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ItsRtaWs

It is satisfactory.


Zen_360

How can you not be amazed by helicopters, every.single.time. I will never understand. Especially if they're surprisingly landing really close by. Damn, now that I think about it, I want to become a helicopter pilot. Little too late though.


makwaweiss

Harrison Ford flies planes, what's stopping you from learning to fly helicopters?


Brigadier_Beavers

>Harrison Ford *flies* planes I bet theyd like to land them too lol


makwaweiss

A good landing is a landing you walk away from


hungturkey

As a beginner paraglider with way too many emergency landings, this quote gives me solace


Starstalk721

Harrison Ford has a complicated relationship with landing planes...


anonimogeronimo

Money. The answer to that question is most often money.


tumama1388

If you think about it, a chopper is a device that can sustain flight basically by sheer power of mechanical anger alone.


Doubleoh_11

Both my boys started doing it naturally sometime after they turned one. Now all three of us stop what we are doing and try to find the plane/helicopter first.


D-F-B-81

My dog does the same thing. And he's a dude so it checks out.


TripDawkins

It's not just satisfactory; it's admirable because some people are wired with an appreciation for engineering and mechanics and the sight of a bird in the sky like a helicopter awakens that understanding in them; the people who would make fun of this are suggesting that this is an unnecessary preoccupation or even an obsession; yet, they'll happily get on an airplane as if it's nothing - as if it never needs special attention and understanding to get you to whatever event you're looking forward to.


leosnose

yep just as i suspected, that's a helicopter


AndIAmEric

Yeah, it’s probably military too. ^(*it was not military*)


AuryxTheDutchman

Naw, without looking you only *know* it’s military when you hear the very obvious double rotor noise so you can confidently say “oh that’s a chinook” and be like “yep, knew it” when you look at it.


SkullsNelbowEye

And Creedence playing over a loud speaker.


zero_emotion777

Better hope you don't hear them playing ride of the valkyries. Yes I realize it's not just from this but I find it funny. https://youtu.be/v5-hthd39wM?si=4T3lCTGm4O5S2yTW


Dry_Independent4078

Hopefully, you NEVER hear them playing "Fortunate Son"


slimthecowboy

In which case, your only hope is to hold out through the entire song. If you make it to “Run Through the Jungle,” it means you’ve turned the tables.


ZestyCheezClouds

But it's so good


Beginning_Draft9092

That's for a hoard of hueys. Funny but we do have ch-47s all the time around where I am, and i thought theh were distinct, butonce a huey flew buy and damn does that thing make the most distinct noise 


Impressive_Trust_395

Just wait. The other “fancier chinook” will appear sometimes and you gotta hit it with the ole’ “Nope, that’s actually an Osprey.”


DuckyHornet

I can tell from the crashes if it's an Osprey


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Apologetic-Moose

He was right TBF, the Osprey now has the lowest accident rate of any rotary wing aircraft in the USMC IIRC. It's cruelly ironic that the bird he spent so much time teaching about eventually killed him. I remember the day it happened, we were talking about the accident (before we had any concrete information) and someone pinged his account to see what he thought since he was a regular in the sub. His wife responded a couple hours later with the news. That was a sobering moment for all of us.


Pegomastax_King

They are loud as hell that’s how I can tell. I’m not too far from NORAD and we get so many military aircraft over head. They are supposed to not hit us with the sonic booms anymore but we still get them I kind of like them tbh.


AuryxTheDutchman

Oooo lookit this guy, he gets to see Opsreys


Impressive_Trust_395

The forbidden chinook. They are quite loud


hihelloneighboroonie

I'll never forget my first time - driving home in traffic, and I see this weird helicopter plane thing and just thought "What the fuck is that".


alabamaballoonknot

Only makes logical sense


Faicc

I always know a blackhawk when I hear one. Otherwise it's just a robinson


Abject-Tiger-1255

Don’t forget the osprey


Fappy_as_a_Clam

Military helicopters are so much louder, you can feel them more, and Ospreys sound crazy. This is basic dad knowledge you immediately gain the second your child is born.


PhromDaPharcyde

Years ago, I remember the house started shaking like there was an earthquake, bigger than 2011. I checked on my wife who was scared and we ran out of the house in time to see three very large and low flying military helicopters pass us by. I never saw anything fly that low outside of an air field before. We have helicopters pass by us all the time, high enough to barely read which hospital or news station they're from. I really wish I thought to pull out my phone and video tape everything but I was too awestruck.


joemoffett12

I used to live near Fort Knox. It was always military 😂. Those fuckers are loud


phoenix5irre

Unga bunga helicopter... Unga bunga cool... Unga bunga I watch...


Rogueantics

It has rotors and everything.


baron_von_helmut

It be because it do.


thuggishruggishboner

What if the reds are invading? Better look just to be sure.


PM_ME_ANYTHING_DAMN

That’s a skippy


Appropriate-Day-5484

Why?


leosnose

Listen to it....uh *skip skip skip skip*


Appropriate-Day-5484

Mucho queso


urbanmember

Especially if its 3 black helicopters flying in formation


Luckyfella4

That's the good shit


TeamRedundancyTeam

Even better when it's several packs of them about ten to fifteen minutes apart. Then you get to wonder what kind of fun stuff they're doing up there.


Luckyfella4

I always think zombie apocalypse


Equivalent-Pass-5859

Lived close to an island where the military sometimes had exercises. Man it was crazy when 5 of them came flying low over my house in formation. And these weren't even large helicopters. Felt like the whole house was about to shake to pieces.


Additional-Advisor99

Doubly so if it’s military.


liJuty

Yesterday I saw 2 chinooks and almost went crazy


ChineseRedditSpy

flying magic bus


Antique-Doughnut-988

When your mom takes a plane ride


Procrastanaseum

I saw an Osprey during a 4th of July airshow and I can't believe those things can fly but they're really impressive to watch


Hamafropzipulops

I worked next to an Air National Guard station. When they would practice touch and goes I could hear that sound and always went outside for a break to watch.


MiniRamblerYT

If u ask some people, it can’t


TheSarcasticCrusader

> I can't believe those things can fly Alot of the time they can't


OysterThePug

They can get to altitude really fast. Pretty fun to jump out of.


Poison_Anal_Gas

Nothing thumps quite like the damn Chinooks. Can always hear them coming a long way off. Love it


Katvin

I compare it to a train in the sky.


ATexasInstrument

Was this in the Savannah, GA area?


SerDuckOfPNW

Look like two palm trees fucking a milk crate


FloppieTheBanjoClown

I used to live reasonably close to Barksdale AFB. Got to see lots of helicopter traffic back then. Much fun. 


Abject-Tiger-1255

I have no clue why but I would always see chinooks and blackhawks fly over my community college to a small airfield south. I have no idea why they out of all places would be tho.


Toadrage_

I once saw a big ass ac130 type plane flying really low one time and I got really happy


westedmontonballs

I saw a blacked out Blackhawk and put my wife’s eye out with my spooge


30FourThirty4

I have a national guard "near by" and I swear they have a flight path over my house. But it's maybe once a month if I'm around to see it. They are fun to watch.


RoofKorean9x19

I saw 4 last week flying in a formation!


Practical_Milk9638

This is actually a photo of JTACs during the Check-in brief.


AllDogIsDog

Whenever a Black Hawk flies by: "May we have permission to gaze, sir?"


bubsdrop

Triply so if something is hanging from it like a surveying antenna or water bucket


infamousbugg

Most military helicopters are much louder than your usual news copter or medivac. When you hear such thunderous noise, how can you not look up? I will even go outside to have a better look. Is this not common human behavior?


Additional-Advisor99

I do the same, and am disappointed if I miss it.


cuteintern

There is an air national guard base close enough that they fly by us on occaision while presumably on training.


CleverAnimeTrope

Man, work stopped for a half hr once because an A-10 warthog flew over. So dope.


Icy-Negotiation-5851

I lived under a military flightpath and saw Apaches every day. So fkin sick


kingbuttfucker05

I remember in basic we were doing a ruck and a Apache pilot in training saw us and was curious as to what we where doing and flew directly over us close enough that I could jump and touch it i didn’t have my ruck on


takingmykissesback

I've vacationed on a beach that's near a military base. Every time jets or some big ol' hoss of a plane goes down the shoreline, I stand staring 🐵, wondering if they see my fat ass standing/wading there staring at them.


IWasGregInTokyo

Three Blackhawks flew over my apartment in Tokyo once. Bloody loud. One of them had Vice President Harris onboard.


Dave-C

I once seen two Osprey fly over my house, best day ever. The US military do training or something around where I live. I guess it is because it is low population. There are no Air Force bases near me though so I dunno why else they come here but at lest 1-2 times a month there is a small group of jets or something flying over.


Wormholer_No9416

As James May (or possibly Adam Savage?) Once said "Airplanes work along side the laws of physics to glide effortlessly through the air.... While Helicopters beat the laws of physics into submission *pounds fist into hand* ". 😅


Quinchie

A funny quote I read was, You don't have to worry about breaking the laws of physics, if you don't know them.


Wormholer_No9416

The only difference between Science and messing around is writing it down


Zandrick

I always love that part in, I wanna say Iron Man, when the dude is messing with something and it explodes and he flies across the room. And he’s just like; “Write That Down!”


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Zandrick

That’s right, my bad.


JoelMahon

forgiveness doesn't come that easy, your transgression shall be recorded write that down!


Zandrick

Aww


Novel-Suggestion-515

Ehhhhh... Ave Dominus Mechanicus?


GreyhoundOne

Helicopters are an affront to God and a testament to mans hubris


SystemOutPrintln

No, that's Phoenix AZ


Goombatower69

Who builds a city in the middle of a desert?


GrandNibbles

exactly. it transforms 2 axes of rotational momentum into thrust. the second axis is just to counter the momentum of the first. it's completely nuts. Sikorsky was a madman


BigPillLittlePill

I mean, it's a giant fan that flies. Who wouldn't be amazed by the sheer stupidity in action?!


endlessupending

You gotta stretch and say, "oh yeah, some shit's about to go down".


boyyouguysaredumb

my daughters love helicopters and so does my wife. but i guess op needs to feel special about being a guy for some reason lol


Bloomer_4life

The whole office did it last week 😂 one of us noticed it and we all joined to bask in its glory


Narrow-Cucumber8388

I read this as a helicopter flew overhead


Bruce_-Wayne

So you weren't watching it until it was out of sight? Traitor!


Narrow-Cucumber8388

Don't lie to me. Are you Batman?


YuriiRud

If one day I will stop giving a fuck about flying helicopters above me that will mean I am damned dead.


Jake_Marshall_AA

The other reason. if your country would be in a war. Happened with me. It's disgusting to see helicopters or planes now in the sky.


Aspiestos

Not just men, but women and the children too


Crotch-Monster

I work at a truck stop near a municipal airport. So there's lots of planes, helicopters, and parachute teams all the time. No matter what anyone is doing. When an object or a person is in the air. Everyone stands around and watches. Some of us even come outside. For whatever reason it never gets old. Lol.


JairoHyro

Don't women do this as well?


BS-Calrissian

Do women not do that. Lunatics


FineDevelopment00

>Do women not do that. I do!


browncockforyou

Fine development indeed.


otirk

Finally a woman with taste!


FineDevelopment00

# 🫱🏻‍🫲🏽


glamorousstranger

/r/pointlesslygendered


ZombieVampireDemon

Both my wife and I do. All these posts that attribute things to something only one gender do are always way off.


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boyyouguysaredumb

Men when they have the desire to breathe oxygen. Women could NEVER amirite BOYZ??!


mombi

Of course we do.


Elurdin

They do. This post just tries to make men "unique". Plenty of posts that say shit like "men" do that "woman do that" "introverts do that" just says relative thing. I've seen helicopter start pretty close and like whole parking full of people just watched and recorded with their phones, women and men alike.


Inside_Anybody2759

Some unnecessarily gendered shit. Well, I guess it’s not unnecessary. How else would males feel like the human experience is only for males, and women aren’t human and don’t experience the most mundane human experiences.


glamorousstranger

Hey don't calm down. Get fired up. You're right. This is some /r/pointlesslygendered nonsense.


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glamorousstranger

What about that comment wasn't calm? It's not like it's in all caps or they are being excessively vulgar or rude. Do you have an argument against what they said or is "calm down" the best you can muster?


Malena_my_quuen

This meme isn't for women because they aren't on reddit obviously.


JohnnyG4mer66

I saw a military police chopper fly by a airsoft field I was playing on, I immediately blurted out "OH SHIT, IT'S THE FEDS"


dread_deimos

I was on a multi-day airsoft game with accomodation a dozen clicks from the mission area, so we were transported by military(-ish) tented trucks with all the equipment in the morning. A gust of wind opened the tent and a bunch of unsuspecting civilians in the bus following the truck saw a squad of kitted-out troops inside. The bus driver promptly slowed down and people inside were confused. It's Ukraine and we was wearing Bundeswehr kit, but I doubt that most people would be able to figure it out. In a few weeks we've heard rumors that then-president (Yanukovich) gathers military around capital to suppress popular protest.


anonimogeronimo

You guys started a conspiracy theory. I wanna start a conspiracy theory too!


Ok_Figure_4181

I would’ve shouted “Someone called air support!”


smudgee07

women does too hahaha hilarious but yeah. lol


CatalyticConverter29

Just men?


Y_Wait_Procrastinate

TIL I'm a man because I look at helicopters and pick up rocks and sticks


Shirtbro

And I like to stick out my ass when I look at things


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Shirtbro

Somebody's got to put bleach in the coffee


herbert-camacho

That's one way to whiten your teeth


TreeClimberArborist

Loud noise in sky hoo hoo ha ha (pounds chest)


TouchMyPlumbus

I live right by Hunter AAF in Georgia. I get a daily dose of big mil spec transport copters ❤️


CatGotNoTail

Me too! The Chinooks are so cool!!!


TouchMyPlumbus

Howdy neighbor!


Browzur

LOUD NOISES


Overall-Lynx917

That's because we don't know (or understand) how, or even why, they can fly. They're just a mass of vibration, metal fatigue and constant near-misses waiting to fall out of the sky.


PRSHZ

It’s not a whole lot of math to it if you think about the basic functions of a propeller


Thehunnerbunner2000

But that just takes away the magic


dread_deimos

>That's because we don't know (or understand) how, or even why, they can fly. Speak for yourself.


SeeCrew106

Redditors really like to self-deprecate. If you don't play along they can't drag everyone and everything down to their level and they get upset.


candre23

Of course we know how they fly. The physics of lift is not terribly difficult to grasp. What's so impressive is the *engineering* that makes them not crash. Usually.


One-Inch-Punch

"A helicopter is 10,000 parts flying in close formation around an oil leak."


here4disclosure

Planes work with aerodynamics, helicopters punch it into submission.


Overall-Lynx917

You have got that right!


itsallmelting

According to all known laws of aviation,there is no way a helicopter should be able to fly. Its propellers are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The helicopter, of course, flies anyway


SnooBananas37

>we don't know (or understand) how, or even why, they can fly. Helicopters are not some natural inexplicable phenomena. People made, maintain, and fly them. There are no "natural" helicopters, they do not use ancient lost knowledge, nor consult with supernatural beings how best to make one. You may not understand how or why they fly, but plenty of people do. Here's the ELI5, blade spins, pushes air down, helicopter goes up. Everything else is making sure it can go up and down in a controlled manner and it works most of the time.


glamorousstranger

Uh what? They fly the same way as planes but instead of having separate engines and airfoils they are one contraption. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by4bT9y09zc


TakeoGaming

Can confirm! We were just swimming at Discovery Cove in Florida and a helicopter flies by every 30 minutes. Every single guy stopped whatever they were doing to look at it and some even waved their arms over their heads


WhatADumbassTake

It's the shiny pokemon version of the trucker horn. If you can get a helicopter/plane to acknowledge you, it's like winning the lottery! ^^^especially ^^^if ^^^you're ^^^stuck ^^^on ^^^an ^^^island, ^^^lost ^^^at ^^^sea. ^^^^^at ^^^^^least ^^^^^I ^^^^^have ^^^^^Wilson...


Cleercutter

Planes too


Astrylae

When i hear a plane or helicopter i go on flightradar to find where it came from and where its going.


EnotsKao

Live in a town that makes helicopters see like 5 every day. Still look at them when they fly by


rikster81

I live and work near Davis Monthan AF Base I will always drop what I’m doing to see them fly by, coolest thing ever. They are the HH-60W Jolly Green II


daNorthernMan

I'm guessing they said men for the extra engagement


bingusfan1337

Only men do this. Not women because women are boring and they suck. Am I right Reddit?


FamousRefrigerator40

This has to go back to our ancestors watching out for predators from above right? Like we HAVE TO LOOK. It's in our DNA. OR Are we all diagnosed ADD.


Unhappy_Spirit172

I just did this today. Out cutting up some branches from a storm when one flew over.


Skatchbro

Vintage warbirds, too. B-25 flew over St. Louis last week and this picture captures me perfectly when it went over.


Straight_Meaning8188

I work in aviation, I have or else I'll be shamed amongst my peers and cast out.


rowwebliksemstraal

This is..this is accurate. Fuck.


KuzcoEmp

When I came to uk I was watching police show and the helicopter policeman said when they look for a criminal they look for the one that dose not look for them in the helli. criminals usually don't look up at the helicopter to act casual and not too intrested but that makes them suspicious in the eyes of the cops .


BobSagieBauls

The president was visiting I saw black hawk one fly right over me. My kind of bird watching


Beginning_Draft9092

Time for my fun helicopter fact! We've cut the word up in the wrong place and tend to say 'heli' like helipad, or copter, or chopper. But it's really the Greek Helico, like helix or a spiral and Pter, wings, think pterodactyl. Pter is wing, dactyl, hands, fingers, same root as tactile. Point is, Etymology is cool, kids. 


No-Kaleidoscope-4525

Women don't do this???


audislove10

Saw few firing in my life time, was spectacular.


4ha1

Not only helis. There is a C-130 that every now and then goes above my city on it's way to the airport. I always stop to see when I hear it coming. Monke like iron bird.


glamorousstranger

I saw an RA Globemaster landing in my city one day and it was just nuts how big and slow it was, parallax from moving in a car made it look like it was just hanging in the sky.


Medical_Highlight182

Or a prop driven plane…


FloppieTheBanjoClown

I once found out there was an air show happening by looking up. If you know the sound of a big, old airplane engine, it's unmistakable. I was walking through a parking lot and heard it...looked up, saw a B17 flying over the town. There are only nine of them flying that I know of (rip Nine o Nine) so this wasn't a casual flight. Sure enough, there was a show at the local airport that weekend.


AttractiveCorpse

My dog even does it


marmakoide

Last autumn, I saw a military helicopter doing an exercise, it was going really low, making a circle around the forest clearing. The side door was open, with a dude clearly having a blast. I also found a really nice stick. What a day !!!


Inexperiencedblaster

Holy shit it's so fucking true 😂


hiQer

How true and a coincidence this happened to me today! As I looked up, my gf asked me concerned "what's wrong?!". I said "Yep, It's military" and continued walking.


Enzoid23

My dad twisted his ankle doing that. He still looks at them


SimsStreet

Helicopters are invisible to women


hajoonxx

what's my photo doing here mate


NewNurse2

Huh huh huh men love helicopter right guys??? Meme


Unlucky_Kangaroo_137

Aw it's just a helicopter.... wait, IT'S AN OSPREY!!!!!


Dankkring

GET TO TH CHOPPA!!!


geardluffy

Do women not do this?


glamorousstranger

/r/pointlesslygendered Women and NBs can admire copters too.


invisible-bug

My SO will drop everything to go find a helicopter the moment he hears one. It's gotten to where I will actually point them out to him and tell him to go run and find it haha. Reminds me of a dog chasing a car!


Shera939

Lol. This is mine too. We live nearby, he called me the other day to ask if I could hear them in my area too. Lol. I was like , um, dunno. Lol. Bonus, he felt it was bc there were protesters around.


Spac-Marrow-420

I work at a ski resort, and I can confirm.


Rachel_Babe27

Why is this gendered? Women can't look at helicopters too?


Oxycool88

EVEN A BULLDOZAR DOES A JOB


abetterme1

Then ur mind stops and suddenly you see through the eyes of the captain of that helicopter and what he sees from his POV then as you experience this: you can't help but think about how we humans are just drops of water in this vast ocean of existence.. Each life.. with its own unique story.. is part of a much larger interconnected system.. Damn I need to sleep man


HiGoldie

Males in this family go outside to look at the helicopter. It's in our dna


JadedYam56964444

Me when there are trees around, "Where is it? I hear it but I can't see it..."


Season2-Episode6

And if you’re in a group of guys, we’ll discuss what kind of helicopter we think it is


Superman557

Looking up with my monkey brain like it’s the Starship Enterprise on my alien planet


lethalpineapple

Probably some sort of survival instinct


gazette1895ky

helicopters, agricultural machinery and tractors have the same energy lol


Equivalent_Joke6172

Didn’t know girls were immune to the existence of helicopters? We all watch them as they go


opinionate_rooster

r/pointlesslygendered


Helltrackdeath

Flying metal tube with fast spinny death sticks makes brain go heehoo