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An early version of the Edge 540 with a wire-braced tail. The Zivko Edge 540 manufactured by Zivko Aeronautics is a highly aerobatic aircraft.Capable of a 420 degree per second roll rate and a 3,700 foot per minute climb rate, it has been flown to victory on the international Unlimited aerobatics circuit several times since the mid-1990s.
The pilot in charge during a forbidden Red Bull plane-swapping stunt said Friday he takes full responsibility for the ensuing crash over the Arizona desert. Luke Aikins, the lead pilot, admitted ...
A plane swap stunt, in which two pilots attempted to switch planes while midair, resulted in a crash landing in the Arizona desert over the weekend and prompted a federal investigation.
The Federal Aviation Administration revoked the licenses of two pilots for their "careless" and "reckless" conduct during a failed mid-air stunt last month.
April 24 – A Cessna 182 crash landed after a plane swap stunt went wrong during a livestreamed demonstration in Eloy, Arizona. [29] The stunt by Red Bull involved bringing two Cessnas into a nosedive, when each pilot would then jump out, skydive across and enter the other plane to land. [30]
The Red Bull Air Race is featured as a playable mini-game in a special dedicated "Red Bull space" for PlayStation Home released on 8 January 2009. [22] The Red Bull Air Race is also featured as an advanced mission in Microsoft's Flight Simulator X. Additional racing missions and courses were included as part of 2007's Acceleration expansion pack.
Stunt pilot, Red Bull Air Race competitor Edge 540 [77] Casarrubios del Monte, Province of Toledo: Crashed into the ground during stunt routine [78] Mitsuyasu Maeno: Japan 1976 Erotic film actor Piper Cherokee: Setagaya, Tokyo Controlled flight into terrain into a house during a kamikaze attack John Gillespie Magee Jr. United States 1941 ...
Authorities were investigating the crash of one of two planes that were part of a Red Bull stunt in which two pilots attempted to swap planes in mid-air over the Arizona desert. The Federal ...