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Old 21st February 2010 | 11:54
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Pilot DAR
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There are a very few people, who through some special gift, have what it takes to perform low level aerobatics with adequate safety - they know who they are. The rest of us should not consider it!

My first, and last visit, to the EAA Oshkosh event, included a Siai Marchetti demonstration pilot, who was anounced as: "will now demonstrate a one turn spin from 200 feet". With great interest in how such a feat could be accomplished, I watched in awe... I was right to be amazed at the prospect of a one turn spin (and the recovery I presumed would follow) could be accomplished in 200 feet altitude - it could not. I hind sight, the announcer had not said he would recover, I just assumed that part!

The attempt was fatal, and I had just watched my first plane crash. It delayed the show for hours, and we taxied past the flattened wreck as we left. I learned my lesson there and then.

Saying from a mother: "Son, always fly in the middle of the sky, all of the danger is found near the edges".
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