Here's Why There Were Fighter Jets Over Hatboro-Horsham On Sunday

HORSHAM, PA — Lots of folks in the Hatboro-Horsham area were looking skyward on Sunday, as military jets buzzed through the skies overhead. There was no emergency, though: The F-15 fighter jets were preparing for a flyover before Sunday's Philadelphia Eagles game at Lincoln Financial Field.

The U.S. Air Force jets — appropriately enough called Strike Eagles — were spotted from Horsham to Lower Bucks in the hours leading up to the 4 p.m. game. The flyover was part of a "Salute to Service" that saw the field draped in a 100-yard long U.S. flag as the jets flew overhead.

The jets also had been spotted in the area over the weekend, during what were apparently training flights for the flyover.

The low-flying fighters had some folks in the area asking questions.

"My mom lives like 20 miles out from center city (and) was posting on Facebook asking why there were fighter jets flying over her small Bucks County neighborhood," one Twitter user wrote Sunday.

"We were at a park in Bucks County," wrote another. "The 4 jets went by at least 5 times & the first 2 times we couldn't see them, only hear them."

Some Bucks County students were getting a chance to meet one of the pilots involved in the flyover on Monday. Air Force Capt. Sean Lipkin, who led the flyover, was scheduled to speak with JROTC students at Pennsbury High School on Monday, school spokeswoman Ann Langtry said.
Lipkin is the nephew of Pennsbury High administrative assistant Marla Lipkin.

Unfortunately, the display of military might didn't help the Eagles on the ground fly quite high enough. They lost the game to the Patriots, 17-10.