{"id":45798,"date":"2020-05-07T13:04:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/air-force-flyover-salutes-frontline-heroes-in-puget-sound\/"},"modified":"2020-05-07T13:40:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T20:40:04","slug":"air-force-flyover-salutes-frontline-heroes-in-puget-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/air-force-flyover-salutes-frontline-heroes-in-puget-sound\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force flyover salutes frontline heroes in Puget Sound"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 62nd Airlift Wing is taking flight to honor frontline workers at 30 hospitals and medical facilities in the Puget Sound area Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Departing from Joint Base Lewis-McChord at 12:30 p.m. May 8, the flyover salute will feature the Air Force’s C-17 Globemaster III two-ship formation flown by the West Coast Demo Team.<\/p>\n

The flyover salute is dedicated to first responders, medical personnel and all other American heroes at the forefront of the battle against COVID-19, the 62nd Airlift Wing wrote on Facebook.<\/p>\n

The Air Force has provided a detailed flyover map and approximate time of the jets’ flight over 30 health facilities and notable areas of the Puget Sound.<\/p>\n

Air Force officials are encouraging viewers to submit their best photo of the flyover for a chance to win a West Coast Demo Team patch and a signed photo from the C-17 Demo Team performing the flight. Photos for the contest can be submitted through private message to the 62nd Airlift Wing Public Affairs Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

During the event, the Air Force reminds viewers to follow social distancing guidelines while enjoying the flyover salute.<\/p>\n

Flyover salute location, arrival times:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Madigan Army Medical Center, JBLM – 12:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

Providence St. Peter, Olympia – 12:35 p.m.<\/p>\n

Washington Capital Building, Olympia – 12:35 p.m.<\/p>\n

Capital Medical Center – 12:36 p.m.<\/p>\n

Summit Pacific, Elma – 12:42 p.m.<\/p>\n

Mason General, Shelton – 12:47 p.m.<\/p>\n

St. Anthony, Gig Harbor – 12:56 p.m.<\/p>\n

Harrison Medical Center, Bremerton – 1 p.m.<\/p>\n

Naval Hospital, Bremerton – 1:01 p.m.<\/p>\n

Jefferson Medical Center, Port Townsend – 1:11 p.m.<\/p>\n

Whidbey Health Center, Coupeville – 1:13 p.m.<\/p>\n

Cascade Valley Hospital, Arlington – 1:22 p.m.<\/p>\n

UW Medical Center, North Seattle – 1:32 p.m.<\/p>\n

Swedish Medical Center, Ballard – 1:33 p.m.<\/p>\n

Space Needle, Seattle – 1:37 p.m.<\/p>\n

UW Husky Stadium, Seattle – 1:38 p.m.<\/p>\n

Seattle Children’s Hospital, East Seattle – 1:38 p.m.<\/p>\n

Swedish, Redmond – 1:41 p.m.<\/p>\n

Overlake Medical Center, Bellevue – 1:43 p.m.<\/p>\n

Swedish, Cherry Hill – 1:45 p.m.<\/p>\n

Swedish, First Campus – 1:45 p.m.<\/p>\n

Virginia Mason Hospital, Seattle – 1:46 p.m.<\/p>\n

Swedish, Issaquah – 1:50 p.m.<\/p>\n

Multicare, Covington – 1:55 p.m.<\/p>\n

Multicare, Auburn – 1:57 p.m.<\/p>\n

St. Francis Hospital, Federal Way – 1:58 p.m.<\/p>\n

Multicare\/Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital, Tacoma – 2 p.m.<\/p>\n

Multicare Allenmore, Tacoma – 2:01 p.m.<\/p>\n

Multicare Good Samaritan, Puyallup – 2:04 p.m.<\/p>\n

Washington State Soldiers Home, Orting – 2:07 p.m.<\/p>\n

Madigan Army Medical Center, JBLM – 2:44 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jets will depart Joint Base Lewis-McChord at 12:30 p.m. May 8 to honor workers on frontlines of COVID-19. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":45799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4,24],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-45798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","category-northwest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45798"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=45798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}