Flyover at Kinnick

[Tank]

Looks like there will be another T-38 flyover this year at Kinnick Stadium and this time it will be on Sept 8th!!!!

This one will be higher than 16 feet off the top of the scoreboard...

 

[RustShack]

They should try to go lower.

 

[ISUAlum2002]

I'm betting they'll keep it above the hard deck for this hop.

 

[CyBer]

Who cares?

 

[theshadow]

I'm betting they'll keep it above the hard deck for this hop.

 

[Tank]

Who cares?

B/c they don't happen often in Iowa and if you know that date, it is the Iowa State game at Kinnick.

 

[CyBer]

B/c they don't happen often in Iowa and if you know that date, it is the Iowa State game at Kinnick.

Well I didn't know the date, but it seems like a good thing to do for a Super Bowl.

 

[DarkStar]

Well I didn't know the date, but it seems like a good thing to do for a Super Bowl.

+1

 

[Cyched]

Tank, what happened to your cheerleader threads? :sad:

 

[Goothrey]

Since when do they use T-38's for flyovers?

 

[00clone]

Since when do they use T-38's for flyovers?

Since it's a college football game and 'they got a flyover'. Trainers are used for the 'non priority, but still worthy' flyovers. Like the Nascar Nationwide race this last weekend. I've seen the trainers a lot more often recently. Kinda screws me up, my wife was getting used to me batting 1.000 on identifying combat/transport planes and .900 on helicopters for flyovers, but these trainers are effing me up.

:skeptical:

It's messing with the belief she was FINALLY starting to give into...I really do know everything. (FTR, I don't, but you married guys know what a GOLDMINE it would be to have a wife believe you knew everything)

GD trainers...messin with a man's flow.

 

[mitchforcy]

Hopefully John Conner won't be in attendance when the T-38s come.

 

[CtownCyclone]

They should try to go lower.

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. :sad:

 

[Clonehomer]

And another wonderful waste of taxpayer money

 

[bfross]

Looks like there will be another T-38 flyover this year at Kinnick Stadium and this time it will be on Sept 8th!!!!

This one will be higher than 16 feet off the top of the scoreboard...

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

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLPC-4Mj3N8&feature=related]TCU at NAVY FLY BY! - YouTube[/ame]

 

[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.

 

[DesertClone1]

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. :sad:

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...:shocked:

[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.