Hi Dan and to all readers
I've been at the Red Bull air race at Budapest one week ago. Okay, the
weather was fine, Budapest is a very nice city and life is not expensive.
Before this race, I've seen some others on the tv but what I've seen at
Budapest was the best of the best. Never seen such a great airshow with
acrobatics, military aircraft in action an many other performances before
the main event, the race with two runs. The race in Budapest is built up on
the river Donau between two bridges and that's the point. The pilots have to
fly under the bridge and the clock starts an he is in the box. Most of them
had only 2.5 meter between the surface and the gear.
And now the course which is built up in the front of the parlament building
in the heart of the city with 1.8 million people. Because the river is not
very wide, the pilots have to make very very sharp turns with partly 7 to 8
G, the planes fly only are few meters over the water, sometimes direct to
the spectatores, great positions of tv-cameras from helicopters bringing
pictures on big screens. You are only a few meters away from the race, you'
ve the best impression of speed, G-forces and the skill of pilots from an
other planet. Everyone who has avgas in the blood or loves flying - go to
Budapest. My friends and I we know what to do when Reb Bull air race will be
here in Budapest again. We go!
I've made some pictures. If anyone is interested I can give you access to
the pictures via yahoo.

Peter

"Dan" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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Anyone ever been to the Red Bull air races? They look interesting.

There is one in San Francisco in October, but I have heard that the
non-US ones are the best because of more lax regulations (i.e. flying
under bridges, etc.) Anyone have any info?

--Dan