74 Red Bull Helicopter Aerobatics Air Show Performer – Aaron Fitzgerald Live Interview

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🗓️ 9 August 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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74 Red Bull Helicopter Aerobatics Air Show Performer – Aaron Fitzgerald Live Interview

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Max talks with Aaron Fitzgerald at AirVenture about how he got inspired as a child to fly helicopters, and how he came to fly aerobatics for the Red Bull Air Force. After serving as a paratrooper in the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division he began flight training in 1994. Next he began flying news helicopters in Los Angeles. Today, he’s CEO of Airborne Images, and he has over 8,500 flight hours. He’s worked all over North America on over 100 film and television projects. He recently joined the Red Bull team flying aerobatics in a helicopter and his debut air show was earlier this week at AirVenture.

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0:00.0	So I start on the ground and I spiral up.
0:04.1	I do a hover, a pedal turn up to my assigned show altitude, which is roughly 1,000 feet
0:10.0	AGL and I start the show with a backflip, which is a zero airspeed loop.
0:13.6	So you're in an out of ground effect hover, zero airspeed, and you just pull max power, and
0:17.8	then over you go.
0:18.8	It's like falling backwards out of a chair.
0:24.8	So it's a very slow to develop loop and that's where we unload the system. So it actually, you're about zero to sometimes half a negative G as you come over the top of that
0:30.6	backflip. Let's see if the video's coming up here. All right, super. I think we are ready to roll.
0:37.6	Three, two, one. Well, super. I think we are ready to roll. Three, two, one.
0:40.9	Well, good morning.
0:42.4	Welcome to Oshkosh.
0:43.7	This is the Aviation News Talk broadcast, and this is our third and final live broadcast
0:48.2	from the tent at, let's see, where are we?
0:50.6	The Lightspeed tent.
0:51.9	Good looking headsets we're wearing here at the moment.
0:53.8	We're broadcasting live on Facebook, and so I'm looking headsets we're wearing here at the moment.
0:57.8	We're broadcasting live on Facebook, and so I'm looking to see if anybody has any comments.
1:01.8	I'm going to be watching. Go ahead and say hello to us, and we'll wave back to you. And the nice thing about Facebook Live is we can kind of read the comments and interact with folks anyway.
1:07.7	But here on Aviation News Talk, we talk about general aviation.
1:11.2	I'm your host, Max Trusket, been a pilot for 40 years, and my goal is
1:15.0	to see if I has to inform you about things that can actually help you when you fly.
1:19.6	I want to make sure that you stay safe out there.
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