I have seen Rob fly in many airshows. His show is just awesome. Nice to see what happens in the cockpit and see what he sees. I already had respect for what he does. Now even more so. Keep up the good work Rob and THANK YOU for all your hard work !!
Incredible skill, can't even imagine how it's done. I went to the Owensboro KY airshow last weekend and witnessed many amazing pilots and I thank you all. Love it!
OK.. I'll own it.. This has to be hands down and away my favorite RU-vid video.. The more i learn about flying the more I'm impressed with the precision and absolute situational awareness shown here.. This is a combination extreme unusual attitude recovery seminar and abb workout.. :D I've never seen an air speed at zero.. And frankly, if Im not on the ramp I'm good with that..
I just saw him perform this weekend at the Blue Angels Air Show in Key West. He performed alone and with his Firebirds partner. He was amazing. A lot of people go to air shows for the fighter jets only... after this weekend, I would go just to see his performances.
Absolutely speechless……. Poetry in motion. I just wanted to say that these videos have inspired me to pursue my PPL. Im currently a student pilot, just nailed my first landing. My dream is to own an Extra. Thank you for inspiring me to do good things
This is always the video I watch when I need a pick-me-up. Amazing pilot, amazing moves, and amazing music. Love the two views. A way of kinda living out what was my dream through RU-vid.
I watched Rob perform his aerobatic routine at the Pocono Raceway in PA on May 28, 2013. I have been to many air shows and can say that Rob puts on the best acrobatic performance I have ever seen! His aircraft is built to handle 16 g's, positive and negative. His show probably gets him close to those limits. Fantastic!
...And this is why I'm getting my pilots license. Still on the first step, but if I could reach the slightest threshold of his level of skill, my life would be fulfilled beyond my expectations. Super awesome vid.
AAA181 - getting your license is not the issue - being a millionaire to afford and having all day to do what these guys do is a different story. No one ever talks about what these people started out with to do this. Usually when they do occasionally talk about it, it's "my father/grandfather/ family is an aviation family, and I've been doing this since I was little, I solo'd at 16 and got my pilot's license at 17..." . Poor people don't have access to this. Want another example of this, look up Matt Guthmiller. Another example of an entitled kid with disgustingly-rich parents. His claim to fame? Flying around the world at age 19. I guess he mowed a lot of lawns growing to save for that, right? Yeah, right.... Get rich first my friend. Then go fly.
That finish is easily some of the best stuff I have ever seen in aviation. The setup and touchdown alone are epic but throwing in an intentional bounce and low level-low speed roll is an epic cherry on top.
What the hell was that? my stomach is still on the ground.................unbelievable to be in the seat of this incredible pilot how the hell does he do it thankyou Rob for this taste of fear.
Rob performs at a awesome WWII airshow in Geneseo I go to every year called the Greatest Show On Turf, and every year he blows me away. I love this guy.
This guy is just amazing. I look forward to seeing him and his crew at Geneseo (Greatest Show on Turf) each summer, as he accomplishes things in planes that don't look like they'd ever be possible. Would be cool to see a real-time "Gee" graph in the corner of the video to get an inkling of the punishment your body is going through in those routines, by seeing which way you're getting pulled around and by how much... With the cheap accelerometers in pretty much everything (phones) these days it might be possible... Thx for the vids!
his MXS RH is probably more suited to his type of flying actually lol. Jets are laggier to throttle change and more suited to flowing turns and not rough back and fourth like this. Theyre bigger and overall clunkier, kinda like muscle cars vs a subaru, muscle car is faster but subaru is more suited to tight winding roads. It would be hard to do the tight stalling turns and flat spins in a jet.
Man, how can you live with yourself, stealing the show from the Blue Angels or that? Haha, what an incredible performance; I hope to see you in person some day!
ilarson007 I saw him and Bill Stein at the Blue Angels homecoming at the Pensacola NAS earlier today. They both did this sort of stuff. It was amazing. I highly recommend you go see him or Stein if you ever get the chance.
Thanks for sharing this. A perspective I thought would be forever out of my reach. Interesting to see that fixed indicator tool on the wing tip. Seems very handy!
I did aerobatics for the first time last week in a Robin Alpha 160 and it was amazing despite only pulling 3 Gs but even that still felt like a lot to me.
Amazing with the picture in picture so we get the spectator view as well! Is there a version without music so we can hear the roar of the propeller? 👍😎🛩️
Wow. That MXS does 500 degrees-per-second rolls! Snap rolls. Lomcevak. I tried my best to figure out the "box" he flew inside. It looked to me like his angles were off if he used a runway as a reference. But, wow. And no notes on the instrument panel; all in his head! That landing sure surprised me, too.
That was amazing, well done. Quite inspiring to me as a noob rc plane owner. I am going to watch this again and again. Right now! I like the music with the video. And I was surprised to see him grab the stick with two hands once and awhile. Crabbing inverted was awesome. Wow, what balls it takes to do that so low to the ground. I doubt you will see this Rob , but I was wondering if you felt you made any mistakes in this routine? Because if you did , you handled it well and went on with the routine. Sorry Rob, I have only one gripe with this spectacular video, I couldn't see you move the stick the hole time.
I got the chance to meet Rob at an airshow at the naval base in kingsville tx, really nice fella, I got an in depth tour of his 300, which really isn't all that impressive because these things are incredibly tiny and spartan.
I've got a few things to say 1 what plane is that 2 amazing performance hope I get to see you perform one day when I staff another airshow with CAP and 3 you sir got some balls of steel to fly a plane like that
How does one get into doing stuff like this? I'm working on my PPL and would like to eventually get to this level and participate in air shows and such
Question for you, Rob... how low are you flying at the bottom half of your maneuvers? It doesn't look like you're more than a few feet of the ground at some spots.
***** He's incredible to watch fly... I attend a couple of airshows each year and he's one of the performers that I base my decision on where to go on. :) I'll be seeing him next month at Rhode Island... I can't wait.
