Super Bowl Flyover May Have Cost $450,000 to Perform in Dallas

I love the flyover. It's a part of every NASCAR event I have ever been too, and you haven't experienced a flyover unless you have witnessed one from a place like Bristol Motor Speedway, a Colosseum like racing facility in Tennessee. The planes flying over shakes the entire facility. It's something very cool. The above flyover is from the 2005 Sharpie 500, which I attended. Very cool.

Are the flyovers adding to the national debt, You betcha they are. According to one reporter in Dallas who researched what the flyover cost the Navy during last Sunday's Super Bowl, the grand total was at $450,000. Ouch!

This flyover seems even more expensive because the four F-18s flew from Virginia to Texas. Normally, sporting events ask the local bases to conduct the flyover which does reduce the cost, but anytime the military sends an airplane up in the air, there is a huge cost to operate it. The Navy told CNBC just the jet fuel totaled $109,000.

How long does a flyover take? Two seconds? Seriously, we are broke and it just seems a little ridiculous at this point. Add this the National Review's list of cuts the military can make to reduce federal spending.