RV formation (record attempt) over Chiefs-Raiders Football game 2013

[cmrvkid]

Originally Posted by gorbak

Very impressive team!
Will you be repeating this feat this Sunday (Chiefs vs Texans) at Arrowhead Stadium?

Selfishly hope so as I will be in attendance.

Pat Garboden
RV9A N942PT
Katy, TX
Flying phase I.

Unfortunately not; the pilots are already home, or headed that way.

[BillSchlatterer]

Originally Posted by azrv6

Congratulations to everyone involved, very impressive. Brent Taylor of the Antique Airplane Association posted the following today:

"Americans historically and by nature have always found a way to overcome adversity. Yesterday in KC, at Arrowhead Stadium, that can do American spirit was on full display. Not able to call on our military for flyovers of events, due to budget battles and politics, a group of civilian pilots put together the largest formation flyover (49 aircraft) of any sporting event in history. Add to that the fact, these were aircraft constructed from kits (RV's) by individuals in their workshops, hangars and garages makes this even more impressive. But wait there's more !! All the aircraft trailed pink smoke as they flew over as part of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. To all who were involved in making this happen........Well done, very well done indeed !!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VImNBuJW3sQ"

Not to mention that the cost of all 49 of the aircraft combined is less than one of the late model military aircraft by a factor of xx several! Personally, I think this is a much more impressive feat when you consider that all of these guys and girls got back in their airplanes, flew home, and went back to a completely different day job on Monday to pay for the fuel and expenses it cost them to go and participate.

Hats off! GREAT GREAT Job! This is big part of what RV'ing is all about!

Bill

[KRviator]

Stadium TFR? What TFR?

That was very, very cool.

Bugger the military and their billion-dollar budget to get a single F-18 over the stadium, here's a bunch of average Americans who built a plane in their garage raising tens of thousand of dollars and entertaining several thousand spectators by doing nothing more than what they enjoy.

Well done, all.

[RV7Guy]

This was extremely impressive. Not only was the formation nice but the timing was dead on!! Very hard to accomplish.

A few years ago there was a segment on one of the games where the Air Force coordinator for the fly overs was interviewed. He was explaining how the timing is so critical and what occurs when it doesn't work right

I love the logistics of such an event!! The coordination was amazing.

I'd love to get involved in the next one!! How about 100?

Nice work everyone!!!

[P51Matt]

Originally Posted by crabandy

Thanks to RVMills for the invite, not to mention riding along on the afternoon practice flight! Amazing experience and amazing people!!


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I have to say thanks too him, I got to fly with him on the morning practice.

[Stu McCurdy]

Originally Posted by BillSchlatterer

Not to mention that the cost of all 49 of the aircraft combined is less than one of the late model military aircraft by a factor of xx several! Personally, I think this is a much more impressive feat when you consider that all of these guys and girls got back in their airplanes, flew home, and went back to a completely different day job on Monday to pay for the fuel and expenses it cost them to go and participate.

Hats off! GREAT GREAT Job! This is big part of what RV'ing is all about!

Bill

To put it another way with back of the envelope figures based on 47 $80k planes with 180hp and 4 cylinders (plus a couple 6 bangers) burning 9 gph, all individually funded. Not including cost of smoke cannisters and hangar food.
Total 8900hp
416 gph
200 cylinders
$3,920,000 value
lodging $4900
travel fuel 3920 gal
Fuel cost $21,560

[rvmills]

Originally Posted by crabandy

Thanks to RVMills for the invite, not to mention riding along on the afternoon practice flight! Amazing experience and amazing people!!

Originally Posted by P51Matt

I have to say thanks too him, I got to fly with him on the morning practice.

Andy and Matt, great to fly with both of you! And Andy, thanks for making the trip up to help flight check those canopy seals (from that other thread)!

Originally Posted by Pat Hatch

<snip> Got to hand it to you guys, quite a feat! Beautiful flight, great fan reaction! (Bob, I like that seal you have on your canopy rail there! )

Thanks Pat! And the seal is working very nicely (thank you very much!)

Originally Posted by Stu McCurdy

To put it another way with back of the envelope figures based on 47 $80k planes with 180hp and 4 cylinders (plus a couple 6 bangers) burning 9 gph, all individually funded. Not including cost of smoke cannisters and hangar food.
Total 8900hp
416 gph
200 cylinders
$3,920,000 value
lodging $4900
travel fuel 3920 gal
Fuel cost $21,560

Had dinner with Mav, Ripper and BeeGee tonight (taking a mini-vacation with the fam here)...and the boyz here are still walking on air over the weekend events. Along with everything Falcon lists above, if you add in hotels, food, smoke brackets, smoke and misc, the total expense of an event of this size is in the neighborhood of $40-50K. Even after sponsorship, that's a big investment by a lot of great people...RV People!! Then add in the $30K Fund Raising effort, and what KC Flight did here is really something special! They won't toot their own horn...so figured I'd brag on 'em a little!

A very neat side-effect of the positive publicity on this has been that numerous local organizations want to come aboard to help for next year! As one poster said earlier, this put KC Flight and RVs in the public eye in a superb way (following in the footsteps of teams like Falcon Flight and Team Aerodynamics). Well done guys!

Cheers,
Bob

[billdianne]

I think VANS now has the cover shot for the 2014 calendar.

[Tonard Bales]

Originally Posted by azrv6

Congratulations to everyone involved, very impressive. Brent Taylor of the Antique Airplane Association posted the following today:

"Americans historically and by nature have always found a way to overcome adversity. Yesterday in KC, at Arrowhead Stadium, that can do American spirit was on full display. Not able to call on our military for flyovers of events, due to budget battles and politics, a group of civilian pilots put together the largest formation flyover (49 aircraft) of any sporting event in history. Add to that the fact, these were aircraft constructed from kits (RV's) by individuals in their workshops, hangars and garages makes this even more impressive. But wait there's more !! All the aircraft trailed pink smoke as they flew over as part of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. To all who were involved in making this happen........Well done, very well done indeed !!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VImNBuJW3sQ"

HOLY ****! I didn't know my wife was looking over my shoulder as I watched this video. Believing it must have been military aircraft of some type she said, "I thought the government was shut down?". When I told her it was RV's she was stunned. It gave me goose bumps hearing all those people screaming when the planes came into site. Really, Really, Really GREAT JOB FOLKS!!

[ScottSchmidt]

That was incredible. I know how much work that was for 20 seconds of flying over. Great video.

I look forward to more of them.
It is really fun to see all the RV's flying over at the Nascar races.

Also, Go Chiefs (As a Runnin' Ute alumni, I am huge Alex Smith fan)