"ZeedGTI" (ZeedGTI)
12/30/2013 at 20:03 • Filed to: Planeopnik
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"ZeedGTI" (ZeedGTI)
12/30/2013 at 20:03 • Filed to: Planeopnik | 2
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This shot is taken from arguably one of the best. November 20th 2010. Ohio State at Iowa in Iowa City, IA. Granted they are just T-38 Talons, but a T-38 that clears the scoreboard by 58 feet and the press box by 16 FEET might as well make these F-22's.
Obligatory video:
And this shot from the press box pretty much sums it up:
Lets see your best fly overs!
Brian Silvestro
> ZeedGTI
12/30/2013 at 20:06 |
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Didn't they stop flyovers recently? Something about cutbacks. Now I'm sad.
FelixScout
> Brian Silvestro
01/07/2014 at 23:36 |
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They seem to be coming back since the Thunderbirds did a flyover of the Rose Bowl Parade last week.
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Brian Silvestro
> FelixScout
01/08/2014 at 06:47 |
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Ok good. They're really a nice patriotic touch that all approve of. Why would they take it away?
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FelixScout
> Brian Silvestro
01/08/2014 at 13:16 |
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Well as part of the Sequester they were taken off operational duty in about 99% of the events as a cost cutting measure, meaning they weren't dictated cuts but as part of the cut requirements they were an easy one to make for the DoD. That's the in a nutshell version.
Gene
> ZeedGTI
01/20/2014 at 18:26 |
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Impressive Flyover, I've always loved the 38.
The one that gave me the most chills though was about 12 years ago at the Air Force Academy. At one home game I was attending, as I was walking in from the parking fields, I heard the announcer saying that they had a special flyby planned for that game: a B-2 Bomber. He said coming in low from the south, the bomber would open their "Parade" of aircraft to fly by that day. This was when the B-2 and F-117 were still somewhat obscure on the airshow circuits.
I delayed my walk into the stadium to look for the B-2. I couldn't see well to the south due to the trees in the upper lot area. But scanning the sky towards the east, I caught sight of the magnificent bomber lining up for his lead-in to the stadium: and he was headed right for me. As he turned west toward the front range, he was highly visible to me. But then, as he rolled wings level he almost totally disappeared. I didn't realize how low-vis the aircraft was when viewed from head on.
He kept coming closer until I thought he was going to go over the mountains behind me and line up differently. But, at the last possible moment, he rolled into an almost 90 degree bank to the right to line up with the stadium and go over the scoreboard on the south rim of the stadium. And he came past directly over where I was standing at no more than 200 feet AGL! I didn't even hear him for another two seconds. That really impressed me!
