Air Race at the Corniche

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On February 3, we went to the Red Bull Airshow, at the Corniche. The Red Bull Airshow is the grand championship of racing pilots. It hosts races around the world in a gather-the-most-points kinda style. The planes are EXTRA 300-S single seat prop planes with smoke trails.

 First there was the no-pro class,


The no-pro class people were pretty bad, two of them sliced a pylon (the things that the planes fly through) with their wings!
To describe what a pylon is more clearly, all it would need is a face, long wavy arms, and it would be one of those floppy MacDonalds dudes, exept not, well, floppy. When he sliced the pylon, the air that blows up the pylon all blew out and it flopped back onto the black floaty thing. The people on the floaty thing that holds up the pylon had to repair it quickly. While they repaired the pylon, they did a search and rescue demonstration, with airlift gear on a Bell H-1. 

 Then came the pro sauce group. No pictures, but they were much better. Most of them were doing loop the loops to turn around, but others may have been cheating (they did a quick sideways bank). Others may have been to scared, because they just flew out of the race! After that they did a quick parachute demonstration, and that was ALL.
We were sitting on the beach while this all happened, and eating candy and mixed nuts & stuff, so it was pretty nice :)
All in all, it was pretty cool to see the Red Bull Airshow, and we hope the pylons have recovered.

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