London Air race.
Well today I went out to take advantage of the free resident’s tickets I scored for the Red Bull air race on the Thames. The English summer was in full force, with stormy clouds and the occasional flash of lightning. Of course being Brittan it was packed.
Being a bit of a motor head and always up for a tumble in an airplane, I swear that cars should take corners sideways and airplanes fly better upside-down, well with enough power.
The racing was fast and furious and a bit tricky with the wind and lots of gates getting blown. This made it a bit of a roll of the dice of when the gusts and rain came through. These guys are soo good with little between them so fine, not to say that the winner was not deserving, more that the course was less forgiving than it’s usual not at all. I mean these guys are the F1 drivers of the airplane world, and the track was equivalent to a puddled cold track.
Now the demo’s while we were waiting for the finals was impressive as you’d expect given that all the racers are aerobatic champions of their home counties and some of them multiple world champions. The fixed wing was a demonstration of out-of-control it was impressive that so much of the display was below reasonable airflow, with insane push over -ve G tumbles. And LOW for that sort of loss of airflow. The helicopter was just something else, I mean I don’t know that much about helicopters but I do know that they are NOT supposed the fly upside down, well more the point they DON’T fly upside down. Not with this freak at the helm, this thing was doing fixed wing aerobatics in a rotorary, and a whole lot of thing that just didn’t look possible. A freak he may be but not suicidal with height (a good 150 feet) as the only way those impossible things possible.
Anyway I had fun, jealous for those guys having so much fun. It would be great to travel round the world with the bunch of extreme sportsmen.
Being a bit of a motor head and always up for a tumble in an airplane, I swear that cars should take corners sideways and airplanes fly better upside-down, well with enough power.
The racing was fast and furious and a bit tricky with the wind and lots of gates getting blown. This made it a bit of a roll of the dice of when the gusts and rain came through. These guys are soo good with little between them so fine, not to say that the winner was not deserving, more that the course was less forgiving than it’s usual not at all. I mean these guys are the F1 drivers of the airplane world, and the track was equivalent to a puddled cold track.
Now the demo’s while we were waiting for the finals was impressive as you’d expect given that all the racers are aerobatic champions of their home counties and some of them multiple world champions. The fixed wing was a demonstration of out-of-control it was impressive that so much of the display was below reasonable airflow, with insane push over -ve G tumbles. And LOW for that sort of loss of airflow. The helicopter was just something else, I mean I don’t know that much about helicopters but I do know that they are NOT supposed the fly upside down, well more the point they DON’T fly upside down. Not with this freak at the helm, this thing was doing fixed wing aerobatics in a rotorary, and a whole lot of thing that just didn’t look possible. A freak he may be but not suicidal with height (a good 150 feet) as the only way those impossible things possible.
Anyway I had fun, jealous for those guys having so much fun. It would be great to travel round the world with the bunch of extreme sportsmen.