Red Bull Air Race World Series - sports competition after an aerobatic in which the most talented pilots in the world compete. It is spent under the aegis of company Red Bull GmbH.
With the advent of Red Bull Air Race there was also a new sports discipline - an avia-slalom - a dynamical kind of the piloting which purpose consists in passage of a difficult air line with obstacles for the minimum time. Pilots carry out the set flight program on one, making abrupt turns and passing through steams specially designed пилонов in height 20 m named "air collars".
In Air Race are important not only speed, but also accuracy. The slightest error conducts to penal points. To conduct the plane through obstacles it is low over the earth on the speed sometimes exceeding 400 km/h, huge skill which some pilots in the world possess is required. Therefore participants pass careful preliminary selection. These pilots - experts and the present pros of the business. In another way also cannot be - pilots Red Bull Air Race should maintain overloads to 10G. Here there is no right to an error.
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