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r/airplanes

139.8K members. The best post we have captured here reached 9.2K upvotes, which works out to 66 per 1,000 members.

66peak upvotes per 1,000 members
139.8Kmembers
9.2Kbest post
1.7Kmost comments
100posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

47% 40% 13%
Video 47% Image 40% Gallery 13%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Video | Others 26 Picture | Others 17 Picture | Military 15 Video | Boeing 11 Picture | Boeing 5 Question | General 4 What is this plane? 3 Discussion | General 3 Question | Others 3 Video | General 3

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

C-130 Cloud Seeding

↑ 9.2K πŸ’¬ 495 video 2026

How the engine cut-off switches work in the Boeing 787 involved in the Air India Crash

↑ 8.9K πŸ’¬ 911 video 2025

Why do planes have buttholes?

↑ 7.6K πŸ’¬ 695 image 2025

The difference in size between a 777X and a 737 Max is insane.

↑ 6.8K πŸ’¬ 147 image 2025

What is this?

↑ 6.6K πŸ’¬ 1.7K gallery 2025

Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird

↑ 5.9K πŸ’¬ 121 video 2025

Delta Airlines Boeing 767 engine caught fire.

↑ 5.7K πŸ’¬ 538 video 2025

Cockpit landing view B737-200

↑ 5.7K πŸ’¬ 886 video 2026

787 Fuel cutoff switches

↑ 5.6K πŸ’¬ 1.2K video 2025

The only picture ever taken of a concord flying at mach 2 (1985)

↑ 5.4K πŸ’¬ 78 image 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

See what is climbing here before you write

ViralHunt tracks Reddit and eight other networks, records how every post grows, and puts what is taking off in front of your team in one list.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/airplanes, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.