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Watching this now I can see the trademarks that ultimately led to tragedy. Jim was flying lower and harder than any airshow pilot I’ve watched in the last ten years. You generally see unlimited aerobatics airshow pilots shallowing off their down lines, so while they end very low the pull out is low G, leaving room for a high G recovery to avoid the groind if something goes wrong. Jim’s pull outs in this video are almost all high G, ending barely over the ground. There is almost no margin for error. The day he crashed a wing flutter interrupted his pull out and shallowed the round out. He didn’t have the altitude to recover no matter how hard he pulled back, leading to a hard pancake crash. Amazing pilot, I can only dream of having half his skill, but it really makes sense of why modern airshow pilots fly the way they do.

Jim LeRoy reached into the heavens to touch the hand of God every time his plane lifted off the Earth. But on that fateful day of July 28th, 2007, Jim LeRoy flew his Pitts Bulldog for the last time... And while his plane crashed to Earth and burst into the flames of Hell, Jim LeRoy wasn't there. You see on that day, Jim LeRoy didn't reach into the heavens to touch the hand of God - it was God who reached down to Earth and lifted him up into the Heavens, never to fall again.

Great aerobatic display flight and landing with smoke taxing

I can't even do a simple trick on a bike

o cara era muito feraaa

i take it this isnt a traditonal made duster? lol.. a 302 would smack the ground probably.. but this is turbine... what engine? this is wild to watch and awesome..

awesome

Well, looks like the "full size" guys are now doing what the rc'ers have been doing. I really don't like that "hanging on the prop" stuff. That's not real avaiating.

Sorry, but the "best" doesn't fly himself into the tarmac. RIP

Great pilot, great show.......

Always the same old boring routines with Pitts, up and down and up again, with tumbles at the top, and some rolls. Blah, boring. I want to see two pitts dogfight it out at low altitude.over the field. Then you'll see who's the better pilot.

This guy is good, but Skip Stewart is great...

You don't get old doing low level aerobatics, but living out a dream is worth it.

Not the best..Skip Stewart is quite a bit better :P

I met Jim at the Dayton airshow some years ago, and didn't learn of his death until more recently. He was a damn fine pilot, and a very nice guy to talk to. RIP, and thanks for showing us all how to get it done in an airplane!

wish we had that in WWI, awesome.

i could do that, pull back to go up, right?

R.I.P Jimmy

1. Jim 2. Skip 3. Sean D.

However, if you are using a carbureted engine, unless you have a specialized "Pressure" carb, you will not be able to make aerobatic maneuvers without flooding the engine. These pressurized carburetors are relatively inexpensive, and most of the newer aerobatic engines are fuel injected anyway. Aerobatic engines also have dry sump oil systems, and a beefier crankshaft flange for the propeller.

A rich condition won't overheat the engine, however an overly lean condition will. Most helicopters nowadays use turbo shafts because they are more reliable and (barring FOD ingestion) rarely quit mid flight unless you run them out of fuel. Turbo shafts are also able to make more power out of a smaller footprint and weight, which in a weight critical aircraft such as a helicopter makes more sense. The angle at which a piston engine is flying will have zero effect upon the air intake.

Holy shit! This is fantastic....awesome!

I'm completely amazed by the skills of this pilot ... absolutely awesome!

Merci beaucoup MrGuillaume74, Are you saying it is simply down to needing more HP in these aircraft. What would you reckon it would need to be? perhaps in excess of 500-600 HP? surely that is quite attainable nowadays with modern lightweight engineering and blowers etc. Many thanks for your reply.

First prototypes for vertical take-off aeroplanes were using this very same suggestion that you make, Problem is that with a traditional atmospheric engine like the pitt, your engine do not breath enought air when using all of its power in such "vertical-static" flight condition, and the gasoline-oxygen mix injected into the pistons change, becoming too rich in gas, so your engine will enventually stall or overheat, and stall eighter. That's why most helicopters nowadays use turboprop engines ;)

As someone who knows nothing about aviation, but who has great admiration for this man's amazing ability, can I ask a question of anyone who can answer. When the aircraft is hanging vertically, is it actually slowly losing hight and if not, has anyone ever landed one tail first? I ask simply because it looks very much like these machines with their massive HP are beginning to reach model type power to weight ratios and I have seen those landed tail first! Sorry if it sounds a silly question.

That's bloody incredible. Holy crap!

sem palavras....

he looks like one hell of a pilot but i saw another guy named skip stewart thats got a biplane named prometheus and he does some badass crazy shit with it and at low altitude and speed if you like this guy you should check skip out lol

Wind@4:19 sounds like a nuke going off!

They were all great pilots... unfortunately all dead after forming up the "Masters of Disaster". Indeed... Lets watch our words, people...

he love -G's....I HATE THEM

Amazing pilot - RIP Big Jim !! G

1.30-1.38 is just sick... :-)

Incredible, love it. Daring men in their flying machines. What a thrill to watch.

guess you've never heard of Skip Stewart...because Stewart is the best...

Excellent! He makes it look like he could almost land in a hover!

@winsor68 its called a harrier

Dammm he is good :)

Some of these move can push atleast 7-8 hd

my hero

Without a doubt, best Pitts demo that I've seen in my rookie 30 years of aviating; hands down, the best. Didn't realize that he died, until I read some of the comments.

jim leroy one of the best areobatic pilots ever came in history .... mercy be upon him

WoW!!! AWESOME

Damn This GUY is smoking WEEED!!! look at that smoke

To quote on of the best pilots I know.. "If you're going to show off - don't fuck it up!"

@funkyzero And he's dead now too. There are Old Pilots There are Bold pilots There are no Old Bold Pilots. I think you'd do well to consider the ironic accuracy of rastorry's comments

R.I.P Jim Leroy He was the best i talk to one of his friends and his wife they say they miss him

@rastorry Son,Jim flew the S2 like an extension of his own body. Few men have ever pushed an airframe so close to it's thresholds and kept in in one piece. He's one of the most precise pilots I've ever seen in my life. The very fact that you don't know who he was tells me you need to go back to your flight sim and post CG videos. Nothing LeRoy did was "made up on the spot". The man was not only an incredible pilot, he was a Marine.

dangerous cowboy.None of his rolls are properly co-ordianted,all his exicution is sloppy and made up on the spot.This guy is gonna kill himself very soon