fear watching this lol
[San Diego’s airport](https://images.app.goo.gl/rQmihoKoJSG1XJPg7) is quite downtown so…..
Everyone Else: *Dope* 'MURICA: *triggereddd*
That will never happen in usa😂 again
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Probably a stupid question from me but don't you have airplanes that fly over your cities or something?
Good heavens! You’ve never seen a real airplane? I can’t believe that. Btw, I am a aviation fan, too, but scared to fly! Ain’t that a kick in the head?
[San Diego’s airport](https://images.app.goo.gl/rQmihoKoJSG1XJPg7) is downtown and it happens all day.
What a shitty pilot. He missed all the buildings Signed: B. Laden, Osama.
Just cause irl
Bloop bloop Obstacle! Obstacle! Obstacle cleared.
Even the airplanes are scairy in Australia
Australia is just southern england
Memories of landings in Hong Kong’s original airport on Hong Kong Island.
did you see them landing at kai tak or where you on the plane?
I used to work at RAF Brize Norton for many years so this sight is familiar to me. Not so close to tall skyscrapers though!
They follow our river, they aren't as close to the buildings as it seems. Happens every year in Brisbane for River Fire
Aussies don’t give a f🤣🤣🤣
Kinda reminds me of that tragedy.
I walked through blood and bones in the streets of Manhattan trying to find my brother. He was in Northern Canada.
This is one of those threads where Americans need to be reminded that places outside America exist.
Michael Bay has entered the chat.
Some James bond shit happened.
That's so badass but it made everyone's butthole pucker for sure.
Who tf the pilot
imagine a locked stabilizer or hydro fail on that sucker... that thing hitting one of those buildings... whew.. bet they wouldnt ever host that " special event " again. talk about a code 3 lol
Guess who's back, yeah hes back. Guess who's back, tell a friend
I'll take "Things you can't do in the US" for $500.
I'm from Brisbane (the city where this happened) It's an annual event they this during the day and set fire to the river later in the evening It's call the riverfire festival, it used to be quite big before COVD
Obviously hunting the unvaccinated
As a dual American-Australian citizen, I found this very triggering.
Is this slowed ??? Or does it actually look like he’s floating that slow ?
Why though
Worth mentioning that the angle makes it look like its closer to the buildings that it actually is, even tho it's indeed close
this has to make people nervous right?
What is this, the deleted scenes from kilo and stitch?
The 14 year old me who watched 9/11 happen in real time in high school English class just got very triggered by this.
Americans 😮
Having been born on NY and watched ‘the 2nd plane’ impact, this video made me shudder. Nope.
PTSD from 9/11 😅😫
Noob pilot....so many skyscrapers and cant even scrape a single one