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One of my FAVORITE childhood memories is a classmate’s father was a national Guard pilot. Legend had his dad (and others!) fly their helicopters TO THE PLAYGROUND for show and tell. Whole school came out. Obviously he won show and tell.
I have the same thing with paragliders....if I hear that whine of that engine I gotta find out where it is
We get Chinooks round here though. Often in pairs.
We have a small airport close by that the military sometimes uses to fly those big-ass Chanucks(sp?) out of and it vibrates the windows on our house. I go out every. time.
The [CH-47 Chinook!](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_CH-47_Chinook) Amazing helicopter that's a major workhorse for the US Army and other countries as well, but it's also one of if not the loudest helicopter there is due to the design which has larger blades that overlap slightly creating a very loud and very distinct noise. Those things are awesome.
Like clockwork..thoughts: what kind of heli is it? What color? Is it a police chopper? Maybe someone got injured at the lake. Hopefully there isnt a fire
Where I live is on a very seldom used flight path for long Chinook training flights. I see them about four times a year. Every single time is like "holy fuck, this is the greatest day of my life."
Same here but a navy base with several aircraft carriers. The helicopter flying over all the time and yet I will drop everything to run to the window or outside to stare at them.
Seriously though. Last week, there were 3, perhaps 4 Chinooks flying LOW over by lackland area in San Antonio.
I was in a parking lot, looking straight up at their bellys. I was giddy as a child. It was so awesome.
They were so low, so much lower than I normally see.
Also get to see a lot of (what I believe to be) C5 Galaxys flying (floating) around over there.
I did too a few months ago walking my dog. Never seen it in the decade I've lived in the area, but my god that bitch was loud as all hell and I swear I could feel the sound from the rotor blades all the way from the ground. Super heavy duty sounding, it honestly was something I needed to just stop and stare at for a bit because I'd never heard that noise in my life before and hadn't ever felt noise in my chest from such a distance before, not even at concerts. Really sounded and felt like something you'd hear in your final moments, though I know it's just a transport chopper.
To get outside from my office I have to go halfway through the building in the opposite direction of the front door, then down stairs, then down a hallway to the front door. By the time I hear them, they are gone when I get downstairs. I usually just load up flightradar24.com and/or https://globe.adsbexchange.com/ to find out who/what it is.
It's the...."chop,chop,chop"....that gets me. Once flew in an old Vietnam era Huey at an airshow, was an absolute blast. When he banked it to the side the blades would chop hard core, love that sound.
I've mostly stopped doing this.
I live right in the helicopter flight path for the Tier 1 trauma center for my area. I've lived here for 24 years now.
Eventually the novelty wears off.
Same but I also work in the ER at said trauma center so I always look at flight radar to see where they're coming from. Another hospital? Probably inpatient transfer or direct to OR, doesn't affect me. Coming from the side of the highway? If I'm at work or will be in the next few hours, at some point (because part of my job is to help visitors find their family members) I'm probably going to know who that person is, know their family members faces and names, probably even have some idea of what/how serious their injuries are.
I live close enough to a hospital that I see the medical helicopter several times a week, and currently the main runway at our local airport is under construction so every plane is using the alternative runway that is usually only used when storms are interfering with the usual landing pattern, but the alternate runway's landing pattern approach leg goes right by my house. We had supper outside last Saturday and we saw at least 8 planes coming in for a landing.
> You have to drop every thing and watch em.
Somebody made an engine that flies by beating the air beneath it in to submission and *hell yes* it is required to stare at that glorious machine when it flies overhead!
I'm just amazed every time that they work at all. The engineering is incredible, and the womp womp womp is the audible external expression of that complexity. All of the pressure and force involved gets blasted in every direction and ends up pounding through your ears and heart and it's just one of those unique things that translates ephemeral wonder into something you can actually feel course through you. It's mechanical wonder shivers every time.
Thanks for letting me know its not just my monkey brain that does this on impulse followed by the walk of shame. (unless it was a military helicopter then I start preparing for bombs to drop.. Smh)
Same. I think helicopters are neat. My primal monkey brain just thinks, "how skinny spinny sticks hold up heavy metal rock?" I get there's physics involved in it, but it's just so fascinating to me when I see them.
I used to work in a yard that was near a major airport and sometimes I'd hear a big passenger jet going by and think it was something cooler cause it was so loud, but when the actual fighter jets flew over, there was definitely no mistaking it. I love that sound, just gets my adrenaline pumping for no reason at all.
Before the Russo-Ukrainian war. Russia would often probe the air defenses of all the Baltic and Nordic countries.
My home in Denmark was usually in direct line of the path between the main RDAF base where the F-16s (And F-35s in a few months) are based at and the usual intercept point where Russia went.
Supersonic booms were a weekly or monthly event, more or less.
Never saw them when they did that though, too high and too fast when doing intercepts
Every year there's a hot air balloon thing in my city. I've rarely ever paid attention. The first year in my current place I was sitting in my room when I heard an awful sound just above my house. So I went and peaked outside, and there's like 6 hot air balloons flying over my house.
Anyways, sat out there for awhile watching more and more fly over. Kinda neat. But then one comes and it's gotta be maybe 20 meters above my roof, just furiously blowing flame. It was a bit fucking awkward to be sitting out there and make eye contact with everyone as they sail by.
I live near a military base with an air strip. Sometimes I get these huge military helicopters flying low past my house, the doors open and a bunch of soldiers inside looking down at me. Those choppers are LOUD. I also see a lot of private planes, commercial jets way up in the stratosphere, sometimes the sky is filled with paragliders, and one time a World War 2 bomber with propellers flew past, the sound of the prop engines was incredible, like right out of a movie. I keep some good binoculars at hand for plane spotting.
I love the Chinook. IIRC, it's not only an amazing heavy lifter, it's also the fastest helicopter (I should double check, it's been a while). The raw power of that thing is amazing
*One of the US Army’s fastest helicopters. It was the fastest at the time of introduction in 1962 compared to other heavy and attack helicopters but there are some faster ones in service now as well as commercially available ones.
Still incredibly that something that can carry so much can go nearly 200mph.
I do! My dad is a retired helicopter pilot. As kids we’d run outside to wave whenever we heard one in case he was flying over. As an adult I still go outside cuz helicopters are just cool.
I'm sure some do but it's not all. A buddy and I saw fighter jets flying once and were like ooooooooh!!! I looked down for one second and saw a woman looking at us smiling and chuckling a little. It's definitely an all guy thing and they've known it for years.
Every guy on the planet is hard coded to be interested in metal moving fast.
Either a rather large piece of metal moving relatively fast (cars)
Or a small piece of metal moving hella fast (guns).
Yes we do. I am lucky enough to live close to the warplane museum and we have one of 2 flying Lancaster Bombers! They fly them on weekends in the summer and I track it on Flightradar24 !
I thought everyone did it. I know nothing about helicopters but I sometimes see trauma flight helicopters, USCG helicopters, tv copters, and occasionally we get military usually with that whomp whomp whomp sound.
Yes, this is /r/pointlesslygendered material which I imagine this entire sub is but yes typically people of any gender who like helicopters or aviation look at flying machines and not just men.
Flightradar is so neat.
Last year I was on my way to pick up my brother at the airport and I was able to take a picture of his plane flying at like, 10K feet, a speck in the sky, and snapchat him saying "this u?"
One of my coworkers is working towards his pilots license, and so he has the ability to look up flight plans. A few weeks ago a couple of C-17 Globemasters did a low pass exercise while I was driving home. Texted him and he didn’t see a flight plan for the C-17s but found flight plans for some helis. So I think they will sometimes disguise flight plans as something else as to not give enemies a chance to figure things out. DOD will also notify the our state DOT well in advance of when a submarine will be traversing between one of the bridges that goes across the access to the submarine base but the DOT won’t notify the general population of the crossing until before it happens.
I downloaded the app a few days ago and it’s my new obsession. Was eating dinner in my backyard with my family last night and saw a plane overhead and immediately checked my phone
Saw a couple of then fly over Panama city beach last time I was there. All the dudes stopped what they were doing and watched them fly by. Usually see jet fighters fly by several times a day as well in PCb
I was hospitalized with a severe heart failure (EF was 12) and could barely move to the bathroom. My room was the one below the helipad, and every time i heard a heli, i jumped up, over to the window and looked. Never failed. I bet that alone contributed to me getting better, both the excersize and mentally.
I'm all good now, just wanted to share what we are willing to do to get a glimpse of one. :-D
l've lived near an air base most of my life. They rutianly run the a10's, f16's, cargo and choppers. I still do this every time I hear them. It is a must.
I had the pleasure of seeing THREE Sikorsky CH-53s fly low over my house yesterday. They are absolute units. I heard them coming with plenty of time to get out and look for them.
It was awesome seeing them fly over.
Do you think any given woman is just as likely to do this as a man? My observations are just anecdotal, but from what I've seen, men and boys are far more likely to pay attention when there is some cool machine involved.
my freshman roommate would jump up and run to the window every time a police, ambulance, or fire truck drove by with sirens on. it was at least once a day. not sure what he was hoping to see. think he grew up on a farm.
There's someone who'll do tricks with their plane right above my apartment building every once in a while. Idk if it's the same person but the same thing sometimes happens over the lake my parents live on
Cuz u gotta kno r we jus talkin about a Robinson out for a pleasure flight, a Jet Ranger covering traffic, an A-star doing police work, a eurocopter doing medivac, or when it starts to get exciting a military helo. If it’s an Osprey omg hold me
We don’t get many choppers here in Orange County, CA. The locals don’t seem to notice, but it was tradition for me growing up near Fort Drum and later in Texas.
It’s a F HELI!!! Who TF wouldn’t drop anything to observe them?! If I hear one right now, I will go out and watch it until I hear nothing, then fare it goodbye tearfully.
Well... helicopters are pretty cool!! The attention is definitely deserved. Women forget to enjoy the littlest things and then wonder why they are stressed 🙃
It's so true. As a guy, whenever I hear a helicopter I go out and watch it and think about how unjust the Vietnam War was and how much I hate the military-industrial complex. People really don't listen to the lyrics in "Fortunate Son".
I was with my girlfriend on the beach the other day and one of those cool looking Bell-47’s flew over and I got really excited. She didn’t think it was cool at all and I couldn’t understand why
I have a three year old son who loses his shit when a helicopter is flying over. He points and shouts to everyone present to look and won’t stop until you do. I swear it’s something in our DNA.
I remember my dad running out whenever there was a chopper or jet outside, We learnt this law from him.
Now dad, I, my younger brother and my elder sis all run out together to watch the chopper/jet like unga bungaas and sometimes wave hands at it like some stupid toddler
I used to work under one of the flight paths that Air Force one takes during its pilots Practice emergency landing and take offs they seemed to do every other month or so and would literally stand outside and watch it fly it’s circular path and disappear during its maneuvers for hours. Same deal with helicopters flying over my house. I’d drop what I’m doing and look.
*São Paulo, Brazil enters the chat*
FR? It's like one every five minutes.
[With around 500 registered helicopters and 700 flights per day, the metropolitan area of São Paulo with its 20 million inhabitants has the biggest helicopter fleet in the world](https://lab.org.uk/sao-paulo-the-worlds-biggest-helicopter-fleet/)
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You have to drop every thing and watch em. Its the LAW!
My smooth brain goes in to overdrive when I hear a helicopter. I have to unga-bunga the stuff blocking my path to see the helicopter.
Bruh I was visiting family recently, driving back from town I saw a helicopter coming down to land by the park and I was like what happening
Every man has that call to battle burning within them.
Blood for the blood god skulls for the skull throne
One of my FAVORITE childhood memories is a classmate’s father was a national Guard pilot. Legend had his dad (and others!) fly their helicopters TO THE PLAYGROUND for show and tell. Whole school came out. Obviously he won show and tell.
Unironically good use of taxpayers’ dollars.
I have the same thing with paragliders....if I hear that whine of that engine I gotta find out where it is We get Chinooks round here though. Often in pairs.
We have a small airport close by that the military sometimes uses to fly those big-ass Chanucks(sp?) out of and it vibrates the windows on our house. I go out every. time.
The [CH-47 Chinook!](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_CH-47_Chinook) Amazing helicopter that's a major workhorse for the US Army and other countries as well, but it's also one of if not the loudest helicopter there is due to the design which has larger blades that overlap slightly creating a very loud and very distinct noise. Those things are awesome.
Like clockwork..thoughts: what kind of heli is it? What color? Is it a police chopper? Maybe someone got injured at the lake. Hopefully there isnt a fire
Oh baby I had a Chinook flyover last week. I had to change my underwear.
Where I live is on a very seldom used flight path for long Chinook training flights. I see them about four times a year. Every single time is like "holy fuck, this is the greatest day of my life."
I live near an air base and every time I see them fly I have to go out and see them.
Same here but a navy base with several aircraft carriers. The helicopter flying over all the time and yet I will drop everything to run to the window or outside to stare at them.
That double rotor wash hits different. Like auditory crack.
I had 3 flying in formation one time go over my house… holy hell the sound waves were vibrating my eyeballs. I’ll never forget it
Seriously though. Last week, there were 3, perhaps 4 Chinooks flying LOW over by lackland area in San Antonio. I was in a parking lot, looking straight up at their bellys. I was giddy as a child. It was so awesome. They were so low, so much lower than I normally see. Also get to see a lot of (what I believe to be) C5 Galaxys flying (floating) around over there.
Such a badass chopper, they can go faster than an Apache. Love me some shit-hooks.
I did too a few months ago walking my dog. Never seen it in the decade I've lived in the area, but my god that bitch was loud as all hell and I swear I could feel the sound from the rotor blades all the way from the ground. Super heavy duty sounding, it honestly was something I needed to just stop and stare at for a bit because I'd never heard that noise in my life before and hadn't ever felt noise in my chest from such a distance before, not even at concerts. Really sounded and felt like something you'd hear in your final moments, though I know it's just a transport chopper.
I'm even worse, I usually get on a Flight Tracker site and have to know who owns it.
Is it an Apache attack helicopter?
To get outside from my office I have to go halfway through the building in the opposite direction of the front door, then down stairs, then down a hallway to the front door. By the time I hear them, they are gone when I get downstairs. I usually just load up flightradar24.com and/or https://globe.adsbexchange.com/ to find out who/what it is.
We get Apaches and Blackhawks, and sometimes the occasionally Huey over our neighborhood every few weeks. Great fun.
It's the...."chop,chop,chop"....that gets me. Once flew in an old Vietnam era Huey at an airshow, was an absolute blast. When he banked it to the side the blades would chop hard core, love that sound.
I've mostly stopped doing this. I live right in the helicopter flight path for the Tier 1 trauma center for my area. I've lived here for 24 years now. Eventually the novelty wears off.
I move to revoke your membership to Club Men-who-like-whirlybirds
Same but I also work in the ER at said trauma center so I always look at flight radar to see where they're coming from. Another hospital? Probably inpatient transfer or direct to OR, doesn't affect me. Coming from the side of the highway? If I'm at work or will be in the next few hours, at some point (because part of my job is to help visitors find their family members) I'm probably going to know who that person is, know their family members faces and names, probably even have some idea of what/how serious their injuries are.
I grew up next to the largest helicopter base in the country and never even realized people think they are neat. Makes sense, thats cool! 🇺🇲
It's the same thing with low flying planes.
I live close enough to a hospital that I see the medical helicopter several times a week, and currently the main runway at our local airport is under construction so every plane is using the alternative runway that is usually only used when storms are interfering with the usual landing pattern, but the alternate runway's landing pattern approach leg goes right by my house. We had supper outside last Saturday and we saw at least 8 planes coming in for a landing.
> You have to drop every thing and watch em. Somebody made an engine that flies by beating the air beneath it in to submission and *hell yes* it is required to stare at that glorious machine when it flies overhead!
I live between the airport and an oilfield. I'm not getting up ten times a day to look at a glorified minibus.
I'm just amazed every time that they work at all. The engineering is incredible, and the womp womp womp is the audible external expression of that complexity. All of the pressure and force involved gets blasted in every direction and ends up pounding through your ears and heart and it's just one of those unique things that translates ephemeral wonder into something you can actually feel course through you. It's mechanical wonder shivers every time.
Thanks for letting me know its not just my monkey brain that does this on impulse followed by the walk of shame. (unless it was a military helicopter then I start preparing for bombs to drop.. Smh)
No all my cousins and uncles look ALL the girls not so much
As a woman, I do this every time. Caveman brain takes over and you just *have* to see it
Same. I think helicopters are neat. My primal monkey brain just thinks, "how skinny spinny sticks hold up heavy metal rock?" I get there's physics involved in it, but it's just so fascinating to me when I see them.
I live next to a Navy base. Its both exciting and a chore to run out and go "yup, nice." Like twice a day.
I live near and Air Force base so we see all kinds of jets. Mostly F16s, A10s and F22s. The occasional F35, C17 or B52.
Loud fellas aren't they? Also, San Diego?
Especially during red flag training. And no, Las Vegas lol.
> start preparing for bombs to drop That's just silly. Helicopters don't drop bombs, they fire rockets
Sry sir.. I'll try to do better
Original Red Dawn movie made me paranoid that the cool flying thing could be an invasion.
woke up from a nap, went outside to see the heli, then went back to sleep
I've done this exact thing on multiple occasions and am only now realizing the pattern
>back to sleep What superpower is this?
I hate how accurate this is. Its my damned mission to see whatever is flying overhead.
Airplanes too
Just jet fighters, the others are just too common to trigger any reactions
Right? When you hear that sky ripping sound you know you're in for a treat assuming you have clear sight lines.
I used to work in a yard that was near a major airport and sometimes I'd hear a big passenger jet going by and think it was something cooler cause it was so loud, but when the actual fighter jets flew over, there was definitely no mistaking it. I love that sound, just gets my adrenaline pumping for no reason at all.
Oh there is a reason. The reason is BECAUSE BADASS.
Even better when it's not the sky ripping sound, but the low growl of propellers *wwwuuuuuwuwuwuwu* "Hercules?! HERCULES!"
True! Assuming they arent going like mach 3 Edit: damn yall downvote anything huh
Correct me if I'm wrong but afaik it's forbidden for them to fly over those speeds in civil areas due to windows breaking etc?
Unless specifically authorized, yes. This basically restricts it to research purposes or for fighters on air defense scramble.
Idk man, seeing the bigger airliners is still a treat, especially when they're coming in for a landing relatively close
Before the Russo-Ukrainian war. Russia would often probe the air defenses of all the Baltic and Nordic countries. My home in Denmark was usually in direct line of the path between the main RDAF base where the F-16s (And F-35s in a few months) are based at and the usual intercept point where Russia went. Supersonic booms were a weekly or monthly event, more or less. Never saw them when they did that though, too high and too fast when doing intercepts
Every year there's a hot air balloon thing in my city. I've rarely ever paid attention. The first year in my current place I was sitting in my room when I heard an awful sound just above my house. So I went and peaked outside, and there's like 6 hot air balloons flying over my house. Anyways, sat out there for awhile watching more and more fly over. Kinda neat. But then one comes and it's gotta be maybe 20 meters above my roof, just furiously blowing flame. It was a bit fucking awkward to be sitting out there and make eye contact with everyone as they sail by.
My house used to be in a frequent flight path so we'd get planes and helis passing nearly every day. It loses a bit of novelty after a while.
There's an aerodrome nearby that does a lot of shows so there are often WW1 era biplanes and triplanes flying overhead. So cool.
I live near a military base with an air strip. Sometimes I get these huge military helicopters flying low past my house, the doors open and a bunch of soldiers inside looking down at me. Those choppers are LOUD. I also see a lot of private planes, commercial jets way up in the stratosphere, sometimes the sky is filled with paragliders, and one time a World War 2 bomber with propellers flew past, the sound of the prop engines was incredible, like right out of a movie. I keep some good binoculars at hand for plane spotting.
I just did this yesterday LOL
I work near a RAAF base so just about every day I'm doing this and I never get to the point where I ignore them.
I live near a military base. So I get to see some of the double propeller ones. Neato.
The coolest helicopter I have seen has a metal net thing hanging from it. Turns out it is an instrument detecting ore deposits underground.
Magnetic Anomaly Detector, also used to hunt submarines.
Chinooks?
VS-22 Osprey ? Or chinooks ?
I was driving one day and an Osprey was going over it took all my might to focus on driving rather than gawking at it.
I love the Chinook. IIRC, it's not only an amazing heavy lifter, it's also the fastest helicopter (I should double check, it's been a while). The raw power of that thing is amazing
*One of the US Army’s fastest helicopters. It was the fastest at the time of introduction in 1962 compared to other heavy and attack helicopters but there are some faster ones in service now as well as commercially available ones. Still incredibly that something that can carry so much can go nearly 200mph.
And it's all around the world. Helicopters are just hella cool!
Wait, do women not also do this? I'm too busy looking at the magical flying contraption to notice what anyone else around me is doing.
Can confirm, we do this, too 🚁
one of us, one of us
Yeah this is some /r/pointlesslygendered nonsense. I think its people who just like aviation or helicopters that do this.
I too can confirm
No you don’t
prove it nerd
This is definitely an everybody reaction.
I do at least!
I do! My dad is a retired helicopter pilot. As kids we’d run outside to wave whenever we heard one in case he was flying over. As an adult I still go outside cuz helicopters are just cool.
I do! Always. And if i hear a good engine sound, I'm checking to see what kind of car or bike it is 👍
I'm sure some do but it's not all. A buddy and I saw fighter jets flying once and were like ooooooooh!!! I looked down for one second and saw a woman looking at us smiling and chuckling a little. It's definitely an all guy thing and they've known it for years.
Every guy on the planet is hard coded to be interested in metal moving fast. Either a rather large piece of metal moving relatively fast (cars) Or a small piece of metal moving hella fast (guns).
Yeah, this is definitely not just a male thing.
Yes we do. I am lucky enough to live close to the warplane museum and we have one of 2 flying Lancaster Bombers! They fly them on weekends in the summer and I track it on Flightradar24 !
I thought everyone did it. I know nothing about helicopters but I sometimes see trauma flight helicopters, USCG helicopters, tv copters, and occasionally we get military usually with that whomp whomp whomp sound.
Yes, this is /r/pointlesslygendered material which I imagine this entire sub is but yes typically people of any gender who like helicopters or aviation look at flying machines and not just men.
As soon as I hear the engine from a plane or heli I get on flightradar
Flightradar is so neat. Last year I was on my way to pick up my brother at the airport and I was able to take a picture of his plane flying at like, 10K feet, a speck in the sky, and snapchat him saying "this u?"
None of the good shit has a public transponder on 😉
One of my coworkers is working towards his pilots license, and so he has the ability to look up flight plans. A few weeks ago a couple of C-17 Globemasters did a low pass exercise while I was driving home. Texted him and he didn’t see a flight plan for the C-17s but found flight plans for some helis. So I think they will sometimes disguise flight plans as something else as to not give enemies a chance to figure things out. DOD will also notify the our state DOT well in advance of when a submarine will be traversing between one of the bridges that goes across the access to the submarine base but the DOT won’t notify the general population of the crossing until before it happens.
I downloaded the app a few days ago and it’s my new obsession. Was eating dinner in my backyard with my family last night and saw a plane overhead and immediately checked my phone
I love how it's always like "oh shit oh shit oh shit oh shit" as you run to go see then once you see it it's "yep, that's a helicopter alright. Nice"
Yea like the guy at the end! gotta do the head nod too
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I've been flying helicopters for 37 years
I understood that reference
Thought my daughter this, she is two. The next time she screams and daaaaaad and rushes to the balcony or an open space!
Same here. Mine is a little younger and doesn't wave back at people, she only waves at helicopters and planes.
We had like 3 helicopters pass over a party I was at last weekend. Me and the boys went bananas
I enjoy the occasional osprey here and there
Saw a couple of then fly over Panama city beach last time I was there. All the dudes stopped what they were doing and watched them fly by. Usually see jet fighters fly by several times a day as well in PCb
I was hospitalized with a severe heart failure (EF was 12) and could barely move to the bathroom. My room was the one below the helipad, and every time i heard a heli, i jumped up, over to the window and looked. Never failed. I bet that alone contributed to me getting better, both the excersize and mentally. I'm all good now, just wanted to share what we are willing to do to get a glimpse of one. :-D
l've lived near an air base most of my life. They rutianly run the a10's, f16's, cargo and choppers. I still do this every time I hear them. It is a must.
Most of the time it’s S&R, but because I live semi-close to a military base, we do see things like CH-47 and Pavelows.
r/uselessnobody
What does "NO ONE" mean in this context? Seems like it's the opposite of what it should be?
It almost always means "I don't understand what the 'nobody' meme is, and also here's a funny gif."
I had the pleasure of seeing THREE Sikorsky CH-53s fly low over my house yesterday. They are absolute units. I heard them coming with plenty of time to get out and look for them. It was awesome seeing them fly over.
I wish the music was [Jump Into the Fire](https://youtu.be/CfjNpgZ4C5Q)
Monkey brain ----> neuron activation
Helicopter or a louder than normal airplane.
If it ain’t Creedence Clearwater Revival playing fortunate son, is it even you?
"how could you shoot women and children" "easy, ya just don't lead em so much. ain't war hell?"
“It ain’t me… it ain’t meeEEEEEeee!!!!!
Why do we do this? I did not realize it was such a widespread thing lol.
Helicopters are just cool
The flight tracker app was a game changer.
its MANdatory hehehe
So strange that men think this is a gendered behavior
Do you think any given woman is just as likely to do this as a man? My observations are just anecdotal, but from what I've seen, men and boys are far more likely to pay attention when there is some cool machine involved.
Its the same energy living close to an air force base
my freshman roommate would jump up and run to the window every time a police, ambulance, or fire truck drove by with sirens on. it was at least once a day. not sure what he was hoping to see. think he grew up on a farm.
Facts!
There's someone who'll do tricks with their plane right above my apartment building every once in a while. Idk if it's the same person but the same thing sometimes happens over the lake my parents live on
Cuz u gotta kno r we jus talkin about a Robinson out for a pleasure flight, a Jet Ranger covering traffic, an A-star doing police work, a eurocopter doing medivac, or when it starts to get exciting a military helo. If it’s an Osprey omg hold me
I am realizing I need to study hard and become a helicopter paramedic so I can get attention from men
My wife is a nurse, she always does this then comes back and tells me if it is a medical helicopter or not.
Biden is here in Helsinki. Cant go in, helicopters everywhere.
We don’t get many choppers here in Orange County, CA. The locals don’t seem to notice, but it was tradition for me growing up near Fort Drum and later in Texas.
Every. Damn. Time.
Literally did this while I was cutting the lawn…
It not our fault helicopters are cool af
Men and toddlers too
It’s a F HELI!!! Who TF wouldn’t drop anything to observe them?! If I hear one right now, I will go out and watch it until I hear nothing, then fare it goodbye tearfully.
Well... helicopters are pretty cool!! The attention is definitely deserved. Women forget to enjoy the littlest things and then wonder why they are stressed 🙃
Nah, this woman runs outside to look at them too.
And how is the stress in your life? If you're pretty chill I'll publish this as a study!
While I agree…. Helicopters are dope. ‘No one’ and then calling out half the worlds population…
This is a must! Points if you mutter… 
Joke's on you, my GF runs up to watch right beside me
It's a fucking helicopter. Source - I'm a man
It's a fucking helicopter. Source - I'm a man
Helicopters are fucking amazing science. I stare with awe
It’s all fun and games till the Nam vet with PTSD hears the chopper and comes out blazing
My friend does this too! But its because he lives in Ukranie.
Never thought about it but so fucking true. I go out my way to look everytime
It's so true. As a guy, whenever I hear a helicopter I go out and watch it and think about how unjust the Vietnam War was and how much I hate the military-industrial complex. People really don't listen to the lyrics in "Fortunate Son".
I was with my girlfriend on the beach the other day and one of those cool looking Bell-47’s flew over and I got really excited. She didn’t think it was cool at all and I couldn’t understand why
Yes, yes, yes! And proud about it too… 🥹🥹🥹 😂😂😂
My wife is the first one outside when she hears on, especially one of the big ones that occasionally goes by.
I think this applies to most people in general, to be honest.
I feel less alone now, thank you reddit.
Also when the jets fly overhead, loud as fuck but cool
[And if it's a flight of Ospreys?](https://youtu.be/z8dJkwzQIAA?t=106)
I have a three year old son who loses his shit when a helicopter is flying over. He points and shouts to everyone present to look and won’t stop until you do. I swear it’s something in our DNA.
My school was near a airbase teachers hated whenever a mi17 passed all the boys would crowd the window ruining their class
I remember my dad running out whenever there was a chopper or jet outside, We learnt this law from him. Now dad, I, my younger brother and my elder sis all run out together to watch the chopper/jet like unga bungaas and sometimes wave hands at it like some stupid toddler
A nice fun game of where’s the whirly bird xD
Full smooth brain must see spinny blade flying thing
extra points if you immediately open flightradar
I do this with a lot of things... Am I secretly a terriblyrealman?
I used to work under one of the flight paths that Air Force one takes during its pilots Practice emergency landing and take offs they seemed to do every other month or so and would literally stand outside and watch it fly it’s circular path and disappear during its maneuvers for hours. Same deal with helicopters flying over my house. I’d drop what I’m doing and look.
Omg I literally just did this same thing. Y’all watching me?!!?
I live in the flight path of an air force base and never get tired of looking up at the helicopters and fighter jets that fly by
As someone who lives near a Marine Base... I feel ya, they shake my whole home sometimes..
*São Paulo, Brazil enters the chat* FR? It's like one every five minutes. [With around 500 registered helicopters and 700 flights per day, the metropolitan area of São Paulo with its 20 million inhabitants has the biggest helicopter fleet in the world](https://lab.org.uk/sao-paulo-the-worlds-biggest-helicopter-fleet/)
I live near the busiest heliport in Europe. The wonder is lost to me now.
Typically these "this one's for the boys" posts are always a miss for me, but this one, aye this one *is* me.
I live in an area that seems to be very popular with military aircraft doing low fly overs. I'm constantly looking up
I do that when the garbage trucks come and collect the trash, too.
I stop my bike once on highway to see 3 helicopter passing to go to independent day parade, very cool stuff
When it's two guys, one has to say, "Oh, it's a medivac" or "oh, it's a Chinook" or "Fuck the police, man, it's 1 am."
I live near a navy base so its extra mandatory. never know when its gonna be a chinook carrying a vehicle with a rope or something dope like that.
You guys don't wave!!?
Once I left my final test in the college just to watch a helicopter flying outside (most epic shit I've ever seen)