Sweaty Wings
  • 1 points qualityvote2

    u/DrJokerX, we have no idea if your submission fits r/SweatyPalms or not. There weren't enough votes to determine that. It's up to the human mods now....!

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  • 204 points All1sL0st

    Brisbane resident. One day I was riding my motorcycle just out of the city. Had no idea it was Riverfire. Heard a loud noise to my right and there was this plane looking like it was coming directly at me. Almost had an accident!

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    40 points Feisty-Session-7779

    Why have I seen so many clips of huge planes flying low through Brisbane? The second this clip started I knew it was gonna be Brisbane.

    I once saw one of those C-5 Galaxy’s flying low over Syracuse NY and it was kinda freaky, I could hear it well before I saw it then all of the sudden it just appeared right over my head, damn near took up the whole sky!

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    9 points mechengguy93

    It's for the annual River fire festival, the F111 used to do a dump and burn until they were retired. The fly by is a thing of tradition at this point.

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    1 points GravelyInjuredWizard

    …in your pants?

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  • 138 points New-Contribution-244

    Does anyone know the context? Like why were they flying so low in an area with so much buildings?

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    260 points shwaak

    The low flight is mainly along a river, the perspective is a bit confusing, there is plenty of room.

    They do it every year for festival in Brisbane Australia.

    It’s still impressive in person though.

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    64 points seanmonaghan1968

    We live in brisbane. Yes it is sort of low but perspective is everything. It was much better imo when we still flew the F111s as they did afterburner which looked amazing at night. This event has been going for maybe 40 years. The sound of the F18s flying low is deafening when you are between these buildings

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    11 points Bosscow217

    the old dump and burn is something else

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    13 points dinobyte

    aaaaaaardvaaaaaark

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    -51 points PalmovyyKozak

    Checked Google Earth. Looks like Brisbane is a very poor city, thousands of small wooden houses on a wide area. Looks like some places in India

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    10 points NotaBlokeNamedTrevor

    It’s ranked just outside the global top 10 for house un affordability. So you still gotta be pretty wealthy to buy a “small wooden house” here

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    0 points Summoorevincent

    That’s a bot

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    -36 points PalmovyyKozak

    That's horrible. You have to spend all your money to live in a birdhouse

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    16 points shwaak

    Show us a picture of your house.

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    6 points JuriaanvanOostwaard

    Please don't!

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    5 points seanmonaghan1968

    I have been to India I can assure you Brisbane is very different but our Indian food isn’t as good sadly

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    5 points Jeki_70735

    wrong Brisbane? there is one in california too.

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    -21 points GreenZebra23

    So I just got a false positive for ai? Fuck. That's as frustrating and scary as thinking something is real and it's actually ai. I give it a year before there's no way to know what's real or not

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    10 points shwaak

    Really?

    I obviously didn’t shoot this particular video so I can’t say for sure, but there have been many posted like it in the past, this is a real event and I would say it’s almost definitely a real video.

    It makes you wonder how the AI detection actually works.

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    -11 points GreenZebra23

    Not through AI detection, just through my brain. I could have sworn it was AI, and I feel like I'm pretty good at spotting them, but I was wrong. Not sure why people are mad about that

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    2 points shwaak

    Haha, I was thinking you used a program or website.

    It does look very unusual though so I see what you mean, but all the videos of this event look similar.

    Not sure why people are downvoting you either. It’s fair to think this might be AI if you don’t know about the event.

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  • 36 points GAVG503

    Riverfire Festival in Brisbane, Queensland Australia. Happens every year, the Royal Australian Air Force flu's various aircraft along the Bribsne River between the CBD and Southbank and then there is a huge fireworks display. It's disgustingly busy, over crowded and the hotels charge 10 times their normal rates for rooms thst look out along the flight path. No parking anywhere, public transport is packed, food trucks are a rip off....

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  • 13 points natural_disaster0

    Were all thinking it

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  • 5 points Onomatopesha

    The date was 8/11

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  • 3 points danishvz

    Reminds me of that tragedy

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    2 points nexus8516

    Walking through blood and bone on the streets of Brisbane

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    1 points rotate_ur_hoes

    Me to. Maybe that is what made the hole in Torghatten?

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  • 7 points Hesam2010

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  • 8 points Life-Oil-7226

    Way way to close for comfort

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  • 1 points Naughteus_Maximus

    Olympus has fallen

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  • 1 points christina_talks

    One time when a president was visiting my area, a pair of fighter jets were dispatched to escort an unauthorized aircraft that was flying over our house, to my understanding. They weren't flying particularly low, but it was enough to shake the entire house. Windows were rattling in their frames, the floor was shaking. I didn't know what was happening; I thought a plane was going to crash nearby. I thought was going to die.

    I can only imagine what the residents of these buildings are experiencing.

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  • 1 points ayriuss

    Me flying my Bombushka through Los Santos.

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  • 1 points ecentrickk

    They don't learn

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  • 1 points turndownfortheclap

    I prefer my wings sweating buffalo sauce

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  • -8 points joe102938

    Fun fact: planes don't usually fly that low because that's where the buildings are, and if a plane hits a building while flying it'll cause a 9/11, and we don't want to invade Afghanistan again.

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    30 points SausageGobbler69

    99% sure this is Australia

    Edit: yep this was in Brisbane Australia. This is a repost from 2 years ago. link

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    7 points Large_slug_overlord

    No

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    4 points tobofopo

    Does this sort of thing happen frequently in North Carolina?

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  • -1 points Nothing93124

    Oh look it’s Fort Worth every damn day…

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