MAKS 2017 - Svetlana Kapanina, crazy plane stunts! - HD 50fps

This is an extreme and very demanding flight display performed by russian legendary aerobatic pilot Svetlana Kapanina on the past July 21st at MAKS 2017 airshow in Zhukovskiy, Moscow. On this occasion she is flying with a german Extra 300 aerobatic aircraft. Among other especial maneuvers and precise tail-slides, Svetlana is demonstrating fast rolling circles (5:33) which is a maneuver typical of the radiocontrolled-aircraft world but seldom performed in full scale aircraft as it is extremely demanding of the pilot from a physical point of view. Svetlana Vladimirovna Kapanina (Светлана Владимировна Капанина) was born on 22 December 1968 in Shchuchinsk, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union, now Kazakhstan. She dedicated herself to several sports modalities at school and always liked motorcycles and other motor vehicles. She enrolled at medical school in Tselinograd, now Astana, where she graduated in pharmaceutical sciences. She started flying at age 19, in 1988, on a Sukhoi Su-26M3, while working as a tech
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