2011 Annual Convention Aerobatics EAA-Gen. Rodriguez 13 Mar. 2011 8 ° Eighth Motoencuentro This time we said that we do not pass it last year! 2 days that we choose on Sunday and that day it rained all ... This time, if he was good on Saturday would go that day, but it rained on Saturday and hopefully Sunday was a spectacular day fairly windy but not too favorable for air shows . We arrived very early to the grounds of the EAA (Experimental Aircraft Association) going through the static display. Soon came the boys of the EAAA (Argentina Squadron aerobatics) how many acronyms! A true aerial ballet with music and accompanying smoke trails that were left. People Hangar X with the teacher Jorge Malatini with his Pitts S-2B red head their now famous "half Cuban 8" "barrel under invested" and other tricks to the delight of young and old (in one of the photos will appreciate check list of his acrobatic routine.) A separate chapter was the L-29 Delphin (of Czech origin had to be!) Is a training turbojet used by the countries of Eastern Europe in the 60s and now the owner a private collector. The only plane of the sample did not use conventional naphtha (JP-5 that the famous white kerosene used by commercial aircraft.) César Falistocco who flew for the first time this aircraft delighted with some kroll, inverted flight and over flights to more than 700km / h! after the last pass was decided to land, we see the sun go down behind him and listening to "parrot" who is the rapporteur of this type of event "here comes Caesar
prepared to land, does not look good but it seems no landing gear down "almost touching the ground the parrot screams desperately through the speakers" CESAR
DOWN TRAIN! .. CESAR DOWN TRAIN! .. "and warns other driver across the entire track with gestures take flight again, was a big scare because it was close to being in an accident if he had landed and also because of how close the plane happened to the man who informed him of this circumstance. What went wrong? Caesar is a very experienced pilot and he owns the air squadron "Hangar of Heaven" but here the landing gear is fixed and forgot it (see photo) ... generally this type of aircraft are equipped with 3 flashing lights that warn the touchdown to be off the train and procedure, since the pilot can not see the train if you are in a position effectively, you should check this with an external media (eg control tower), in this case we do not know what happened .. I looked
Nestor de La Plata and I could not find, all I saw Jawa 638 was to drive back black, a shame, maybe next time ..
Unfortunately the boys were not present in the air force helicopters and Pucara, as the Minister Nilda Garre had them "punished" by the fact that drug smuggling was done by Julia from the aerodrome of Moron ... Nor was the squadron Fumaça of Brazil, and there were exhibitions of parachuting and paragliding (perhaps by the wind of the day), say that he lacked a little luster compared to other years, but still was very good. A pilot was given a taste of aerobatic aircraft flying again to double investment to another plane, as the last time he had done for 3 years had had an accident when touching another plane that almost cost him his life and long months of recovery, his challenge: flying again and the same maneuver! Finally, a formation of planes in V made his way to honor a stunt pilot (I forget the name) that had a fatal accident last year in an air show in Córdoba. My little tribute to these guys who have courage and a steel balls to do what they do ..
