European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 21, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday june 21, 1987 the stalls and stripes Page 3 members of Ibe British Royal air fora red arrows flying team zoom Ore inc Airstrip at Raf Milden Lull England during the air show attended by 200,000 people pilots wow pm at Mildenhall air show by Dave . Bantu Raf Mildenhall England Cape. Trula Eyre Points the nose of his f-16 into he Cloud strewn Blue sky climbs and spins the fighting Falcon on it Tail like a lop before leveling Oil some 20,000 feet below 200,000 people at the Milder Hall air show Are catching heir breaths rubbing sheif craned necks squinting to find Eyre to see what hell do next to pit his winged Gray machine against Gravity. Eyre is one of four . Air Force f-16 demonstration pilots in Europe. He will spend his summer week ends strapping into the fighter thai will soar screaming past hundreds of thousands of people who be come to see the Showoff showing is the hero pan Eyre said of Demansi ration flying. Al every attitude and Altitude above 750 feet the Hahn a. Germany Pilot does Maneu vers and turns Al speeds and angles the Best amusement Park nodes would t come close to. The aerobatics an As demanding As the combat flying thai Eyre s Jet is made a practice and mastered the skills to suy alive in Battle. Titis summer hell be using them i do out there at airshows. I be done in a combat Type environment said Eyre who has chalked up 2,000 hours in planes 700 in the supersonic f-16. This is harder because i m pulling More g sin a Shorter period of a or Force of Gravity is a Factor that plays with fighter Pilot s physiology. One g is the Force of Gravity Felt by a person standing a sea level. In a Kigiu 9-Gturn, inertia and Gravity plop an extra 1,600 pounds in the Lap of a Pilot who weighs about 175 will spend most of his 12-Minule routine turning hard climbing fast rolling and banking at the Jet s 9-Cj s Ali ring affair. You come Down drained Eyre said combat flying is a different business one of dogfights and dropping bombs on targets. Air show flying is More airman ship skill Minse Seal of the . This is strictly flying he said. In combat you Reso Busy you re but Eyre in t so confident that he ignores the Dan Gers of his lose their lives doing this stuff he said. And that s Why demo pilots Are picked for their such As right la. John Rands one of the f-16 Pilot Cape. Trulan Eyre newest members of the British Royal air Forpe red arrows demonstration team. Rands will make his Liv ing for the next three years lying his Jet Wing to win with nine others in formations with names like the carouse the Roll Back and the big nine Loop a speeds averaging near 400 Mph. The 27-year-old s flying abilities in lightning Light ers got him his Job. He said hell feel safer flying for crowds in his Hawk Trainer at 130 air shows this Yea than when he was practising for combat. A fear Factor never enters into it. It s nerves,1rands said of his new flying. You Don t want to Sere up in front of the the acc times daily practices in the off season help commit the performances to memory but ran Salso worries about peer pressure. A Quality performance can be ruined by one s All about setting the boys Down he said. There is an unofficial Competition Between ran Sand the two other rookies to end up As one of the synchro pair two red arrows who break from in team during the shows to do riskier crisscrossed barrel Rock and flybys. Only the besi arc in the synchro air Force Cape. Claude Saget is perhaps Overly modest about his toe tingling performance in his Mirage 2000."the aircraft is so Good he said it does whatever you ask it to Speaks like a fighter Pilot plucked from a paperback Page. His father a test Pilot for the assault Breguet super Mirage 4000, insisted that Claude and his three Brothers have their flying licenses before they s performance in the Delta winged Mirage often looks As if it will end in he brushes heroics aside. A Pilot scared he asked rhetorically. No he said shaking out a smile his performance last week Al the Mildenhall airshow a rare appearance for the French air Force was not so bad he said he in t sure How he can improve his Demon stration he knows he be never seen it from the outside. I never feel it is Good
