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
'Gimp
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.
'Gimp