Gentlemen,
These two videos showed up on U-Tube recently. I don't know who posted them (it wasn't me) and they aren't the best quality but they brought back some fine memories. This video was taken at the Phoenix 500 Air Races/Air Show. I still own and fly this aircraft and still enjoy aerobatics in it. The Glasair III is the Shelby Cobra of light aircraft. A very small and strong plane with a very big engine stuffed into it. Capable of +9 to -6 G's with full inverted systems it will flow fuel and maintain oil pressure in any attitude. Flying straight vertical down at 350 mph the rate of decent is 31,000 feet per minute. I have lots of really good in-cockpit and ground based video shot by Speed Vision and ESPN that I've been planning to edit and post but I never get around to it. Maybe someday.
Chip
[video=youtube;nm24Odlvglk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm24Odlvglk&feature=relmfu[/video]
[video=youtube;q2XrN5RXgCQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2XrN5RXgCQ&feature=relmfu[/video]
These two videos showed up on U-Tube recently. I don't know who posted them (it wasn't me) and they aren't the best quality but they brought back some fine memories. This video was taken at the Phoenix 500 Air Races/Air Show. I still own and fly this aircraft and still enjoy aerobatics in it. The Glasair III is the Shelby Cobra of light aircraft. A very small and strong plane with a very big engine stuffed into it. Capable of +9 to -6 G's with full inverted systems it will flow fuel and maintain oil pressure in any attitude. Flying straight vertical down at 350 mph the rate of decent is 31,000 feet per minute. I have lots of really good in-cockpit and ground based video shot by Speed Vision and ESPN that I've been planning to edit and post but I never get around to it. Maybe someday.
Chip
[video=youtube;nm24Odlvglk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm24Odlvglk&feature=relmfu[/video]
[video=youtube;q2XrN5RXgCQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2XrN5RXgCQ&feature=relmfu[/video]
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