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Stadium flyover... anybody?

I think HH-60H might have been at the stadium during the infamous flyover....but I've heard from a few other folks that were there that it appeard that he was below the lights around it.
 
My personal favorite: Alabama vs. LSU 2005 at Bryant Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, AL. Two different viewpoints. The loudest and most amazing flyover of my college career.


 
Two f-14s my freshman year, or the B-2 my senior year at tech were badass.
The -14s lit the burners and broke over the stadium... gawking at them was worth getting bitched at for "poor military bearing"
 
What are the exact rules for flyovers? Do they vary per event/aircraft or are they pretty standard?
 
xj220 said:
What are the exact rules for flyovers? Do they vary per event/aircraft or are they pretty standard?
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AIRLANT (I think it is) has started making some absurd rules policy now. Yeah, I get that we don't want to be below the stadium lights, but do we have to be so high that no one can see us? Or so slow that the kickoff happens before the end of the flyby? /rhetoric.
 
Mumbles said:
I think HH-60H might have been at the stadium during the infamous flyover....but I've heard from a few other folks that were there that it appeard that he was below the lights around it.
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I sure was. Even as a dumba$$ MIDN it looked low, although I had no real grasp of what "flathatting" or "flying close to the ground surrounded by thousands of people" meant.
 
HH-60H said:
I sure was. Even as a dumba$$ MIDN it looked low, although I had no real grasp of what "flathatting" or "flying close to the ground surrounded by thousands of people" meant.
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I was there as well, I thought it was pretty sweet at the time...

I've met the pilot as well, he's class of '76 and our season tickets are in the '76 seating area. The way he explained it, it was his last flight before retirement and he decided to go all out. He said that after the flyover he contacted approach and asked "who am I supposed to call when I land?" However, they didn't know about it yet so they had no clue what he was talking about. From what he told me he was grounded for two weeks and got a serious ass chewing all around, but it was largely symbolic since everyone knew he was retiring.
 
Read the article, the author calls it an "F15" even with "F18" in the title. Reminds me of something I was reading in a Guinness book about Top Gun talking about Tom Cruise raging around in his F-15 Tomcat.
 
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