What's a Lomcevak? R

_ & top: rated selection of
‘peronautic acrobatics: will split
the Vanderhoof skles July 24th
and 25th. =, .
Spectatora will be treated to
high speed repertoires involving
. Spectacular. spins, plunges,
pirouettes and death defying
feats. _ a
' Though some. mancouyres
look ‘totally. out, of control,
aerobatics are d careful combina-

tion of derring-do, expertise, ©

’ precision ‘and technique.

Hach stunt has detailed direc-
tions, anid can be performed
alone or in ‘series, or combined
with another trick.

Some of the basic mancouvres
include inverted flight, snap
rolls, tail slides, loopa with out-
side snaps at the top, outside —
spins, lomcevaks, hammerheads,
cuban 6's, point ralls, vertical

8's and split S's. Most are detall-

ed in diagrams and descriptions —

on this page.

Inverted Might: The plane flics.

upside down. .
‘Snap Roll: The alrcraft turns a

full rotation about its horizontal

axis. ' .

Tall Stide: The plane pulls up

steeply, then slides sharply

backwards and down, tail end

first.” Recovering control, it,

Snap Roll os

‘plunges jnto a downward arc asd
flips into inverted flight. © ~

Loop With Outside Smap At
. Top: The pilot executes a loop, ;
“flying up“and around, rotating

the plane 360 degrees at the top
then completing the opposite
side,

Hammerhead: The aircraft

‘files directly upward, nose imed

at the sky, executes a 90 degree

-turn forward, then plunges

7 Aerob a tics | |

- ‘Loop with Outside
_— Snap at Top.

straight down toward the earth.

Lomcerak: Named after the -
Czechoslovakian ‘word for

“headache”, the lomcevak is an
but of control stunt requiring the

-plane to dive end over end before

recovering control, — .
Cuban 8: The aircraft inscribes
a giant horizontal figure 8 in the
sky. .
Vertical 8: Starting at_mid-

point, the plane outlines a ver-

ead on...

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tical figure 8.
Outside Spin: The aircraft
plunges carthward while spinn-
ing laterally in. controlted . |
fashion. - co

& Point Boil: The plane rotates
360 degrees in octagonal fashion, -
pausing at regular intervals. .- «

Spltt 8: The alrcraft flips over
and divesina downward curveas
if drawing the bottom half of an’.
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