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What a way to fly....

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One form of aviation is stunt aviation, however the opportunity for the feelings and sensations of stunt aviation are hard to come by....  I have only been upside down in an aircraft once, and the pilot who did it for me did something quite illegal, over Napa he was flying a friend and I since we helped him prep an aircraft he was reconditioning for flight, a Cessna 182.  At approx the intersection of highway 29 and first street, 1000 feet above Embassy Suites as it was known back then, in the 80's, he said "Here we go" and he performed a perfect, weightless zero g roll. 

I loved it, a former good friend of mine hated it and even though he was a non pilot he read the pilot the riot book for performing a stunt like that in a Cessna--but really he was just not one who liked weightlessness, he used to joke "Why jump out of a perfectly good airplane" and having had an uncle in the 101st airborne division, I just gritted my teeth.  However I have followed his advice, I have jumped off the Stratosphere Tower in 2013, but it was a controlled descent from 1000 feet high and did not reach terminal velocity.  That video is on Youtube if you search "Cactus521 Stratosphere"

Here I am posting a form of an enjoyment of the sensation of flight, a simulated ride with some faint background music by the guitarist of the 70's-80's rock band, Craig Chaquico, whose music can also be heard near the wine bar at California Adventure, in Anaheim.  Craig gave us a free listen of his music when I was up at a concert in Scottsdale, way north of the Scottsdale airport, called the Boulders, I was so stunned that a guitarist that ranks up there with Eric Clapton but whose name is relatively unknown since his solo career is smooth jazz.

Anyway, Enjoy the flight, of the first vertical loop steel coaster ever made, which has a 5G peak...

John

 

It's sure better than this one -

which I was on in real-life back in the 90's. 

 

Jude Bradley
Beech Baron: Uh, Tower, verify you want me to taxi in front of the 747?
ATC: Yeah, it's OK. He's not hungry.

X-Plane 12 and MSFS2020  🙂

System specs: Windows 11  Pro 64-bit, Ubuntu Linux 20.04 i7-13700KF  Gigabyte Z790 RTX-4060-Ti , 32GB RAM  1X 2TB M2 for X-Plane 12,  1x256GB SSD for OS. 1TB drive MSFS2020

This is a simulation of a similarly themed coaster, but I have added some effects at the beginning, do not know the name of the original author but it shows computer simulation and the sense of speed and flight at its best...

 

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