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Still, It Was a Crowd Pleaser

Iowa Hawkeye Fly Over
Four T-38 pilots from Vance AFB in Oklahoma are being investigated by the Air Force for flying too low over a college football crowd last month. They came screaming over the University of Iowa's Kinnick Stadium at an altitude of 500 feet just as the national anthem ended—but were supposed to be twice that high, according to a spokesperson from Vance.

Whatever happens to the pilots, the person who shot this video came away happy:

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