Chris Carlin Tweet..Get in Seats EARLY
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If this truly is it..and Rutgers doesn't HYPE this anymore than "be in your seats early"..shame on them.
No way this is true.
42 minutes before kickoff? There won't be 5K people in the building at 7:30.
Dmitri Vegas is currently on Tour in London, so this is not it. Not a fan of him, just did a google search.
I though that would be pretty cool.
Totally forgot I got a great pic of the student section during the MSU game! The ONLY seats that were empty aren't in the picture (maybe 100/150 or so, Section 132, at the top of the section and just out of frame...everything IN frame in that end zone, plus a little more to the right - SW corner 1 section, it looks like - is "student" seating).
That being said it's about time students were given some of the seats, formerly used so the band could "spread out" and appear bigger, back. Looks like a good 5 rows or so, at the top of the band, didn't go unused this time around. Kudos to all involved!
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I am joshing everyone ... It would be sweet if Eric was in the group trying this out with Big Idea, but that is not the case from what I read ... Imagine how loud and rocking high point would be if Eric did that at the coin toss, or better yet waited to stand up when teams line up for the kickoff!!!
If this is true, it will be an amazing thing to see.
If the stealth bomber flys over will we even know it?
They are actually pretty impressive in a creepy other worldly sort of way.
If the stealth bomber flys over will we even know it?
They are actually pretty impressive in a creepy other worldly sort of way.
Trivia question for you - what purpose do the F-16s (or other fighters) serve in a flyover scenario?
I am in the stadium an hour before kickoff and see maybe 500 people in the stadium. It has been that ways for at least 10 years.
They provide a radar signal to other aircraft in the area that wouldn't otherwise know about the stealth aircraft? I mean, for a flyover like this. In a true military op, I would guess the non-stealth aircraft wouldn't be there.
Don't know but that is a good theory.
And I thought it was the fighter jocks won't ever let the bomber boys have the spotlight to themselves.
Why are there 500 people in the stadium an hour before kickoff? What do you do?
It's nonsense; just Carlin doing this again, since we have a cannon
Coach Flood (seen in RU cap) has done something similar to attract recruits and display toughnessIt's nonsense; just Carlin doing this again, since we have a cannon
Close. They provide a sound signature to mask that of the B-2 - or, more precisely, the lack of that of the B-2.
It's done for two reasons... first is the obvious "we don't really want anyone to know how quiet it really is" and the second is because absent the noise from the fighters, a B-2 flyover would be about as exciting (and about as noticeable) as a pigeon flyover.
damn it...couldn't you have waited for a few more guesses. That (the 2nd part) was mine LOL!
I thought my guess was a little weak in that I couldn't think of a scenario whereby air traffic control wouldn't be keeping all other aircraft away from the flyby anyway so the whole lack of radar signature wouldn't be a huge factor. But it was all I could think of.
Didn't even think about the lack of noise.
I enjoy watching warm-ups- used to like watching Greg interact with the players and talked to Lou and Elliot and some of the people I know on the sidelines.
First 500 people into the stadium get free hookers and blow. [banana]
Not sure I buy the first reason. B-2s have done solo passes at airshows(they did in AC back a few years ago), so its not like there aren't opportunities to see how quiet they are. And they are indeed quiet, for the AC airshow we didn't hear the B2 at all until it was directly overhead.
The first comment on that article? Someone insulting Penn State, long before the B1G invite.
I assumed they have a transponder they can turn on to squawk ATC when flying in non-tactical mode?
I thought it was pretty awesome when Rutgers Stadium hosted the pregame flyover by that Armada of Helicopters. Cant recall which game it was.. perhaps Michigan State in 2004?? Whenever it was.. it was impressive. Had a few blackhawks and several large Chinooks if I remember correctly. In my opinion the copter flyovers are more impressive... spend more time over the stadium and can be lower and are nice and loud. Impressive.
Being an Air Force Air Traffic Controller, there's so many things I would like to answer about stealth technology....but........If I told you, I'd have to kill you. Lets just say, when they are flying in a friendly environment, they are not at all stealth.
So my theory was all wrong. But I was definitely correct about the hookers and blow. First 500 in the stadium. Don't miss out!
This is correct, so I don't know about that theory of hiding the sound. In fact, the sound, or lack thereof of a B2 approaching is one of the big "features" at air shows like you said.
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in poor taste, dude....
All aircraft have transponders, so yes. And air traffic radar systems don't use "search mode" as a rule, anyway. It's why the 9/11 planes effectively disappeared from view once the transponders were turned off.
Are you people this gullible? The original post is kinda messed up if you ask me, but that's another story