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Low flyover at Iowa game

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MililaniBuckeye;1897932; said:
Don't know where that was taken, but breaking the sound barrier in a populated area like that bay is verbotten in the US.
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San Francisco Bay during Fleet Week. If you pay attention you can see Alcatraz in the background.

In the transonic regime but not supersonic. The vapor cone forms well before the barrier is crossed. It just depends on the conditions (temperature, humidity etc). Now if you are someplace hot & dry and you see a vapor cone around a plane headed your way...cover your ears.

The Blue Angels are known for doing the stunt (the low level pass) at seaside airshows.
 
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Muck;1899224; said:
In the transonic regime but not supersonic. The vapor cone forms well before the barrier is crossed. It just depends on the conditions (temperature, humidity etc). Now if you are someplace hot & dry and you see a vapor cone around a plane headed your way...cover your ears.
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All the photos I had seen of the vapor cone (actually called Prandtl-Glauert Condensation Clouds or Prandtl-Glauert singularity) were of aircraft passing through the sound barrier and not remaining just below the edge of it...but you are correct, the effect can happen while still (barely) subsonic.
 
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This was sent to me by a customer of ours. He is a pilot in the Gulf. Fucking awesome poster that is going right up on my wall.
 
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New twist in Iowa flyover debacle

The low flyover at an Iowa-Ohio State football game last November effectively ended Maj. Christopher Kopacek?s career in the Air Force. But the pilot didn?t go down without a fight, and his allies in the battle included a U.S. congressman from Des Moines.
Rep. Leonard Boswell, then a member of the House Armed Services Committee, interceded on behalf of Kopacek and defended the dangerously low flyover, according to an Associated Press report. Boswell, a retired Army helicopter pilot, wrote to the investigating officer, saying in part:
?I?ve reviewed the video footage of the flyover and see no aircraft out of formation or distressed because of the altitude. I was also informed there were other issues that the pilot had to make a quick decision to change his altitude level. We believe Major Kopacek made the most safe possible altitude change for a successful flyover.?
Meanwhile, USAF investigators found that the T-38s cleared the scoreboard by 58 feet, and the pressbox by 16 feet. They also found that the jets were flying at an altitude of 176 feet (when the ceiling for such flyovers is 1,000 feet). But hey, there were only 70,000 or so folks in the stadium, what could have gone wrong?

Entire article: http://militarytimes.com/blogs/afteraction/2011/04/14/new-twist-in-iowa-flyover-debacle/

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al4qIofRANY"]YouTube - Flyover at Kinnick Stadium Prior to Iowa - Ohio State Game 11/20/10[/ame]
 
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ScriptOhio said:
The low flyover at an Iowa-Ohio State football game last November effectively ended Maj. Christopher Kopacek?s career in the Air Force. But the pilot didn?t go down without a fight, and his allies in the battle included a U.S. congressman from Des Moines.
Rep. Leonard Boswell, then a member of the House Armed Services Committee, interceded on behalf of Kopacek and defended the dangerously low flyover, according to an Associated Press report. Boswell, a retired Army helicopter pilot, wrote to the investigating officer, saying in part:
?I?ve reviewed the video footage of the flyover and see no aircraft out of formation or distressed because of the altitude. I was also informed there were other issues that the pilot had to make a quick decision to change his altitude level. We believe Major Kopacek made the most safe possible altitude change for a successful flyover.?
Meanwhile, USAF investigators found that the T-38s cleared the scoreboard by 58 feet, and the pressbox by 16 feet. They also found that the jets were flying at an altitude of 176 feet (when the ceiling for such flyovers is 1,000 feet). But hey, there were only 70,000 or so folks in the stadium, what could have gone wrong?

Entire article: http://militarytimes.com/blogs/afteraction/2011/04/14/new-twist-in-iowa-flyover-debacle/

YouTube - Flyover at Kinnick Stadium Prior to Iowa - Ohio State Game 11/20/10
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The 1:00 mark for those who don't feel like watching a bunch of nothing for a minute.
 
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ScriptOhio;1907333; said:
The low flyover at an Iowa-Ohio State football game last November effectively ended Maj. Christopher Kopacek?s career in the Air Force. But the pilot didn?t go down without a fight, and his allies in the battle included a U.S. congressman from Des Moines.
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Pilots who have been grounded have still been subsequently promoted.
 
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jwinslow;1934904; said:
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jwins, go back to where the jet just passes over the runway...it's even closer to the ground. There was definitely some soiled underwear that day... :lol:

EDIT: took screenshot from full-screen video mode:
 

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