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Spaghettiyetti98@reddit

Bros just rocking the wings to say hi lol

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Slapnbeans@reddit

He was to close and was getting turbulence from the other jet

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Rarecandy31@reddit

So fucking glad I remembered to slide Jayden Reed in there.

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Cherry_Queasy@reddit

i always forget to set my lineup for TNF lmao

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bringit2012@reddit

Yeah 2 leagues I had him playing. These are deep leagues with big teams so I have time to recover. Regardless, slotting a WR3 in would still yield a better result than what I got.

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-thicc-nick@reddit

I had tucker kraft on my bench and I wanna kms

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Apexnanoman@reddit

So four of those clunkers lumbered into the sky. Which means they had 9-10 planes in total involved when given the F-35s availability rate.

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Fighter pilot here: It's simple. #4 is the hardest position to fly, and it's usually the new(er) guy/gal flying it. They are just pumped full of adrenaline, trying to hold on, and over-correcting in what is likely their first or one of very few flyovers. It's not easy.

Also it's rare to even fly this formation with a 4 ship these days, so very few hacks at it for practice, without the added adrenaline kicker of being on TV.

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Kaos2800@reddit

Formation Pilot here. As @DrumminJ219 said. #4 hard, #2/#4 typically less experienced. Also, you can see he’s super tight on #3, notice their wing is directly behind #3, this is called overlap and has a number of effects. A) you’re literally flying through #3’s right wing vortex which makes holding position harder. B) The wake causes your ailerons to feel super heavy…probably not an issue on a fly by wire system, but definitely is on a push rod type, you can feel it and what are usually small connections because significantly harder.

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humoristhenewblack@reddit

Ignorant not-pilot here: Why are you putting the rookie in the hardest spot?

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DrumminJ219@reddit

#1 and #3 spot are flight lead qualified (basic fighter tactics pair up 2 or 4 jets, so a 4-ship formation can split the #3 and #4 jet off meaning #3 needs to be a flight lead.) That leaves #2 and #4. Typically those are both wingmen (lowest of the quals hence new(er) pilot) It's likely both #2 and #4 here are wingmen only. That being said, I've seen plenty of high time guys still struggle with the #4 spot.

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lloydeph6@reddit

How much do fighter pilots get paid annually and what jobs are out there for you guys when you retire?

I’m guessing just new recruits?

Ever heard of foreign countries trying to recruit your buddies or anything?

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enraged_hbo_max_user@reddit

I always assumed pro beach volleyball players. That or they play piano at bars

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Funnybear3@reddit

'International relations'.

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DrumminJ219@reddit

It's under the same officer payrate that any US Military officer would get, with some added incentives like flight pay (averages anywhere from an extra 200 to 1000 a month based on years of experience). And then there are retention bonuses if you've served long enough to get out, those can be anywhere from 15K to 50K a year to keep you in for 1-4 years or so.

Most fighter guys go airlines / cargo. Also know a lot that went wildly different routes like getting MBA's or government contractors (sim instructors is a big one).

There are some overseas jobs as well, usually instructing or sim instructing, and always with a country that we are typically very friendly with (still has to get approved by the state department after all).

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terrorEagle@reddit

Yeah but you can make money by not paying the Snacko.

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Alternative-Yak-925@reddit

A recently retired F16 pilot was my Calculus II professor in college. Pretty cool guy and good teacher.

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dankgpt@reddit

I know an ex navy pilot that is a professional hacker. Super cool dude and pen tests OT devices and aircraft for a living and makes huge bank.

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cantonic@reddit

Pen testing aircraft sounds fascinating and like something I want in a Tom Clancy novel.

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dankgpt@reddit

You don’t get paid enough but you get the thrill. Real money comes in when you fly commercial or cargo as civ. I know narrowbody dudes making 200k a year for the legacy carriers

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TorLam@reddit

They're probably going to get a new nickname, Wiggles ! 🤣😂😂🤣

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DrumminJ219@reddit

Absolutely valid naming material!

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admiraljohn@reddit

Yeah, callsigns are typically not based on something heroic.

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Hadrollo@reddit

I've absolutely no experience with aviation, but from reading this I'm not overly surprised to see they look a little bit like Trail Names.

Trail names are a bit of a tradition on long hikes. You can make your own or be given one, and it's not uncommon for the reason you get one to be less than dashing circumstances.

Anyone with the name Chuck, Woodchuck, or Woody has probably projectile vomited at a campsite. I met a guy called "Brownie" who had a cup of coffee before a particularly difficult ascent and met a fate similar to the one in the article. Other names are more endearing or heroic; "Bearfoot" survived a bear attack in his younger days and was left with a nasty scar on his foot, "BMW" is Bavarian Man Walking, but then you find that the petite young woman affectionately called "Pea" got her name from her tiny bladder.

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mfigroid@reddit

Stab?

Clicked link.

Yep, Stab.

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Jrnation8988@reddit

I knew what story this would be before the page even loaded 🤣

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Majestic-Fail-1731@reddit

thanks for sharing this.

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Ill-Palpitation8843@reddit

I imagine they would get called for one of their least heroic acts lol

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admiraljohn@reddit

During the excellent PBS series "Carrier" they talked about callsigns, one of the pilots had the callsign "Dahigi" because he worked a lot of "side deals" and would always say "Don't ask how I got it." :)

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Rowing_Lawyer@reddit

Not a pilot question, I’m assuming they already have a call sign, can they get another one?

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birwin353@reddit

Absolutely, if you do something even stupider or more funny than what got you your current callsign, it’s gonna get changed. But i think you don’t have to worry about that now do you Crash!

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Bulletsandbandages44@reddit

Usually new wingmen don’t get callsigns until they’ve been fully mission qualified for a while. So if this person is new-er, they may still be un-named, and this event would absolutely be ammo for a naming.

There are rules, but the answer is yes, you can have a hostile re-naming. Units often protect your name against a hostile re-naming once you drop live weapons in combat.

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Abbygirl1001@reddit

Makes perfect sense in a combat role. I would have thought though, that for something so public facing as a flyover a little more thought and preparation would have gone into it.

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peace2calm@reddit

this guy fighter jets.

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BothSidesoftheSky@reddit

Maverick is that you?!

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toraai117@reddit

Because the experienced pilots are flight and element leaders who lead their respective wingman, and thus need to be in front. Imagine that formation but significantly farther spread apart which is where they would usually operate.

It’s basically the result of combat formations being shrunk to parade size

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Effective-Order1084@reddit

He’s waving 👋! How are you an aviator and don’t know this?

Why with all the theatrics?

It’s a wave and very common!

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Slavx97@reddit

What makes #4 the hardest spot, I get #1 would pretty much just be flying the course but I would’ve assumed one of the middle sandwiched spots would’ve been hardest or more nerve inducing

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TensorialShamu@reddit

Key component to a lot of military training - trust the guy behind you to do his job

A lot of nuances to that, but it’s one thing I miss the most since getting out, knowing that (in general) you could trust people to be actually trying and they were trusting you to do the same.

3 isn’t concerned with 4, just doing his job as well as he can so 4 can do the same

Sorry for rambling, but thanks for letting me ramble. I miss my old career and enjoy talking about it :(

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PLAYTZ2@reddit

I want to know more about your old career..

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DrumminJ219@reddit

#1 is focused on timing. That can be tough as well, especially when national anthem starts early/late or drags on (sometimes a pilot in the stadium with a radio will try to help with this)

Everyone else is flying off of #1. So...#2 and #3 here are just flying off #1.

#4 on the other hand, is flying off #3 who is flying off #1...so usually you'd want to just try to fly off 1 and not bite off on what 3 does (without hitting him and keeping spacing). But low time guys will usually focus on being in position with 3 still, and they end up "on the end of the whip", having to make bigger corrections. The pro move is to sorta look through 3 while keeping spacing on 3.

As for the sandwiching comment, #3 isn't looking at the #4 guy, so it's not adding anything to his plate being in-between them (other than hoping his #4 doesn't hit him).

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bad_dazzles@reddit

Can confirm. I've been #9 on the end of echelon for a photo shoot and I've never done anything scarier before or since.

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fountainsofvarnoth@reddit

End of the whip!

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stevestevetwosteves@reddit

Talk about riding the whip, I can't even imagine

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Isssaman@reddit

Agree with Drium. What makes it hard is amplification. A ripple unseen from the ground by lead is amplified by three {element lead) becomes visible with four. This is fingertip, Even worse if lead signals echelon where two slides over like you would do on initial to land. That makes the pitchout be in order.

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natneo81@reddit

Question: why do you find 4 the hardest? I play a lot of Falcon BMS, an F-16 sim, (making myself cringe sorry) and personally I always struggle being the 3 man. The mix of element lead responsibility, while still having to deconflict with 1/2 seemed to me like a difficult position. For example, obviously the 1 man has flight lead responsibilities, but other than flying the correct heading/speed/altitude, you’re not really required to maintain formation, everyone is formed on you. Isn’t the 3 man responsible for sensor awareness and more “heads down” work, as element lead, as well as maintaining formation with 1 or 2?

I guess I’m also wondering what makes 4 a harder role than 2? I guess maybe in fingertip, 4 only has 3 next to him for reference, making it harder to keep formation? Whereas 2 has 1, but is also abeam 3? Dunno.

Again, just a nerd who likes playing fighter jet, so forgive my stupidity. Would appreciate your insight!

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Disastrous-Run-3963@reddit

Thanks for the insight. Why do I have to scroll through like 15 nonsensical gobiligoop before getting a straight answer? It seems like it happens every post.

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Uncabuddha@reddit

Kinda hard to see 2 but 3 and 4 look too close to 1. So 2 is out of position and 4 is running himself out of fuel cobbing the throttle. They don't fly much 4-ship these days? WTF? How do you set up a "wall of Eagles" with only a 2-ship? (ex-Eagle guy)

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EagleDriver009@reddit

4 is too tight to be putting that amount of correction into the controls. If he/she would slide out a couple of feet, they’d match 3 & 2 and could relax a little. Look through 3 at 1 and fly and stable jet. 4 should have plenty of experience in that position if he/she’s getting selected to do a flyover. They don’t fly 4-ship fingertip that much anymore? What has the AF come to? (also ex Eagle guy here)

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Uncabuddha@reddit

Well, from my experience, that video is gonna warrant some serious ribbing from his squadron mates and a good ass chewing from 1. (if ass chewing is even allowed anymore, I dunno)

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DrumminJ219@reddit

The spacing here looks ok. It's just #4 over-correcting. Wiggle those toes some bud and relax that deathgrip.

I meant they don't fly up initial in fingertip all that much, usually tactical recoveries, or if going to/from airspace it's tactical offset container, or trail ect... Wall tactics still valid, and much farther apart than fingertip (or parade for you navy types).

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tcannon521@reddit

Interesting, I assumed a pilot would have to log a lot of hours in other planes before being placed in any latest generation stealth plane.

In my mind, those pilots would be the most skilled and most senior in the armed forces.

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--AnAt-man--@reddit

Not a fighter pilot here - but, are you sure they weren’t waving to their SO in the audience?

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Femme_Werewolf23@reddit

Do you guys not train yourselves to find "the zone" at will?

I don't have flight experience but I have a lot of motorsport experience. It's very commonly known that nobody in the world performs well under an adrenaline rush, so the thing you have to do is learn how to perform with your life on the line, with out having one. Otherwise you are entirely locked out of the higher echelons of human performance.

Its also commonly known to back off and take it easy if you scare yourself. Like its super common to watch somebody miss their breaking zone, gather the car up, then throw it off the track 1-2 corners later with a stupid mistake because the driver tried to keep their pace up with a head full of adrenaline.

Im just floored that you guys and gals are given multi million dollar machines to operate and guy in a $15,000 spec miata might have a better handle on their psychology. Say it ain't so!!

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Environmental-Block1@reddit

Did you just propose that a tuner in a clapped out Miata is a finer performance example than an F-35 pilot?

Anyone who has a couple bucks, access to Craigslist, and a tweaker friend who’s dad has an awesome set of tools can go drop FOD on the local road course.

The bar for entry is a tad bit taller for a 6th Gen fighter slot. Also, probably best to read the room beforehand.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.

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YummyJuice@reddit

Yes fighter pilots do train to be in the zone but as I’m sure you’re aware of from your motorsports experience, some people have it and some people don’t (not saying the wobbly #4 doesn’t, he wouldn’t be flying that jet if he didn’t have it).

What is different between motorsports and flying a fighter jet (and specifically to this formation) is that there is no chance to “take your foot off the gas”. Unlike a race track, flying #4 in this formation means you don’t get any “straights” to lower your adrenaline, you need to be on the ball from the start to the finish, no questions.

What has happened here is that #4 has over corrected off #3. Now if we relate it to a race track, one correction from #3/#1 could represent one corner of a race track. In this formation those corrections are happening continuously at the millisecond level and the #4 pilot needs to respond to those corrections. So back to the race track, the pilot in #4 is essentially doing continuous back to back cornering (but in 3 dimensions + time), and any motorsport enthusiast knows that stuffing up corner 1 means the following corners are also affected. This multiplies massively when you factor in the third dimension + time delays.

The best analogy I can use for this (at least how I used to think about it when I was doing this) is imagine a piece of string from #1 to #4, where a wave (originating from a correction/change in movement from #1) is propagating along that string and the amplitude of the wave increases exponentially the further you get from #1. This means that #4 at the end of the string is receiving a huge wave and therefore they need more corrections to correct (nullify?) against the wave.

As stated above, a more experienced/or better close formation pilot “looks through” #3 to #1 and bases their vertical and forward/back movement off of #1 primarily and then bases their horizontal (lateral distance) position off #3. This essentially boils down to having a rapid eye scan continuously between #1 and #3 and being able to basically predict the next 3 seconds or so of their movement based off what you’re currently seeing and then making your correction such that after you make your correction, in 3s or less your aircraft will be back in position and stable within the formation. And don’t forget that a jet engine has a delay between power selection on the throttle and the selected power being actually output due to turbine spool up delay.

Again, no straights or chances to relax when you’re old mate in #4. It’s happened to the best of us and always will at the worst of times.

Back to your in the zone comment, try recomposing yourself in 3D space + time in a fighter jet and keep perfect positioning with another fighter jet less than 10m away at 420kts. Whilst managing your own aircraft, radios, etc. There’s a reason why only a very few people in the world are selected to be fighter pilots and that’s one of them.

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tecky1kanobe@reddit

PIO?

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iwasabadger@reddit

Thanks for this informative reply and the AMA that followed- good stuff.

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Select_Record_5338@reddit

do F-35´s also go through Wake Turbulence? or are they on another level that that doesn't affect them?

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fmr_AZ_PSM@reddit

As a control systems engineer (not avionics though) I would expect the fly by wire to help calm that oscillation down. Be able to outright prevent it too. Does it not do that?

That's bizarre to me. That kind of thing is bread and butter of modern digital control systems in other industries. It's a "new" (since the mid 80s) capability that's a big driver of replacing legacy analog/electromechanical systems. Half of the money I've ever earned has been doing that work.

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yarrums1@reddit

Fly by wire in a fighter doesn’t necessarily calm oscillations caused by the pilot himself. This is a PIO (pilot induced oscillation). 4 is putting a larger correction in than needed then has to immediately counteract it with a correction, but it’s too big, so 4 overcorrects the other way, and the cycle continues.

This is why u/DrumminJ219 stated that 4 needs to wiggle fingers/toes because it’s a way that we relax pressure on the stick, so to speak.

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BonkedAgain@reddit

You should do a "Fighter Pilot- Ask Me Anything"

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Enough-Meaning1514@reddit

Also, fat-Amy doing fat-Amy things...

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davy_p@reddit

I’m a moderate aviation enthusiast and I can’t say I’ve seen an F35 flyover before. Definitely not a common occurrence at least. Pretty hard to practice for something that rarely happens. Good on them for keeping it together.

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LastTopQuark@reddit

might have been behind, caught up, and couldn’t manage the slow speed.

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Fishtoart@reddit

What does the national anthem have to do with sports?

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davidspdmstr@reddit

Looks like some minor pilot-induced oscillation. He realized he was too close, overcorrected to the right, then overcorrected to the left. I watch a YouTube channel called the Mover and Gonky Show. They have spoken about average military pilots simply do not practice formation flying enough. Most of these flyover are your average pilots and not the Blue Angels or Thunderbirds.

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1wife2dogs0kids@reddit

Did you read some of the comments? Its a good thing they don't practice more. Some of these "people" would absolutely lose their shit if they found that out.

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bizzyunderscore@reddit

The best you can hope for is uneventful!

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Logical-Fan-5386@reddit

Your tax dollars being wasted for shit entertainment……

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1wife2dogs0kids@reddit

What if I told you, they routinely fly those planes for small missions, beyond routine training and staying the best pilots in the world, and they also submit a bill to the NFL, for flyovers.

Advertising paid for the cost of using 4 f35s to go do routine flying and probably another can't speak of purpose...

And all so ypu can keep the free speech you just used.

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resplendentdork@reddit

Pilot sneezed

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1wife2dogs0kids@reddit

Here's the answer. Don't scroll farther. It's the only answer you need.

Bless you.

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AdFlat1014@reddit

Something about cutting costs

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IndependenceStock417@reddit

Frozen water in the hydraulics /s

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Rusty-P@reddit

New call sign… Wags

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Itaintall@reddit

I’ve often wondered when the odds will catch up and we’ll make a smoking hole in a stadium.

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Ok-Neighborhood-2456@reddit

A false start 🤣

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BlockOfASeagull@reddit

His coffee was spilling

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salkhan@reddit

I reckon the stability on flying an f35 is done by software, so flying close formation is not what it's designed to do.

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Pchriste43211@reddit

Pretty BA

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CaughtACramp@reddit

Maybe they sneezed.

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Taptrick@reddit

Got too tight, then “pilot induced oscillations” due to over-controlling while correcting.

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Designer_Buy_1650@reddit

Exactly. I just posted the same thing. Spot on analysis. He’s flying the toughest position in a 4 ship.

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Taptrick@reddit

“Finger right”. You have to “fly through” and look at lead not at 2. Don’t get me wrong he screwed up, it’s not that hard going straight and level…

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EagleDriver009@reddit

2 is on the formation’s left side. #4 should be looking through 3 at 1. 2-1-3-4 (from their perspective)

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TheThreeJet@reddit

Is this a USAF vs Commonwealth thing because I’m 3 and I fly on the left side of the Boss.

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Taptrick@reddit

Unless they do it differently in the USAF generally in a Vic formation 2 is on lead’s right and 3 is on lead’s left. 4 would be Line Astern but in this Finger formation they’d be on either side of 2 or 3.

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EagleDriver009@reddit

Not sure why the bold font🤷‍♂️

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Omelooo@reddit

Pilot is from temu

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abuttonmaker@reddit

Bro if I was flying those I’d be having fun like that too

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cr4390@reddit

Rip Energy drink has entered the cockpit

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merriman99@reddit

Definitely some left wing shit!

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OldConfection6@reddit

😂

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YZXTwr@reddit

Wondering if the pilot got caught in a bit of wake turbulence

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dmcpilot@reddit

There's a fine line between being tucked in tight and hanging in the wingtip vortices. Moving closer sometimes helps. Looks like he was right there ...

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ThisCryptographer311@reddit

Drinking and flying

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an_older_meme@reddit

Wing waggle. If the pilot knows they’re on TV this is known as the “Hi mom!” maneuver.

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TeaAndTalks@reddit

Looks like a roll PIO.

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LifeIsRadInCBad@reddit

Reminds me of a story in my short lived flight school. Guy was getting his sign off on a helo solo, but kept losing focus on the downwind turn. Upon landing, the onwing asked what was up, and the student pilot's wife was kicking him out, he lived under the pattern, and he was just trying to inventory what was on his front lawn.

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pickled-pilot@reddit

That’s a good reason not to fly.

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Ecthelion-O-Fountain@reddit

I don’t know if the military is like that. I think they kinda just expect you to go all the time like you could say no but they’ll just kick you out of school.

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Lawdoc1@reddit

I can't speak of how it's handled now, but I recall some of my comrades that were flight crew (not pilots, but crew chiefs, etc...) being removed from flight status when they were dealing with personal life issues.

I also recall a lot of my pilots (I was a medic for a Marine Air Wing and several squadrons) being unwilling to discuss those difficulties for fear of being removed from flight status.

I also know that has been an issue among airline pilots.

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pickled-pilot@reddit

That’s wild. Private pilot training involves checking your mental state before you fly. This guy was not in the proper mental state.

Now perhaps, being in the military, he needed to recognize and check that mental attitude. In this case he failed to do so. Losing focus while flying will cost lives.

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waytosoon@reddit

No it's not. They're literally either trying to kill, or trying not to be killed. They need to be able to maintain the mission no matter what. War is stressful.

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J0E_Blow@reddit

I’ve met multiple pilots showing up for flights drunk or buzzed.

IMSAFE is the acronym and pilots I’ve met routinely show up stressed on medicine that the FAA doesn’t allow, fatigued and/or emotional.

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earthisdyinghighkey@reddit

Wonder if he knew prior to the flight or if he was saying that he found out in the middle of the pattern

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pickled-pilot@reddit

Any possible answer to him finding out while in the pattern involves him not paying attention to flying the pattern.

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ExpertTrain5820@reddit

Not at all. Deciding that you arent fit to fly on a particular day is drilled into any prospective pilot as a responsibility like any other. The training squadrons and military aviation as a whole practice operational risk management, and constantly balance the risks of a flight vs the potential payoffs. If the risk (greatly increased posibility of mishap) outweighs the benefit (completing a T&R code) the flight is cancelled. Full stop. The trainee in this situation absolutely should have decided he needed to take time to get his personal shit taken care of.

Realistically though, they wouldnt cancel the flight. His partner would just be getting 2 codes that day instead of one. Hope he studied ahead lol.

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jmj2112@reddit

Sounds like the helicopter pilot from Rat Race.

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sigga_genesis@reddit

Jesus, that's rough

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NoAttempt9703@reddit

He's playing r/warframe 🤣

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pianomaniak@reddit

Pid tuning issue. 😎

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Waspiflab6674@reddit

👋

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AbeFromanEast@reddit

Was there a side-bet on one of the online gambling services that "one of the airplanes will wiggle" tonight?

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Angel_of_Cybele@reddit

Forgot to double clutch like he should, wound up granny shifting.

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Swagger897@reddit

Smile and wave boys

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Harfosaurus@reddit

100% read that in his voice

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NoDontDoThatCanada@reddit

It even matches the video.

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PSUAth@reddit

Salute!

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Chronigan2@reddit

Aye aye Skipper!

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HugeLeague@reddit

Rip private.

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nerfy007@reddit

What does TNF mean in this context? I normally think it means The North Face

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longwoodshortstick@reddit

Thursday night football

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Chrisdkn619@reddit

Thursday Night Football

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vbfischer@reddit

Flyovers are common in NFL games

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High-Time-Cymbaline@reddit

He just remembered it was European F-35 with a stick shift, and messed up switching from 4th to 5th gear. Could happen to anyone

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dmillerksu@reddit

Sneezed

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psychopape@reddit

Hello wave ?👋

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Atham1202@reddit

Had to do a hard restart on the avionics mid flight….flight cpu doesn’t recognize current location press any key to continue

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CapacitorCosmo1@reddit

Roll Rate Gyro stuck in BIT mode, or one effed up pilot....

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Rynowash@reddit

That’s Kash Patel, flying that jet. He’s higher than the altitude.

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T-wrecks83million-@reddit

It looks like a “wing wag” to me. Saying high

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mz_groups@reddit

Arturo Sandoval will do that.

https://youtu.be/E-FRxV3KJUE?t=160

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JBerry_Mingjai@reddit

Speaking of… the best rendition of the National Anthem ever.

https://youtu.be/ISMyBvFOxJc

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XzeroR3@reddit

Mind blown

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Yo momma had been folyrted for approval

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4totheFlush@reddit

The most hype, absolutely. But my money for best rendition is on Chris Botti's version.

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DarthToothbrush@reddit

Wow. I was not prepared for him to do the full octave jumps. That was truly impressive.

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CodeNameCobra666@reddit

Arturo is no Maynard. 😂

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mz_groups@reddit

Maynard didn’t cause turbulence. He caused the airplanes to disintegrate from ultrasonic frequencies.

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aghasee@reddit

He's amazing at that.

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aghasee@reddit

As will Sergei Nakariakov.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e8JwVv8Y-8&t=190s

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mz_groups@reddit

Quite a display of triple tonguing!

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BikeSawBrew@reddit

Looks kind of like Arturo but is actually Milwaukee native Augie Haas.

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mz_groups@reddit

Yeah, I looked again and realized I was wrong. Arturo would still set those stabilators fluttering, too!

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Regansmash33@reddit

Regarding Augie Haas, I noticed he has a YouTube channel and decided to take a look and came across his rendition of the Bears Still Suck song.](https://youtu.be/5uOEGlfFZE8?si=zC1ht4leNvpxkdu6)

And it slaps hard .

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SumOfKyle@reddit

My aviation/high brass crossover for the month

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BaconCanadian14@reddit

NEEDED

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FlavorBlaster42@reddit

I think I remember playing this song out of the Real Book in college. Can't remember the name of it.

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schizboi@reddit

Hmm I think they are just called real books. I like the real book 4. Pretty easy naming scheme trust your first thought you had it!

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gscience@reddit

It literally says it in the title

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FlavorBlaster42@reddit

Didn't ring a bell.

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MiamiGooner@reddit

Username checks out.

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GregmundFloyd@reddit

The song Kumbo fucks!! Put it on for the boys at 4 AM the other day and I was the only one impressed.

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Grimnebulin68@reddit

This one time, at band camp..

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dropped his chapstick

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I knew there were other reasons why i love this sub other than talking about planes.

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OnceReturned@reddit

Now I'm catching strays.

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FatMorsel@reddit

That is hilarious….

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steady, STEADY, c'monnnnn, .....three's break'n😅

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In an aircraft context, "horizontal tails waving to crowd" is a metaphorical way to describe the movement of an aircraft's elevators and horizontal stabilizers during certain maneuvers. This is not a literal gesture, but rather a pilot's use of flight controls to appear to salute or wave to people on the ground. How it works The movement is performed by the pilot and involves two parts of the aircraft's tail, or empennage: Elevators: These are the movable control surfaces on the trailing edge of the horizontal tail. Pulling back on the yoke or stick moves them up, while pushing forward moves them down, controlling the aircraft's pitch (the up-and-down movement of the nose). Stabilators: In some aircraft, the entire horizontal tail surface is a single, all-moving piece called a stabilator. The effect is the same, but the entire surface pivots as one unit. To create a "waving" effect, a pilot rapidly pitches the aircraft's nose up and down. This causes the horizontal tail surface (and its elevators) to repeatedly move up and down in a motion that resembles a wave. Context for this maneuver This kind of maneuver is most commonly performed in the following contexts: Airshows and military demonstrations: Pilots of fighter jets or demonstration teams often perform maneuvers like this as a form of theatrics at the end of a performance, as if waving goodbye to the spectators. Celebratory flyovers: Military and naval aviators may execute this as a playful, informal salute to people on a ship, airfield, or on the ground below.

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cojoooo9@reddit

Death wobble

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usafmtl@reddit

This guy Jeeps ☝️

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cojoooo9@reddit

No I don’t drive. I ride brother. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Ok-Priority-1632@reddit

This guy Ninjas or Gixxers ∆∆

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Intelligent_Entry576@reddit

Complete waste of money! Multiple AD departments, like Utah's, spend thousands-of-dollars to do this each time. The money can be better spent, like how about putting in towards lowering ticket prices. The cheapest price for a nose-bleed seat at Utah's Rice-Eccles Stadium is $75!

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Hdaana1@reddit

They count as training hours and the Military doesn't receive any money for them.

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Intelligent_Entry576@reddit

That was the case until about 2006! Before then, the military would field requests, approve them on a case-by-case basis, then write them off and log them as pilot/air crew flight time.

In '06, the AF changed its policy. They would still mostly do the big events in a similar fashion, such as the Super Bowl, World Series, etc., but otherwise, there became a cost and bill attached, which would then be paid by either the league, a specific team owner, conference, or AD!

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BettyWhiteOnBlack@reddit

Reminds me of a story about the time I was delivering furniture to a stunning cottage in rural Wales UK, it had a stepping stone path that went over a little stream etc. Anyway as I was talking to the home owner about how good a job she did renewing a rundown home a fighter jet from the RAF flew over and it was loud! So I said wow that's cool! Home owner then told me the jets used to be a lot lower as nobody lived there for years, and she wrote a letter to the RAF saying how noisy it was/rattling windows etc.

Then afterwards one day, she said a harrier jet passed and did the wave (I can't remember if she said it was hovering or just going 'slow'), as a sign to say "sorry...we got you", and from that day on they flew higher. Pretty cool I thought.

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thejt39@reddit

Probably fell out of position enough to be riding the wake of the guy in front of him

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thrown_out_account1@reddit

Waving at the camera. The sensors on the f-35 might be strong enough for the pilot to see that.

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Aarkh@reddit

Either trying to do a wave (wing rocking) or he was too busy looking outside instead of flying formation and got a little squirrel.

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rohttn13@reddit

i know those pilots have flown these before, i assume, but it would be damn hard to not look down and admire what you're seeing.

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DudeManJones5@reddit

Let’s go inside the mind of WINGMAN - dulululullulu: don’t hit lead don’t hit lead don’t hit lead don’t hit lead

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Asleep-Awareness-956@reddit

Oh shit, it’s the b-52, the hardest hitting safety in the sky..

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scairborn@reddit

Linebacker. #2

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MassaStinkFeet@reddit

I PUT THE TEAM ON MY BACK DOE

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BritishGolgo13@reddit

HOW’S HE RUNNING WIT A BROKEN LEEEEG

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MassaStinkFeet@reddit

BUT I PUT THE TEAM ON MY BACK DOE

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elite_haxor1337@reddit

I gotta do dis shit. For Madden.

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wesman212@reddit

B-52 got hands, man

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Sabian491@reddit

More like “don’t go blind don’t go blind” “I’d rather eject then call myself blind”

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loaf_dog@reddit

The Greg Jennings video has lived rent free in my head since it came out

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Boostedbird23@reddit

When I'm flying fuckin finger tip I'm always looking right

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Environmental-Block1@reddit

Point awarded for Dos Gringos reference

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GBreezy@reddit

It was the WI ANG. Lord knows as a packer owner I couldn't stop myself

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doggscube@reddit

The sports books are gonna flag the unusual wing wave prop bet activity

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Apart_Beautiful_4846@reddit

He told someone he loved he'd "wave" to them as he flew over.

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Illinikek@reddit

How are your supposed to fly formation without looking outside

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WLFGHST@reddit

You know what he means, looking down at the stadium and not locked in on the jet next to him.

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gefahr@reddit

In the F-35s they can see "through" the plane via the helmet right? That would be entirely too tempting to peek at for me.

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WLFGHST@reddit

tempting yes, but in a fighter jet flying in formation you are trusted to have a level of professionalism and common sense to remain focused on not hitting another jet, its basically texting and driving, but in the air a few feet from another jet going hundreds of miles per hour.

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ER_Support_Plant17@reddit

you don’t own that plane, the taxpayers do

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gefahr@reddit

For sure. That's why no one is letting me do it.

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Illinikek@reddit

Usually it’s going heads down that gets you into trouble.

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Mongoose151@reddit

You look at your reference plane within the formation.

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Illinikek@reddit

Yeah hence my comment

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Historical-Aerie-721@reddit

Pilot was trying to FaceTime during the flyover

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WhatzRealz@reddit

The real answer.

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Doolie_69@reddit

I don’t think #4 is trying to wing rock 😂

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pezdal@reddit

Tesla FSD

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NTPC4@reddit

The pilot was texting while flying ;-)

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GrandpaShark1@reddit

Reminder that what they make appears so beautiful and effortless is very demanding and always with some risk.

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TowersOfToast@reddit

I was there. It was cool.

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Next-Cartographer261@reddit

Those bad boys fly over our city like twice a week 🙉

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sierra120@reddit

Dad which one are you?…

son just look up..you’ll be able to spot me.

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McMeanx2@reddit

Bro was looking for the Epstein Files

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stick004@reddit

Dirty air…

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Long_Entrance_4060@reddit

"Look, Ma! No hands!"

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SnooHamsters8952@reddit

So much to be proud over there

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zzen11223344@reddit

Always have this question, who is paying for flying US Airforce jets, often the fancy / expensive ones, over the stadiums for the commercial sport events? Are these flying overs counted as recruitment costs for the military, or paid by events organized?

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exu1981@reddit

Possibly wake turbulence and the pilot possibility of the pilot not being used to flying in close formation like that. Who knows, but everything is practiced including these flybys.

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Mlabonte21@reddit

That National Anthem really shook him up, I don’t think he can make it back…

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AccordingFox9168@reddit

If you have not watched “Air Force Elite: Thunderbirds” on Netflix, go watch it. It will answer all the questions. And it’s pretty awesome!

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Eschaton707@reddit

Dropped a skittle.

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MonkeyShines666@reddit

Probably just some weird american thing

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Natsy2@reddit

Aura

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Dejavuiv@reddit

Kinda looks like a wing rock wave 👋

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ghostchihuahua@reddit

Just a friendly reminder that that piece of trash called Pinochet perfected the use of stadiums for cool dictators like Donnie Babycock… also maybe to commemorate the victims of 9/11 by parading around death-machines… how fucked-up can civilization become has become a pressing question.

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Probably had a highly trained transgender person flying it originally. Now the pilot has such greasy ass hair it malfunctions.

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The biggest boy is so special on his special day.

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kamsme@reddit

For remembering September 11th and later a moment of silence for CK’s death apparently

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commissarcainrecaff@reddit

Bee in the cockpit. Trying to swat it

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Jackmino66@reddit

He’s doing a wing waggle, how pilots wave

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ChiAndrew@reddit

Yay war!

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Incomitatum@reddit

UPwards of $5000 a flight.

Do you feel represented?

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bna5ty@reddit

Told mom he’d give a wave while flying over

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codedigger@reddit

Now I'm curious what happened on aviation that it got suggested on my feed.

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leon_nerd@reddit

Freedom

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FatHead403@reddit

Armchair pilot guess, but looks like he’s drifting pretty close in and might’ve gotten in his wing wash or exhausted and it upset the airflow in the wing vortices

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Whirlwind_AK@reddit

This. Wake.

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Stoney3K@reddit

I was also thinking wake turbulence but I'm also not sure how severe the effects of it are in such close proximity.

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bucky133@reddit

Probably the most reasonable take I've seen.

I guess it's possible that the pilot was showing with the wing rocks off but you'd imagine that they would have those people weeded out before they're flying F-35s over a football stadium.

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Odominable@reddit

You aren’t getting meaningful effects of wake turbulence or exhaust in this position, he’s just overcontrolling

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lordmanatee@reddit

To add, fighter aircraft are inherently unstable (this increases maneuverability) so things like wake and jet wash affect them more than a large aircraft like a bomber or jetliner.

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WhitePantherXP@reddit

SAMIR!

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CaptnInsano91@reddit

He's rocking the wings obviously he lost radio /s

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tms88@reddit

Bro was just listening to wiggle wiggle

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Harry_Fucking_Seldon@reddit

Reminds me of when I attended the Bastille Day Parade in Paris which in itself was unusual…but the collective intake of breath from hundreds of people as one of their fighter jets in a delta(?) formation veered concerningly close to to the lead plane was also very weird.

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wolf101123@reddit

If that had been Navy, it would have been flawless.

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Samus_subarus@reddit

Wingtip vortices from the aircraft in front Interfering and fcs not able to counteract?

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zippytiff@reddit

Stage fright 😂

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Royal_Promotion@reddit

Dropped their phone in the cockpit while taking obligatory formation selfie. Millennials!

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launchedsquid@reddit

looks like the pilot is attempting to not have a mid air collision with another F35.

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afallan@reddit

Mayber there was a spider in the cockpit

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dsdvbguutres@reddit

New boot goofin

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isuengdsmyemgbp@reddit

Dangle!

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longcats@reddit

It’s happy 😁

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TTBoyArD3e@reddit

A wasp flew into the cockpit and the pilot was trying to get it back out the window.

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capsrock02@reddit

9/11 probably

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Nomad_Lama@reddit

Its to signal that Chappy survived the mission

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Okioter@reddit

Politics

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iskico@reddit

Today is 9/11

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ReplacementBorn6424@reddit

From what I remember, a war pilot would wag his wings on return from a mission, as a signal of some sort, or salute. Hopefully someone more educated can fill in the rest

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Dracolis@reddit

I was at the game. They showed the approach on the big screens in the stadium and the #4 was rocking the whole time. Not sure what was up but it wasn’t just as they went over Lambeau

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KirkieSB@reddit

Hh

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sanitised_butt@reddit

It's amazing to see it flying rather than stuck broken in some hanger

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Allstar-85@reddit

Shimmy shimmy

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maybethistimeforsure@reddit

Just jorkin' it

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That-Enthusiasm663@reddit

Lol. Stealth doesn't work. I see them.

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hatchetation@reddit

Probably trying to distract from the disrespectful display of the flag.

The flag should never be carried flat or horizontally, but always aloft and free.

https://www.legion.org/advocacy/flag-advocacy/flag-code

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Messyfingers@reddit

Engine is smoking which suggests movement of the throttle, lots of control surface movement going on. My guess as a professional idiot? The pilots doin stuff.

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Prof_Slappopotamus@reddit

Nailed it.

-Professional Idiot Pilot

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mynam3isn3o@reddit

Bullseye.

-Recreational Idiot Pilot

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TheGreatDudebino@reddit

Bingo

MSFS Idiot Pilot

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foreverpetty@reddit

Yup

Idiot Non-Pilot AV Geek

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Daverocker1@reddit

Sure

Assistant Trailer Park Supervisor

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StonkzFTW@reddit

Damnit Randy

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Daverocker1@reddit

That's it...the pants are comin off!!!!

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AgentMulderFBI@reddit

Randers come inside don’t bother with them, we gotta rehearse for a play alone . Mr Laney will take care of you.

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snowsnoot69@reddit

Time for a little drinky poo!

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OneMillionFireFlies@reddit

"They don't call me Bozo for nothing"

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TowMater66@reddit

At the end of the whip out there got closer than they wanted and then gave it the old butthole pucker stick wiggle.

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CDMT22@reddit

Dropped his phone, leaned over to pick it up.

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Cootrock@reddit

It’s just that #4 sucks. NBD. Watch him close on the next turning rejoin.

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Scared_Breadfruit_26@reddit

Well they are garbage

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Ralphredimix_Da_G@reddit

Pilot farted

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OptiGuy4u@reddit

The amount of stupid comments in here acting like he's a Cessna pilot on his first day in formation is astonishing.

Never underestimate the stupidity of redditors.

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dcent12345@reddit

You're not wrong. But I've lost a lot of trust in military pilots after the DC incident

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incertitudeindefinie@reddit

helo pilots

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Cubie_McGee@reddit

Pilot probably sneezed

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LosHtown@reddit

Im glad I wasnt the only one at the bar like, wtf is wrong with that 35 at the end.

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TrickyEagle6@reddit

Caught in Iceman's jet wash

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1man3ducks@reddit

PTSD

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showtimebabies@reddit

when a fixed wing aircraft wants to signal to someone on the ground an affirmative or acknowledgement, they rock their wings back and forth.

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TreeBusiness1694@reddit

9/11

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Caffeinated_Narwhal_@reddit

Hi mom and dad

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ianra84@reddit

THAT is why you don't put beans in chilli.

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abstracker@reddit

Cause they can.

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dohzer@reddit

Why'd you film a landscape display with your camera aligned for a portrait scene?

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tanman87@reddit

Perhaps their head is stuck tiled sideways. Seems more and more people end up like that for some reason.

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HawaiianSteak@reddit

That's how you recognize an amateur.

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Killentyme55@reddit

I concur.

Professional amateur.

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humoristhenewblack@reddit

Found the pilot

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piantanida@reddit

Believe it or not… straight to jail.

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gambeezy@reddit

I say this daily!

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p_coletraine@reddit

Fuck tha police!

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str8dwn@reddit

Your eyes aren't one above the other?

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sa3clark@reddit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2picMQC-9E&t=7s

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Muggsy423@reddit

I try to film screens with a Dutch angle so it looks like an action scene.

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tractorcrusher@reddit

People are so brainwashed by TikTok they’ve completely forgotten about landscape.

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Armamore@reddit

Asking the real questions

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Mayonaze-Supreme@reddit

Trying to wave the stench of packers fans away. FTP

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Nihlus_Kriyk@reddit

The stench of Winning!

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karmaburrito@reddit

These guys are my local FW, I think I heard on the scanner saying that for one of them it was their first fly over. Doesn’t mean they’re inexperienced but they don’t usually fly in formation either

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Mr_OP_Potato_777@reddit

Fail-35

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jutah001@reddit

Saying hi to mom

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Moist-Dragonfly2@reddit

He’s saying hello

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DragonforceTexas@reddit

Tesla full self driving made him nudge the stick

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pixel-beast@reddit

Hard to balance the wings with their massive fucking nuts bouncing around

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MAJ0RMAJOR@reddit

Scratching their itchy butt.

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joker_toker28@reddit

Lol reminds me when I play sim with my boys we'll do the wing wiggle.

When we drink it turns into an aggressive rollover tackle.

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Kdj2j2@reddit

Learned from Katy Perry’s left shark?

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tulsadrones@reddit

Probably flying at the very bottom of that aircraft's speed envelope to give the folks a good look.

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CounterSimple3771@reddit

Never seen a dog straining at the leash?

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MajorRocketScience@reddit

Pilot was definitely looking at the stadium a bit too long and then made a bunch of corrections at the same time as he drifted into the wing wash

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FrankChutoy8916@reddit

Probably just trying to tighten up the formation before they crossed over the field

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Responsible_Bag220@reddit

The guy on the left ? He’s keeping formation

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rice_n_gravy@reddit

STUCK IN HIS JET WASH

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Atouk86@reddit

I assume the pilot is waggling the wings, just to say hello. Kinda charming.

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Gen_Miles_Teg@reddit

He stopped doing. Started thinking. - Pete Mitchell

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Jtrem9@reddit

PIO: pilot induce oscillation… over correcting in close formation, happen all the time

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TheRegalDev@reddit

He sneezed

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Life-Win-2063@reddit

Probably was rubbing one off.

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It was great

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ViperDriver37@reddit

Looks like #4 is hamfisting it on live television. This will bode well during the next naming.

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kyach25@reddit

It farted

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Ferrilata_118@reddit

Pilot's a little excited

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buttermybars@reddit

Probably some Lt in the 4 spot doing Lt things

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noMiddleName75@reddit

My guess is they’ve got friends or loved ones at the game and shook their wings to say hi.

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Bosswashington@reddit

Perhaps it could be wake turbulence from the plane in front of it. If they were flying a tad too high, or low (at the exact same FL as the plane in front) without a slight staggered altitude difference, it may have caused a bit of a bumpy ride. Maybe?

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Ok_Needleworker2438@reddit

Kinda surprised he didn't exit formation especially being on the flank.

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Designer_Buy_1650@reddit

Not on a flyby.

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Ok_Needleworker2438@reddit

Why not?

If we was struggling in the slightest that would be protocol.

But could have just been waving 🤷

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Designer_Buy_1650@reddit

Peer pressure.

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Ok_Needleworker2438@reddit

Or lose control and have a $250,000,000 repair bill when he takes out his homie too.

If it wasn't intentional.

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sockless-dreamer@reddit

Twerking

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pfroo40@reddit

Itchy butthole

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ludicrous780@reddit

No F22?

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WhatzRealz@reddit

Ya. Saw it too. Love y’all!

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jsgx3@reddit

They are hauling the mail (fast), 4 is a bit close and it's 4, he's at the end of the whip. Easy to get a bit squirrely as 4 on these flyovers. Shit happens. Source, me, been there.

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Triggerz777@reddit

I think he's just having fun

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PhilRubdiez@reddit

Spontaneity is the spice of life.

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TheWildColonialBoy1@reddit

He was in the parking lot tailgating earlier.

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No-One9890@reddit

The thrust got dark for a moment. Could it be an ingestion?

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MemeyPie@reddit

He was calling for a fair catch

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Kind_Barracuda_157@reddit

How much money did that cost the tax payer.

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MemeyPie@reddit

It’s a training flight. They took off from Madison 30 minutes prior and hit their target at the exact second that was determined. That’s excellent time on target training that they would do anyway, may as well advertise to the public

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Kind_Barracuda_157@reddit

You want to spend 💰, give to the active and retired military. Stop with these parades, and red carpet displays.

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Totally_Not_A_Bot_FR@reddit

Every fucking time a flyover is posted some dim numpty feels the need to make this dumbass comment.

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bonitki@reddit

Pylote applied too much right rudder

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jchest25@reddit

He was just trying to work his way into position at the last minute, little bit of PIO never hurt anybody

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MemeyPie@reddit

Saw these boys take off from Madison 30 minutes prior, haven’t heard the return

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Inabind4U@reddit

Nobody has said “Bird Strike” yet??? Highly likely. Explains poof and instability…

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peach_liqour@reddit

Reminds me of the F100 Sabre-dance

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muhkuller@reddit

He's on the phone with the engineers.

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kussian@reddit

They are too close to each other... Kinda dangerous 😬

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Afizzle55@reddit

Waving

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Phillimac16@reddit

The pilot is probably just fuckin around

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Designer_Buy_1650@reddit

He’s flying the most difficult position in a 4 ship formation. Looks like he got a little close and over controlled correcting back and got into a mini PIO.

Looking up from the ground, I doubt it was all that visible. The camera zoomed in highlighted his misfortune.

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mikeg5417@reddit

It's hard to keep the plane steady when you are on hold with tech support.

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Prize_Proof5332@reddit

PIO Pilot Induced Oscillation

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OobiDoobBenooby@reddit

"Lightning, rock your wings .. Good rock"

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directrix688@reddit

Everyone is on their phones these days

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OneSideDone@reddit

Sneezing?

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Reddit_Novice@reddit

Probably eating cereal in the cockpit

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After_Fishing9418@reddit

F-35 are lemons. It was probably an actual glitch.

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stovepipehat2@reddit

Itchy butt.

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Odd_Algae_9402@reddit

He had an itch.

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capt_feedback@reddit

no texting while piloting!

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Ok_Associate_3314@reddit

We had similar events in Italy in the 1930s.

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Sugar_Free_RedBull@reddit

Ai

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millera9@reddit

Probably distracted by the Lockheed Martin service line hold music playing through his headset.

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Acrobatic-Towel-6488@reddit

IDK because we can’t hear shit

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ArlenRMcDaniel_Photo@reddit

I am assuming wake turbulence due to the tight formation it seems like the wobbly one is just a bit closer than the rest in the formation and may be catching wingtip vortices from the plane in front of him on formation.

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CarminSanDiego@reddit

It’s just wingman being a wingman.

Other than the flight lead, they don’t pick the best close formation pilots. There’s no grading /criteria for who’s the best at close formation. In fact fighter pilots hate flying close

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cosmoassmankramer@reddit

Is this sarcasm? Every single word you typed is wrong.

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SideEmbarrassed1611@reddit

Rocking wings. That's "hello".

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vastrisk2022@reddit

Wake turbulence from other plane

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Maleficent-Drop1476@reddit

Nah, you don’t really get wake turbulence from formation flying like that.

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BLARTYMACMUFFIN@reddit

Something kept pushing the left wing down…

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Im_A_Praetorian@reddit

Gremlin on the wing.

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Maleficent-Drop1476@reddit

Yea, the pilot trying to get into position most likely.

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yellow_1173@reddit

That's what I'm thinking. I can't tell if they're all at the exact same altitude, but they're close enough and it looks like the F-35 on the left has its wing overlapping with where the second F-35's wing would be throwing choppy air. The others all seem fine, but there's no overlapping with the others.

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Vollen595@reddit

Hi Ma! It’s me!

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Commercial-Date-8985@reddit

FUI Flying under the influence

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XJAMAICAGOLDX@reddit

Gotta keep reminding people that America is the best.

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BlacklightsNBass@reddit

Most likely wake turbulence of some sort. Or over-correction on the controls to fix his position in the formation

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2b2tiscool@reddit

I love planes :3

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StrigiStockBacking@reddit

why is this video cropped like ass

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Saint_Santo@reddit

Texting while flying

BAE PUT DA GAME ON I'M FLYING OVER... NOW!!

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TheRiverInYou@reddit

Waving.

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Sweatycamel@reddit

The producer deserves to be fired for the lack of a second camera angle

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Underradar0069@reddit

https://share.google/aPAFRiIKf3T5EKu2P

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PassStunning416@reddit

His mom was in the stadium.

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Extreme-Island-5041@reddit

The Loyal Wingman beta still has bugs to work out

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Lucky-Heart7675@reddit

What left side(when looking aft) rear doing kinda looks like shacking and almost looks like afterburners?

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chrisirmo@reddit

"Hi mom! Look I'm on TV!"

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WarthogOsl@reddit

Nervous in the service?

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jkmhawk@reddit

Trying to get rid of the wedgie

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pessimus_even@reddit

Give us the sound!

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zmoit@reddit (OP)

😭😭😭 I muted it while capturing it. I had to rewind to capture it.

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KennyGaming@reddit

That’s hilarious

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shwaynebrady@reddit

Waving

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Knucklesandos@reddit

Shaking it off

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Bounceupandown@reddit

Not all TACAIR pilots have the same skill. They do not.

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Odominable@reddit

Thank you. It’s probably a new guy just trying to keep position.

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smegabass@reddit

He was trying to catch a selfie.

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Star_chaser11@reddit

He was nervous, his first flyby

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Competitive_Run_3920@reddit

Not sure if it’s just the image or not but anyone else notice the exhaust plume for a brief moment in the middle of the wiggle? It’s not visible on any other aircraft and seems to appear and disappear quickly. Maybe it’s nothing.

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Diver6000@reddit

Just tends to suggest that there was movement on the throttle

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buckleup22@reddit

Right wing just barely hanging on

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CIMARRON67@reddit

Wrong title. The are F22 Raptors

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meeplebunker@reddit

Nope, single engines there, those are F-35s..

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ParatusPlayerOne@reddit

You can see the control surfaces moving. Looks intentional.

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oogaboogaman_3@reddit

waving his wings

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howla456@reddit

Helmet bag fell forward 😅

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LPNTed@reddit

I need deep Intel from Ward Caroll.

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