Coeur d'Alene Air Show today, aims to inspire people to 'dream without barriers'
Retired Air Force pilot Jerry “Jive” Kerby flies Wild Blue, "the little RV-8A that dreams of being a fighter jet." Wild Blue is one of several aircraft performing aerobatic stunts today at the Coeur d'Alene Airport.
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Dan Vance prepares to take off in the Vought F4U Corsair during a rehearsal for the Coeur d’Alene Aviation Air Show and Expo.
The Corsair is part of the Erickson Collection from Madras, Ore. and was shown in the 2022 movie "Devotion."
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Renny Price takes his Sukhoi-29 upside-down during aerobatic stunts Friday at the rehearsal for the Coeur d’Alene Aviation Air Show and Expo. The Sukhoi-29 is considered one of the best two-place unlimited competition aircraft in the world currently and has a nine-cylinder radial, 360-horse powered engine.
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Renny Price takes the Russian-built Sukhoi-29 up into a climb before tumbling down in an aerobatic stunt Friday at the Coeur d'Alene Airport.
Price is a retired airline captain and has logged over 23,000 hours since his first flight in 1969.
The normal climb rate is 3,150 feet per minute at 1 Gs of force, but the vertical speed indicator can’t keep up when Price pulls the stick back to 9 Gs.
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Kyle Fowler of GO EZ Aerobatics flies a stylish, yellow Long aircraft at a practice session Friday ahead of today's Coeur d’Alene Aviation Air Show and Expo Coeur d’Alene Airport-Pappy Boyington Field.
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Dan Vance flew the Corsair Vought F4U Corsair plane Friday at the air show practice. The plane was the same one Pappy Boyington flew and still has movie paint from the 2022 film, "Devotion."
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HAYDEN — Air show announcer and producer Lunar Sawyer is ready to see her husband take to the sky in “Wild Blue,” the “little RV-8A that dreams of being a fighter jet.”
Today only, the Coeur d’Alene Aviation Air Show and Expo will showcase aerobatic antics at the Coeur d'Alene Airport-Pappy Boyington Field.
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