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Heavy looping
Yes, I was at the Roskilde Airshow in August. Lots of planes and cool displays. This was one of the better ones. The German Air Force Airbus did a loop, not a complete one but a backside loop...like! Took a series of shots of the loop and have put it together here in a slightly compressed form.
It is a large, heavy aircraft and the fact that the pilots did a loop at a relatively low altitude in front of an audience of several thousand was nothing short of impressive in my eyes.
The pilots of course did more than just the loop, among other things they landed the plane in less than 200 meters and with everything together the display showed enormous skill on the part of the pilots, but also an unusually agile and easy-to-handle aircraft for its size.
Impressive!
Heavy looping
Yes, I was at the Roskilde Airshow in August. Lots of planes and cool displays. This was one of the better ones. The German Air Force Airbus did a loop, not a complete one but a backside loop...like! Took a series of shots of the loop and have put it together here in a slightly compressed form.
It is a large, heavy aircraft and the fact that the pilots did a loop at a relatively low altitude in front of an audience of several thousand was nothing short of impressive in my eyes.
The pilots of course did more than just the loop, among other things they landed the plane in less than 200 meters and with everything together the display showed enormous skill on the part of the pilots, but also an unusually agile and easy-to-handle aircraft for its size.
Impressive!