[MilCom] Military Flyovers

[Ken]

Joe & the group:

Actually any organization having an event can request a flyover from any of 
the services whether it be Army (and Army Guard, Army Reserves), Air Force 
(Air National Guard, Air Reserve), or Navy (Navy Reserve), Marine Corps 
(Marine Corps Reserve), Coast Guard, BUT they have to request it. (just do a 
googles search Request for Military Flyover, to see the procedures).   I 
don't think that the services are completely proactive in this matter --  
they react to requests!

It's difficult in your state because the AF has no fighters they could use 
(not sure if C130's, KC135's generally do fly overs).  I would guess that 
this would leave the Army National Guard to do some flyovers with their 
helos & perhaps some USN resources, somewhere.

Locally here in WMass/North CT, Unfortunately, when the 103 FW completes 
conversion to small biz jet aircraft, I doubt that they will be doing any 
fly overs.  The 104 FW at Barnes will be in a stand down mode flying 
operationally, sometime this summer as they convert to F15's, and it will be 
about 1 year before they are mission operational.  It's unclear during that 
period whether they will perform any flyovers.

Ken




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Cobb" <gunslinger37217 at yahoo.com>
To: "Milcomm" <Milcom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, May 28, 2007 12:50 PM
Subject: Re: [MilCom] Posting and contributing to the list..


> What are you guys hearing for Memorial day Flyovers
> today??
>
> Not a dadgum thing!!  We obviously don't have flyby's
> in Tennesee on Memorial day.  The air portion of the
> military avoids Middle Tennesee, even on special
> occasions.  Flyby's are history here as you can tell
> by the Navy Aerial Events and USAF Aerial Events
> website as our races don't have anything commited and
> neither does the CMA festival opening ceremonies (BTW,
> they've had one just about every year.  Not this
> year).