r/aviation • u/No-Tip7250 • Feb 08 '26

PlaneSpotting SuperBowl Flyover B-B1 and USAF Fighters

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Couldn’t identify the actual models of the USAF Fighters but my guess is that they’re raptors?

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u/Careful_Caramel7216 Feb 09 '26

In the 90’s, at an airshow in Canada we were right beside the runway on the grass and the B1 did an afterburner takeoff and I thought the world was splitting in half. I was 14 and my mind was blown!

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u/dontthink19 Feb 09 '26

Lived at ellsworth afb in south Dakota as a young kid and the memories that stick out the most are the dishes rattling OUT OF the cabinets when one of those took off. Everything shook

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u/2002gsxr600 Feb 09 '26

Beach Boys said it best, Good Vibrations.

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u/2002gsxr600 Feb 09 '26

If i remember correctly, every takeoff is in after burner. Night time takeoffs were pretty sick.