Crazy is an understatement-

But I guess it is all relevant to ones
skills and practice, practice, practice.

Thunks fer diggin' it up.

Wannabe not quite that...

Hurts my back just to watch.

That looks like way too much fun. A guy probably should see it in person some day...

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What I fly can't do that...

Awesome is a massive understatement!!! [emoji1591]


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That one fella looked a lot like me when I screwed up my touch and go on my first solo XC and came off the runway sideways, barely airborne with the stall horn screaming.

There was no smoke, but some bystanders mentioned they could smell poop over the field for hours after.

Skalywag wrote:Awesome is a massive understatement!!! [emoji1591]


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Hell yeah. Thinking about making the trip down there next summer!

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The craziest part was the J3 at 2:21...

Nighttime form flying?! Sounds more like nightmare form flying. Big balls in those airplanes!

I've always said " if you ever see my plane doing any of that... something went horribly wrong!!"

But sure is neat to watch, thanks for sharing

Roamer

Finally got a fast enough connection to watch the video. With all due respect for the remarkable amount of skill being demonstrated, I'd much rather spend two hours sitting in the dark listening to corn grow than attend that air show.

Just watching the video was akin to being a hog in the fattening shed being force fed someone's version of awesomeness. Understated elegance does not seem to be a concept they are familiar with...

Hammer wrote:Understated elegance does not seem to be a concept they are familiar with...

This statement reminds me of an old video that was around you tube and stuff about 15 years ago. It was of Peter Besenyei, and Svetlana Kapanina. It did not have all the sophisticated video of todays offerings, but between Peter's amazing Lomcavec (and hilarious facial expressions), and Svetalna's trade mark wiches cauldron grip (and not too shabby flying) it was a real nice video. It's mostly vaporized because of a copyright infringement deal on the music, which IMHO was quite an under sight, because this dynamic duo's flying just added to the beauty of the song...

Shame they couldn't just play well together...
Surely someone else remembers that one?

Hammer wrote:Finally got a fast enough connection to watch the video. With all due respect for the remarkable amount of skill being demonstrated, I'd much rather spend two hours sitting in the dark listening to corn grow than attend that air show.

Just watching the video was akin to being a hog in the fattening shed being force fed someone's version of awesomeness. Understated elegance does not seem to be a concept they are familiar with...

Hahaha what a ripper, between the listening to corn grow in the dark and the hog in the fattening shed this one cracked me up! Never heard those sayings before, still chuckling!

Hammer wrote:Finally got a fast enough connection to watch the video. With all due respect for the remarkable amount of skill being demonstrated, I'd much rather spend two hours sitting in the dark listening to corn grow than attend that air show.

Just watching the video was akin to being a hog in the fattening shed being force fed someone's version of awesomeness. Understated elegance does not seem to be a concept they are familiar with...

Yeah, I miss the graceful aerobatics that were part of Bob Hoover's routine. That was pure pilot skill, rather than slamming an unbreakable airplane around the sky, doing nothing that looks like "flying" to me...

Don't get me wrong - I respect the heck out of the gals and guys who can do those routines, but I'm far more impressed by the aerobatic sailplane flights, and the Beech-18 routine flown by Matt Younkin.