FWIW -for many years now - including recently- in the U.S- the Blue Angels give Journalist-
PR rides in number 7 F-18 ( two seater ) to at least one in virtually every town they do airshows. They video the whole thing ( no doubt editing out the barf bag issue ) Quite spectacular when on takeoff- they reach about 50 foot altitude and then rack it straight up to about 10 k feet. The view looking backwards over the helmet of the journalist says it all..
And yes- in the seattle area they go out over the ocean and sometimes exceed Mach 1 ..