'Aerial Parade' To Fly Over Front Range Cities: How To Watch

DENVER, CO — An 'aerial parade' of more than 30 planes will fly over Front Range cities and communities Thursday to salute front-line workers and raise money for the Colorado COVID Relief Fund. The planes will take off from Broomfield's Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport at 11:30 a.m., then fly south to Castle Rock and north to Longmont.

Gov. Jared Polis, Lockheed Martin and Mile High United Way organized the flyover to honor essential workers and raise funds for Colorado organizations that are helping those in need amid the coronavirus outbreak. Lockheed Martin will match donations of up to $500,000.

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The Colorado COVID Relief Fund is overseen by a committee of community leaders from across the state. Bank of America, Comcast, Morgridge Family Foundation and Wells Fargo are underwriting the fees of processing contributions so that 100 percent of your contributions go to the relief fund, organizers said.

All jets and planes in the flyover are civilian aircraft, and most planes are former military aircraft known as 'Warbirds,' event organizers said. Others that will fly Thursday are air show aerobatic aircraft. The aircraft will fly together in several groups organized by speed.

The name 'Warbird' was originally used to describe piston-driven aircraft from World War II, but the name is now used to describe all airworthy former military aircraft, including jets.

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