Landing in Manila around 12 Midnight Dec 31st/Jan1st

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Sudden-Director-1203@reddit

I don’t know how to join the conversation, but just what you’re talking about grocery I don’t know what else to do. I don’t know

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No-Rush396@reddit

Is he coming in upside-down to get a better view of the fireworks?

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rojitnall@reddit

Why does it spiral until you realize it's upside down

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melancholy_dood@reddit

This was really messing with my brain until I stood on my head!....🙃

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LawManActual@reddit

RIP to all the crews overnighting with early van times… It’s a loud night

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black-box-qwerty@reddit

That turn gave me a vertigo. Don't understand why things were moving so round and round! OMG 😮

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tomtomclubthumb@reddit

Is the Philippines one of those places where people shoot guns in the air on New Year's Eve?

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Neat_Butterfly_7989@reddit

It is illegal, but some dickheads do it. A small portion get captured and go to jail.

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tomtomclubthumb@reddit

Thanks. I had a friend live somewhere where they did that, New Year'sEve was kinda scary, every year a few people got killed by strays.

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Tryptamine91@reddit

I thought this was Australia at first.

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Ecstatic-Ganache921@reddit

I wonder who has flown into Sydney for NYE's or other events at night and witnessed fireworks.

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King_of_the_Snarks@reddit

...because it's upside down?

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Naimlesswan@reddit

That joke flew under your head

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amirof1@reddit

...because it's upside down?

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samf9999@reddit

It’s because it’s on the other side of the world, silly.

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Double_Alps_2569@reddit

No, because of the Kangaroos.

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imunfair@reddit

Same deal, the person filming is obviously from the northern hemisphere.

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One-Emu-1103@reddit

Look at all those fireworks! Happy New Year!

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PersonalityUsual1732@reddit

Amazing video to watch upside down, but it seems like an extreme hazard for planes? I’ve never heard it be addressed before? r/aviation anyone?

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SophieElectress@reddit

They're way too low to be anywhere near a plane until it's very near landing, and they won't be allowed within a certain radius of the airport. Enforcement might be questionable in some parts of the world but most fireworks aren't powerful enough to do serious damage if they collide with a commercial aircraft anyway, unless they're the kind used for large organised displays or there's a really unlucky coincidence, like they explode right in front of the windscreen and temporarily blind the pilots or something.

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Miladic_Animations@reddit

Even if your video is upside down, it is still quite an optical illusion at first glance, as I wondered if it's upside down or your plane is simply making a sharp turn.

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CatPhysicist@reddit

I watched for way too long before i realized it was upside down. I couldnt understand what kind of wing i was looking at.

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OkSmoke9195@reddit

I had to flip my phone upside down for my brain to actually sort it out

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rkhan7862@reddit

it looks like it’s out of sci-fi or like a close-up of the sun with solar flares

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bitchcoin5000@reddit

Not only that but the flaps on the wing are in the wrong place so it looks like you're in so kind of spaceship

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speurk-beurk@reddit

I thought the wing was a weird sticker or something

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SophieElectress@reddit

I didn't even notice the wing, was too busy trying to work out how the hell they had enough pyrotechnics to produce what looked like a glowing drone/balloon/firework canopy over the whole city, and how the plane had managed to get safely underneath it. For a few seconds I was like hot damn, Manila is *really* into NYE.

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russbroom@reddit

Same

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defneverconsidered@reddit

Thought it was dirty window

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OhYesTheBees@reddit

I immediately felt something was off. Then I made my partner watch. He seemed totally unfazed and I was like ".... don't you find anything weird here...?" and he answered "No....?". I had to explain to him that it's upside down and he still didn't see it right then. Kind of funny how differently we process this stuff.

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LickingSmegma@reddit

I was wondering why their ‘landing’ looks more like spiraling down for two minutes.

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JoyousMN_2024@reddit

Same. At the very end I was like why did he turn his phone upside down now. I'm going to have to watch it again knowing that it's entirely upside down.

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BlackDante@reddit

Yeah I thought it was right side up until I noticed the wing

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fronchfrays@reddit

It amazing. The entire depth of the city changes.

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Luxalpa@reddit

I thought it was upside down and then halfway through the video I thought "no it's the right side up". Then I watched again and got even more confused, but now I'm fairly convinced it is upside down. Fascinating illusion!

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DatGuy_Shawnaay@reddit

I was looking at fireworks that dropped down and exploded, thinking that's cool. Nope.

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TapDancinJesus@reddit

Good thing this wasn't in the SIM or I would've crashed the fuck outta the plane

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General174512@reddit

Bro same here

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courtarro@reddit

Same! I thought it was odd how the fireworks seemed to be falling!

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AllTheButterscotch@reddit

Now I can't go back to the other perspective

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Noth1ngnss@reddit

I was able to go back to the other perspective by forcing myself to imagine the plane as moving in a circle and constantly revealing more and more terrain to our right. You can force the illusion for almost the entire video, though it will break at a few seconds to touchdown, as the bottom of the screen is literally just sky.

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AllTheButterscotch@reddit

How the hell did i not notice when the fireworks were all headed towards the ground lol

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ellisthedev@reddit

This is such a weird feeling. Now that I know it’s upside down, if I tell my brain that it isn’t, I get dizzy. When I let my brain win and start processing the video the right way. I was 100% the first time I watched it, and thought they were over water looking towards land.

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Marwheel@reddit

Same for me too.

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Baazs@reddit

W captain who was circling so you can enjoy the show

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skisvega@reddit

Talk about a thunder run

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Ecstatic-Ganache921@reddit

Wow, that just looks amazing.

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MarittaWolff@reddit

LOL. If you know, you know. I've seen streets on New Year's Day there where the concrete was not visible; still covered in firework wrappings and cardboard shrapnel.

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Beneficial-Dark-1709@reddit

This is why I love the internet.

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RydeOrDyche@reddit

That’s obviously not Manila cuz you aren’t getting hit by lasers from 3 directions the entire time.

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NoStruggle7706@reddit

What am i looking at bruh

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livinglife110100@reddit

Took me too long to realize the video is upside down... 😂

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Energy_Turtle@reddit

We are an awesome species.

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FlyByPC@reddit

Sounded like a war zone here in Philly. We are traditionally ALL about any excuse to blow shit up. Hope everybody's safe.

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Doc_Ta@reddit

i thought you were in outer space

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bandwidthbandit-1020@reddit

Why the fuck is the plane upside-down

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jwfowler2@reddit

Looks like you skirted the fireworks boundary. Also known as the Manila Envelope.

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TheAmmoniacal@reddit

Interestingly, I landed in Manila yesterday, on January 1st, coming from Oslo paper.

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H3nchman_24@reddit

😂 https://preview.redd.it/6jq9nejqnoag1.jpeg?width=2624&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c6fee46d232f3dfc6f9a19b30ea6c5357864fc26

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Dennyisthepisslord@reddit

A plane flew over London and circled Heathrow around midnight last night really low at about 2000 foot. Only a little plane. Footage from that would be incredible

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Flaptrap@reddit

Anyone who knows anything about the Philippines knows there's chunks of finger flying up there too

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sledgehammer0019@reddit

There's a 12 year old child whose legs were cut off because of a supposedly defunct firecracker. It was like getting hit by an IED based on the photos. Happened days ago.

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Gramerdim@reddit

always wondered how fireworks looked from the sky

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smarmageddon@reddit

Were you in a helicopter gunship?

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Top_Photograph_8592@reddit

Looks like a normal neighborhood the last 2 weeks in the Netherlands 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Isernogwattesnacken@reddit

Yes, that's tame.

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Glad-Complaint9778@reddit

too close to Australia...

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RyuuHUN@reddit

Interesting! https://preview.redd.it/3qzfb8prkqag1.jpeg?width=1140&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ec5043a1a8b3b2ca95091f6532386df7bf1977f4

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dcl415@reddit

You read my mind!

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lizhien@reddit

I was wondering why the canoe fairing looked weird.

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RyboPops@reddit

I lived in the Philippines for a few years for work and my apartment had rooftop access that overlooked the Manila airport from a couple miles away. It was extremely surreal to see fireworks everywhere except for that patch of airport property. I always wondered what it would look like from a plane.

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Slimmanoman@reddit

Poor animals

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Phog_of_War@reddit

My dogs worst nightmare. Glad very few people do this in America. Now, the 4th of July? That's a bad week and a half or so for my mutts.

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WasabiZone13@reddit

This could be any any large city 🙄

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Sryn@reddit

At what time did you realise the video was upside down? Mine was at the 1:40

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cataminewithaK@reddit

I imagine a fun world where all combustion-based weapons are banned and we use all the explosives and gunpowder for the greatest fireworks show in human history

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Much-Teacher-4191@reddit

I thought I was tripping at first

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give-Kazaam-an-Oscar@reddit

The dogs must be losing their minds

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Jazzlike-Perception7@reddit (OP)

sorry - didnt know why that got uploaded upside down. the plane landed safely.

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whd4k@reddit

Lol, how the hell do you even upload something upside down? xD unless it is how it is showing on your phone. Second thing - if you're filming literally horizontal scene, why not turn your phone 90 degrees and capture wider shot?

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xubax@reddit

Okay, I was going to claim AI until I read this, because of the fireworks going down.

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Real_Run_4758@reddit

denzel washington must have been flying

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Jackie_Of_All_Trades@reddit

It took me 1 minute and 35 seconds to realize the video was upside down.

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Yo_Honcho@reddit

On a scale from 1 to a potato, how slow are you?

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Mendeth@reddit

The first day of 2026 and we already have plans landing upside down. The future is bright!

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jtexphoto@reddit

Humans are cute, look at us celebrating!🥹

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IncompententAdmin@reddit

Why the fuck is the video upside down?

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i_have_chosen_a_name@reddit

Was uploaded from Australia. Reddit usually automatically corrects for this but it was uploaded while it was already new year in Australia but not in the US so the servers never compensated. If you upload a video from Australia *right now* you will see it will automatically put right side up.

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soundguyjon@reddit

I see you had Maverick captaining your flight. https://preview.redd.it/nc4222zhhoag1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=042a804aabcba9086eab205c18cc83c60eecd61e

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PestoBolloElemento@reddit

Lol well put

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t3hW4y@reddit

/*cough/*BULLSHIT/*cough/*

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soundguyjon@reddit

No, he was man. It was a really great move. He was inverted.

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crackheadwillie@reddit

I’ve visited the Philippines 10x. My first trip I was in Cebu during the new year. I thought it was a war zone.

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Pixelated_@reddit

This sub will be experiencing collective ontological shock in 2026.

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suffelix@reddit

Heavy AA barrage

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KappaccinoNation@reddit

No kidding. New Year celebrations here look like a fucking warzone. While things look pretty in the sky, almost every street in Manila (and most cities tbh) is filled with a shitton of loud firecrackers as well.

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The_dots_eat_packman@reddit

Reminds me of when I moved cross country and overnighted in Wichita, Kansas. That night happened to be the 4th of July. Let me tell you, that really and truly *felt* like being under artillery fire. It was a frightening amount of gunpowder in the in the hands of civilians.

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ArtichokeDry5693@reddit

Somebody watched "Flight" too much...

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negrofcfc@reddit

Was the flight staff serving curry chicken?

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Step-Temporary@reddit

I got to do this in NYC!! It was freaking awesome!

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le_gazman@reddit

Were you on an F14?

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Momochichi@reddit

Used to spend new years atop a condo building in metro manila. Every time the fireworks start felt like we’re repelling an alien invasion.

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SparrowTits@reddit

Last episode of Stranger Things?

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healeyd@reddit

I hope you had a chat with the captain…

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pppjurac@reddit

How the hell did you get airplace with such clean windows? Everythime I flew all windows are dirty as hell.

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Cautious-Substance64@reddit

That looks like if the movie Battle of Los Angeles happened at night.

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1SKYPOWER1@reddit

Is Manila in Australia 🤣 interesting

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apatrol@reddit

OP not sure if you know this but I think there is a dragon or something following the plane in the lower right part of the window.

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ChoiceHelicopter2735@reddit

“There is something on the wing!”

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cardboard-robot@reddit

Some… Thing…

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apatrol@reddit

Nope, def dragan? Milan people checkin????

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Des_C39118@reddit

🙃

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Aggravating_Speed665@reddit

Noises and lights, woooo

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chickenstalker99@reddit

It's right-side up for me. Or is my brain upside-down?

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chuxsux@reddit

and if you look out your left and right window you'll see the fireworks as we go inverted. Happy New Years from the flight deck

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beaker_72@reddit

That's just the fireworks you can see. I once woke up in Manila on the 1st of Jan to find a large calibre bullet lying on the floor about 2 metres from my bed, with a corresponding hole in the roof above it. Happy fire is a serious problem there at NYE

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H3NDOAU@reddit

I was so confused and was about to comment why this video was playing in reverse, turns out it was upside down.

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Bullfrog_Paradox@reddit

"Because I was inverted, ma'am"

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Positive-Orange-6443@reddit

Did you hear anything?

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Long_Pomegranate2469@reddit

Only a Pinoy would upload a video upside down and then not immediately fix the problem. Doble check bru (yeah, doble)

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StaticSystemShock@reddit

Then you realize it's 1972 and you're landing in Vietnam...

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NewYorker15@reddit

In 2017 I flew out of NYC on the Fourth of July at night and got to see the enormous fireworks display along the right. Just wild how much high we were than the fireworks.

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Maro1947@reddit

Orbital bombardment

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PilotsNPause@reddit

Thrilla in Manila

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speed150mph@reddit

My grandfather told me about getting to see a fireworks show from an airplane before, though it sounded like he got a closer view….. I believe it was somewhere near Bremen Germany circa 1944 when he was flying a Lancaster

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