Ep. 167: Aircraft Aerobatics with the Legend Patty Wagstaff
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2016
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Holy cow. What a really nice woman Patty Wagstaff was to speak with. Listen in to hear about her amazing career in aviation and aircraft aerobatics. If you know aviation, you know Patty Wagstaff. Patty talks about getting her start in flight and how it turned into a passion which quickly lead her to join the U.S. National Aerobatics Team. Her career is littered with championships, awards and achievements. She still performs amazing stunts for air shows around the globe in her Extra 300LX and operates the Patty Wagstaff Aerobatic School in St. Augustine, FL. You won't want to miss this exciting interview!
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| 0:00.0 | I was doing an inverted flat spin and it didn't come out. |
| 0:04.0 | And I was getting lower and lower. |
| 0:06.4 | And I was moving the stick. |
| 0:08.4 | I was trying to recover. |
| 0:10.2 | And I had trained for this emergency spin recovery. |
| 0:13.3 | And I'd taken like about five hours of training in this before I started doing this, |
| 0:18.8 | flying this particular airplane. |
| 0:23.2 | The training came to me. I heard my instructor's voice tell me power off, take your hands off the stick, full opposite rudder, |
| 0:28.9 | and, you know, I recovered pretty low. And when I came into land, I kind of, the landing wasn't |
| 0:36.2 | set up right, so I came back around and landed the second time. And when I got out of the plane, you know to you by 180 tack. Get out there and have some fun. |
| 1:09.7 | Episode 167, the legend of aerobatic flight, Patty Wagstaff, is on the show today. |
| 1:32.6 | Hi, and welcome back to another Adventure Sports podcast episode. This is your host, Travis. |
| 1:43.1 | Today on the line with me is one of the aviation grates. If you guys know planes and aviation, you know the name Patty Wagstaff. She is, you know, from my interests and aviation, you know the name Patty Wagstaff. |
| 1:51.7 | She is, you know, from my interests in aviation and growing up loving airplanes, the name Patty Wagstaff was synonymous with Michael Jordan or John Denver, you know, when it comes to |
| 1:58.3 | that. |
| 1:58.9 | So it's just a, she's really a well-known woman in the community and, |
| 2:03.2 | and has basically managed to win herself many, many awards and recognition in aviation. |
| 2:11.5 | She grew up in a family of aviators after witnessing her father's career, flying for Japan Airlines. |
| 2:17.4 | Her interest in airplanes ultimately grew into a passion five years after witnessing her father's career, flying for Japan Airlines, her interest in airplanes ultimately grew into a passion. |
| 2:20.3 | Five years after receiving her pilot's license, Patty's desire to fly aerobatics led her to the U.S. |
| 2:26.4 | Arabatic team where she competed for 11 years. |
| 2:29.2 | She's won three U.S. aerobatic national championships and has also been inducted into numerous aviation |
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