Red Bull Air Race

Saturday was a ton of fun and I have lots of pictures so I will post it in two parts. During the day we went to the Red Bull Air Race. They are only hosting six of these races this year so we jumped at the chance to go see this since it was so close. It was awesome, those pilots are insane!


This is the media helicopter flying through the course so we could see what it was like from his perspective. This helicopter was up the entire day getting shots of the crowd and the course. He was flying incredibly low to the ground for some of the crowd shots and what looked to be dangerously close to some of the planes that were maneuvering around the course.
Here is a shot of one of the planes going through the course. For some of the gates they had to go through vertical and others horizontal. Time was added to their run if they didn't line up correctly. They also couldn't fly too high or too low or time would be added. This is me freezing because the clouds came in late. It was hot in the morning and then the temperature just dropped.
De Plane De Plane!Here is some video Derek shot.