#aerobatic pilot

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Vicky Benzing and her iconic purple P-51 Mustang "Plum Crazy"

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Kyle Franklin gestures to the crowd after another great stunt flying comedy show in his Super Cub

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Famed airshow performer Jacquie Warda

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Kate Kyer in her  Pitts S-2B

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The inimitable Sean D. Tucker

Sean D. Tucker is a world champion aerobatic aviator. Over his 42 year career, he has flown more than 1,300 performances in over 425 airshows worldwide, and and is considered by many to be one of the world's premier airshow performers. Tucker has won numerous air show championship competitions throughout his career, was named one of the 25 "Living Legends of Flight" by the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in 2003, and was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 2008. Tucker was also the recipient of the Crystal Eagle Award. He has led several efforts to assist youth in learning to fly or becoming involved in general aviation, and currently serves as co-chairman of the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA)'s Young Eagles program Tucker's unique aircraft, The Oracle Challenger III was donated to the National Air and Space Museum at the end of the 2019 airshow season

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Jack Roush Jr.’s New Roush Performance “You Don’t Know Jack” Podcast

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Jack Roush Jr.’s New Roush Performance “You Don’t Know Jack” Podcast

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Competitive Aerobatic Pilot

John Haag is a both a business advisor and a competitive aerobatic pilot. He lives and works in San Francisco, where he works as the Managing Partner for the firm CallisterHaag, which works with businesses throughout the United States on developing new solutions to problematic transitions and funding issues. Haag’s expertise as a venture capital investor and negotiator on behalf of many different companies during his time helps his clients remain solvent and avoid bankruptcy when times are dire. Somehow, in his spare time, Haag manages to train and compete as an aerobatic pilot.

Competition aerobatics is an official air sport in which judges rate the skill of pilots like John Haag in performing aerobatic flying. Most pilots fly piston-powered, single-engine airplanes, but some also fly gliders in these competitions. The International Aerobatic Club sanctions the top aerobatic pilots in the country and their competitions.. Each pilot enters a competition in a category of his or her choosing, which defines the level of difficulty of the aerobatic sequences flown by the pilots. Within each category, pilots fly one or sometimes multiple flight programs, on which their flying abilities are judged. In most competitions, each flight program receives official scores from the judges and the pilots are ranked according to their combined total scores for all of their programs.

John Haag still manages to compete from time to time and maintains his training in the skies above northern California

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I think somebody forgot to mention to him that he was flying a freaking glider and shouldn't be able to do that.