Who was that aerobat??

[jshawley]

So I was on the northeast side of Fulton, MO on my way to Columbia. Working my way out to get on US 54, I glance up and to the west/northwest, and see a plane at an unusual attitude. I wonder why it's climbing while at such an increasingly steep bank. Then I figure it out: it's doing an aileron roll! Watch it some more, and see it doing a half Cuban eight (correct me if I"m wrong: climbed, (got obscured by trees so I am guessing it...) came over the top, rolled upright, dove back to the start altitude, opposite direction). So I'm guessing that's a half Cuban. At any rate, it was so neat! Couldn't tell the colors, with my amber sunglasses, but as it crossed over 54, I pull off the road, grab the binoculars in the S-10's console and try to get a look at the N-number: couldn't see, but I did confirm that wasn't Diana rolleyes: ). It was an open-cockpit, radial-engined biplane--I suspect it was a Stearman, yellow and blue.

It made my whole day... Sigh-h-h-h-h.

Jim

 

[Diana]

Watch it some more, and see it doing a half Cuban eight (correct me if I"m wrong: climbed, (got obscured by trees so I am guessing it...) came over the top, rolled upright, dove back to the start altitude, opposite direction). So I'm guessing that's a half Cuban.

Sounds like a half Cuban. Although, my Immelmann's look like that too sometimes.

At any rate, it was so neat! Couldn't tell the colors, with my amber sunglasses, but as it crossed over 54, I pull off the road,

Good thing you pulled off!

grab the binoculars in the S-10's console and try to get a look at the N-number: couldn't see, but I did confirm that wasn't Diana rolleyes: ).

Nope, unfortunately, I haven't done acro since the Yak flight in July.

It was an open-cockpit, radial-engined biplane--I suspect it was a Stearman, yellow and blue.

It made my whole day... Sigh-h-h-h-h.

It's the little things in life.

Jim, if you are ever this far west, stop by and we'll do some acro at the farm.