Comments by "Helmuth Schultes" (@helmuthschultes9243) on "American Reacts to The 2023 Pacific Airshow in Surfer's Paradise, Australia" video.

  1. Definitely beautiful scenery for the Airshow. Australias largest airshow is annually ar Avalon between Melbourne and Geelong, a multiday show with both active airflights and static ground exhibits including various missiles and armaments used in air superiority. I have however never physically attended just watched TV video and DVD Airshow releases. Even have dummy bomb runs with huge flame effects like seen in Napalm bombing. I have while working in Germany for my employer in vicinity of Stuttgart southern Germany. That area has numerous US military bases in the area including a significant airbase at Stuttgart airport. So I had experience of various military activities, personelle and hardware, including tanks rolling through farm grain crops, tanks coming down Autobahn embankments and joining car and truck traffic going down the highway. Treads destroying swathes of crops, and on highway making a huge noise while tearing gauges into asphalt and cracking concrete suface. Our car copped some concrete chips on the hood and front right fender. All traffic forced to rapidly reducing speed, as the tanks would have been below 80kph (50 mph) joining and maybe increasing to such speed. On Autobahn almost nothing travels that slow some cars going even over 200kph, most between 120 kph and 160 kph. The US military just send assessors out to workout the costs to roads and farms, and issue compensation cheques. Other than that seeing lots of aircraft, some very low flying even. One time on 4th floor of the company development centre complex 8 story office block, I was looking out over the valley with local small farming village below. The company complex is on top of the one set of hills and far side of the valley with modern multistory appartment blocks. Otherwise basically a farming village. Suddenly three US jets roared past maybe two building levels lower, so was seeing these jets looking down on the top of them as they roared past through the valley, with say less than 100m interval between aircraft and likely not much more altitude. Other times several military helicopters flew both lower and higher over the valley or complex. One occasion I was walking between buildings on paved pathway through lawn spaces. Suddenly BOOM, BOOM like a double barrel shotgun going off only meters away. Then the front windows of a large furniture shop outside the company area, about 200m ahead showed a wobbling image of reflected scenery, ground and sky wobbling in and out. A jet had passed at some higher altitude at super sonic condition. Of course by the time the sound hit ground the aircraft was well past being visible. It gave me quite a fright as initially I though of gun shots, and there were terrorist precautions at the time around Germany by the Baader Meinhoff Red Brigade that had murdered several business executives several of the group in a high security jail within about 10km of my job location. Threat existed that other members of the industrial/left wing terrorist group were planning some attacks. So terrorist attack was certainly possible. I was glad to realise it was a sonic boom, not gun fire.
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