#ICYMI - Extreme Flying – Red Bull Air Race, with Kirby Chambliss

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🗓️ 15 November 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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In case you missed this episode on the Playing with Science channel… Hop in, buckle up, and earn your wings alongside hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly as they explore Red Bull Air Racing with Technical Director Jim “Jimbo” Reed, and pilot and 2-time World Champion Kirby Chambliss. Photo Credit: Myself (Hamish) [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.

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0:00.0	I'm Gary O'Reilly and I'm Chuck Knies.
0:11.8	This is playing with science.
0:15.3	Today we take to the skies but not to serenely sail through the clouds.
0:19.4	Oh no, this is going to be straight up vertical upside down and flying by the seat of your
0:24.6	pants stuffed because today we have the need, the need for speed.
0:29.6	That's right, Goose.
0:30.6	Okay.
0:31.6	Yes, we do because we are going red bull air racing and helping us to navigate through
0:37.2	the course is the man that knows everything about red bull air racing technical director
0:43.2	Jim Jim Bo Reed will be joining us.
0:47.0	But first of course a show involving speed and pulling some serious G would not be the
0:52.4	same without our very good friend from Forbes magazine adventure journalist Jim Clash.
0:56.4	Yes, who I am pleased to say is with us in the studio once again today.
1:00.4	Hi Jim, welcome back.
1:01.4	Thank you Gary, thank you Chuck.
1:03.4	It's always great to be here.
1:04.4	That's right man.
1:05.4	It says the nicest thing I know.
1:06.4	Jim Clash, the man whose name was made for adventure.
1:10.4	Yes.
1:11.4	So you're not unfamiliar with the red bull air racing or in fact not that they go supersonic
1:19.4	but speed itself in an aircraft.
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