Impressive video showing 5 time World Aerobatic Champion Svetlana Kapanina throwing her Sukhoi around. You’ll see a lot of the famous aerobatic planes: the Su-26, Su-29 and Su-31. There is also some archive footage taken during the development of the Sukhoi 26 family of aircraft.
Tag Archives: Aerobatics
Turkish Stars ride along
The Turkish Stars are the aerobatic demonstration team of the Turkish Air Force and the official national aerobatics team of Turkey. Jump in the cockpit of one of their supersonic Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighters for a ride along with the Turkish Stars.
Dreams
For 12 years the Douglas A-4F Skyhawk was the chosen plane for the famous Blue Angels, the United States Navy’s Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron. Between December 1974 and November 1986 the Blue Angels performed their routines with elegance and precision. Here is an old Van Halen video featuring the Blue Angels.
Thunderbirds
The Thunderbirds are the Air Demonstration Squadron of the United States Air Force. They travel the world and perform no less than 88 air demonstrations each year. The Thunderbirds perform breathtaking aerobatics with their F-16 Fighting Falcons and they make this look easy. “Thunderbirds run em up!”
Soaring over the Alps
I saw this and brought back some memories. Been two years since I last flew a sailplane. Anyway, here is some beautiful soaring footage taken from a DG-500 sailplane over the Alps. Some aerobatics and a great soundtrack make for a cool video.
Skyward – the movie
Here is a great paragliding video I found. 7 minutes of intense paragliding aerobatics combined with a great soundtrack. Lots of helicopters, a croquette and many many more really cool action from these guys. Enjoy!
Flying Tiger
The Bo-105 is a German built helicopter and is nicknamed ” The Flying Tiger”. And if you are wondering why just check out the aerobatic maneuvers this helicopter can perform and try to remember when you last saw a helo do similar stuff. Yeah, probably never.
Zoltan’s fictions
Some people just love a good adrenaline rush. Zoltan Veres is a Hungarian pilot that just loves aerobatics, flying low, inverted and of course… under bridges with his Extra 300. Amazing little plane and amazing pilot. Check out his amazing stunts! Oh, and in case you are wondering, that is a MiG-29 he’s flying formation […]