JXC
17-4 since 2001
I haven't seen this article mentioned elsewhere, but I came across it today and thought of the Iowa/Ohio State game.
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2010/03/navy_pilots_punished_031910w/
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBM8kGao_ao&feature=PlayList&p=8F731240931CEF72&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=38"]YouTube - Fly Over - Georgia Tech vs Wake Forest Football 11-07-09[/ame]
I thought the Iowa flyover was pretty low...lower than 1000 feet. So I found a picture from the press box:
And video:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8_QsRiaXAA&feature=related"]YouTube - Kinnick Stadium Fly Over - Field View[/ame]
Comparing it with the video from the Georgia Tech game, it looks even lower. Not saying these guys should be punished, cuz it was an awesome flyover...but I think it kind of shows how low flyovers happen all the time and how it's rediculous that those Navy pilots got grounded.
Here's one from a TCU v. Navy game...a lot lower as well!
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLPC-4Mj3N8&feature=related"]YouTube - TCU at NAVY FLY BY![/ame]
And if you don't think it's a big deal that these specific Navy pilots got grounded for what seems like something that happens all the time, then the videos are at least pretty cool to watch.
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2010/03/navy_pilots_punished_031910w/
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBM8kGao_ao&feature=PlayList&p=8F731240931CEF72&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=38"]YouTube - Fly Over - Georgia Tech vs Wake Forest Football 11-07-09[/ame]
Pilots grounded for good after low flyover
NORFOLK, Va. ? Two F/A-18E Super Hornet pilots from Strike Fighter Squadron 136 have been permanently grounded for flying too low before a Georgia Tech football game Nov. 7, according to a source.
The pilots, both mid-?90s graduates of Georgia Tech, flew over Bobby Dodd Stadium in downtown Atlanta at just a few hundred feet above the stadium, under the 1,000 feet minimum required by Navy rules.
Multiple videos of the flyover, posted on YouTube, show the planes screaming low over the stadium...
I thought the Iowa flyover was pretty low...lower than 1000 feet. So I found a picture from the press box:
And video:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8_QsRiaXAA&feature=related"]YouTube - Kinnick Stadium Fly Over - Field View[/ame]
Comparing it with the video from the Georgia Tech game, it looks even lower. Not saying these guys should be punished, cuz it was an awesome flyover...but I think it kind of shows how low flyovers happen all the time and how it's rediculous that those Navy pilots got grounded.
Here's one from a TCU v. Navy game...a lot lower as well!
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLPC-4Mj3N8&feature=related"]YouTube - TCU at NAVY FLY BY![/ame]
And if you don't think it's a big deal that these specific Navy pilots got grounded for what seems like something that happens all the time, then the videos are at least pretty cool to watch.
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