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Nah:
Flyer's DVD is in US format: I know - I bought one and have sold it on to someone whose DVD was multi-region.
There is an Ad in the current issue of Loop advertising the video with European format: unfortunately I've chucked my copy out so can't help you further.
Mebbe a PPRuNer who still has this month's Loop can help you.
Safe flying
Cusco
Edited: found my copy of loop : PAL version available from LOOP £21.95
www.loop.aero presumably
0r tel 01223 497060
Flyer's DVD is in US format: I know - I bought one and have sold it on to someone whose DVD was multi-region.
There is an Ad in the current issue of Loop advertising the video with European format: unfortunately I've chucked my copy out so can't help you further.
Mebbe a PPRuNer who still has this month's Loop can help you.
Safe flying
Cusco
Edited: found my copy of loop : PAL version available from LOOP £21.95
www.loop.aero presumably
0r tel 01223 497060
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True, but I believe the UK version has become available. If not, you should be able to find a hack for your player to turn it into a multi-region machine, as I did.
http://www.videohelp.com/dvdhacks
http://www.videohelp.com/dvdhacks
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Got my copy last week. After reading some very good reviews of it, I had high expectations.
However, tending to agree with SSD and HWD - it's not awful, and there are some great moments and some very good air2air camera work, but it's not as good as I'd hoped
tKF
However, tending to agree with SSD and HWD - it's not awful, and there are some great moments and some very good air2air camera work, but it's not as good as I'd hoped
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Would have to agree with the recent posters.
I bought a copy many moons ago and still haven't finished watching it. Some of the footage is excellent and worth watching but as a 'feature documentary' it is over long and I lost interest.
Note to self: must get that 16R finished sometime...
I bought a copy many moons ago and still haven't finished watching it. Some of the footage is excellent and worth watching but as a 'feature documentary' it is over long and I lost interest.
Note to self: must get that 16R finished sometime...
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Poor form to comment on ones comments:
So I did just that on the train home from London last night.
The most startling thing in the whole documentary was what happened at Meigs Field in Chicago. Absolutely dumbfounding. I'm sure it must have been discussed on these forums at the time but I still so shocked at the action taken that I have to post here just to get it out of my system.
Note to self: must get that 16R finished sometime...
The most startling thing in the whole documentary was what happened at Meigs Field in Chicago. Absolutely dumbfounding. I'm sure it must have been discussed on these forums at the time but I still so shocked at the action taken that I have to post here just to get it out of my system.
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I watched it last night and quite enjoyed it. I can't imagine watching it again in the next 5 years but overall I thought it was well put together.
The fact that Keith Leedom opened the "show" with a Pitts S2B, of course had nothing to do with it!
Stik
The fact that Keith Leedom opened the "show" with a Pitts S2B, of course had nothing to do with it!
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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!!!!!!!!
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!!!!!!!!
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If anyone is interested, here is the link to the pic of Keith Leedom skydiving from the Pitts (inverted) hanging off of tope wing. You cansee the pilot's head in the foreground.........Freddie Cabanas (famed air show pilot was flying the plane).
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One Six Right and Keith Leedom
http://www.iac78.org/images/pitthang.jpg
oops, here is the link of Keith Leedom and his skydive from Fred Cabanas' Pitts. Scary? Maybe... Awesome? YES
oops, here is the link of Keith Leedom and his skydive from Fred Cabanas' Pitts. Scary? Maybe... Awesome? YES
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Annie,
I've seen the photo before and only last Fri was explaining it to a mate.
No way would I allow anyone to do that from my Pitts. The grab handle is a spruce laminate that is glued onto the trailing edge cut out cove. For extra strength the drawing shows two wee brass screws.
It was designed as a grab handle for support during ingres/egress - not to support 190lbs being dragged through the sky at 100kts!
However it does make a great photo!
Stik
I've seen the photo before and only last Fri was explaining it to a mate.
No way would I allow anyone to do that from my Pitts. The grab handle is a spruce laminate that is glued onto the trailing edge cut out cove. For extra strength the drawing shows two wee brass screws.
It was designed as a grab handle for support during ingres/egress - not to support 190lbs being dragged through the sky at 100kts!
However it does make a great photo!
Stik
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Keith Leedom and One Six Right
I am a skydiver from the Boston area and had occasion to visit Southern Ca. I had a skydiver friend in So. Cal. who knew Keith Leedom and had told me about his skydiving stunts (skysurfing from 24,000 feet on pure oxygen, jumping out of a Boeing 727 -back door-) and I knew he was a silver medalist in the US Skydiving Championships. My friend told me he was a nice guy and arranged for me to ride in one of his Sukhois that he bought from the Russian government.
I met him at Van Nuys airport and we went over some basic emergency responses (I guess Keith had just caught on fire in another plane and landed it without bailing out and he wanted to make sure I was comfortable getting out of the plane in case we had to). I was scared and made to feel safe at the same time if that makes sense.
Let me tell you, he did amazing things in that plane. He literally tumbled the plane (tail went over the nose) and took me through +9 g's (which caused me to black out-tunnel vision- and come to). He would only give me negative 4 g's and that made me feel like my eyes were going to pop out of my head. In competition and when practicing, Keith flew +9 and -8 g's..at one time he said he broke a bunch of blood vessels in and around his eyes and backed off to -7 and -6. These are g loads that fighter pilots in g suits don't fly and Keith did it in shorts and a t-shirt.
He then spun the plane from 6,000 to 2,000 feet and I was done. This guy had balls of steel and couldn't have been nicer. That picture of him skydiving from the Pitts is in his hangar and he told me it caused a LOT of trouble for him from people who thought he was dangerous, wreckless, etc. But, you should know, the FAA was aware of Keith's jump from the Pitts and had no trouble with him doing it. It was legal and Keith said the only thing that was negative about that jump was that everyone thought he was going to die and gave him a rough time for being irresponsible when he really wasn't.
By the way, planes weren't the only thing Keith was crazy in. After our flight, he gave me a ride in his Ferrari on the Van Nuys guard ramp and he took to car from 0 to 120mph to 0 again between the hangars and the taxiway that parallels 16R. Apparently the Airport police "requested" that he not do that anymore....turns out he had given about half of the force a ride in his plane so they were pretty nice to him.
I have over 2,000 jumps and am getting my private pilot's certificate now and NOTHING has compared to the aerobatic ride with Keith. He was very generous and couldn't have been nicer to me.
I met him at Van Nuys airport and we went over some basic emergency responses (I guess Keith had just caught on fire in another plane and landed it without bailing out and he wanted to make sure I was comfortable getting out of the plane in case we had to). I was scared and made to feel safe at the same time if that makes sense.
Let me tell you, he did amazing things in that plane. He literally tumbled the plane (tail went over the nose) and took me through +9 g's (which caused me to black out-tunnel vision- and come to). He would only give me negative 4 g's and that made me feel like my eyes were going to pop out of my head. In competition and when practicing, Keith flew +9 and -8 g's..at one time he said he broke a bunch of blood vessels in and around his eyes and backed off to -7 and -6. These are g loads that fighter pilots in g suits don't fly and Keith did it in shorts and a t-shirt.
He then spun the plane from 6,000 to 2,000 feet and I was done. This guy had balls of steel and couldn't have been nicer. That picture of him skydiving from the Pitts is in his hangar and he told me it caused a LOT of trouble for him from people who thought he was dangerous, wreckless, etc. But, you should know, the FAA was aware of Keith's jump from the Pitts and had no trouble with him doing it. It was legal and Keith said the only thing that was negative about that jump was that everyone thought he was going to die and gave him a rough time for being irresponsible when he really wasn't.
By the way, planes weren't the only thing Keith was crazy in. After our flight, he gave me a ride in his Ferrari on the Van Nuys guard ramp and he took to car from 0 to 120mph to 0 again between the hangars and the taxiway that parallels 16R. Apparently the Airport police "requested" that he not do that anymore....turns out he had given about half of the force a ride in his plane so they were pretty nice to him.
I have over 2,000 jumps and am getting my private pilot's certificate now and NOTHING has compared to the aerobatic ride with Keith. He was very generous and couldn't have been nicer to me.
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Keith Leedom and One Six Right
I am a skydiver from the Boston area and had occasion to visit Southern Ca. I had a skydiver friend in So. Cal. who knew Keith Leedom and had told me about his skydiving stunts (skysurfing from 24,000 feet on pure oxygen, jumping out of a Boeing 727 -back door-) and I knew he was a silver medalist in the US Skydiving Championships. My friend told me he was a nice guy and arranged for me to ride in one of his Sukhois that he bought from the Russian government.
I met him at Van Nuys airport and we went over some basic emergency responses (I guess Keith had just caught on fire in another plane and landed it without bailing out and he wanted to make sure I was comfortable getting out of the plane in case we had to). I was scared and made to feel safe at the same time if that makes sense.
Let me tell you, he did amazing things in that plane. He literally tumbled the plane (tail went over the nose) and took me through +9 g's (which caused me to black out-tunnel vision- and come to). He would only give me negative 4 g's and that made me feel like my eyes were going to pop out of my head. In competition and when practicing, Keith flew +9 and -8 g's..at one time he said he broke a bunch of blood vessels in and around his eyes and backed off to -7 and -6. These are g loads that fighter pilots in g suits don't fly and Keith did it in shorts and a t-shirt.
He then spun the plane from 6,000 to 2,000 feet and I was done. This guy had balls of steel and couldn't have been nicer. That picture of him skydiving from the Pitts is in his hangar and he told me it caused a LOT of trouble for him from people who thought he was dangerous, wreckless, etc. But, you should know, the FAA was aware of Keith's jump from the Pitts and had no trouble with him doing it. It was legal and Keith said the only thing that was negative about that jump was that everyone thought he was going to die and gave him a rough time for being irresponsible when he really wasn't.
By the way, planes weren't the only thing Keith was crazy in. After our flight, he gave me a ride in his Ferrari on the Van Nuys guard ramp and he took to car from 0 to 120mph to 0 again between the hangars and the taxiway that parallels 16R. Apparently the Airport police "requested" that he not do that anymore....turns out he had given about half of the force a ride in his plane so they were pretty nice to him.
I have over 2,000 jumps and am getting my private pilot's certificate now and NOTHING has compared to the aerobatic ride with Keith. He was very generous and couldn't have been nicer to me.
I met him at Van Nuys airport and we went over some basic emergency responses (I guess Keith had just caught on fire in another plane and landed it without bailing out and he wanted to make sure I was comfortable getting out of the plane in case we had to). I was scared and made to feel safe at the same time if that makes sense.
Let me tell you, he did amazing things in that plane. He literally tumbled the plane (tail went over the nose) and took me through +9 g's (which caused me to black out-tunnel vision- and come to). He would only give me negative 4 g's and that made me feel like my eyes were going to pop out of my head. In competition and when practicing, Keith flew +9 and -8 g's..at one time he said he broke a bunch of blood vessels in and around his eyes and backed off to -7 and -6. These are g loads that fighter pilots in g suits don't fly and Keith did it in shorts and a t-shirt.
He then spun the plane from 6,000 to 2,000 feet and I was done. This guy had balls of steel and couldn't have been nicer. That picture of him skydiving from the Pitts is in his hangar and he told me it caused a LOT of trouble for him from people who thought he was dangerous, wreckless, etc. But, you should know, the FAA was aware of Keith's jump from the Pitts and had no trouble with him doing it. It was legal and Keith said the only thing that was negative about that jump was that everyone thought he was going to die and gave him a rough time for being irresponsible when he really wasn't.
By the way, planes weren't the only thing Keith was crazy in. After our flight, he gave me a ride in his Ferrari on the Van Nuys guard ramp and he took to car from 0 to 120mph to 0 again between the hangars and the taxiway that parallels 16R. Apparently the Airport police "requested" that he not do that anymore....turns out he had given about half of the force a ride in his plane so they were pretty nice to him.
I have over 2,000 jumps and am getting my private pilot's certificate now and NOTHING has compared to the aerobatic ride with Keith. He was very generous and couldn't have been nicer to me.
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Keith Leedom, Pilot from Van Nuys Airport and the Movie One-Six Right
I read the threads about Keith Leedom and his airplanes. I met Keith in 1999 at Van Nuys Airport when he was training with the world champion (from Kazakhstan-not Russia) Sergei Boriak. I had seen Keith around the airport and knew he had an Pitts at the time. Later he bought a Sukhoi 31 and then a Sukhoi 29 from the Russians. I saw him train very hard over the years. He used to fly 3 times a day, 3-4 days a week and yes, he did break a lot of blood vessels in his eyes and around his eye sockets from all of the negative g loads. He used to have red spots on the whites of his eyes!
The plane's g-meters pegged at +10/-10 and on several occasions we looked in the cockpit after his flights and he had pegged it both directions. Undoubtedly, he flew harder than any fighter pilot in the services. And, yes, he did it in shorts and t-shirts...no g-suits. He is in excellent physical shape if you look at him. Edan Shalev (Israeli pilot, veteran air show pilot and competition pilot at VNY) said that Keith put him through, undoubtedly, the most violent maneuver he has ever experienced in an airplane. Keith tumbled the Sukhoi on a 45 degree upline at 320 kilometers (200 mph) when most do it at 100 mph. Edan said he though his head was going to come off.
I rode with Keith one time. He gave me -4g's at my request and I had a headache for hours and slept for 4 hours that afternoon. To give you an idea of what -10 g's is like, Keith would have to fly the plane straight down toward earth at about 190 kts (217 mph) and push the plan to level so that the plane was inverted and level. He did this at about 1,500 feet off the ground (about 4 seconds from impact). All the blood rushes to the head and the transition from straight down to inverted level took about 3 seconds. Do the math on that and no human could take that without great conditioning to the g loads.
When I fist saw him fly, i thought I'd hear about him dying. He was amazing to watch and some things he does in those planes are amazing. His takeoffs and landings were also spectacular as he constantly made high-speed short approaches about 50 feet over the hangars and frequently made nearly vertical takeoffs with all of that power.
Over the years, i saw him train very hard. I learned he was a competition skydiver, race car driver, jiu-jitsu fighter and a self-made business owner. I came to know him after stopping in his hangar a few times to talk. He always had a fridge full of beer for his friends even though he didn't drink it. Go figure!
I changed my opinion of him from that of being dangerous to that of being a perfectionist and true professional who worked VERY HARD at being a great pilot. I know he won almost every contest he entered and has since flown in foreign countries in the Russian planes.
The skydiving stories are something else, too. I know he jumped out of a Boeing 727 at over 200kts and literally decelerated to terminal velocity. Keith said it felt like he was hit in the back with a baseball bat when he hit the air at 230 mph.
So, the stories you read (and there are more) are all true. More importantly, he is smart about what he does and is not a danger to himself as some would like you to believe. He just has a higher thresshold for risk and danger than about 99.9% of us mortals do. If you ever run into him, talk to him about it. He is very personable and easy to talk to.
-Thomas
The plane's g-meters pegged at +10/-10 and on several occasions we looked in the cockpit after his flights and he had pegged it both directions. Undoubtedly, he flew harder than any fighter pilot in the services. And, yes, he did it in shorts and t-shirts...no g-suits. He is in excellent physical shape if you look at him. Edan Shalev (Israeli pilot, veteran air show pilot and competition pilot at VNY) said that Keith put him through, undoubtedly, the most violent maneuver he has ever experienced in an airplane. Keith tumbled the Sukhoi on a 45 degree upline at 320 kilometers (200 mph) when most do it at 100 mph. Edan said he though his head was going to come off.
I rode with Keith one time. He gave me -4g's at my request and I had a headache for hours and slept for 4 hours that afternoon. To give you an idea of what -10 g's is like, Keith would have to fly the plane straight down toward earth at about 190 kts (217 mph) and push the plan to level so that the plane was inverted and level. He did this at about 1,500 feet off the ground (about 4 seconds from impact). All the blood rushes to the head and the transition from straight down to inverted level took about 3 seconds. Do the math on that and no human could take that without great conditioning to the g loads.
When I fist saw him fly, i thought I'd hear about him dying. He was amazing to watch and some things he does in those planes are amazing. His takeoffs and landings were also spectacular as he constantly made high-speed short approaches about 50 feet over the hangars and frequently made nearly vertical takeoffs with all of that power.
Over the years, i saw him train very hard. I learned he was a competition skydiver, race car driver, jiu-jitsu fighter and a self-made business owner. I came to know him after stopping in his hangar a few times to talk. He always had a fridge full of beer for his friends even though he didn't drink it. Go figure!
I changed my opinion of him from that of being dangerous to that of being a perfectionist and true professional who worked VERY HARD at being a great pilot. I know he won almost every contest he entered and has since flown in foreign countries in the Russian planes.
The skydiving stories are something else, too. I know he jumped out of a Boeing 727 at over 200kts and literally decelerated to terminal velocity. Keith said it felt like he was hit in the back with a baseball bat when he hit the air at 230 mph.
So, the stories you read (and there are more) are all true. More importantly, he is smart about what he does and is not a danger to himself as some would like you to believe. He just has a higher thresshold for risk and danger than about 99.9% of us mortals do. If you ever run into him, talk to him about it. He is very personable and easy to talk to.
-Thomas
