I've spent much of my pilot career hoping that I never make the evening news with my flying, and I'm happy to report that we recently failed in that goal.
Some of you may already have seen this, but if not:
https://fox4kc.com/news/two-umkc-professors-fly-above-the-metro-urging-residents-to-vote-with-their-flight-path/https://fox4kc.com/news/kc-mayor-joins-in-on-high-flying-fun-to-urge-metro-residents-to-vote-in-upcoming-election/Travis and I had a huge amount of fun with this project. The overall goal was promoting civic engagement, but the daily goals were sorting out how to plan and fly complicated flight patterns to skywrite various ways to write "VOTE". We flew six total flights with in-trail formation. By the last flights, we were getting better about making tight turns with airspeed variations and hard pulls.
We flew some minor celebratory aerobatics after completing the skywriting of KC Mayor's handwriting. They decided to include my loop in the segment, although the video was sped up to make it look like I was pulling 12+Gs. Fear not, I remained well within my operating limits.
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