Just to point out since this comes up a lot, these aren't a waste of taxpayer dollars. The military considers these part of the required amount of flying hours for pilot training, the American public just gets a free show on the side. The bomber flyovers sometimes actually simulate a bombing run with the stadium as the target XD
@@DennisMerwood-xk8wp dear idiot, the funding and training hours are already allocated. It's just a matter of where it's done. If it weren't done over a stadium they would have another route planned. The respective leagues ask them to do it and they arrange the training schedule to plan for flyovers. Why are you people this uninformed? Too much CNN?
@@kerryknight228 The basic acquisition price of an F/A-18 A Hornet is approximately $21 million per plane. However, after being specially equipped, each plane costs $56 million. The US Navy budgets about $40 million a year to maintain the squadron. According to the Boston Phoenix, in 2007, annual salaries for 114 support personnel cost $5.6 million. Pilot salaries cost approximately $12 million annually. It costs roughly $20 million in fuel expenses for shows (rehearsals and performances, based on 2010 jet fuel price) a year. Plus, it costs approximately $2 million on staff lodging and meals to do these shows each year. So based on these numbers, the Blue Angels cost American taxpayers roughly $112-million every year. Blue Angel jets burns about 8,000 pounds of jet fuel per hour of flight. 8,000 pounds of jet fuel equals 1,200 gallons. Since there are six demonstration jets that's 48,000 pounds of jet fuel per hour or 7,200 gallons per hour. For a 4-hour show that's 28,800 gallons. Enough to drive your family car 864,000 miles. It costs $13,344,000 in fuel alone to train just one Commanding Officer and $85,957,200 in fuel for the training of the 14 other pilots. A horrendous waste of tax payer money.
@@tehClew B1-Bs, yeah, they're loud. B2 Spirits? They're actually designed to be quiet from the ground because the exhaust is completely above the wing. They can probably be loud, but all the B2 flyovers I've ever seen have been eerily quiet for a plan as big as it is. One football game I was at soon after it started doing sports flyovers (air force v navy at fed ex field) there was first an F-18 flyover, of course loud as hell. Then the B2 did a flyover. The entire stadium got so quiet as it went over, I could hear players talking on the field from the upper deck. Everyone around us just noted how terrifying that experience was, seeing a plane fly overhead and barely hearing a thing.
@@dakkonfury I’m in the airforce and grew up 10 minutes from whiteman airforce base, the home of the B2s. They are loud as fuck and you’re full of shit.
I didn’t hear a mention of it, but the one that gets me is when they have an empty spot in the formation. They of course do that for the obvious reason.
@@04m6gto No fooling: The Bone can go supersonic, like a fighter. In combat, they literally cannot be heard until they pass. (Of course, if you are the enemy, that sound is a great relief, as it means you were not the 🎯.)
My late uncle was a lieutenant colonel for the USAAF and flew in Vietnam and Korea. For his funeral, there were retired AF airmen who performed the missing man formation flyover in honor of his service. It’s surprising how simultaneously inspiring and humbling it is to witness.
You can’t describe the feeling of standing in the stadium listening to the National Anthem and then the fly overs. It is timed perfectly. The sound is deafening and depending on what flys over the stadium shakes. Also depending on what they are flying, in Nashville the pilots are in the stadium at half time and are introduced to the crowd. Love it.
I was at a semi-pro baseball game and the Blue Angels gave them a flyover, as they had a demonstration that weekend in the same city! Just up to practice and they talked to the local people and decided to just do a random fly-by! Crowd went fucking nuts!
Had some doing live fire practice not far from my home a few weeks ago... That sound made my hair stand on end (bc I knew immediately what it was)... My family: "What in the hell was that?!" Me holding back tears: "FREEDOM!"
I used to live near a stadium and a ball park here in Texas. Flyovers would happen and I knew a big game was about to start. I was also a subcontractor at Lockheed Martin some years back and would see the jets flying around there too.
Hi guys. So glad you did this reaction. The flyovers do tend to bring people together for a minute. Sadly in todays world there aren't as many who really get the warm feeling of pride that we used to have so much more of. Hope we can get back to that one day. Quick story. My brother was a 30 year military guy. Many of those years as a SEAL. They were stationed in Virginia Beach which has both an Amphibious Base (where my bro worked) and a Naval Air Station. Their house was closer to the Air Base so they got lots of overhead traffic. Well I was down visiting for a couple weeks and for a few days there were other visitors as well. Every time for the first 2 days that a jet went over they would start talking about the noise and "how can you guys stand it" etc. Well I guess my brother finally had heard enough. We were all sitting in the family room talking and watching a game. My nephew who was about 10 or 12 at the time was sitting on the floor doing homework, Sure enough you could hear the sound of an approaching jet and the griping started again. That plane passed and another approached and my brother called to his son. He looked at his Dad and said what? My brother said what is that and pointed to the sky. My nephew listened and said "Oh that's just the sound of freedom Dad" and went back to his work. We didn't hear another gripe about the noise for the rest of their visit. Hope 2021 is a better year for all of you fellows and everyone out there. Stay safe and well. You guys should check out the Tomb of the unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery. The changing of the guard there is very cool as well. In that same patriotic vein, 2 music videos that are tributes to fallen warriors of all wars and all generations. Both by Trace Adkins. Here are the links. Hope you enjoy them even if you don't do reactions to them. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rJO7lJIxG10.html and ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GSEauSGFK74.html
These flyovers are very exciting, but I must say as someone who lives across the water from Logan Airport, Boston. It is not nearly as exciting when commercial aircraft take off or land over your house every 20 mins 😂 Another fun vid guys. The best reaction channel on YT!
Your last statement is so correct. Everyone is quiet in solidarity and as soon as the words "and the home of the brave!" are sung there's guaranteed to be someone yelling "let's fucking kill them!" immediately after.
Like how you were saying when the planes go over everyone forgets that there are rival teams its all about America. That happens in a baseball game on the day Osama bin Laden was killed and the news spread across the stadium, everyone forgets that the game is happening. You should react to that!
@@officeblokedaz sorry for the late response! I have been on vacation for the past weekend! Here is the link for the video! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uVeTLjJVlr4.html
England is so cool. You speak of the Spitfire and other vintage war planes. You guys really know who to honor the soldiers of WWII. My brother has been to several of the reenactments of those shows. Very impressive.
The fly over is our second best Football tradition. Our best tradition is showing up for the game three hours early and drinking beer and grilling in the parking lot to protest the over price concessions inside. Our third best tradition is trying to drink three beers in the time it takes to walk from the car to the place security feels you up before letting you inside the stadium.
There's something about the thunderous roar of a formation flight of military aircraft flying overhead that just gives you a huge rush of "F*CK YEAH!" energy
I grew up near a NASCAR race track and the jets would come in a few days early. We always see the jets on race week. I remember one time I was at recess and the jets flew over head and I didn’t think “hey is there a race Sunday.” Me and the rest of the kids stood there in awe of the jets and many waved. I remember going home and telling my mom about the planes that flew over our school. I’m not sure if they deliberately flew over the playground or not, but that was the coolest thing!
Back in the 1990s, celebrating Independence Day in Boston, I had the thrill of seeing one of the first B-2 Spirit flyovers WHILE I was standing on the deck of the USS Constitution...there is nothing quite like the sound of the thing...but you are right that it does not look of this world. Nowadays, I live in a place where massive C-5 Galaxy cargo planes very frequently fly over as they take off and land from Westover ARB in Massachusetts. ✌
I'm in Jacksonville, FL, where we've got some air stations, so when I was able to go to the home games here, there was pretty much always a flyover. The F-18s and F-16s are pretty awesome, but the B-52 and B-2 are most memorable, especially because they fly relatively low and you can feel it all through the stadium. The timing's awesome. And I also appreciated that once the pilots parked their planes, they'd head over to the stadium to be recognized during one of the commercial breaks. Funny thing is, while I was watching this, had an F-18 (maybe two) fly over my home, just the loud road of jet engines for a moment. At this point I'm not taken much off-guard by it, just take a moment to appreciate that sound because it's awesome. The one flyover of my home that did surprise me was when I used to live directly in the flight path into one of the air fields, and one morning got woken up by a large plane flying low enough that the sound and vibrations made it seem like the world was ending around me or something... kind of cool when it's not waking you up suddenly. Also remember when my folks lived near a small airport where they had Apaches stationed for a while, the Apaches would hover over homes and you could feel everything vibrate. Thankfully they don't get quite that low with a stadium.
Great story.. I was stationed on Coronado, on the west coast. During the '11 Carrier Classic, Obama was there on the Carl Vinson flight deck. I walked out my barracks and felt the vibration. I was streaming the bball game live, and it was about 5 seconds delayed on "live" telecast... pretty cool.🇺🇲👍🏾✈️
1:11 that is Luke Keuchly, one of the best linebackers of all time, and probably the greatest player in my Carolina Panthers’ short history. You should absolutely watch a video about him, as he retired last January unexpectedly.
I go to the most home games for the Green Bay Packers. We always have the fighter keys fly over and it always a thrill. It’s amazing when the pilots show up at the game, we go crazy for them!!
Was at an Florida State home football game versus Chattanooga, and they Did a B-2 flyover and it shook the whole stadium!! Was amazing!! Fly overs are awesome!!
I am of Scottish heritage and live in North Carolina, not far from Fraser's Ridge. I am not an Outlander addict, but the culture and history of Scotland intrigues me. Good show!
There is a place I go camping often on the Kern River in Golden Trout Wilderness. California, it’s not too far from Edwards Air Force Base. The fighter jets come roaring up the river following the canyon twists and turns, it’s very impressive. They are traveling faster than the speed of sound at times. I have seen them so close that I could read the numbers on their wings. Once, a pilot did a barrel roll right over where we were camping, to our cheers, it was so close I could see the pilot in the cockpit when he went upside-down. Mind-blowing.
The best part about a pregame flyover is that it costs the NFL nor the city nor the military anything to do it. Because of the precision and timing and analysis, it's a training exercise.
When I was stationed in the Navy, at Coronado Island, on the west coast, Barack Obama came to watch the bball college game, on the carrier flight deck. It was called the "carrier classic."...I was just outside my barracks and saw the flyover, live while streaming the game, live on my computer... pretty cool.🇺🇲
The main purpose of the flyover is for practice flights or moving the planes from one place or another. They use it as drills and such. They're so freaking cool though, it gets you powered up!!
I love fly-overs and my preference is for multiple jet fighters. And to make it perfect add in the elements of low, fast and loud. However, one of my favorite fly-overs did not happen at a football game. A good few years ago I was at a Canadian National Exhibition airshow in Toronto sitting on the grass at the water's edge when a SR-71 flew right over my head at a low altitude. As it did so it started to climb resulting in me looking up directly into those massive engines. I will never forget the crackling sound coming from those engines and the vibration they caused in the ground upon which I was sitting. This plane came from California for the Toronto air show and then flew to Cleveland for a similar appearance before returning to California. All done in a matter of hours. A trip, only part of which would have taken several months only a hundred years ago.
The most recent flyover I really remember was over Camping World Stadium... on April 2nd, 2017. I wasn't _at_ Wrestlemania, but my house was in the flight path. Apparently my sister's house as well, considering I got a call from her almost immediately afterwards. (One of the few Manias I watched live, though. The highlight was probably Triple H being led to the ring by the Orlando Police Department. #aside)
Flyover are pretty awesome and it is the noise and the power but if you want an excellent experience....The SR 71, when it’s flying over, you can feel it in your chest, it’s amazing.
Seeing the B-2 Bomber flyover is just unbelievable to see. Though my favorite I’ve seen is 3 planes from 3 generations: Spitfire from WW2, From Vietnam ( forget which plane) , and present day F-22. Just showed the evolution of the fighter jets.
I'm lucky to have lived in San Diego for decades. My University, UCSD a mile at most near the Pacific ocean. Almost due east of was NAS MIRAMAR, when the carrier air wing were in we could always hear them practicing their touch and goes. Sadly one spring the Blue Angels were practicing their program before their annual show here. I was walking across campus at that time and heard such a tremendous bang that was ear shattering. For a few moments I had wondered if the chemistry lab had blown up. Nope. One of the guys was practicing a move where he flies upside down, very close to the runway.... Tragically he augured in and the wreckage and he were in shattered pieces all along it. I had always wanted to go to an airshows, but have to say after that, never went, but watched from afar... And never from the stands. Thank goodness no members of the public were there. But this past summer and fall into early winter everyone in Coronado (which sits smack in the middle of the harbor where the carriers are) was really giving us civilians a great show. We could see the F-35's or whatever zoom off and do their ops temp stuff practicing their landings on the carriers. Carriers were over the horizon so we couldn't see those. But we sure as heck got some chills up and down the spine hearing the roar of the fighter jets! Had fun watching the helos practicing too. A real treat... especially as the fighters were going out in those tight formations. 0f my 40 years out of my nearly 65 years has been in San Diego, and as often as I've seen the carriers here and observed these airwings in action, this stuff never gets old. Glad you enjoyed watching this. What a rush to even watch. I remember hearing once in an interview a carrier pilot was asked what a night landing was like. He said : "It's like having sex in a car crash.". I will take his word for it.
Some years ago, parachutists and their pilot were circling, waiting for clouds to break. It all cleared and they started their jump into the football stadium, carrying the game ball. It was the wrong stadium, 8 miles from the correct one. The Duke University players were practicing when the guys suddenly dropped in on them. "I knew Carolina will do anything to get our game plan but this is ridiculous" said one. www.espn.com/college-football/news/story?id=3562873
Used to live in VA near naval base Oceana. It’s amazing as long as they weren’t flying over at 11pm, which they did sometimes. Lots of I love jet noise bumper stickers and just as many hate ones lol.
Granted I know you're guys so of course big planes get you jazzed. But I want to say thanks for being so positive about this tradition. Sooo many Europeans constantly box American ears for our wild patriotism. Not to mention it's just freaking cool man. How can you not love it.
Fighter jets are fucking awesome. The local air force base trains A-10s thru our mountain range and sometimes they’ll buzz our local ski mountain unannounced. Let me tell you, if you’re tired or not paying attention on the lift or trail, when those scream overhead it’s like the world is being ripped apart and you WILL wake up and feel an adrenaline rush. You can’t even hear them until they’re overhead and the sound is just incredible. Nothing like it.
One of the coolest flyovers is at nascars daytona 500 when you are actually there. The airport is right behind the track so you can also see them taking off and landing in formation. So loud.
I was a member of a robotics team during the FRC 2019 competition. On the first morning of the Aerospace Valley Regional, a jet or two did a fly over at the high school we were competing at. It was really cool seeing that kinda thing in person!
Fort Sill is the American Army Artillery School. If you wish to not sleep on Friday nights, you are welcome to try to sleep in Lawton hotel. The school loves to shoot the big guns, do what you should have learned, before they let the student soldiers go on leave on Saturday...
1990s stayed in a house directly under the take off path for the B-52 bomber wing stationed at Barksdale Airbase. Best though was 1968 Ft. Bragg used to see flyovers of UH-1s probably 60+ several times a week. Then going and watching unit air drops probably company size drops. they were jumping from C-119s
There were a few jets that were doing practice flights in the area of my college back in 2017 and it was just invigorating to watch during break for lunch before our late-day exam. It just kind of wiped out all the worries my class had about the exam and we ended up getting our best scores that day, because of the lack of that bothersome worry (The usual dread and worry of "I'm going to fail even though I studied so hard" and such).
See the: XB-35 Flying Wing and XB-36 Film Clips, When one of these aircraft were making their approach the craft disappeared from radar. They thought the plane went down crashed. Then it appeared in visual range and landed. They knew the plane already had flight control issues but when the design fooled the radar it was shunted into a Black Project for further development.
We spend a ridiculous amount of money on our military. This is one way to get them solid training and provide a "morale" boost at the same time. The stealth bomber that flies over the KC stadium is doing a simulated bombing run. Pretty neat that they incorporate training and make it a real exercise
with the bomber in the weird triangle shape it was made to be inviable to radar by making the size of for instance a bee when it comes up on enemy systems. aka give it a low profile so its hard to track with surface to air missiles.
I live in pensacola, home of the Navy Blue Angels. They are, admittedly, a recruitment tool as they are stunt pilots, but they are some of the best at what they do.
I remember when i was in Kandahar city in 11-12 we were looking for some Taliban at night after a few car bombs went off and a B2 flew over at 5000 ft for a show of force and Shook the ground.
I used to do all the concerts for the Iowa Speedway, so I had to make sure the artist was in the pits to sing the Nstional Anthem. The whole thing was usually pretty on point. One time time though there was a mix up, and the planes were coming faster than expected. So the stage Manager was trying to get the artist to sing faster, so he did, and then it was all blown, the planes had to restart their run so the Stage Manager ask the artist to stretch it out. It was ridiculous. I had to take the artist to the owner's suite, and got him 3 whiskeys. Haà
The Brits probably know more about the US Air Force than most Americans. Driving the perimeter of RAF Mildenhall or RAF Lakenheath you'll always see Brits on trailers snapping pictures eating snacks and popcorn along the fence line. They knew the flight schedule better than most of us Airmen!
The accuracy all modern militaries fly to, is just amazing. I remember at a recent Queen’s Jubilee, there was a HUGE flyover, over Buckingham Palace, where the,Royal Family watched from the balcony. There was everything from a Hurricane & spitfires, to the Red Arrows, to F-35 JSFs, and everything in between (it’s on RU-vid still). BUT, the amazing thing was, the RAF flew each ‘next’ plane (or formation of planes), 31 Seconds apart. Every time. And it was preeeeeee-cise. And I was was thinking “why not make it 30 seconds? Sounds much easier.” But nope, it had to be 31, and it was, 31. It was amazing.
At military airshows I have attended, the deafening roar of jet engines, even at the low-power they are using for flyovers, is usually referred to by the announcer as "the sound of freedom." Maybe we were jaded; we heard, but maybe we did not understand. After Ukraine, we understand.
I’d love to see a Supermarine Spitfire fly overhead, it’s a beautiful airplane. In my home state of Connecticut, the Sikorsky aircraft company built loads of F4U Corsairs for WWII in the 1940s. About 10 years ago, there was an air show at the airport where they were built called “Corsairs Over Connecticut” where five airworthy Corsairs (there are only 15 in the world that still fly) showed up and flew a formation. It was a sight to see.
I live near a US National Guard airbase and all kinds of aircraft fly over my house. One time my house was shaking and the windows were rattling so i ran outside and there was a full squadron of 12 AH64 Apache helicopters flying at 500 feet over my house in formation. it sounded like a train and it was awesome! :)
Live in Cleveland and scares the jilts the shit out of me and my dog when it happens unexpectedly. Just have the game on the tv at the beginning and hear that searing sound out of the low flying jet outside the balcony window but can’t see em
Watched a video of the Blue Angels planning their flyover, they timed it down to the last second to make sure they flew over the stadium on the last note.
The stealth fighters look like a bat wing but there is not a smooth spot on their surface. It looks like it has been covered with rubix cubes and painted black. Too cool.
When you here the briefer refer to Zulu Time that is how the Allied Militaries co-ordinates on a global scale. So no matter where you are in the world if an event takes place, like in Korea, you have local time and Zulu Time so all militaries around the globe are synchronized. Zulu Time for all militaries are based off of Big Ben the clock in London.
There is a blue angels base in Jacksonville so when the UF Gators would play often a blue angel or two would fly over because it was so close. Mind you this was just regular collage football where it would happen!
The YB-49 was a flying wing design when the US was experimenting with different craft during the early parts of the Cold War. It was touted as also a commercial airline. But on approach to a base during a training flight it dropped off radar causing everyone to think it went down. Then it appeared and landed they realized the wing design was something special. It was transferred to a Dark Program. I don't know about any UFO technology.
Have been there in the stadium in Charlotte when they did this. Scared the ......out if me ! Forgot about the flyover and thought it was an earthquake.
