The Most Perfectly Timed Flyover in College Football History
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2021
- The Florida State Marching Chiefs and the fighter jet pilots pulled off the most perfectly timed fly over in college football/band history at the end of the National Anthem.
Being from the UK I don’t think I’ll ever understand how that stadium is at a university…!
Sometimes I feel proud to be an American. Then I remember I'm Canadian.
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. :)
Anyone notice how great that band sounded?
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.
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”.
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.
I am 76, retired navy 1964-95. What a way to get tears, and Goosepimples at the same time? That was just AWESOME.
Absolute chills
The chills I got from that were insane!! Imagine being there in the stadium, must’ve been incredible
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.
Something about it all the music, the jets, and the people make my chest swell with pride to be an American. 🇺🇸 ❤️
The flight leads are not given enough credit for how well they time those fly overs.
Now THAT is what should be done at the Super Bowl
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.
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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.
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.
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.