{"id":23561,"date":"2026-02-08T13:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T21:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=23561"},"modified":"2026-02-08T13:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T21:37:11","slug":"bts-choreographing-todays-giant-super-bowl-flyover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/08\/bts-choreographing-todays-giant-super-bowl-flyover\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS: Choreographing today&#8217;s giant Super Bowl flyover"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Through insanely good timing, I caught Friday&#8217;s practice flyover as the jets headed up to Levi&#8217;s Stadium:<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Crazy luck heading home in my neighborhood tonight!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>B-1, two F-15s, two F\/A-18s, and two F-35s. Practicing for the Super Bowl flyover on Sunday. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/X73Lv7aXJ6\">pic.twitter.com\/X73Lv7aXJ6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Nack (@jnack) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jnack\/status\/2019962720389591333?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 7, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Right now my MiniMe &amp; I are getting set to head up to the Bayshore Trail with proper cameras, as we hope to catch the real event at 3:30 local time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, I&#8217;ve been enjoying this deep dive video (courtesy of our Photoshop teammate Sagar Pathak, who&#8217;s gotten just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/horizontalrain\"><em>insane<\/em> access<\/a> in past years). It features interviews with multiple pilots, producers, and more as they explain the challenges of safely putting eight cross-service aircraft into a tight formation over hundreds of thousands of people\u2014and in front of a hundred+ million viewers. I think you&#8217;ll dig it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Super Bowl LX Flyover Deep Dive: Pilots Explain the EPIC Joint Air Force &amp; Navy Flyover\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/74ItE7NtKfE?start=10&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through insanely good timing, I caught Friday&#8217;s practice flyover as the jets headed up to Levi&#8217;s Stadium: Crazy luck heading home in my neighborhood tonight!\u00a0 B-1, two F-15s, two F\/A-18s, and two F-35s. Practicing for the Super Bowl flyover on Sunday. pic.twitter.com\/X73Lv7aXJ6 \u2014 John Nack (@jnack) February 7, 2026 Right now my MiniMe &amp; I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23561"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23562,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23561\/revisions\/23562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}