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Thunderbirds to perform Fly By for Super Bowl

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 4:28 pm
by FALCON56
Our USAF Thunderbirds are going to kick off the Super Bowl with a fly by. here is the link to the story.

Falcon56

http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123038970

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 11:11 pm
by Rhino
Excellent way to kick off Chicago's biggest celebration since 1986!

Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 6:25 pm
by scking
Yup.. I also heard it will be the 2007 team as they just got the delta perfected

Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 7:30 pm
by STRIKER
scking wrote:Yup.. I also heard it will be the 2007 team as they just got the delta perfected
Great to hear, glad the team is doing well during its training season.

Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 6:23 pm
by Lawndart
That Fly By was LOW :shock: and in complete darkness! Dang! :lol:

Cool that they had No. 1's cockpit cam on the big screen during the run-in when the national anthem was still playing.

Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 6:28 pm
by Airshow fan
Wow. Amazing!!

Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 11:10 pm
by Rhino
Yup it was pretty much the highlight of the whole evening :x :cry:

Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 11:52 pm
by Tomcatboy48237
Here's a video for anyone who wants to watch again. Thanks to Steven King, who posted it over at AirshowBuzz.

http://3cb.blessed.net/tbirdsatbowl.wmv

Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 12:38 am
by amgv8400
Thanks Tomcat

I agree with LD, it was dark and yes they flew low and fast.

Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 8:37 pm
by scking
I modified my video to have just the flyby and replayed it in slow motion for those who want to redownload it.

Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 7:29 pm
by Lawndart
Thanks for putting the video up scking! Here are some photos posted on the Thunderbird homepage from Super Bowl XLI.

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Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:04 pm
by Rhino
LOL Hollywood and crew look a bit wet! At least they were standing in the right end zone! Just the wrong result!

Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 7:26 am
by Tomcat
Nice video there Tomcatboy. And some great pics too. I watched the Super Bowl that night over here in England and I had loads of friends watching as well. They saw the TBs fly over and one was like "Whoa, those guys were flying pretty close, who are they?" I just came in with "The USAF Thunderbirds". For some reason they all stared at me like I was some kind of obsessive. Hey, at least I know who they are.

Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 3:15 am
by 6558796
thats awesome pics, great detail

Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 9:49 pm
by Atlas
amazing video....just makes me get even more excited for them to get here in march to perform at Luke....and Rhino, they were in the right teams city not the right enzone.... :lol: