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3 unusual facts about aerobatics


807 Naval Air Squadron

In September 1959 the squadron performed in front of thousands of spectators at Farnborough Airshow with a display of formation aerobatics.

Aerial acrobatics

Aerobatics, the practice of flying maneuvers involving aircraft

Yelahanka Air Force Station

Exhibition formation fly-pasts during passing-out parades at premier training institutions such as the Air Force Academy and the Air Force Technical College are carried out routinely.


Barnstormer

Barnstorming - to stage an impromptu paying aerial show of aerobatics, etc.

Bristol Bulldog

Douglas Bader, better known for his Second World War actions, lost both of his legs when his Bristol Bulldog crashed while he was performing unauthorised Aerobatics at Woodley airfield near Reading.

FMA AeC.3

In 1935, Carola Lorenzini set a South American altitude record of 5,500 m (18,040 ft) in an AeC.3, and another aircraft of this type was flown by Santiago Germanó to win the aerobatics prize at the Resistencia air meet the same year.

History of Kiev

Prominent aviation figures of that period include Kievites Pyotr Nesterov (aerobatics pioneer) and Igor Sikorsky.

Jim LeRoy

Around 2:15PM EST at the Vectren Dayton Air Show at the Dayton International Airport, LeRoy crashed his S2S Bulldog II, while in performance with the X-Team Codename: Mary's Lamb aerobatics team.

Julius Dobos

The music commissioned by Aerobatics World Champion pilot Péter Besenyei for his musical stunt program at the World Championship of Aerobatics (2002) was produced in a rather unique way.

Jurgis Kairys

Jurgis Kairys (born May 6, 1952 in Krasnojarsk, Siberia in Lithuanian family deported after Soviet occupation) is a Lithuanian aerobatic pilot and aeronautical engineer.

Ladislav Bezák

Ladislav Bezák was a Czechoslovakian aerobatic pilot, the first winner of the FAI World Aerobatic Championships in 1960, and first to win the Biancotto Trophy in 1965.

Lambach HL.II

There were no Dutch aircraft competing in the North Dutch Flying Club's first international aerobatics competition held in Eelde in the spring of 1936; from a field of German and Dutch pilots, the best placed Dutchman cam second, flying a British Tiger Moth.

Lotnicze Warsztaty Doświadczalne

A civilian aerobatics and trainer variant of Junak was LWD Zuch of 1948; it was a successful design, but only 7 were built in LWD because of lack of proper engines.

Pitts Special

The Pitts Special (company designations S1 and S2) is a series of light aerobatic biplanes designed by Curtis Pitts.

RAF Saltby

Flying continues today as Buckminster Gliding Club operates 7 days a week from Saltby Airfield using about half of the main runway (07/25) The club specializes in gliding, motor gliding and glider aerobatics.

RWD 10

The first public aerobatics show of the RWD-10 took place during a Gordon Bennett Cup in ballooning on September 14–15, 1935 in Warsaw.

RWD 7

The RWD 7 was used in Warsaw Aero Club, among others, for aerobatics, then in 1936 it was bought by a known aviator Zbigniew Babiński for touring flights and used until 1938.

Slick Aircraft Slick 360

The Slick Aircraft Slick 360 is a South African aerobatics aircraft produced by the Slick Aircraft Company of Pretoria, South Africa.

Two Seater and Retro Glider Aerobatic Cup Zbraslavice

Less experienced pilots (however this is not a condition) fly with two-seater training gliders - ASK21, DG Flugzeugbau DG-1000 or L-13AC - an aerobatics version of LET L-13 Blaník.


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