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RE: Wow...what a pilot - 12/29/2003 2:15:04 PM   
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Status: offline 		Actually it was illegal because he had cigarette advertising on the plane. It was a $1000 fine, but the president of the country where he did it paid the fine. The pilot's name is Jurgis Kairys. He says the lowest he will go is his vertical stab 6" above the ground.

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RE: Wow...what a pilot - 12/29/2003 5:31:15 PM   
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Did anyone but me see the Indy cay on the bridge...looks like it is stuck on the wires.



apparently the pilot is a good friend with Mika Hakkinenas. he was there for that stunt and posed for pic afterwards.

http://www.inna.lt/kairys-video02.html

insane. that guy knows his planes limits... thats for sure.

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RE: Wow...what a pilot - 12/29/2003 5:42:24 PM   
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Status: offline 		Wow. Something about "Old" and "Bold" pilots comes to mind. But wow.

Looking at it in slow-mo, it looks like he starts climbing while still under the bridge, with a fairly gradual start to the climb.


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RE: Wow...what a pilot - 12/30/2003 4:06:55 AM   
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RE: Wow...what a pilot - 12/30/2003 8:07:15 PM   
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RE: Wow...what a pilot - 12/30/2003 11:00:48 PM   
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Status: offline 		WOW.... talk about impressive! that is a lot of skill and just the right amount of lunacy.

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RE: Wow...what a pilot - 12/31/2003 5:46:38 AM   
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RE: Wow...what a pilot - 12/31/2003 4:43:46 PM   
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Did anyone but me see the Indy car on the bridge...looks like it is stuck on the wires.




I saw that too! just goes to show ya that its not safe on land, in the air or even at sea over there. Hehehe...

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RE: Wow...what a pilot - 12/31/2003 5:13:07 PM   
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Status: offline 		Of course having certain body parts made of brass may have figured into his talent..lol

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RE: Wow...what a pilot - 1/1/2004 2:32:53 AM   
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RE: Wow...what a pilot - 1/2/2004 8:36:21 AM   
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Status: offline 		Well, taking into account the stunt that was performed, I'd say those brass body parts are much larger than knuckle sized!

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RE: Wow...what a pilot - 1/26/2004 11:09:17 AM   
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Status: offline 		From another article by Jonas Dovydenas:

"Of course, Kairys did a bit more than just fly under a bridge: he had a permit to fly under ten bridges, an almost unimaginable achievement. (The average permit if you want to do anything in Lithuania, like, say, borrow a friend's car for the day because yours was kidnapped and you need to collect some money to buy it back, requires 7.4 rubber stamps. A recent experience with remodelling a house in Vilnius has shown me it takes 2.33 days to get one stamp out of one beaurocrat, though once, in Haiti, I spent three days chasing a single stamp for my visa. So there are worse places in the world for red tape, but not many.)

Kairys didn't have problems getting a permit-the Prime Minister of Lithuania was on the Soviet aerobatic team with Kairys, back in the days when the Empire was administered in Moscow, not Brussels. And before he was PM he was mayor of Vilnius and flew wingman when Kairys flew under the White Bridge in '96. With the right connections the rise and fall of empires is but a momentary inconvenience."

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RE: Wow...what a pilot - 1/26/2004 12:20:35 PM   
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Status: offline 		The guy is, without a doubt, a nut case but one hell of a pilot!!

If you want full size 3D, the best person I've seen is Xavier De Laparent who flies a Breitling Academy Su26.

If anyone has go any videos of his 3D flying, please could you post them. I did have a video of him at the Aerofair at North Wield but I've lost it.

He does torque rolling, prophanging (absolute stationary for about 1min), rolling harrier circuits and LOOPS!!! Some bizaare cartwheel type manouevre that I've never seen before in my life. And to top it off he almost does a harrier landing, but exits it about 70feet into a normal approach (think a full harrier landing is a bit too risky).

He's brilliant, anyone else seen him perform??? Pics and vids would be great.

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RE: RE: Wow...what a pilot - 1/26/2004 3:31:05 PM   
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RE: RE: Wow...what a pilot - 1/26/2004 8:11:27 PM   
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Status: offline 		Actally i saw this pilot live last summer, on a swedish airshow. Never seen anyone fly like him before, he had, without doubt, the best aerobatic performance on the show, really crazy stuff thats really challenging both for the pilot and the aircraft: Inverted loops, amazing flat spinns, knife edges and inverted flyby:s just a couple of feet above the runway - you name it. CRAZY. But sweet as candy

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RE: RE: Wow...what a pilot - 1/26/2004 9:13:15 PM   
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Status: offline 		In regards to when to push to go up, alot of aerobatics is performed by sighting down the wing (that's what those triangles on the wingtips are for). I would suppose he would just see the bridge support (or even a portion of the bridge itself) on his way through as he's sighting down his wing.

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RE: RE: Wow...what a pilot - 1/26/2004 10:20:01 PM   
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