Navy vet here. I love love love flyovers. As a football fanatic, I appreciate it on the surface, but the vet in me really stands in awe. The precision is unreal.

The greatest flyover of all times took place over Tokyo Bay during the official Japanese surrender ceremony on Sept. 2nd, 1945. 450 aircraft carrier planes from the U.S. Navy Third Fleet passed in massed formation over the USS Missouri. A few minutes later, 462 U.S. Army Air Force B-29 bombers flew by.

8:38 F-22 Stealth Raptors!!! As an American Patriot I get emotional seeing these! Thanks for watching this.

5 and 7 are Arrowhead Stadium. 5 involved 49 private pilots while 7 had a B-2 Spirit from Whiteman AFB, just east of Kansas City.

The number 7 one in the best one by far. The way the bomber just comes outta the smoke is so sick

I've not seen a flyover at a game, but I was in the USAF for 20 years, 10 of it at Osan AB in Korea. The first year I was there they were still flying old F-4 Phantoms, then they switched to F-16s... It didn't matter. Any time a fighter (and they are never alone, there are always at least two) goes by for takeoff at max power with the afterburner on, you feel that rumble in your bones. It's isn't a sound (although it's that as well) it is a seismic event. When these planes fly over in the video, I saw at least one instance where they had kicked their afterburners on, they are going for maximum impact via the force of the sound of their planes; that gets the adrenalin pumping and usually makes for a better game because EVERYONE, players and fans alike, are feeling it. Bottom line, it isn't just a visual representation of power... It is POWER that you can literally feel in your bones. Your experience with the UK team may be a little lower key, because they fly trainer aircraft with much less powerful engines; they literally cannot put down that layer of sound power that the US teams do. (Their flying is incredible, but the machinery can only do what it can do.)

On the timing aspect they practice it multiple times before hand to get there right when they sing the “home of the BRAVE” part! There’s also a coordinator on the ground, in the stadium, on a radio with the aircraft to time it perfectly. They fly over our house when they are practicing, and on the day, of the football game. I live ~ 12 miles from Neyland Stadium, which is where the University of Tennessee (UT) play. The footage in the video was the first time they had F-35’s fly over. We heard them for a couple hours off and on the night before as they practiced and identified navigation points and danger points. We watched them as they went by each time and me, the wife and our son all loved it. Then on the day of that game, man they lit the fire on those things. They were so much louder and they were on afterburner the whole time. The flame out the back on them was just as long as the jets are. We can hear and see the light from the fireworks when UT scores too.

The greatest tradition in sports. Gives me chills every single time

I had the pleasure of watching the Quonset Point (state of Rhode Iskand, US) from the comfort of my deck or yard for many years. Blue Angels, state of the art helicopters, etc. The first time I saw the Stealth was breathtaking! Especially since it flew so very low (no tall buildings or mountains in North Kingstown!). It was an amazing sight! A feat of engineering and supreme piloting skill, and the sterling capabilities of the aircraft maintenance crews! Then my mind went to the enemy nation's civilians see this behemoth in time of war, must be blood chilling, black as death incarnate. So still have much pride tempered with sobering reality. *Navy brat, daughter of a career Navy man

For those who love these flyovers, check out the V-22 Opspreys over Lambeau Field.

They always try to time the flyover right to the crescendo of the national anthem! It’s amazing to see and feel it.. btw GO VOLS!!!

god i love a flyover, there is just something about an entire stadium singing to the national anthem and then the pure joy of the flyover as it is ending. nothing gets you more riled up as an American then that, then you are officially ready for a good time 🇺🇲

Flyovers are amazing! What scares me though is when the Army planes are on their way back to Pittsburgh from whatever training exercise they were doing. I know they are high up but those planes are so huge it seems like they are just right above your head.

Ryan McBeth has a great video that shows exactly how the military coordinates these so they're right on time

Yeah folks here do go all out to fill those stadiums. Most big time college basketball stadiums have a capacity of about 12 to 15k. At the beginning of the season the Iowa womens team played a game on a temporary basketball floor in the football stadium. Over 52k people showed up.

1:52 the U.S. actually has two flight demonstration teams. The Air Force has the Thunderbirds and the Navy has the Blue Angels.

During the Vietnam War,phantom jets would fly over our Boarding School at noon when soldiers from our school were killed in combat. FortSill IndianSchool, 68,69.

We are kind of spoiled in Kansas City, we have Whiteman Airforce Base just down the road so we get lots of flyovers. Also, the Stealth Bomber is based out of Whiteman so we get to see it a lot.

I like going to airshows so some of my favorite ones that I've personally witnessed were at airshows. I was at one in Pensacola back in the late 80s or early 90s where several things happened... the Pensacola airshow is pretty big so we got there early to watch all the flybys that usually happen by lots of random aircraft. We saw some Apache helicopters come in and dance... nearly doing loops, even. There were also some RAF Panavian Tornadoes that came over that, in true RAF fashion, were pushing the limits of the rules and were very near Mach 1. And we saw a B-52... I noticed it drop out of the clouds several miles away (it was just a dot at the time and we were wondering what it was... we knew it was big). When it came by, it was just a couple hundred feet above the tarmac with gear down, etc. It then lifted gear and they pushed the throttles to the stops. I'd almost swear that I saw small rocks bouncing on the ground. Of course, the Blue Angels were the star of the show. Another great flyover was an airshow I happened upon (didn't know it was happening, just happened to be driving through Ft. Lauderdale area in around 2004 and we saw airplanes so we found somewhere to park and watch). When we got out of the car we were walking over towards the beach and a B-1B with afterburners *roaring* flew right over the top of us at just a few hundred feet. It was coming from behind us and we didn't hear it until we saw it in front of us... bright lights from the exhaust and then the thunder. My friend and I both almost hit the ground. And then another great one, this was in the 80s when things were a little more relaxed... I was at a college football game and the flyover the stadium was *literally* at the level of the stadium lights. We were sitting at the very top of the stadium and were looking nearly level at the jets as they flew by. That one was amazing.

Saw a fly over from the roof of Lambeau Field in Green Bay a few years back. Epic.

I've seen that done more than a few times in person and it's always an amazing sight.

In the United States, the Navy have the Blue Angels and the Air Force have the Thunderbirds.

Correct me if I'm wrong, I'm no expert on jets. But from the underside at 8:22 it looked like an F-22 Raptor.

Nothing beats a good flyover. One of the coolest I've ever witnessed was done with Apache helicopters. Not as fast as the jets, but damn they make an impressive silhouette against a blue sky!

That chiefs flyover is honestly a personal favorite. If I remember correctly those weren't even military personnel, it was a bunch of civilian pilots. Especially living on a base over here the stuff you see every week makes you really proud to be an American.

12:16 Mark! Thumb Up #440! 👍 You're welcome, and thanks! 😊 Notes: I was prepared not to list them as I saw them because of pain, but they made it simple! You recognized the "Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit" on your own! The bigger bomber is the "Boeing B-52 Stratofortress"! The fighters that I could see were all "Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II"! The smoking formation with lights I couldn't identify. 🤷‍♂️ As for "best" I guess crowd reactions and locations were included. 🤔

The vast majority of flyovers are flown by line active duty, reserve or Air Guard pilots, very, very few are flown by the aerial demonstration teams, namely the Air Force Thunderbirds and the Navy Blue Angels. What you see in a flyover are very highly trained and skilled airmen, but they are representative of all United States Air Force and Navy aviators.

How tf they not have the Tennessee Titans flyover??? They flew helicopters so low that there were people in the stadium looking DOWN at the helicopter. Caused quite the controversy

I would love to see a Lockheed C-5 Galaxy do a flyover. I worked on those in the 90s.

I spent some time in Colorado Springs. The flyovers they do for the Air Force Academy graduation justifies a visit. You see pretty much every plane. My house would rattle.

Fourth of July we are next to Barksdale Air Force base we’re the huge B52 bombers stay one always travels up the red river between shreveport and bossier city .. huge plane it was the bomber that you saw

My favorites are the Chinook drop offs. Check out these to KZfaqs, "2010 Camaro delivered in style at Texas Motor Speedway" and "2009 Dickies 500 Pace Car Drop-off".

It's a good recruiting method, same for having the Golden Knights jump into a stadium.

#9 Looks like the legendary B52 stratofortress #2 is awesome. Worked pletny of games with flyovers. Never gets old hearing the jets overhead

In the American military, a certain portion of the defense budget is allocated towards training costs (fuel for pilot training, etc). It's my understanding that these fly overs don't cost the government extra money, because they classify them as "training" flights. Assuming that the British also set money aside for their pilot training, it wouldn't cost the government any extra money to put on fly overs for football fans in the UK, right?

Kinda wished the list had some chinook or Apache flybys. It’s amazing as well

No, uhuh, no, See Jim Cornelison Chicago Bears vs Seattle Seahawks Playoffs Jan 16.2011, and watch the whole 2 minutes. As soon as they say "Anthem to be sung by Jim Cornellison", the Crownd Jumps into it. Daz, is a Jersey's Devil fan. If he never has seen them play at the United Center against the Blackhawks then you left something out of your Hockey Experience. Since 1984 Playoffs Chicago fans have done the Anthem differently. The crowd is loud, we always have an Opera Singer , The Fabulous Wayne Mesmer who retired and Gave the Duty to Jim Cornelison. The planes arrive EXACTLY when He's hitting the last phrase. The timing for that is difficult. The Crowd roaring, because we do that from beginning to end is electrifying and the fly over is awesome. Then, not flyover related, see the 1991 NHL Playoffs National Anthem. When Our Troops were in Iraq for Desert Storm, they piped that game in to them, with a side purpose of jacking the troops up. My brother was in Desert storm and he said they were ready to handle anything after hearing that one. I played it for the first time for my buddy in TN and he got goosebumps and is dying to make his way up to Chicago to Experience that. Every Black Hawks game starts that way and when their singers are out on loan, we jump in. Only place I never heard it happen, where else, NASCAR in Chicago. Nobody knew why I was cheering when they announced Wayne Mesmer in opening day, must not been from around there.

I saw a video a while back, perhaps here, that showed the immense amount of practice and precision timing that's involved in these things. I would have liked for the creator of this video to identify which stadium and from which base the planes came from.

I get fly overs every day. Chinook helicopters fly for the training base, to get airtime just north of me, but it's cool as hell to see them.

That was the Big House, U Mich playing outdoor hockey.

We have the blue angels and the Thunderbirds

I tear up watching things like this 🇺🇸

They time the fly overs for the last note of the anthem. There is a ground team that is in communications with the lead pilot, and they tell them the timings needed to make it in time. The US has the Blue Angles and the Thunderbirds. Canada, they are the Snowbirds.

They actually practice fly over's weeks or months before the actual fly over, it's all synchronized, to where the song ends and the fly over begins

check flyovers during covid sand over the beach, Florida, California, New York, Blue Angels and Thunderbirds

There is an awesome video that talks about the logistics of all this. Can’t remember what it’s called but it’s incredible

Another great video is of the Navy Seals parachuting onto the field.

You gotta watch the Iowa flyover where the pilots got in trouble and had to give up their wings for flying to low.

Tennessee Vols have one of the biggest stadiums in the world… only game I’ve ever been to

Wonder if they are gonna do it for the world cup, probably best to avoid when Iran plays

Please also remember the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds.

You should react to a full Blue Angels (Navy) or Thunderbirds (Air Force) show!

Chech out Blue Angels cockpit view 🎉

2023 NHL stadium series game.. Cane we get a watch? Also Nascar fly overs

The planes in 10. were F-16s, not F/A-18s, so that was likely the Air Force Thunderbirds (yes, we have two of these teams, and the army has one with paratroops who do awesome parachute jumps).

Go Vols! 🍊

These are great but 1995 Rugby world cup final takes some beating.

Not one of the best flyovers, but still cool, 2 Black Hawks did a fly over a couple of weeks ago for the Cincinnati Reds Opening Day. The day before, I heard a helicopter flying over my house. Turns out it was the 2 Black Hawks practicing for Opening Day. It was cool seeing them flying over your house - much louder than a aircare or news helicopter.

We have the Blue Angels and the Thunderbirds.

Number 1 seems to be at the University of Texas.

#7 B2 bomber # 5 (everyone dressed in red) were both Arrowhead Stadium. #chiefskingdom

got to love the freedom dorito

Indianapolis Motor Speedway has the best during the Indy 500

You should watch when USAF did a elephant walk with 70 fully armed F-15s or the one USAF did in 2019 with 78 new F-35s.

Mike is awesome

That was indeed the Big House

I'm not going to link anything but the first flyover after 9/11 is the one you should see, this was great but watch the first flyover after 9/11 absolutely incredible.

3 is an F-22 so was 2 and 1

Great content

#3 was an F-15, an F-35 and an F-22 in that order

Ah the memories! JP4 Jet Fuel. I had the privilege of working on F-4's, F-15's and F-16's while serving in the US Air Force.

The Blue Angels are US Navy and the Thunderbirds are US Air Force.

The pilots for the bengals game got in trouble for flying too low

Didn't include the infamous Iowa flyover where the pilots messed up, flew wayyy too low, and lost their jobs. Shit was cool though.

🍊GBO🍊

I love these flight over reactions, yall should definitely do more!

I wonder if you guys are going to change the intro since dave left.

#1 flyover in history... The enola gay

I prefer the helicopter flyovers.

You’re looking at the 1 trillion dollar military

Forgive me if anyone has explained this yet. When you see a flyover with one spot in the formation left empty (like #10 in this video), the space is to pay respect & remember any pilot who basically never landed. So they leave a spot open in the formation for that lost pilot. It's a beautiful yet haunting reverence.

They need some JAS Gripen

There's better vids of fly overs out there

It's such a stupid tradition. It's just an advertisement for our armed forces.

bread and circuses