I have been to many airshows and seen a lot of crazy stuff, so it's not that often that I actually get 'surprised' by flight demos... but the Belgian Solo Display Team just did that at Flygfesten 2022. There are several maneuvers in thes aerobatic routine that make me think the pilot is beyond nuts, and I friggin' love it!! (And you should too!)
Also the fact that they linked so many maneuvers with wide, ass-drifting loaded rolls, all while sporting smokewinders on the wingtips just makes it outright sexual, ROFL. (not to mention the beautiful clouds we had as background!)
Captain Steven “Vrieske” De Vries from Belgian Air Component is the first F-16 pilot outside the US to clock, 5,000 hours on the mighty Viper. He has been a member of the Belgian Air Force since 1990 where he flies with the 31st “Tigers” Squadron at Kleine Brogel Air Base.
You can find out more about this display team on their official facebook site:
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Flygfesten is one of the biggest airshows in Europe. It attracts around 50.000 attendees. Flygfesten is an eventful weekend with world class pilots and airplanes. Flygfesten has been organized every three to four years since the re-launch in 1986. It is held in Sweden by Västerdalarnas Aero club, an aeroclub located in Dala-Järna in Vansbro municipality, with about 7000 inhabitants.
Although the air show is the major focal area, Flygfesten aims to make the show more than just a regular flight display but a festival, where Saturday’s and Sunday’s air show are complemented with evening entertainment during Friday and Saturday night in the form of dance, rock, disco and fun fair.
Flygfesten is a non-profit arrangement and is held to promote the activity of the club in particular and to aviation in general. It offers a good forum for aviation enthusiasts to meet other likeminded, while it is a fine opportunity for the Club to recruit new members.
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The General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon is a single-engine multirole fighter aircraft originally developed by General Dynamics for the United States Air Force (USAF). Designed as an air superiority day fighter, it evolved into a successful all-weather multirole aircraft. Over 4600 aircraft have been built since production was approved in 1976. Although no longer being purchased by the U.S. Air Force, improved versions are being built for export customers. In 1993, General Dynamics sold its aircraft manufacturing business to the Lockheed Corporation, which in turn became part of Lockheed Martin after a 1995 merger with Martin Marietta.
The Fighting Falcon's key features include a frameless bubble canopy for good visibility, side-mounted control stick to ease control while maneuvering, an ejection seat reclined 30 degrees from vertical to reduce the effect of g-forces on the pilot, and the first use of a relaxed static stability/fly-by-wire flight control system that helps to make it an agile aircraft. The F-16 has an internal M61 Vulcan cannon and 11 harpoints for mounting weapons and other mission equipment. The F-16's official name is "Fighting Falcon", but "Viper" is commonly used by its pilots and crews, because of a perceived resemblance to a viper snake as well as the Colonial Viper starfighter on Battlestar Galactica which aired at the time the F-16 entered service.
SPECS
Crew: 1
Length: 15.06 m
Wingspan: 9.96 m
Height: 4.9 m
Wing area: 28 m2
Airfoil: NACA 64A204
Empty weight: 8573 kg
Gross weight: 12020 kg
MTOW: 19187 kg
Fuel capacity: 3200 kg internal
Payload: 7167 kg
Powerplant: 1 × General Electric F110-GE-129 afterburning turbofan, 76.31 kN thrust dry, 131 kN with afterburner
PERFORMANCE
Maximum speed:
- Mach 2.05 (2178 km/h at 40,000 feet, clean)
- Mach 1.20 (1482 km/h at sea level)
Combat range: 546 km (w/ 454 kg payload)
Ferry range: 4217 km with drop tanks
Service ceiling: 18000 m
G limits: +9.0
Roll rate: 324°/s
Wing loading: 431 kg/m2
Thrust/weight: 1.095 (1.24 with loaded weight & 50% internal fuel)
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