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This is the coolest photo from MLB Opening Day

BASEBALL ‘N’ AMERICA ‘N’ PLANES

Tom Pennington

An overhead view of a big-ass American flag in a packed Rangers Ballpark on a clear day is already a good time, but the PLANES VIEWED FROM OVERHEAD makes this a special photo:

How was Louis DeLuca of the Dallas News able to get that shot? From a helicopter, y’all:

Despite strong winds that buffeted the helicopter, pilot Eric Gruchet hovered steadily at about 2,500 feet above the northwest corner of the stadium, enabling Scott and I to get the shot as the planes flew over the field, then underneath us.

Now I want a photo from a spaceship looking at the helicopter looking at the planes flying over the stadium. NOW.

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