US Navy Spent $US450,000 Flying F-18s Over Closed Dome Of Super Bowl

Everyone loves a great jet flyover! Except when you can’t see the jets, because you’re underneath a retractable dome. That’s retracted. Which is exactly what the Navy spent $US450,000 of American tax dollars to do on Sunday. [Washington Post]

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    Big Windows

    Wednesday, February 9, 2011 at 11:36 AM

    Not retracted I think.

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      c1ockwork

      Wednesday, February 9, 2011 at 11:39 PM

      Here here! It’s late, i’m tired and I was beginning to question whether or not my idea of ‘retracted’ had been wrong all these years…

      Not retracted, like Big Windows said…

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    Shane

    Wednesday, February 9, 2011 at 12:26 PM

    Hay, just because some silly person closed the lid, do you think the pilots were going to waste an opportunity to do some low level flying through the city!!

    You think those pilots were there for your entertainment, I don’t think so, I think they were there for there own.

    I bet it’s a real big deal among the pilots to get picked for those opportunities and just cause some one closed the roof, do you think they would waste it!

    Hmmm, foot ball match on the inside, fighter overpass on the outside…I know where I’d prefer to be…but I doubt they’d let me near the planes ;)

    I think the real horror story is the amount people are willing to pay to get there ads on during the match. We have some many social, environmental and global issues that we can’t seem to find money for, but a ad during the super bowel, no problems …

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    Chris

    Wednesday, February 9, 2011 at 3:13 PM

    What about the TV cameras etc shooting outside… they saw it and so would the 100million audience.. so who is retarted now.

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    Lillee

    Wednesday, February 9, 2011 at 3:52 PM

    @Chris, you still are because the rest of the world don’t care about guys throwing around a “football”

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    Ben

    Wednesday, February 9, 2011 at 9:36 PM

    Doesn’t really matter, they would have been flying somewhere else anyway if it wasn’t over the superbowl

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    mP

    Thursday, February 10, 2011 at 3:14 PM

    Whats truely worrying is how it can cost $450,000 to fly a few planes back and forth a few times for a few moments. THey are litterally burning money just so a few air force types who are call general can think for a while they have a big dick.

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