Air racing
An air racing or air racing is a speed competition with aircraft. Air races are often discharged with special racing aircraft. At the Red Bull Air Race Series mostly fast aerobatic planes are used. Aside from the speed criterion is flying competitions have also developed in the direction of reliability testing for used machines and testing of the flying skills of the pilots.
Description
Are known as the MacRobertson Air Race from England to Australia in 1934 or the events in the U.S. as part of the Reno Air Races as the fastest motor sport in the world, among others, remodeled and equipped with souped up aircraft engines machines from the Second World War ( Warbirds ) are flown today.
Among the well-known air racing of the past, where many records were flown, was one of the Germany flight in 1911, the prestigious Schneider Cup ( Schneider Trophy ) for seaplanes from 1913 to 1931, the National Air Races in the United States from 1920 to 1949 or the Bendix Trophy 1931 to 1962 ( since 1998 as a Honeywell Bendix Trophy ).
The Red Bull Air Race Series is a newly created racing series with aerobatic machine that is currently discharged. Also for gliders there are corresponding competitions in which must be flown at predetermined turning points in time.
In Germany, established since 2006 a very unique Followers race, which is above the significantly different. In this air race two equivalent high- performance aerobatic aircraft occur on a highlighted by two turning pylons racing oval at low altitude against each other.
Well-known racing pilot
- Louis Blériot
- Jacqueline Cochran
- Glenn Curtiss
- Jimmy Doolittle
- Mario De Bernardi
- Darryl Greenamyer
- Kevin Eldredge
- Skip Holm
- Francesco Agello
- Jimmy Leeward
- Tony LeVier
- Blanche Noyes
- Jon Sharp
- Bill Stead
- Peter Besenyei
- Drake Solomon