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Wow. Looks like fun!
For a while there was a Snoopy and the Red Baron themed aerobatic show at King's Island amusement part. They had two Waco biplanes, a black one and a red one. They guy who flew the part of Snoopy took me up with him a couple of times when they were practicing the routines. He told me they practice over the city dump in case someone falls out (!). I would get so confused about which way was up that I finally just sat back and started trying to guess which direction the horizon was going to appear next. The tail slides were amazing. The horizon would totally disappear and I could feel we were going up. Then it would get very quiet, then I would feel kind of weightless, then the horizon would appear either on the right or left, I never really knew which, and all hell would break loose - engine wailing and wires screaming and all I could see was the ground coming up at me ... I did figure out that when it gets real quiet you are about to go up in the seat and when the wind in the wires its really loud your were about to be smooshed into the seat, other than that I was lost most of the time. I don't know how those pilots do it.
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