Flyover at Kinnick

[bfross]

And another wonderful waste of taxpayer money

They have to get so many flight hours in for training (call training pilots a waste if you want, but I'd disagree). Might as well do it over a football game and give the state a show.

[ISUFB]

And another wonderful waste of taxpayer money

So then you're ****** when there's a flyover at JTS?

[CtownCyclone]

They have to get so many flight hours in for training (call training pilots a waste if you want, but I'd disagree). Might as well do it over a football game and give the state a show.

I believe they also use them to practice being at a certain place (the stadium) at a certain time (end of national anthem). Because that might come in handy sometime.

[Maplewurst]

Negative, Ghost Rider, the pattern is full.


Wish I could find the YouTube of that flyover at work, but alas, WebSense won't let me.

Apparently they came in too low and as soon as soon as they entered the stadium there was a slight suction gap that pulled them down basically at eye level with the press box( you should have heard the WMT-AM announcer screaming and crapping all over the microphone at the same time). Luckily they pulled out at the last nanosecond and missed the scoreboard at the opposite end of the field by a few feet. I had a schnockeye friend who was sitting about 15 rows down from the exit point under the scoreboardand he had to change his underwear on the fly before kickoff. As soon as the pilots landed they were IMMEDIATELY discharged and terminated with extreme prejudice. This youtube does not do it justice but here it goes...

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hU8TSd-KmQ"]Flyover at kinnick stadium - YouTube[/ame]

[Clonehomer]

And another wonderful waste of taxpayer money

So then you're ****** when there's a flyover at JTS?

Not ******, just never seen the point. I didnt realize these were used for training, so if they would have been in the air anyway then fine. I guess I never really get excited about that sort of thing.

[bigsag]

There is an easy way to solve every one's concerns. Just make sure that the pilots flying those jets are all Iowa State graduates. They did a fantastic job flying over JTS last year. (By the way, one of the pilots was my cousin's son.)

[DarkStar]

Still waiting for someone to do a flyover using a B52 on full afterburner.

Frying chickens in the barnyard!

[Tri4Cy]

Think the guy at the TCU-Navy game went lower. I think he actually snagged someones hotdog on the way through.

TCU at NAVY FLY BY! - YouTube

That flyover is GREAT!!!

[aeroclone]

That flyover is GREAT!!!

+1

[KidSilverhair]

Think the guy at the TCU-Navy game went lower. I think he actually snagged someones hotdog on the way through.

TCU at NAVY FLY BY! - YouTube

Wow! How did he get by with that? When you can look down at the jet flying past the press box, that's too low.

As for the pilots who violated the altitude limit at the Iowa game, they weren't "IMMEDIATELY discharged." The lead pilot lost his flying privileges and eventually resigned, but the other 3 pilots continued their service with their flying privileges intact.

[Tank]

Still waiting for someone to do a flyover using a B52 on full afterburner.

Frying chickens in the barnyard!

B-52 on full afterburner?

[Tank]

I believe they also use them to practice being at a certain place (the stadium) at a certain time (end of national anthem). Because that might come in handy sometime.

+1

All flyovers are used for practicing time on target or time to target flights. Also, the flights from the jets home station to the place of landing also accomplishes certain training that the pilots are required to maintain.

[CyBer]

Lets get one of these to fly over:
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlBseJxd6MM&feature=related[/ame]
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SDzjzwLYag]Antonov 124 the biggest aircraft in the world Jacek Seroka - YouTube[/ame]

[Tank]

There is an easy way to solve every one's concerns. Just make sure that the pilots flying those jets are all Iowa State graduates. They did a fantastic job flying over JTS last year. (By the way, one of the pilots was my cousin's son.)

This flyover will have two Cyclones in it and zero Squawks!

[vortex]

Don't care what you say...that flyover at Kinnick was cool.