Some aerobatic playtime...(link fixed)

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19 June 2017, 20:04

surestrike

Some aerobatic playtime...(link fixed)

I took this a couple of months ago. I am flying my 365 HP Steen Firebolt. We were getting warmed up for the aerobatic competition season this year doing some easy maneuvering and getting used to hanging in the straps again.

The guy in the front seat has a "luxurious" head of blond hair, so excuse its unruly treaspase into the camera from time to time.

Maneuvers

Loops, slow rolls, humpty Bumps, Immelmann, inverted table tops.

https://vimeo.com/209686517

20 June 2017, 07:53

surestrike

Are you guys able to view the video? I'm kind of new at Vimeo.

20 June 2017, 09:28

npd345

I could not get it to work.. The link just pulled up the website for Vimeo
shane

20 June 2017, 12:52

surestrike

Okay,

I think it's fixed now. Give it a try.

20 June 2017, 17:43

Opus1

What, no Lomcovaks?

20 June 2017, 18:13

surestrike

quote:
Originally posted by Opus1:
What, no Lomcovaks?

Gyroscopics come on warm up day #2.

21 June 2017, 02:29

npd345

that was awesome!!

thank you!!

21 June 2017, 04:40

Bobster

quote:

The guy in the front seat has a "luxurious" head of blond hair, so excuse its unruly treaspase into the camera from time to time.

Maneuvers

Loops, slow rolls, humpty Bumps, Immelmann, inverted table tops.

https://vimeo.com/209686517

The hair is OK. Just no spew!

21 June 2017, 05:39

surestrike

quote:
Originally posted by npd345:
that was awesome!!

thank you!!

It was my pleasure!

21 June 2017, 20:22

surestrike

quote:
Originally posted by Bobster:
quote:

The guy in the front seat has a "luxurious" head of blond hair, so excuse its unruly treaspase into the camera from time to time.

Maneuvers

Loops, slow rolls, humpty Bumps, Immelmann, inverted table tops.

https://vimeo.com/209686517

The hair is OK. Just no spew!

A day without spew is like a day without sunshine!

25 June 2017, 21:00

Palmer

Smooth and precise. Very nice.

ALLEN W. JOHNSON - DRSS

Into my heart on air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?
That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.

A. E. Housman

26 June 2017, 06:51

surestrike

Thanks Palmer.

26 June 2017, 23:21

Palmer

Is that a D or S variant? That 365 appears to really make that thing scoot.

28 June 2017, 06:09

surestrike

It's actually a Firebolt. So it basically a D variant with a slightly longer fuselage, solid leading edges and a few other slight variations. It does scoot with the 365 on it. I'm getting 155 to 160 knots true in cruise.

29 June 2017, 04:04

Dulltool17

Very nice!
Thank you.

Looks like Idaho below?

29 June 2017, 10:09

surestrike

quote:
Originally posted by Dulltool17:
Very nice!
Thank you.

Looks like Idaho below?

Northeastern Colorado.

29 June 2017, 10:33

surestrike

Here's another one. Getting more polished and ready for the IAC competition in two weeks.

https://vimeo.com/223203707

30 June 2017, 23:32

Tim629

videos look great, but not sure how my stomach would feel after some of those moves

01 July 2017, 00:06

surestrike

quote:
Originally posted by Tim629:
videos look great, but not sure how my stomach would feel after some of those moves

You've got to work up to it for sure. Aerobatics is not something most people can just jump in and do without some acclimation.

02 July 2017, 10:33

Hogbreath

I don't have near enough stick time to try any of that! Very nice!

04 July 2017, 05:28

surestrike

quote:
Originally posted by Hogbreath:
I don't have near enough stick time to try any of that! Very nice!

Thank you!