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What a coincidence - we had met Red Bull It’s always good to have a parachute,
previously already: The Flying Bulls, Red Bull‘s I guess. So I was allowed to climb into the
flying squadron from Salzburg who were our compartment after the pilot‘s seat had been folded
guests of honor at the 30th anniversary of down – that’s where the large auxiliary fuel tank
Museum Sinsheim and 20th anniversary of normally is. The Corsair was a carrier-based
Museum Speyer. We celebrated these aircraft with a larger range. So they removed
anniversaries as part of our first BRAZZELTAG that auxiliary tank and made room for another
2011 at which our museum‘s president took passenger. It was a great honor for me to be a
the chance to join a flight. guest on board.
Also, I was part of some aerobatic maneuvers
Mr. Layher, how do you remember the day during the flight. This was a special Corsair
back then? experience because the aircraft is quite heavy
On the first day I joined a flight in the Cobra and therefore you feel the inertia even more.
helicopter. This is one of the world’s most The sound from the special radial motor is one
spectacular helicopters. The helicopter legend of a kind.
Siegfried „Blacky“ Schwarz himself performed Having received lots of impressions on the flight
some aerobatic manoeuvres in the sky. This I returned landing on Speyer grounds, unharmed
was incredibly impressive for me. and very much relieved. When I told the pilot that
The next morning I was invited to join a F4U4 I suffer from aerophobia (fear of flying) he said I
Corsair’s flight. This aircraft is especially close should have told him earlier. But that would have
to my heart as I had only seen it from a distance, made the experience not quite the adventure!
imagining a flight someday. When I was a Now, ten years later on the occasion of the
student I had a model replica made of plastic. museum‘s anniversary, we are hosting RED BULL
That day, I wore flat shoes with leather soles. WORLD OF RACING at our Hall 3 in Sinsheim.
This of course scratched the paint. Therefore I So I’d say with a Flying Bulls plane in our
boarded the airplane barefoot. The pilot, Raimund exhibition things have come full circle.
Riedmann, todays Flight Director of the Flying Bulls
gave me a parachute.
