在描述他如何在想象中保持方向时,天禄听起来很现实,000英尺高的“盒子”,同时在特技飞行比赛中进行精确的回旋和桶滚等动作.
“在皇冠官网网站的演习中,皇冠官网网站可以看到边界在哪里,”他说. “Diving into the box, we see the box markers. 当皇冠官网网站被颠倒的时候,皇冠官网网站可以抬头看看皇冠官网网站在哪里. A lot of that is going on at a very fast pace.”
Luu and the other members of the championship aerobatics team 今年夏天,丹佛大都会州立大学的学生们在全国各地的比赛中展示了他们的技能.
And thanks to an anonymous donor, they did so in style. The team has been flying a brand-new $620,000 Game Composites GameBird aerobatics plane, 高机动性的顶级双座飞机,碳纤维机身,帮助年轻飞行员进一步磨练他们的飞行技能.
“It’s a beautiful airplane,” said Dagmar Kress, MBA, the team’s coach and a lecturer in the University’s Aviation and Aerospace Science Department. “It’s a new design. They don’t break, and they don’t quit. 皇冠官网网站现在有一架专用飞机,可以用来练习.”
Building on success
该团队于5月6日拥有了这架飞机,并在整个夏天的比赛中驾驶它. The plane will be officially unveiled Sept. 12 at Wings Over the Rockies, Centennial (KAPA) Airport.
In addition to benefiting the team, 这架新飞机提高了密歇根州立大学丹佛分校在全国紧密结合的特技飞行界的知名度, Kress said. “Everybody’s already talking about it,” she added. “现在全世界都知道皇冠官网网站是唯一一所拥有GameBird的大学.”
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Kress, 谁已经参加特技飞行比赛几十年了, likens the sport to figure skating, 根据参与者完成各种动作的精确程度来评判他们. 地面上的裁判观察飞行员在一个虚拟的立方体中飞行他们的模式(称为“数字”),000 feet high, 1 kilometer wide and 1 kilometer deep. 裁判根据每个数字的飞行情况来打分或扣分.
她说,这些数字是根据它们的难度分级的. Aerobatics competitions feature five skill categories, 大学生只在前两个类别中与其他学生竞争(职业飞行员往往在更高级的类别中占主导地位)。.
MSU Denver’s team, founded in 2016, won gold in the student competitions in 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2022. 克雷斯说:“2018年,皇冠官网网站的头太大了,皇冠官网网站自满了,皇冠官网网站输了。.
The competition was paused in 2020, the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, 去年,由于训练用飞机的长时间维修,该团队受到了阻碍.
Benefits for pilots
为特技飞行比赛练习可以帮助学生发展高级技能, 比如学习如何倒立飞行或如何摆脱失速, Kress said. 当机翼增加迎角超过一个临界点并失去升力时,飞机就会失速. Unless the pilot knows how to recover, 然后飞机会陷入无法控制的旋转,需要恢复机动.
In training for aerobatics competitions, a pilot may climb vertically, then intentionally fall into a stall and recover from it. “皇冠官网网站一直往上飞,直到飞机停止前进,”克雷斯说. “We stall and spin the airplane every day. It makes the students super-pilots to fly airplanes later on.”
Luu, the team’s captain, 他说,特技飞行训练帮助他在飞行时发展了快速反应能力,还有其他好处.
“不仅仅是飞行,还有你在这些比赛中遇到的人,”他说. “在这些比赛中建立人脉的数量是天文数字. 皇冠官网网站能够从这些在这个行业有长期经验的飞行员那里了解到他们的生活方式.”
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他于2022年加入了14人的球队,2023年担任联合队长,今年成为队长. Although he graduated from MSU Denver in May with a B.S. in Aviation and Aerospace Science and a Professional Flight Officer concentration, 根据国际特技飞行俱乐部的规定,他可以在日历年结束前继续担任队长.
在疫情期间,Luu对航空产生了兴趣,并最终获得了美国国立卫生研究院的奖学金 Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum to pay for his private-pilot certification.
当时,这位科罗拉多人正在考虑攻读航空大学课程,并成为一名商业飞行员, 他看了一些私人项目,但最终决定在当地着陆. “那不是我的生活方式,”他谈到在其他学校的大学经历时说. “密歇根州立大学丹佛分校离家更近,我有时间和家人在一起,我知道皇冠官网网站飞行的地区.”