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aerobatics

What do you expect when opening big hangar doors and you look at a sparkling Stearman and a couple of colourful Pitts? Right – there must be an aviation lover nearby. In this case the aviation lover is Ivan van der Schaar – Captain at BA ComAir, aerobatics instructor, airshow […]

Ivan van der Schaar – Amercian Flying Classics & Aerobatics

11/06/2018 in Chicks Abroad tagged aerobatics / American Flying Classic / Brakpan Benoni / Brakpan Flying Club / British Airways / classic planes / Comair / FABB / Ivan van der Schaar / Pitts / South Africa / Stearman by PH-FLO

“Forever Flying” by R.A. “Bob” Hoover 288 pages full of an amazing piloting life story – I honestly could not put the book away again. Bob Hoover does not only look back at more than 50 years of flying experiences, from barnstorming to army testpiloting, supersonic developments, speed records and a […]

17/03/2018 in Chick's Review tagged aerobatics / barnstorming / Bob Hoover / Chuck Yeager / supersonic / test pilot WW II pilot by PH-FLO | Open »

I can’t tell precisely when my love for flying started. My dad worked for ESA, the European Space Agency, so space, spacecraft and aircraft, were always there. The first time I saw Top Gun was with my dad. We laughed our behinds off. That might have been it. Fast forward […]

Because I was inverted…

06/05/2017 in Chick's Logbook tagged aerobatics / barrel roll / EHRD / flying / girls / high power stall / looping / power on stall / Robin / Robin 2160 / rotterdam / unusual attitudes / upset attitude recovery / VCR / vliegclub rotterdam / Whenchicksfly by PH-KVO