A friend of mine sent me this video recently of a B-25 buzzing a Gator game back in 1985. Unfortunately, it doesn't capture much of the unexpected flyover but shows enough to give you an idea of how low this thing was as it clears the trees outside of the stadium. I was there and will never forget it. Our seats are top row near the press box and if this plane wasn't even with the press box, it wasn't much higher.
From Aviation Stack Exchange:
Not a control tower, but how about the press box of a university football stadium... while a game was being played.
During the University of Florida vs. Kentucky football game in November, 1985 a B-25 buzzed the field.
SUN 11/24/1985 HOUSTON CHRONICLE, Section 3, Page 16, 2 STAR Edition
GAINESVILLE, Fla. - A World War II-era bomber that buzzed a stadium during a university football game was making its final flight before being turned over to Smithsonian Institution, its owner and pilot says.
"It was a perfect day. We had made several passes in the country, and the airplane felt good," John Marshall said.
"It was a last hurrah - the airplane is going to the Smithsonian. She had a good home in Florida, and we wanted to say good-bye."
Marshall, a radiologist who lives in Ocala, could lose his pilot's license and be fined $1,000 for buzzing Florida Field, where 72,000 were attending the Florida-Kentucky game.
The pilot acknowledged that he violated a Federal Aviation Administration regulation that requires planes to maintain a 1,000-foot altitude when flying above a crowd. But he said there was "no malicious intent" involved. The B-25, named "Carol Jean," which appeared in the movie "Catch- 22" as "Luscious Lulu," was received eagerly by officials at the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum.
"We have long been searching for a B-25. We've been purposely holding back to find a good one," said Tim Wooldridge, the museum's aeronautics department chairman.
Edit now that I've got my 2 accounts merged... I was there at the game. It was AWESOME! I was down closer to the field, so I'm not sure if they actually got below the edge of the stadium or below the roof line of the pressbox/skybox (The Swamp was much smaller then). A former coworker (now dead for 10 years...) claimed to have been in the plane as a passenger and that they were below the level of the press box and actually dipped down into the "bowl" of the field, but I doubt the truth of those statements.
