Rose Bowl Flights

The Rose Bowl Game and Parade started with Hornet Jets over-flying the event. They flew into Burbank Airport the night before and took off nice and early for the parade. They were quite loud and exciting to watch. Please excuse the cellphone resolution...

They took off...



Then circled northwest of the Rose Bowl for about 10 minutes waiting for the event. Their call-sign was Raider51 (upper part of the radar screen). You can see the Rose Bowl at the right end of the picture.



Then they landed:


Then they parked. You can see the Coast Guard C130 that delivered the parachuters over the Bowl on the left: