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Several years ago was at the World Aerobatics competition and saw a supersonic kit jet. It was two place and had two different control sticks. one for below mach and one for above. They jokingly called it the farmer killer as farmers with big spreads were the ones that bought and flew that kind of stuff. It looked like a big BD-5, the mini jet in the 007 movie. Saw the 007 jet Budweiser was sponsoring at a local small airshow. Besides the tiny size they seemed mostly proud of how fast the landing gear would retract and deploy. Kind of killed the movie as it took them nearly 30 minutes to get it spooled up and ready to fly. Great little airshow though. Ended up getting to take a ride ON a Stearman biplane. Was strapped into the wing walker's harness standing on the top wing. Very windy, but crazy fun ride. Pretty much a very noisy roller coaster.
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