CLEMSON — As Lt. Col. Scott Huebel peered through the bug-splattered windshield of a C-17 cargo plane , he was trying to find his target.

Memorial Stadium was somewhere in a fast-approaching concrete jungle of buildings, parking lots and parked cars. His preferred destination was just hard to see because of the bright glare of the sun an hour before it set on a late fall afternoon.

Huebel and his Charleston flight crew were efforting to glide over 81,000 fans at exactly 4:25 p.m., just as the Tiger Band hit the final notes of the national anthem, just as a helicopter carrying a Clemson camera crew made its final approach toward the stadium, aiming to float 1,000 feet above the C-17 and capture a flyover in epic fashion.

But it’s always easier said than done.

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