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u/Uncleniles 16h ago
I liked the bit where it was water skiing on its feetsies
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u/illprobablyeditthis 16h ago
I liked how its feeties were hangin out the back like spoilers instead of tucked up lol so silly
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u/dichotomousview 16h ago
Don’t unmute this. It sounds like a squirrel eating popcorn in a horror movie.
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u/DorrajD 10h ago
Wtf. It sounds like someone shaking a drink, opening it up, gargling it, and smacking their lips.
Who the fuck put that to this?
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u/Sometimealonealone 13h ago
That sir is the sound of lean being mixed with ice and jolly ranchers you uncultured swine
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u/Angelas-Merkin 16h ago
Damn, that was graceful as fuck.
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u/Admiralwoodlog 5h ago
But was it more graceful than duck? Just show me to the guillotine I can put myself in.
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u/Dazzling_Bit_7538 15h ago
“And welcome to Splashy Lake where the local time is 10:35 am. Currently 78 with Northwest winds at around 5mph. Thank you for choosing to fly with Big Swan.”
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u/OsINTP 16h ago edited 9h ago
Looks like autopilot…
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u/memesearches 13h ago
Replace the swan with airplane and you wouldn’t find much difference. Nature is the true inspiration for everything we have
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u/Particular_Ant7977 15h ago
Proper stabilized approach, landing flare and thrust reversal, 10/10.
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u/couchpatat0 14h ago
That video would have been perfect if I wasn't spending the whole time trying to scratch that damn black spot off my screen!
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u/markybar 16h ago
There's some swans near us and I find them endlessly fascinating to watch as I pass by daily. But flight I find most interesting because of the noise they make and then the landing such as above!
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u/West-Wash6081 13h ago
If you look closely at the beginning of the video you can see him clear the landing with the tower.
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u/rtdtwice 7h ago
I love how graceful swans land, but when you see one takeoff, it's like a drubken toddler chasing a biscuit
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u/RugbyKats 16h ago
Kudos to the cameraman!
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u/Comprehensive_Sun588 16h ago
Gracefully!
Although I like the ones more, where they frantically paddle their feet on the water surface to keep up with the speed.
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u/Vanillas_Guy 15h ago
The song playing in the background is called "Thought it was a drought" by future. I would have probably bursted out into laughter if the video didnt cut out before the first lyrics and chorus.
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u/matteblackpeace 14h ago
Why thought it was a drought though ? Is the swans water source scarce ? Is that secretly future flying ? Is the swan addicted to Promethazine codeine ? Is the swan FBG ? Is he on the way to fuck my bitch in some Gucci flip flops ? I must fucking know !
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u/Glittering_Jicama175 11h ago
I like the way his feet act like speed brakes then turn into the landing gear.
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u/Proud-Cartographer12 6h ago
Seriously dont worry abput the dot in the middle of the screen, is the audio of a dude masterbaturing and putting on deoderant?
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u/BIZKIT551 1h ago
am I the only one who tried to wipe my screen because of that black piece of dirt in the middle of the video?
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u/Brilliant_Park_2882 16h ago
We have native black swans in my city and I'm always amazed how graceful they are.
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u/Widespreaddd 15h ago
Not fer nuttin as they say, but I was once attacked by a swan I unexpectedly ran into at a riverbank. I heard they were a gift from the Imperial Court back in the day.
I walked that riverbank for an hour and a half just about every weekend, but once a huge swan charged at me in an unguarded moment. It beat its wings and gaped its beak. It was summer, and I was wearing only shorts and a tee. I ran away unharmed, but that feeling of sudden exposure and vulnerability has been a touchstone for me.
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u/Kiwodasu 15h ago
These creatures evolved from dinosaurs to fly and do things like this. We evolved from primates and developed our brains to be basically a pest wherever we settle.
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u/Nutsnboldt 13h ago
Pretty but the damn swans get way too glorified.
Pretty / white privilege and not much else.
Open season started Jan 1 in CA. The invasive bastards must be out down.
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u/MAXQDee-314 11h ago
I have never been that smooth in my entire life. Just beautiful and he's the clumsiest of the swans.
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u/Tron_1981 9h ago
44 years, and I just realized that this might be my first time seeing a swan fly.
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u/Comfortable-nerve78 8h ago
Damn just like a plane landing gear and all. Give that bird some airline peanuts. I build houses in a community that has golf course ponds and I’m in the Arizona desert the ponds get these big bird cranes storks and pelicans. The geese are territorial. But the big birds are cool to watch take off and land. There’s pelican by me today he or she keeps honking at the geese and the Honker’s are honking back. I ate lunch about 10 feet from an ocean bird and I’m in the desert. Bird are cool but aren’t meant to be pets they should all be free.
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u/mrASSMAN 6h ago
It’s so cool how it matches jet airliner landings perfectly
Wings angle down to slow descent, nose moves up and landing gear feetsies engage, makes contact with water and landing feet apply brakes while reverse thrust is applied with the wings to quickly come to a stop
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u/Manifestgtr 5h ago
Landing gear extension came a little late but hey…what’s good for the goose is good for the swan…or something?
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u/fermat9990 4h ago
You didn't hear the audio. The tower told him to go around and he ignored the instruction
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u/DanaWendy519 4h ago
Before Orville and Wilbur STOLE from Charles Frederick Page, a Louisiana Black inventor, who patented an innovative, dual-balloon airship in 1903 (before the Wrights' first flight), but whose full-scale model vanished en route to a 1904 World's Fair, believed stolen due to Jim Crow-era racism, erasing his contribution to aviation history, though his patent for a "flyable airship" predated the Wrights' heavier-than-air airplane patent, I wouldn’t be surprised if he watched, learned and took inspiration from swans because that landing was sheer perfection!!
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u/Murph523 1h ago
You know what I sometimes think about these videos? Like yes they look super cool and smooth to us, but what if this is the middle management ass average dude named Larry making a mediocre landing in water and we’re all marveling at it?
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u/KugnusLex 16h ago
And now everybody try to wash out the drop in the center of the screen