Super Bowl LX Flyover Deep Dive: The Pilots of Super Bowl 60 Flyover
The Afterburn Podcast
John "Rain" Waters
4.9 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2026
⏱️ 83 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | That dictates this, right? |
| 0:01.5 | Absolutely. |
| 0:02.1 | And if you look at the location of the stadium from San Jose Airport, |
| 0:05.4 | we are pretty much on the extended center line of that airport |
| 0:10.0 | as approaches are coming in from the north. |
| 0:13.2 | Yeah, like separation-wise, |
| 0:17.4 | two and a half miles off the departure end on Asmuth. |
| 0:21.0 | So yeah, I'm sure they're super excited about that. |
| 0:27.4 | Hey, welcome in. |
| 0:30.3 | If you love Super Bowl flyovers, I mean, I think that's the best part of the Super Bowl, |
| 0:33.5 | but I'm biased. |
| 0:34.4 | Today, we're digging in to how it all comes together. |
| 0:36.7 | We have representatives from |
| 0:37.9 | the Secretary of the Air Force's Public Affairs Office, Air Combat Command's aerial event. |
| 0:42.9 | We have Fad, who's an F-22 pilot, and he is the mission planner for this Super Bowl flyover. |
| 0:47.6 | We're going to talk the nuts and bolts that go into making this happen, the nitty-gritty details. |
| 0:53.5 | And then hopefully, we'll have a couple of the pilots join us. |
| 0:56.6 | I honestly am getting to hit the road, international trip, |
| 1:00.1 | and we're going to try to synchronize between multiple different squadrons and pilots |
| 1:05.4 | and everyone's schedules, at least have a few of the pilots who are going to do this flyover, |
| 1:10.4 | join in and share a little bit about their perspective. There's a lot of moving pieces that make this come together. And there's, I guess, a few moving pieces that make this podcast come together. But if you're someone who's interested in learning the nuts and bolts of a Super Bowl flyover and just the level of detail that goes into it. I think you'll enjoy this episode. |
| 1:28.2 | So with that being said, let's jump into it. Katie, thanks for sitting down with me. Doing this deep dive into the Super Bowl, I think is really interesting. There's so many moving pieces that go into this that most people don't, I mean, have no clue. Again, the amount of moving pieces that come together. And it really starts, I think, |
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