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Gene Soucy has been performing air shows for 30 years. The skills of this three-time National Aerobatic Champion are apparent as he flies his Grumman ShowCat through a series of slow, gentlemanly and very loud aerobatics.
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Gene Soucy has been performing air shows for 30 years. The skills of this three-time National Aerobatic Champion are apparent as he flies his Grumman ShowCat through a series of slow, gentlemanly and very loud aerobatics.
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Gene Soucy has been performing air shows for 30 years. The skills of this three-time National Aerobatic Champion are apparent as he flies his Grumman ShowCat through a series of slow, gentlemanly and very loud aerobatics.
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Gene Soucy has been performing air shows for 30 years. The skills of this three-time National Aerobatic Champion are apparent as he flies his Grumman ShowCat through a series of slow, gentlemanly and very loud aerobatics.
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Gene Soucy has been performing air shows for 30 years. The skills of this three-time National Aerobatic Champion are apparent as he flies his Grumman ShowCat through a series of slow, gentlemanly and very loud aerobatics.
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Gene Soucy has been performing air shows for 30 years. The skills of this three-time National Aerobatic Champion are apparent as he flies his Grumman ShowCat through a series of slow, gentlemanly and very loud aerobatics.
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Sean Tucker puts his Oracle biplane through its paces at Oshkosh, with maneuvers that no other biplane can perform. Among his unique showpieces is a triple ribbon cut. He flies through the ribbons, which are only 25 feet off the ground, at 220 mph in right knife-edge for the first ribbon, then left knife-edge, and finally inverted.
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Sean Tucker puts his Oracle biplane through its paces at Oshkosh, with maneuvers that no other biplane can perform. Among his unique showpieces is a triple ribbon cut. He flies through the ribbons, which are only 25 feet off the ground, at 220 mph in right knife-edge for the first ribbon, then left knife-edge, and finally inverted.
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Sean Tucker puts his Oracle biplane through its paces at Oshkosh, with maneuvers that no other biplane can perform. Among his unique showpieces is a triple ribbon cut. He flies through the ribbons, which are only 25 feet off the ground, at 220 mph in right knife-edge for the first ribbon, then left knife-edge, and finally inverted.
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Matt Younkin flies aerobatics in his Twin Beech 18, the only one in the world to do so.
All photos: Mo Spuhler