Winston-Salem Airshow L-39 Low Pass and landing

Here is the cockpit view during Winston-Salem Airshow. Low Passes and landing on Soviet era jet warbird L-39 Albatross

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• jets
• airshow
• L-39
• albatross
• bakhit
• warbirds

[bkourman]

If Rouisu had ever flown aerobatics on any aircraft, he/she would not make so silly comments.

[bkourman]

This maneuver is called wing over, where the bank angle exceed 90 degrees, so look up to the reference line on the ground, I am comfortable up to 6G without g-suite, next phase was high speed low pass at about 350 knots at the altitude less than 100 feet. The wing over is no g maneuver

[bkourman]

While I was on the back seat, I haven't paid a penny for flying jet, I was a crew member second in command pilot for the air show performance.

[lti12]

are you confined to one area as regulated by the faa? or can you use it to travel around the usa?

[bkourman]

It used to be for experimental-exhibition category confined area for practice only, and occasional up to 600 miles maintenance flights, now it is easy as the rules changed, but L-39 limited by fuel capacity to about 650 miles anyway with VFR reserve, that makes it poor IFR machine as IFR reserve will be half of fuel tanks. It is great travel machine if you don't have luggage or ship it Fedex.

[colin5577]

Even after 6-odd minutes of this close-up-of-my-face video, I can't tell if this is a guy or a girl. In any event, thanks for sharing, but in future, if you're going to take a ride in a military jet, it'd be fun to see the jet and some of the ride, no? I mean... presumably you know what you look like already.

[bkourman]

This is a part from series of other videos on flying Albatross L-39.

My face was for my mother and friends, they enjoyed it. I have plenty of videos out of window, but then who knows who is flying, that way I know, you know who took the video.

Visit the channel and you would know who I am.

[Rouisu]

At 1:40 his head falling backwards while gasping for dear breath, looks like he's suffering “almost” g-induced loss of consciousness (A-LOC).

[Rouisu]

he's only a L-39 back-seat jet rider, he paid for it

[gizgaz934]

AHHHH Captain Midnight ! That was a fun ride !