Red Bull Air Race World Series
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Red Bull Air Race World Series has been invented by the Red Bull in the year 2003. The pilots have to make their way through a difficult course and have to overcome the hurdles/obstacles created by the air gates. The person who collects the most number of points at the end of the race is declared to be the winner. Red Bull Air Race World Series can be also defined as a skiing race. Though the airfields are the chosen venues for this race, it is also held over seas and cities.
This event pulls in a large number of crowd and those people who are unable to witness this event live, they just need to make themselves comfortably seated in front of the television sets, as this event is covered live by most of the television channels. These races are generally held on the weekends. The eleven well trained and skilled pilots who take part in the event has to go through three training rounds and after having successfully passed the training rounds they have to go through the qualification round.
Listed below are the tactics that are an integral part of the, the Red Bull Air Race which are:
- Knife-edge
- Crossing a gate
- Loop
- Cuban eight
- Half Cuban
- Horizontal round
- Horizontal eight
- Horizontal roll
- Vertical quarter
- Vertical half
- Vertical roll
- Tailslide
The Red Bull Air Race was held over the river Swan, situated in Perth in the year 2006 for three days that is 17th, 18th and 19th of November. The other major feature of this event was that, a 'Paddock Walk' was organized that gave the spectators the opportunity to view from close quarters the aircrafts and the pilots.
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