Today's NFL flyover

[Duke Dillio]

So I'm sitting here watching the football game and Steven Tyler is just destroying the national anthem.....  I'm looking forward to seeing a couple F-15's or F-16's doing their flyover and what do I see?

A cargo plane?

Seriously?  Is that where our military might really is???   

(It's a joke....  you cargo guys can laugh now....)

[RADIOMAN015]

So I'm sitting here watching the football game and Steven Tyler is just destroying the national anthem.....  I'm looking forward to seeing a couple F-15's or F-16's doing their flyover and what do I see?

A cargo plane?

Seriously?  Is that where our military might really is???   

(It's a joke....  you cargo guys can laugh now....)

Ya think that when it flew over (depending upon how low) that maybe some in the audience might have been a bit fearful.  Those planes make a lot of noise.  I love to spend time on the approach zone when they fly over.   BTW the plane was from the 439 Airlift Wing, know as the PATRIOT Wing.   Callsign was RODD 10 HEAVY.
RM

[titanII]

So I'm sitting here watching the football game and Steven Tyler is just destroying the national anthem

Hey, he tries...
(lifelong Aerosmith fan)

[PHall]

Hey, a flyover by a C-5 is plenty impressive. Especially if he's in approach configuration with the flaps/slats out and the gear down.
The added drag requires more engine power which means more noise! :clap:

[cap235629]

the flyover was cool. The military capability of United States is not defined by attack aircraft alone.


That being said, Steven Tyler should be shot and his ashes scattered upon the four winds for that "performance".  And before you chastise me I was born and raised in Massachusetts and I am a lifelong Aerosmith fan.............

[RADIOMAN015]

Hey, a flyover by a C-5 is plenty impressive. Especially if he's in approach configuration with the flaps/slats out and the gear down.
The added drag requires more engine power which means more noise! :clap:

One of my "sources" indicated they flew over the stadium at 1,000 feet and also coordinated with the civilian TV station live video aircraft that were flying higher to take the video.  They also took some video/still pictures from the cockpit window while descending/approaching the stadium which was released to the local TV stations.
RM   

[RADIOMAN015]

the flyover was cool. The military capability of United States is not defined by attack aircraft alone.


That being said, Steven Tyler should be shot and his ashes scattered upon the four winds for that "performance".  And before you chastise me I was born and raised in Massachusetts and I am a lifelong Aerosmith fan.............

If they were looking for a Massachusetts native they should used Jo Dee Messina (Holliston, MA)  See:
'The National Anthem by Jo Dee Messina at the Nashville Predators'
  Just look it up on youtube since there's a prohibition about linking.
RM

[a2capt]

American Air Power Rocks! Except for the 225, and they only have one .. we can move quite a bit on no-notice.

[NIN]

Civilian video aircraft:


View from the Fred:

[titanII]

Jo Dee Messina (Holliston, MA)

I'm from Holliston, and about 5 or more years ago, she came to our school. Nice lady.

[bosshawk]

FYI: the 49er/Giants game didn't have a fly over: it was raining and there was low ceiling.

That said, there are some on CT who, if four F-16s or F-15s had flown over, would have complained about the AF wasting taxpayers money.  Some are never happy.

[Eclipse]

Steven Tyler sings national anthem 2012 HQ

[titanII]

I was honestly surprised that they didn't let him have his mike stand with all the scarves 

[bosshawk]

Perhaps they could have given him a sheet printed with the correct words.  IMHO his voice sounds like a dozen cats fighting.

[brenaud]

Back to the topic of flyovers, IIRC my alma mater (Mississippi State), which while I was a student occasionally had flyovers from T-1s, T-37s, and T-38s from nearby Columbus AFB, had one by a Sopwith Camel a few years ago.  The rest of the story is that the flyby was done by the university president who was a retired USAF 4-star (Foglesong) and it was his plane.

[Woodsy]

Too bad CAP can't do flyovers...  It would be great publicity to have 5 CAP planes flying over a nationally televised NFL game. 

[Eclipse]

CAP does flyovers all the time, you just can't have planes in formation, although that has been done on rare occasion with NHQ permission.

[RogueLeader]

Too bad CAP can't do flyovers...  It would be great publicity to have 5 CAP planes flying over a nationally televised NFL game.

We flyover a lot of ground  every flight. 

[Woodsy]

CAP does flyovers all the time, you just can't have planes in formation, although that has been done on rare occasion with NHQ permission.

I was told in no uncertain terms that CAP can not and will not fly over a stadium.  I'm guessing it's a liability issue.

I was approached by the Jaguars and invited to do a flyover for a monday night football game next season, and had to decline after being told that by people at wing. 

[Eclipse]

CAP does flyovers all the time, you just can't have planes in formation, although that has been done on rare occasion with NHQ permission.

I was told in no uncertain terms that CAP can not and will not fly over a stadium.  I'm guessing it's a liability issue.

I can't dispute what you were told, but we fly over them all the time, and in some cases have done photo work during games as activities
for HLS support.  However unless we are on a mission, a lot of stadiums are no-fly zones during games, so there's that.  The USAF is never
going to approve an AFAM for a fly-over, so outside mission work there you go.

Frankly the sight of one Cessna at about 2500 feet isn't going to be the most moving spectacle, it would probably take a flag for delay of game just flying from one end of the stadium to another.