Super Bowl Flyover Is One of Many Star Turns for Steve Hinton

Legendary pilot has done it all, from movies and TV to world speed records.

Friday, February 11, 2022 at 04:21 PM ET

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Vintage warbird pilot Steve Hinton says Sunday's Super Bowl flyover will be his final heritage flight. [Courtesy: AFHFF]

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Steve Hinton is a highly accomplished pilot, renowned for coordinating and flying aerial scenes in numerous major films and TV shows like *Pearl Harbor* and *Dunkirk*, and for leading Super Bowl flyovers.
He was a prominent air racing star in the 1970s and 80s, winning the Reno National Championship and setting a 3-kilometer speed record, famously surviving a near-fatal crash in 1979.
After retiring from racing in 1990, Hinton continued working in aircraft restoration, film, and airshows, with his son, Steven Jr., later becoming a highly successful air racer and record-setter himself.

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Most of the fans taking in Super Bowl LVI this weekend wouldn’t recognize Steve Hinton, though they probably have seen his work. After all, the pilot has flown, coordinated, and consulted on aerial scenes in dozens of feature films and television shows.

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Remember Pearl Harbor, the 2001 film version, that is? Hinton worked on the flight sequences. Dunkirk? Check. American Made? Oh, for sure. He even flew the bad-guy airplane that tried to shoot down James Bond’s Douglas DC-3 in Quantum of Solace. He has also led lots of pregame flyovers, as he will on Sunday.