{"id":15586,"date":"2012-01-23T03:16:34","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T06:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=15586"},"modified":"2012-01-23T03:25:19","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T06:25:19","slug":"air-force-endorses-new-england-patriots-over-ravens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/23\/air-force-endorses-new-england-patriots-over-ravens\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force Endorses New England Patriots over Ravens"},"content":{"rendered":"

A C-5 Galaxy <\/em>— the US Air Force’s largest cargo aircraft — from Westover Air Reserve Base, Massachusetts, performed a flyby of Gillette Stadium<\/a> at the conclusion of the National Anthem on Sunday.\u00a0 The ceremony opened the NFL Patriots-Ravens football game.<\/p>\n

Inscribed along the bottom of the aircraft, visible from the stands, was an emblem and “Go Pats!”\u00a0 The Patriots went on to win<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You never know, fighter aircraft flybys may have similar endorsements on their lower wings or fuselages…\u00a0 <\/p>\n

…but they’re going so fast, no one can tell.<\/p>\n

This C-5 crew was hardly the first to partake in the light-hearted and harmless tradition.\u00a0 Another common phrase seen on the bottom of flyby aircraft is “Hi Mom,” particularly on aircraft participating in Parent’s Weekend at the US Air Force Academy.<\/p>\n

The flyby (and writing) are visible in the videos<\/a> of the event, which are actually focused on Steve Tyler’s rendition of the anthem.\u00a0 If you watch closely, you can see Tyler catch the C-5 out of the corner of his eye as he finishes the anthem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A C-5 Galaxy — the US Air Force’s largest cargo aircraft — from Westover Air Reserve Base, Massachusetts, performed a flyby of Gillette Stadium at the conclusion of the National Anthem on Sunday.\u00a0 The ceremony opened the NFL Patriots-Ravens football game. Inscribed along the bottom of the aircraft, visible from the stands, was an emblem and “Go Pats!”\u00a0 The Patriots […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[13,715,5285,2804,2,2805,461,2806,2807,40,65,2803],"class_list":["post-15586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-aircraft","tag-c-5","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-gillette-stadium","tag-military","tag-national-anthem","tag-nfl","tag-patriots","tag-ravens","tag-tradition","tag-usafa","tag-westover-air-reserve-base"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}