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Wolff was drafted into the US Army and sent to flight school. [1] At 21 he became the youngest captain in the army. [2] During the Vietnam War, he flew helicopters. [3] In his military career, he won 22 awards of the Air Medal, and a Bronze Star.
Tucker's favorite stunt is the "triple ribbon cut", where he uses his plane to cut three ribbons suspended between poles from three different angles. [4] Despite once having a fear of flying, Tucker has flown more than 1,000 performances at more than 425 airshows, in front of more than 80 million spectators.
Arthur Everett Scholl (December 24, 1931 – September 16, 1985) was an American aerobatic pilot, aerial cameraman, flight instructor and educator based in Riverside, Southern California. He died during the filming of Top Gun when his Pitts S-2 camera plane failed to recover from a spin and plunged into the Pacific Ocean.
It's pretty amazing that anyone can fly an airplane in the first place. But for an exceptionally skilled and extremely nervy pilots, plain old straightforward flight isn't thrilling enough ...
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Marjorie Stinson, "only woman to whom a pilot's license has been granted by Army & Navy Committee of Aeronautics", in WWI. Marjorie Claire Stinson (July 5, 1895 – April 15, 1975) was an American aviator, airmail pilot, pilot instructor, and stunt pilot — one of the pioneering Stinson siblings of early aviation, who included older sister Katherine, and younger brothers Eddie and Jack.
May 27—The first 106-foot hill of Silverwood Theme Park's first new roller coaster in more than a decade is absurdly steep. Stunt Pilot doesn't let up from there. "We design it to be action ...
Lowell Richard Bayles (January 24, 1900 - December 5, 1931) was an American air race and stunt pilot from the "Golden Age of Air Racing." He was the winner of the 1931 Thompson Trophy flying the Gee Bee Model Z.