Speaking as someone who played in a college band, the directors know when the flyover will happen down to the second (Air Force pilots are pretty good at being where they need to be when they need to be there), so they can stretch or shorten phrases if they need to in order to get the timing down. It still takes a lot of work to make sure everyone is synchronized like that, though. Our director really emphasized that we needed to be watching him and following his direction very closely. :)
@@Mr_Zimm Uh, the guys flying the flyover have their marks to hit. They go over landmarks at set times to time the ending right. My father flew many flyovers over stadiums. I assure you....the pilots aren't listening to music. LMFAO Thanks CNN.
Yeah well, being from North America I don't think I'll ever understand how you guys play, so called "football" with your FEET. Shouldn't that be called, oh wait ...nevermind.
I'll be a little nicer in the replies here but the US has a lot of people and a lot of them go to college/university and a lot of them pay to watch their school play sports because they live on campus and would rather cheer on their school as there's a lot of family ties and pride in going to college here in the states. Compare it to going to your local soccer teams games and being a diehard fan, sure you might still like a big premier league team but you'll live and die by your local team more than anything.
Lou Holz used to say that the Air Force Academy had the greatest home-field advantage in the NCAA because of flyovers. He would spend the entire pre-game trying to get his teams ready to play and then they’d all gawk at the jets. It takes a TON of coordination to get this right and like all things aviation, the USAF does it right more than any other. They are really, really focused on split-second timing and every USAF general is watching not only to see if they are exactly on-time, but if their four-ship formation is perfect. You’ll always hear them saying “#3 is late” or something like that. If the formation is perfect they usually say nothing, just smile at one another knowingly-knowing the pilots’ squadron and wing commanders will get major kudos because their pilots nailed it. And mistakes are never forgotten. They do major after-action reviews and do a ton of weather (big issue!), pressure, and waypoint analysis to get this right. Ground controllers, practice, rehearsals, the band conductor; all part of a giant team effort. But the lead aircraft is the lead-everything depends on that pilot. Even very small mistakes are noticed and debriefed. Timing, as they say, is everything in aviation.
@@blinkyblonk4912 There’s only one fly-by the Brits are “better” at pulling off: a World War II fly-by. They have a “Queen’s Flight” (Battle of Britain Memorial Flight) with Spitfires, Hurricanes, a Lancaster bomber and an American C-47. The BBMF Merlin engines are restored and refurbished by the US car and airplane racing icon Jack Roush in Michigan. The RAF has great aviators and leadership but the government’s defense budgets have essentially reduced the RAF to a shadow of its former self. The US often intercepts Russian bombers heading for the British Isles because the RAF can’t maintain an interceptor force. There are plenty of really good demonstration flights in the world but nobody flies like the US Air Force. Period. As they say, nothing can stop the US Air Force! 🇺🇸
I've done timed arrivals on the ramp, so I know aspects of the timing. With an anthem flyover like this, the band conductor can help nail the timing, and I think here, HE was the one that nailed it.
@tommyrq180 I've been under a T-Bird show, and first row at a Blue's. I'm former AF (usafa) and I'll admit the Blue's are tighter. But the Snowbirds can beat both of them. I'm very impressed with the Canadians.
@@studuerson2548 It’s all a matter of risk when it comes to aerobatic teams. Some take more, some less. How tight is a matter of risk. But sticking a standard, safe distance four-ship is still very hard. In my view although it’s exciting, too much risk in aerobatic performance groups is not doing a service to the profession, the audience, or the sponsor organization. The risks taken always bears out in accident numbers. FWIW, if you want to see some serious flight discipline in aerobatic performances, see the Korean Black Eagles. Phenomenal. My point, however, was about the discipline and professionalism of regular (not demonstration) flying units in flyovers. That discipline, the general attention to detail in flight operations, translates to superior wartime performance as well.
They use a couple of ground controller in the stadium with radio comms, there have rehearsed it days before and take time, speed, distance measurements on landmarks before "TOT" (Time over Target). Computations are made and adjustments numbers done to be able to speed up or slow down as needed. It's a tactical choreograph and it's a beautiful thing when it works right on queue.
it's americans, they can't even tell the difference between a wedding celebration or a terrorist camp. although seeing the world react to putins illegal war might help some realize why we hate them for doing the same shit in afghanistan...syira....iraq....yemen...pakistan...
It is not unheard of to have the director wearing an earpiece with the music and a click track with audibles in it. He is listening to a countdown, as it were, and he moves his arms in precision to that countdown, while the pilots pass navigation markers at their exact moments. One soundtrack and two finely tuned events that culminate in the perfect flyover. These events don't happen by accident.
Could hear them torture the heck out of the ending, waiting for the flyover. Sounded janky, could have been less janky and just held the note a couple of extra beats
It's not that difficult, it's just a math problem. They used to ask questions like this in placement exams. "If Train A leaves the station at 10pm and travels at 80mph, and Train B leaves at 10:15pm and travels at 90mph, who arrives at their destination first?"
@@thecursed01 No it's not difficult to calculate. Because a computer does it. You really think that fighter pilots are winding through warzones at 800 mph trying to do complex calculations on the back of an envelope while dodging missiles 😂 Computers buddy. That's why plane can flatten a target at an exact time.
For all the people who are commenting but have never been in a marching band before, or directed a band, here's how it actually works. The flyover people practice weeks ahead of time, usually whenever they are close. For example, Blue Angels homecoming about 50 miles away was just finishing and all of a sudden you notice that the flyovers start practicing the day or two after that. They set targets, practice timing and set speeds in order to reach a certain point at a certain time. We (the band) then time our pregame, from getting on the field to exiting, to give to the stadium so that they can decide what times everything needs to happen. Football is a show. For example, the UF game said to start at 7:30, but we knew the week before that kickoff was actually set to 7:44. This then allows us to say "Ok, it takes us 2 minutes to do our come on cadence, X seconds to do fanfare / fightsong" and then we have a window where we can realistically start pregame. It takes everyone, though, to understand and feel the tempos. Say we have a flyover and a 3 minute long song is conducted 5% faster. That gives us 9 seconds of extra time that we have to compensate for. This is where the conductor comes into play, especially on the star spangled banner. He can speed up, or slow down as needed so that way we hit the last chord at the second that we know the planes are flying over. This is harder than you think because the goal is to make the Star Spangled Banner musical, dramatic, and make sense. No, the pilots aren't listening to the band, or even being told to speed up or slow down. They go X knots to hit the stadium at X time. This can go wrong, for example, at our Veteran's Day ceremony one group took a little longer than was timed for. As a result, the flyover happened almost 45 seconds before the anthem was over. That's in the middle of the anthem. It happens. What I'm trying to say is, don't say the conductor is doing nothing, that's dumb. He's timing us to match with the fighter jets which are essentially a stationary time.
Add to the mix wind direction too! Just because you practice it doesn't mean it'll be the same wind direction on the day. Pilots are keeping to airspeed not groundspeed so this makes it more impressive.
To the person who commented that they don't have GPS speed - they use whatever the aircraft uses for navigation as that has their groundspeed. They use airspeed for things like maneuvers and formation but ground speed for navigation as ots the only way to get a reliable ETA. The trailing planes follow the lead regardless of how fast / slow he's going.
The military loves training flights like these because they are excellent Time On Target practice runs. They need it as much as we love watching them. When no nothings claim its a waste, they are fools. These flights are 100% actual needed flight time training runs. Weather and maintenance delays always allow for things just like this. They even do it when there are no games, but they use dams, bridges, or other “targets”.
This, so much. A very common tactic in close air support is one flight swooping in and taking out surface-to-air missile emplacements, followed by another flight coming in less than a minute later to take out the "main target." Timing down to the second is critical.
I live in Brazil, but I spent amazing 7 months in the US back in 2003 for my Doctoratee. I still can't sing this freaking anthem without crying.😂Protect your country people. You don't want to live in a hell hole like mine.
Yeah, people take living at the top for granted, especially when America fought tooth and nail and brought other nations to ruin to get here. I love it here, even at it's worst (and it *can* get bad)
FSU always gave love and respect for our military, and always appreciated the flyover. They had a Bone come over so low it looked like it was going to stall out right over Doak. (For those unaware, the Bone is quite a large aircraft.)
Awesome! This brings back some memories for me. My Dad and I were Videoing the Indy 500 from a Yellow R44 in 2008. He was Flying, I was operating a Cineflex Gyro stabilized camera. If memory serves me it was the day before the actual race. A flight of 4 F-16s were doing a flyover, I believe Indiana ANG. We were supposed to be told when they were inbound so we could keep clear of them. Anyway, long story short. We weren’t, and they flew directly above us. And I do mean DIRECTLY. Maybe 20 feet if even that. They never even saw us. Absolute closest I have ever been to a midair.
This is a great shot, Mav! I should be a photographer! Jokes aside, that's actually insane and I can only imagine both how cool and terrifying that must have been.
I once had the Red Arrows - for a completely unknown reason practising above our house in the middle of nowhere - do a full flyover and display when I took the meat off the barbecue with some friends round. Was epic
That’s a great conductor working with great air controllers. The conductor knew the exact time of his band’s performance and the controllers executed it perfectly.
Man, I LOVE a good flyover during a national anthem! Goosebumps every time! I was at the OU football game on Saturday and they had a C-17 fly over with the cargo door open…and an OU flag hanging out! Haha!
Average cost for a flyover, $450,000.00 Goosebumps INDEED!! How many flyovers are completed on any given Saturday? Or Sunday? The squandering of tax money to make the "circuses" be pretty is treasonous!
Any where else, and bombs and bullets come out of those birds. I'll stay put right where I am, defending the merits of the Constitution while you enjoy Sportsball, financially enhanced by G.I.Joe and his Uncle Sam.@@soonerborn7603
I have marched on that field back in the 80s. It was a special feeling doing that. Even when I was an OSU fan. But that was a moment I will never forget.
God Bless you Whitney, we all miss you and your Angelic Voice! For anyone who doesn’t realise it (as I’m not seeing any comments about it) the ending to this instrumental rendition of the Star Spangled Banner was a clear tribute to Whitney Houston’s 1991 Super Bowl Performance with the elongated high note on “Free” and the F-16 fly over immediately following the performance.
Pilots are trained so well they know exactly when they will be flying over the stadium. Up to the band at that point to play on tempo and end at the planned time.
The band plays to a metronome and the pilots take that set time and plug into a simple equation that sets their velocity and timing. It’s still awesome to see though
@@michaelshawusa1 nope. we mark the stadium as a waypoint and the plane says when we will get to it. Then we make it match what the band said their ending time will be. We aren't doing any equations...
@@jimbob100-d3l the plane has a programmed equation built in. Lots of equations actually. That’s how they fly. It’s not magic homie. “We” should have learned that in school.
I teach colorguard at a college in Colorado, and I’ve never seen us pull off the timing of the flyover. Sometimes they fly after the song has ended, sometimes they’re so late we have to start the next song in order to make sure kickoff still happens on time (especially if it’s being televised). No idea if that an us issue or a them issue, or if they’re using Air Force Academy students to do it so there’s some error as they’re learning? Either way, you can see the little fist pump the conductor does in celebration after the song ends, because he’s just trying to hit his marks and is blind to what the planes are doing until they’re overhead. Mad respect for being able to pull that off.
This was nicely timed. At the Duke Mayo Classic (UNC/USC) on 9/2/23, the jets were 'early', or the singer was late, as the jets arrived during "land of the free"....which, in the end, isn't a terrible phrase to arrive on.
That extra high note after "o'er the land of the free" gave me high school marching band flashbacks. That note is SPECIFCALLY for marching bands, it feels like.
People really dont understand the power of a fly over.. flyovers with fighter jets.. while the anthems going on and they are flying around you are literally in the safest spot on earth with them flying around, even though they unarmed, its such a threat. Love this country🇺🇸🇺🇸
I absolutely loved this film! The storyline was engaging and the characters were well-developed. The acting was outstanding and the visuals were stunning. I would highly recommend it to anyone looking for a great movie experience. Overall, this film was a true masterpiece of cine
speaking to a vet who organized flyovers, is you wanted them to fly over at 11:17 and 10 seconds, you could set your watch. training and determination result in expected results.
Whenever they do flyovers like this, I’ve always wondered if the flight leader has the game tuned in so that he can hear how far along the band is and use that to adjust their speed to “target.” I can’t imagine them doing these flyovers without that kind of information…
The flyover is promised at a specific second. It's up to the band to time the music to meet it. In this clip you can see him looking down at an iPad or something and stretches out the music.
The pilots are flying over landmarks (from miles out if they're jets) at certain times.....it's that simple. They know that if they "go 300 knots and go over the bell tower at 12:30 and 35 seconds" they'll go over the stadium at the right time. Andrew is correct....it's all about being where you say you're gonna be at "X o'clock". And yes, the band instructor is doing his thing to be there too.
Hey! I’m in this band, so I have a little BTS information. We follow the conductors cue, and we expect the flyover. They are promised a specific second, but it is rare that they meet it. Our directors try their hardest to make it lineup, but if the pilots go too late or too early (for reasons unbeknownst to us), then it doesn’t line up (naturally). You can’t hear them coming, since light is faster than sound (and especially because there is already a huge delay between us playing, the director conducting, the audience hearing the band, the visual sight of the plane, and the sound afterward that follows). The pilot also can’t listen because of reasons aforementioned. Hope this sheds some light!
Impressive yes. I still like the Sydney Olympics where the fighter jet "took" the flame as it flew over, timing it so that the flame extinguished right as the plane was overhead (but FAR lower than these jets, it deliberately flew as low as was technically possible for effect)
Both the pilots and the band absolutely nailed the TOT. I guess its easier for a band to hit the mark than some singer who takes 45 seconds to finish 'Oooooooooooo saaaaaaaaaay, can you seeeeeeee?'
It should have been better this year than other recent years. A good friend of mine is a retired planning and training officer from the British Army and he reports that the general public highly approves of the work the Army is doing for the Ukrainians. I hope that all citizens of the UK take the time to realize the excellent job the British Army and all of the UK military are doing to support Ukraine right now. I do, but I'm a US Navy veteran and a historian so I'm more aware of things than most citizens.
Americans think of ALL Brits as fellow Americans, so please enjoy whatever you can of the American experience. We would not be the country we are today had it not been for the British.
It's called Time On Target and it's a crucial skill for pilots to practice. That's one of the reasons they agree to do flyovers, it's excellent training for them. Plus it's just cool.
When you're trained to put a bomb on a target of a few meters, down to the second, doing a flyover on time is just repetition practice for them. The process of scrambling, getting in air, maintaining formation, and hitting a target on time is all part of the training and a big reason it continues to this day. That and the 'Merica aspect of it. What kid doesn't like to see a jet scream overhead? Yes even us 45 year old kids. If you see a flyover late, sometimes 10+ minutes late, it's likely because they had unavoidable traffic in the air that they had to wait for. This happens a lot in the DC area when the President is in the air. Even military aircraft get put on a ramp freeze on the ground and a hold pattern outside a specific range.
A few years ago I was attending a Rose Bowl game on New Year’s Day. I didn’t know the flyover was going to be the B2 bomber. I had never seen before and it scared the crap out of me!
@@tomtravis3077 well, its not like they ruined the airplanes, it is a practice run. The Air force has to protect this country from invaders. I disagree that the air force/military planes are "waste"
@jupeter24 'invaders' like the 250,000 per month, low IQ, third worlders bum rushing our border? If the air force was fire bombing those hordes, it would justify the expense. But appearances at college football games and bombing middle easterners people for Israel don't justify the expense.
Speaking as someone who played in a college band, the directors know when the flyover will happen down to the second (Air Force pilots are pretty good at being where they need to be when they need to be there), so they can stretch or shorten phrases if they need to in order to get the timing down. It still takes a lot of work to make sure everyone is synchronized like that, though. Our director really emphasized that we needed to be watching him and following his direction very closely. :)
Amazing job
A jtac is on ground to direct the planes in the stadium. They let the flight commander hear the music and they time it off that.
"pretty good"?? af pilots are better at timing than any band director can even hope to be my guy
yup
We practiced for a few flyovers this year with my college band as well. Had handsigns and everything lol
@@Mr_Zimm Uh, the guys flying the flyover have their marks to hit. They go over landmarks at set times to time the ending right. My father flew many flyovers over stadiums. I assure you....the pilots aren't listening to music. LMFAO
Thanks CNN.
Being from the UK I don’t think I’ll ever understand how that stadium is at a university…!
This stadium holds 80K people. Univ of Tenn. holds 101k.
Yeah well, being from North America I don't think I'll ever understand how you guys play, so called "football" with your FEET. Shouldn't that be called, oh wait ...nevermind.
@@Tker1970 Texas A&M university holds 108k
@@kithergilliam153 still less than ur mom holds. Boom, roasted.
I'll be a little nicer in the replies here but the US has a lot of people and a lot of them go to college/university and a lot of them pay to watch their school play sports because they live on campus and would rather cheer on their school as there's a lot of family ties and pride in going to college here in the states. Compare it to going to your local soccer teams games and being a diehard fan, sure you might still like a big premier league team but you'll live and die by your local team more than anything.
Sometimes I feel proud to be an American. Then I remember I'm Canadian.
😂
We North Americans have got to stick together.
The Maple leaf flags on the ISS and space shuttle Canadarms are pretty cool too btw.
Condolences, perhaps consider immigrating? New Hampshire is beautiful this time of year.
We are so lucky to have this kind of a Canadien as a neighbor
@@jimsmith7212 chris hadfield is an international treasure
I am 76, retired navy 1964-95. What a way to get tears, and Goosepimples at the same time? That was just AWESOME.
Thank you for your service! 🫡❤
57 retired 1985-2008....and YOU are Awesome! Thank You for your service!
Thank you for your service!
Thank your for your service 🫡
Thanks for your service,and I’m European.
Anyone notice how great that band sounded?
Go Noles. The world renowned Marching Chiefs!
Truth. Being both an aviation and band geek I love all of this. That trumpet chord at 0:12 is just fantastic.
Nah
Like a typical band, what was special?
@@smoothlyrough512the timing and the timing of the fighter jets
Lou Holz used to say that the Air Force Academy had the greatest home-field advantage in the NCAA because of flyovers. He would spend the entire pre-game trying to get his teams ready to play and then they’d all gawk at the jets. It takes a TON of coordination to get this right and like all things aviation, the USAF does it right more than any other. They are really, really focused on split-second timing and every USAF general is watching not only to see if they are exactly on-time, but if their four-ship formation is perfect. You’ll always hear them saying “#3 is late” or something like that. If the formation is perfect they usually say nothing, just smile at one another knowingly-knowing the pilots’ squadron and wing commanders will get major kudos because their pilots nailed it. And mistakes are never forgotten. They do major after-action reviews and do a ton of weather (big issue!), pressure, and waypoint analysis to get this right. Ground controllers, practice, rehearsals, the band conductor; all part of a giant team effort. But the lead aircraft is the lead-everything depends on that pilot. Even very small mistakes are noticed and debriefed. Timing, as they say, is everything in aviation.
The Brits are better .
@@blinkyblonk4912 There’s only one fly-by the Brits are “better” at pulling off: a World War II fly-by. They have a “Queen’s Flight” (Battle of Britain Memorial Flight) with Spitfires, Hurricanes, a Lancaster bomber and an American C-47. The BBMF Merlin engines are restored and refurbished by the US car and airplane racing icon Jack Roush in Michigan. The RAF has great aviators and leadership but the government’s defense budgets have essentially reduced the RAF to a shadow of its former self. The US often intercepts Russian bombers heading for the British Isles because the RAF can’t maintain an interceptor force. There are plenty of really good demonstration flights in the world but nobody flies like the US Air Force. Period. As they say, nothing can stop the US Air Force! 🇺🇸
I've done timed arrivals on the ramp, so I know aspects of the timing. With an anthem flyover like this, the band conductor can help nail the timing, and I think here, HE was the one that nailed it.
@tommyrq180 I've been under a T-Bird show, and first row at a Blue's. I'm former AF (usafa) and I'll admit the Blue's are tighter. But the Snowbirds can beat both of them. I'm very impressed with the Canadians.
@@studuerson2548 It’s all a matter of risk when it comes to aerobatic teams. Some take more, some less. How tight is a matter of risk. But sticking a standard, safe distance four-ship is still very hard. In my view although it’s exciting, too much risk in aerobatic performance groups is not doing a service to the profession, the audience, or the sponsor organization. The risks taken always bears out in accident numbers. FWIW, if you want to see some serious flight discipline in aerobatic performances, see the Korean Black Eagles. Phenomenal. My point, however, was about the discipline and professionalism of regular (not demonstration) flying units in flyovers. That discipline, the general attention to detail in flight operations, translates to superior wartime performance as well.
They use a couple of ground controller in the stadium with radio comms, there have rehearsed it days before and take time, speed, distance measurements on landmarks before "TOT" (Time over Target). Computations are made and adjustments numbers done to be able to speed up or slow down as needed. It's a tactical choreograph and it's a beautiful thing when it works right on queue.
Definitely!!! Especially when you're watching them drop JDAMs in Taliban positions in northern Iraq! 😂
*cue
@theneurologist1 ...You mean Afghanistan? Not all brown people are apart of the Taliban
it's americans, they can't even tell the difference between a wedding celebration or a terrorist camp. although seeing the world react to putins illegal war might help some realize why we hate them for doing the same shit in afghanistan...syira....iraq....yemen...pakistan...
ok
It is not unheard of to have the director wearing an earpiece with the music and a click track with audibles in it. He is listening to a countdown, as it were, and he moves his arms in precision to that countdown, while the pilots pass navigation markers at their exact moments. One soundtrack and two finely tuned events that culminate in the perfect flyover. These events don't happen by accident.
It wasn't great timing, it's just clickbait
Could hear them torture the heck out of the ending, waiting for the flyover. Sounded janky, could have been less janky and just held the note a couple of extra beats
Something about it all the music, the jets, and the people make my chest swell with pride to be an American. 🇺🇸 ❤️
Now THAT is what should be done at the Super Bowl
What I would do to have a real American marching band play at the Super Bowl again. Maybe one day. It’s how it should be at a game.
How often do flyovers happen during night games would be the logistical issue there.
@@UltimaKeyMaster Most Superbowls in recent years start around 6:00 so its still possible that the sun would be out.
Or just play the game? Is it a sporting event or an airshow?
@@alanduncan1980 I’m sure you’re fun at at parties. Flyovers are cool, deal with it.
This guy conducting is as badass as this moment
Proud FSU Alumni. It was always a blast going to the games, energy at Doak is some of the if not the best college football atmospheres.
The flight leads are not given enough credit for how well they time those fly overs.
It's not that difficult, it's just a math problem.
They used to ask questions like this in placement exams.
"If Train A leaves the station at 10pm and travels at 80mph, and Train B leaves at 10:15pm and travels at 90mph, who arrives at their destination first?"
@@teerollings6919 it's a lot more difficult with jets arriving within a several second time window.
@@thecursed01 No it's not difficult to calculate. Because a computer does it. You really think that fighter pilots are winding through warzones at 800 mph trying to do complex calculations on the back of an envelope while dodging missiles 😂
Computers buddy.
That's why plane can flatten a target at an exact time.
@@bardsamok9221 Yes, that's what they're doing. When the missiles fly, the seat of the pants flying starts.
For all the people who are commenting but have never been in a marching band before, or directed a band, here's how it actually works.
The flyover people practice weeks ahead of time, usually whenever they are close. For example, Blue Angels homecoming about 50 miles away was just finishing and all of a sudden you notice that the flyovers start practicing the day or two after that. They set targets, practice timing and set speeds in order to reach a certain point at a certain time.
We (the band) then time our pregame, from getting on the field to exiting, to give to the stadium so that they can decide what times everything needs to happen. Football is a show. For example, the UF game said to start at 7:30, but we knew the week before that kickoff was actually set to 7:44. This then allows us to say "Ok, it takes us 2 minutes to do our come on cadence, X seconds to do fanfare / fightsong" and then we have a window where we can realistically start pregame. It takes everyone, though, to understand and feel the tempos. Say we have a flyover and a 3 minute long song is conducted 5% faster. That gives us 9 seconds of extra time that we have to compensate for. This is where the conductor comes into play, especially on the star spangled banner. He can speed up, or slow down as needed so that way we hit the last chord at the second that we know the planes are flying over.
This is harder than you think because the goal is to make the Star Spangled Banner musical, dramatic, and make sense. No, the pilots aren't listening to the band, or even being told to speed up or slow down. They go X knots to hit the stadium at X time. This can go wrong, for example, at our Veteran's Day ceremony one group took a little longer than was timed for. As a result, the flyover happened almost 45 seconds before the anthem was over. That's in the middle of the anthem. It happens.
What I'm trying to say is, don't say the conductor is doing nothing, that's dumb. He's timing us to match with the fighter jets which are essentially a stationary time.
Add to the mix wind direction too! Just because you practice it doesn't mean it'll be the same wind direction on the day. Pilots are keeping to airspeed not groundspeed so this makes it more impressive.
@@hairyairey they're keeping to groundspeed. They have GPS speed
Also don't wanna sound like I'm talking out of my ass, my dad was an F18 crew chief and I asked lol
@@christopherbernhardt As I understand it they never rely on GPS. It is easily blocked or faked, ironic as it was invented by the US Military!
To the person who commented that they don't have GPS speed - they use whatever the aircraft uses for navigation as that has their groundspeed. They use airspeed for things like maneuvers and formation but ground speed for navigation as ots the only way to get a reliable ETA. The trailing planes follow the lead regardless of how fast / slow he's going.
0:28 the fist pump… ”nailed it!” 😂
The military loves training flights like these because they are excellent Time On Target practice runs. They need it as much as we love watching them. When no nothings claim its a waste, they are fools. These flights are 100% actual needed flight time training runs. Weather and maintenance delays always allow for things just like this. They even do it when there are no games, but they use dams, bridges, or other “targets”.
I really had no idea. That's awesome!
The military itself is a waste
@@AbatedToast77 You think? Go immigrate somewhere without a military or under a military Umbrella like NATO then come back and comment.
Nearly anything can be training, this kind just happens to have an audience to review their performance.
This, so much. A very common tactic in close air support is one flight swooping in and taking out surface-to-air missile emplacements, followed by another flight coming in less than a minute later to take out the "main target." Timing down to the second is critical.
I live in Brazil, but I spent amazing 7 months in the US back in 2003 for my Doctoratee. I still can't sing this freaking anthem without crying.😂Protect your country people. You don't want to live in a hell hole like mine.
You HAVE the American Spirit.
Join us. We are a nation of immigrants.
If can, move here.
will support you coming bro or miss much respect
Yeah, people take living at the top for granted, especially when America fought tooth and nail and brought other nations to ruin to get here. I love it here, even at it's worst (and it *can* get bad)
The chills I got from that were insane!! Imagine being there in the stadium, must’ve been incredible
I was there, and yes, it was!
You got them too. No joke I did too
That's how propaganda works
@@korhashamo hahahaha get a life
@@korhashamogaaaaay stay in your basement
Marching Chiefs achieving perfection. They are good. They are real good.
And he ended the song perfectly and the band was laser focused on him.Great instincts all around.
Reminds me of Nascar down in Texas after Dale died. So impressive. So proud to be an American, and proud of our Vets!
so THIS is where my $8k "textbook" bill goes..
No, it goes to the pockets of the university staff. The flyovers are free.
Flyovers are part of how USAF pilots hit their minimum hours on an airframe. They're already in the training budget for the USAF.
Even I put away my cynicism for 5 minutes during a flyover. Get all teary eyed and shit 😂 I love it.
FSU always gave love and respect for our military, and always appreciated the flyover.
They had a Bone come over so low it looked like it was going to stall out right over Doak. (For those unaware, the Bone is quite a large aircraft.)
Yup. Fresno State is awesome! (Military too)
The hell is a Fresno? I only see Destroying LSU's hopes and dreams!
Awesome! This brings back some memories for me. My Dad and I were Videoing the Indy 500 from a Yellow R44 in 2008. He was Flying, I was operating a Cineflex Gyro stabilized camera. If memory serves me it was the day before the actual race. A flight of 4 F-16s were doing a flyover, I believe Indiana ANG. We were supposed to be told when they were inbound so we could keep clear of them. Anyway, long story short. We weren’t, and they flew directly above us. And I do mean DIRECTLY. Maybe 20 feet if even that. They never even saw us. Absolute closest I have ever been to a midair.
This is a great shot, Mav! I should be a photographer!
Jokes aside, that's actually insane and I can only imagine both how cool and terrifying that must have been.
looks like F-18 to me... either or great timing !
Why is everything ' awesome ' ? I'm sure there are one or two other adjectives available ?
Guarantee you they saw you, it’s kinda their job… 🤏🏼
That song AND those jets...AWESOME!!
I once had the Red Arrows - for a completely unknown reason practising above our house in the middle of nowhere - do a full flyover and display when I took the meat off the barbecue with some friends round. Was epic
If you live near Portsmouth it might've been the airshow (or practice run) they do at Goodwood FOS. It was a lovely display :D
@@thelazylama3242 Weirdly it was in the middle of the Peak District. Can't fathom why they were there; was very weird.
That’s a great conductor working with great air controllers. The conductor knew the exact time of his band’s performance and the controllers executed it perfectly.
God Bless America!!! That was Beautiful!!! 🇺🇸
These flyovers are scheduled missions...that is why the timing is spot on...
As someone who organizes such things, I can tell you how much work goes into getting this just right. Good job all.
Anytime near the end of the anthem is perfect timing.
Man, I LOVE a good flyover during a national anthem! Goosebumps every time! I was at the OU football game on Saturday and they had a C-17 fly over with the cargo door open…and an OU flag hanging out! Haha!
Average cost for a flyover, $450,000.00
Goosebumps INDEED!!
How many flyovers are completed on any given Saturday?
Or Sunday?
The squandering of tax money to make the "circuses" be pretty is treasonous!
@@toddburgess6792 Ok, Karen. Move somewhere else then.
Any where else, and bombs and bullets come out of those birds. I'll stay put right where I am, defending the merits of the Constitution while you enjoy Sportsball, financially enhanced by G.I.Joe and his Uncle Sam.@@soonerborn7603
I have marched on that field back in the 80s. It was a special feeling doing that. Even when I was an OSU fan. But that was a moment I will never forget.
@@toddburgess6792 The aircraft, aircraft operation, crew and training are already budgeted. So they may as well do this instead of training elsewhere.
God Bless you Whitney, we all miss you and your Angelic Voice! For anyone who doesn’t realise it (as I’m not seeing any comments about it) the ending to this instrumental rendition of the Star Spangled Banner was a clear tribute to Whitney Houston’s 1991 Super Bowl Performance with the elongated high note on “Free” and the F-16 fly over immediately following the performance.
Pilots are trained so well they know exactly when they will be flying over the stadium. Up to the band at that point to play on tempo and end at the planned time.
all you have to know is how long it takes to fly to the stadium and when the band started playing
it's not that complicated
We make a waypoint on the stadium and the plane says when we will get to it. It's not exactly the most difficult thing in the world to figure out...
The band plays to a metronome and the pilots take that set time and plug into a simple equation that sets their velocity and timing. It’s still awesome to see though
@@michaelshawusa1 nope. we mark the stadium as a waypoint and the plane says when we will get to it. Then we make it match what the band said their ending time will be. We aren't doing any equations...
@@jimbob100-d3l the plane has a programmed equation built in. Lots of equations actually. That’s how they fly. It’s not magic homie. “We” should have learned that in school.
My european mind cannot comprehend fighter jets flying over for a university sports game
Don’t ever stop these flyovers!👍👍👍
I teach colorguard at a college in Colorado, and I’ve never seen us pull off the timing of the flyover. Sometimes they fly after the song has ended, sometimes they’re so late we have to start the next song in order to make sure kickoff still happens on time (especially if it’s being televised). No idea if that an us issue or a them issue, or if they’re using Air Force Academy students to do it so there’s some error as they’re learning? Either way, you can see the little fist pump the conductor does in celebration after the song ends, because he’s just trying to hit his marks and is blind to what the planes are doing until they’re overhead. Mad respect for being able to pull that off.
This was nicely timed. At the Duke Mayo Classic (UNC/USC) on 9/2/23, the jets were 'early', or the singer was late, as the jets arrived during "land of the free"....which, in the end, isn't a terrible phrase to arrive on.
Nothing says, “Land of the Free,” more than multi million dollar fighter jets on a training mission using a sports stadium as a mock target.
@@Alpha0727 LMAO
WELL,That gave Free Goose Bumps. You go FLY BOYS!
The first game this year, we had a pair of C-130s fly into view from behind the scoreboard right at the final note.
That extra high note after "o'er the land of the free" gave me high school marching band flashbacks. That note is SPECIFCALLY for marching bands, it feels like.
That’s Doak Campbell Stadium! Go Noles!!! #FSU
People really dont understand the power of a fly over.. flyovers with fighter jets.. while the anthems going on and they are flying around you are literally in the safest spot on earth with them flying around, even though they unarmed, its such a threat. Love this country🇺🇸🇺🇸
Absolute chills
I'm not even American and I want to start chanting "USA, USA, USA!!!"😂😂😂😂
I am at least somewhat confident that that was my high school band director, Chandler Wilson (who now has a PhD)
And you would be absolutely correct! Awesome man and we're proud and honored to have him!
I absolutely loved this film! The storyline was engaging and the characters were well-developed. The acting was outstanding and the visuals were stunning. I would highly recommend it to anyone looking for a great movie experience. Overall, this film was a true masterpiece of cine
speaking to a vet who organized flyovers, is you wanted them to fly over at 11:17 and 10 seconds, you could set your watch.
training and determination result in expected results.
chills y'all. Really breathtaking! Thank you for that. Awesome.
Whenever they do flyovers like this, I’ve always wondered if the flight leader has the game tuned in so that he can hear how far along the band is and use that to adjust their speed to “target.”
I can’t imagine them doing these flyovers without that kind of information…
The flyover is promised at a specific second. It's up to the band to time the music to meet it. In this clip you can see him looking down at an iPad or something and stretches out the music.
If they were listening, it would be on a delay anyway.
The pilots are flying over landmarks (from miles out if they're jets) at certain times.....it's that simple. They know that if they "go 300 knots and go over the bell tower at 12:30 and 35 seconds" they'll go over the stadium at the right time.
Andrew is correct....it's all about being where you say you're gonna be at "X o'clock". And yes, the band instructor is doing his thing to be there too.
It's actually pretty easy to imagine if you understand how a clock works
Hey! I’m in this band, so I have a little BTS information. We follow the conductors cue, and we expect the flyover. They are promised a specific second, but it is rare that they meet it. Our directors try their hardest to make it lineup, but if the pilots go too late or too early (for reasons unbeknownst to us), then it doesn’t line up (naturally). You can’t hear them coming, since light is faster than sound (and especially because there is already a huge delay between us playing, the director conducting, the audience hearing the band, the visual sight of the plane, and the sound afterward that follows). The pilot also can’t listen because of reasons aforementioned. Hope this sheds some light!
We take our college football SERIOUSLY!!!!!
That’s like every time.
The Marching Chiefs in Doak Campbell is unmatched 🍢
I just love a good fly by
Impressive yes. I still like the Sydney Olympics where the fighter jet "took" the flame as it flew over, timing it so that the flame extinguished right as the plane was overhead (but FAR lower than these jets, it deliberately flew as low as was technically possible for effect)
They mistimed it by one second.
...And they have the nerve to claim it was the best ever. Not even in the top 10.
Gives me goosebumps every time I watch it.
Our national anthem gives me chills every time. Love this country 🇺🇸
Both the pilots and the band absolutely nailed the TOT. I guess its easier for a band to hit the mark than some singer who takes 45 seconds to finish 'Oooooooooooo saaaaaaaaaay, can you seeeeeeee?'
I'm in the British military, I can only dream of this sort of patriotism. It's rough over here.
Sorry to hear that brother... from one vet to an active vet. Salute!
It should have been better this year than other recent years. A good friend of mine is a retired planning and training officer from the British Army and he reports that the general public highly approves of the work the Army is doing for the Ukrainians. I hope that all citizens of the UK take the time to realize the excellent job the British Army and all of the UK military are doing to support Ukraine right now. I do, but I'm a US Navy veteran and a historian so I'm more aware of things than most citizens.
If you find oil we'll be sure to send some freedom your way.
Americans think of ALL Brits as fellow Americans, so please enjoy whatever you can of the American experience. We would not be the country we are today had it not been for the British.
@@happyliving1922North Sea much?
A lot of that was on the conductor. He knew it was coming if you watch him, saw the jets cresting the score board, and wrapped the song.
❤🇺🇸 GOD BLESS AMERICA 🇺🇸❤
If witnessing a flyover at a must win game in a 100k+ seat homefield stadium isn't on your bucket list, it should be.
Chiefs are the best band in college football… Go ‘Noles and God bless America!
I'm not even a fan but TSU's won a Grammy, saw them playing a couple weeks back and they were awesome.
gives me the chills - truly, goosebumps when I see and hear these
That gave me the chills. 👏🇺🇸❣️
So glad the dude was there to swing his arms around…. Not a single trained musician would have been able to pull that off without him.
Dumbest thing I've read all year most likely
It's called Time On Target and it's a crucial skill for pilots to practice. That's one of the reasons they agree to do flyovers, it's excellent training for them. Plus it's just cool.
Those are my Seminoles!!! Oh how great the memories are!
God I love this country.
bro i never gotten chills from a video before 😂
0:22 wouldn’t been perfect
I love his directing
What game was this?
It is in Doak Campbell Stadium - Florida State. Don’t know the opponent.
FSU vs ND
Harlem globe trotters vs Yankees
New York yankees vs New York giants
Atlanta braves vs Atlanta falcons
holy crap that was amazing
Could not have planned that any better!..🇺🇸MAGAGA BABY
The pilots love this as well
FSU. Fear the spear!
When you're trained to put a bomb on a target of a few meters, down to the second, doing a flyover on time is just repetition practice for them. The process of scrambling, getting in air, maintaining formation, and hitting a target on time is all part of the training and a big reason it continues to this day. That and the 'Merica aspect of it. What kid doesn't like to see a jet scream overhead? Yes even us 45 year old kids. If you see a flyover late, sometimes 10+ minutes late, it's likely because they had unavoidable traffic in the air that they had to wait for. This happens a lot in the DC area when the President is in the air. Even military aircraft get put on a ramp freeze on the ground and a hold pattern outside a specific range.
Literally like every flyover I have ever seen at any game ever.
This guy:
“Simpsons did it!!!!”
That will put steel in your spine and tears in your eyes.
I get a tear in my eye every time I see a flyover in person. I’m proud to be an American
I love it! Go Noles! God USA!
Its all about the band starting and finishing at the exact time they are meant to. The fighters can hit the mark from there.
It was ok lol
Looked like a pretty typical flyover, but still awesome to see.
Don’t forget the ground controller who feeds info to the pilots. With things like this you don’t bet your flyover on timing alone.
USA! USA! USA!
Chills. Awesome flyover, awesome band, awesome director.
That was AWESOME!! PERFECT. GOOD JOB
4 f-16s with modern camo in gray livery.
One of my best memories was a stealth bomber over Faurot Field at Missouri and that thing was 10x bigger than I imagined
Bring a tear to a grown man’s eye
A few years ago I was attending a Rose Bowl game on New Year’s Day. I didn’t know the flyover was going to be the B2 bomber. I had never seen before and it scared the crap out of me!
Yeah, the damn thing is terrifying! One can only imagine what it is like to think one day it might be coming for you.
Oh my gosh, this was beautiful; it brought a tear to my eye!
There's nothing like seeing weapons of mass destruction that cost millions to manufacture and thousands just to operate, squandered in such frivolity.
@@tomtravis3077 well, its not like they ruined the airplanes, it is a practice run. The Air force has to protect this country from invaders. I disagree that the air force/military planes are "waste"
@jupeter24 'invaders' like the 250,000 per month, low IQ, third worlders bum rushing our border?
If the air force was fire bombing those hordes, it would justify the expense. But appearances at college football games and bombing middle easterners people for Israel don't justify the expense.
@@tomtravis3077You're not even American, so you don't have an opinion about the matter. 😂
@AmericanPrimate Lol. I was born in Colorado, dolt.
It's almost as if they work with flight crew/team and band to time the flyovers at just the right time.
I was there!!!! The jets flew by earlier right over our heads and everyone hit the deck!
This was the best one in all of history, eh? You've done your research! 😮😮😮😮😮
That’s a great band leader.
No way that was so perfect...