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Red Bull Air Race Practice
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The madness begins over Perth\'s Swan River and City.
The madness begins over Perth's Swan River and City.
The buzz you first get when you see a Red Bull Air Race competitor swoop low over the Swan River is pretty spectacular, but I'm guessing that it's nothing compared to the exhilleration that the pilots feel as they roll their plane over the cityscape.
It's no substitute for heading down to the river, but I grabbed a quick video of one of the competitors flying through the gates.
Source: http://static.flickr.com/119/298465284_afe00b4654.jpg
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Gee they fly low don’t they.
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I heard something like only 19 metres off the ground!
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Wow, good one Rich! My colleague said she saw planes this morning!
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It’s funny, I’m in East Perth and I heard the planes flying this morning. About an hour later I saw this article and could watch the video on YouTube!!!
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Yeah, it’s so great! Woohooo for the internet and citizen journalism and PerthNorg!
Btw, my husband Pascal could here the planes from his office in Subiaco!
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From the official media release:
Eleven of the world’s best race pilots will compete in a slalom course in the sky whilst negotiating
complex manoeuvres at breakneck speeds in the final of the Red Bull Air Race.
The pilots will take off from Langley Park and fly in a figure of eight holding pattern until they are
called into the flight box and hear the Air Race catch call “Pilot enter the box….…Smoke on.”
Race pilots have to fly though 20m high pylons (known as Air Gates) while flying at speeds in
excess of 400kms per hour. Flying at altitudes as low as 15m over the Swan River, the pilots are
fighting for every hundredth of a second. The fastest pilot with fewest mistakes wins.
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“The fastest pilot with fewest mistakes wins.”
Well, hopefully…….depends which mistake!
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Awsome. I’m getting really excited - hope the weather holds up though.
Cool video - I never realised they flew that low.
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