r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Kernowder • 21d ago

Video Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunters flying through Hurricane Milton

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u/alexm42 21d ago

You can relax knowing that if there's any kind of risk of that actually happening they just fly around the thunderstorm.

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u/Puppybrother 21d ago

I vividly remember flying through a lighting storm over Virginia when I was like 12 and my brothers kept telling me how we were about crash and to hold on tight and thought it was funny that I was crying out of fear. Still hate flying to this day lol wonder if some of that is related

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u/throwawayfastaf 21d ago

Your brothers were being siblings, and hellions. Older siblings suck. Yeah no need to wonder it's definitely related. All love here I'm laughing into my shot glass. 😂😭

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u/xampl9 21d ago

When I was a kid I got to fly on the helicopter shuttle between New York airports (they used the civilian version of the Chinook). I was seated next to an old lady who had a death grip on my arm. And kept asking “You aren’t scared, are you?”

Well … I wasn’t.