One Six Right and Keith Leedom
He took my husband for a ride and my husband couldn't stop gushing. Consider that my husband had 40,000 hours flying Mustangs in WWII, civilian and commercial aircraft over 38 years....well, it wasn't easy to impress him.
Keith was even more fond of his Russian planes and has some great videos of exotic maneuvres in those planes. I saw One Six Right and it is great. There are clips of Edan Shalev (Keith's coach and fellow Van Nuys Airport pilot) in that movie, also. World Champion Serggei Boryak taught Keith how to fly the Sukhois and was at VNY with Keith alot in 2000...very nice guy, too.
The Miegs Field story needed to be told...it was a heartbreaker.
Both Edan and Keith have quit the sport from what I hear (but both are still alive-which is good and rare for what they did). Keith's skydiving reputation is even crazier. He sat in the front of an S-2B and had the pilot roll the plane to inverted. Keith held on to the top wing, fell out, and posed for pictures while holding onto the top wing while the plane was flying inverted... I wouldn't have believed it unless I saw pictures. My husband said the Pitts had to fly at about 100kts with keith hanging on it...Amazing (and crazy). GO RENT THE MOVIE!!!!!!!!