> No Air Force pilot is going to risk their career just to… show off, despite what you might have gleamed from watching Tom Cruise movies.

Military pilots do it all the time. Usually it's just drawing dicks in the sky with their flight patterns, but once in a (fortunately) long while it's actually something dangerous: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Cavalese_cable_car_crash

But you only ever heard about the times that it ends in disaster.

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They're very dangerous, and in general not a great idea. I've seen many, and this one was next level on loudness.

Agreed. I also think of the people who may have experienced living in a war zone and how traumatic having these flyovers must be.

I appreciate aviation, but this was reckless. I used to live in a town next to an air wing, and they were a 5th as loud and you could always hear them approaching. It was insanely loud. For the sound to be so loud and come and go so quickly, the planes had to be near sonic. I hope that there's some serious complaints raised after this.

Flying that low may have actually violated FAA and Air-force regulations

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What was the occasion?

I enjoyed the flyby. Made my day

Flyovers ARE fucking stupid. Totally agree. Sorry you were so scared! I know I was the first time it happened.

Unrelated, love your username lol

Coincidentally, I was watching an episode of Andor, the star wars TV show, so I ran to my window hoping that some cool star wars ships had actually appeared over my place. Sadly it was not to be.

I love jets, but I couldn’t agree more. Flyovers are a fucking stupid way to celebrate anything. Especially for some stupid sports event that only about 1% of the population even knows about or gives a shit about.

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I don't think we really feel safe enough anymore for this kind of bullshit. People hearing a sonic boom at low altitude are more likely to think this is the end than to feel some kind of patriotic pro-military shit. We are essentially at war right now, and we also have a generation of vets around who went to war and came back. Sonic booms are not what anyone wants to hear over their homes, even from friendlies.

I was half-asleep and thought the loud noise was funny, wondered if we'd been nuked

Yes there were two black jets!

Sorry, my stomach is disagreeing with me.

Nearly shat myself thought the sky opened up and God was coming for me

Our thoughts too. We thought it was some kind of attack and then we saw the jets for half a second. Ridiculous.

I thought it was war breaking out

Two F-16s

Sound of freedom!

Well that was scary for nothing.

It really was terrifying! I had similar thoughts, and my poor cats were so freaked out.