Flying Program

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The Airshows Downunder Shellharbour Flying Program has been carefully curated by our Ringmaster, aka the director of flying displays (just without a top hat), and is made up of different styles of displays to ignite your excitement. To help you understand what you will experience as you watch the flying displays, here’s a helpful guide:

• Aerobatics – Thrilling manoeuvres that involve bank angles greater than 60 degrees and/or pitch angles greater than 45 degrees.
• Aero teaser – Short aerobatics display.
• Balbo – a large group of warbirds flying in formation
• Flag Drop – Aircraft climb to altitude before releasing skydivers, who descend with large flags suspended below them.
• Flypast – One or more aircraft fly straight and level past the airshow audience.
• Formation flypasts – A flypast performed by two or more aircraft holding a set formation.
• Ground Attack – An aircraft simulates manoeuvres used to attack a ground target in combat.
• Handling display – An aircraft demonstrates its flying ability with manoeuvres that may or may not include aerobatics, depending on the individual aircraft’s capability.
• Tailchase – One or more aircraft chase another, as they would in aerial combat.
• Scramble – One or more parked aircraft start and take off in the shortest time possible.
• Solo – A single aircraft performing.