Gimp's First Formation Aerobatics Training Sortie of 2017

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So I have been travelling an abnormal amount for work recently (6 of first 8 weeks of the year), finally got to spend a couple weeks at home and get back into my Yakovlev Yak-52. Flew 5 hours in 4 flights this past week, including a solo warm-up flight, 2 Little League Opening Day Flyovers and a great formation aerobatics sortie with my wingmen yesterday.

In this clip we are tipping in from 3,500 feet, accelerating to ~200 mph then combining two Quarter Clovers (a rolling loop), a Barnstormer's Loop and a Wing Over, all staple airshow maneuvers - lots of small errors on my part as lead (our first practice sortie in 3 months due to my crazy travel schedule and weather), but the guys are showing great improvements - the Gopro lense exaggerates the relative movement, they were visible in my peripheral vision or formation mirrors throughout the flight - apologies in advance for my funny facial expressions, takes a lot of concentration to manage our location between airspaces, while staying clear of populated areas and other traffic, while maintaining our ground reference for the sequence, and pulling sustained G's - this was a really fun flight with excellent progress for our flying.

View: https://youtu.be/m1DfsS8RLVc


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Absolutely amazing, would love to learn to fly. :D Got any pics of the plane?
 
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Absolutely amazing, would love to learn to fly. :smile: Got any pics of the plane?
Sure, 1987 Yakovlev Yak-52, built in Bacau Romania - 360hp supercharged 9 cylinder radial engine, +7/-5.5 G Limit Loads, fully aerobatic with inverted fuel and oil (can fly upside down for up to 2 minutes straight). Mine is painted in desert camo with markings to honor the US Navy's 13th Composite Fighter Squadron (VFC 13) the Saints who are an aggressor squadron from Fallon NV that provide training for our fighter pilots by pretending to be bad guys - so I have Russian airplane painted like an American airplane pretending to be a Russian airplane.

At rest in the YakCave
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In formation with some of my buddies
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At a formation training clinic last year
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I'm so jelly it's my live dream to fly a real plane.

I have to make do with this for now!
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