The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale organized its first World Aerobatic Championships at Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in 1960. Ever since then national teams and individuals have been competing against each other by performing complex aerobatic sequences inside a designated cubic ‘box’ of sky (each side is 1000 metres long, with a safety margin of 500 metres on each […]
Air show Champion Mark Jefferies hosted the Guinness World record for the largest poster ever printed. 55 meters by 60 meters weighing approximately 2 tonnes 30 persons were required to roll out the banner advertising Anthony Dsouza’s “BOSS” Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar plays the BOSS. The film also stars Mithun Chakraborty, Shiv Pandit, Aditi Rao […]
“Sally B17” In the autumn of 2011, I received a call from Peter Kuypers chief pilot for Elly Sallingboe’s B17 of the “Sally B” preservation group asking if I would like to become a temporary flight crew member. A question like “is the Pope Catholic” 🙂 The brief was to be at Duxford for crew […]
Global Stars Aerobatic Display Team start training for 2012 The new aerobatic air displays team formed by Mark Jefferies with Tom Cassells as his wingman – The Global Stars. Mark and Tom have been competing against each other for years in the British Aerobatic Association Championships – regularly exchanging the British Aerobatic Championship between themselves. […]
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