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CREME DE LA CREME
Eight so-called ‘unlimited pilots’, the crème
de la crème of the Powered Aerobatics scene,
were selected from around the world to
compete at the FAI World Air Games.
AERIAL BATTLE
Their planes, which cost around €400,000
each, were shipped to Dubai specially for the
event, and their aerial battle could be seen and
heard echoing all along the coast.
G-FORCE
Powered Aerobatics pilots perform rolls and
dives that put their bodies through positive
forces up to nine times the force of gravity.
But it’s the manoeuvres that create ‘negative
G-force’, driving all the pilots’ blood to their
brains, that are the most demanding.
Powered Aerobatics