2010 is a year when Great Britain could produce a World and European Champion in the sport of aerobatics for the first time ever when teams selected by the British Aerobatic Association compete in the European and World Advanced Aerobatic Championships this summer.
The teams to represent Great Britain at the European and World Advanced Aerobatic Championships have been selected following a rigorous process based on competition performance during 2009 and 2010 and are now training in preparation for championship glory.
The European championships are to be held in the Czech Republic in September and the Unlimited Team is Tom Cassells, British Champion Gerald Cooper, Nick Onn, Richard Pickin and ex-World Champion Eric Vazeille.
The Championships run from the 2nd until the 12th September and attract teams from across Europe, including the French World Champions. However, the British team starts as one of the favourites for medal honours and with two months to go the team is undergoing an intense period of training.
The British advanced team will be competing for the World Championship title in Poland in August. At the last WAAC in 2008 the British team took the bronze medal in the USA, narrowly missing the silver.
The British Advanced Team is British Advanced Champion Alan Cassidy MBE, Chairman of the BAeA, Marco Kalweit, Nick Richards, Cas Smith, Paul Tomlinson and Nick Wakefield.
The World Advanced Aerobatic Championships run from the 5th of August until the 15th in Radom, Poland. Both teams can be seen at various UK competitions in the run up to the championships, including the British National Championships at Sywell, near Northampton, on the 15th – 18th July.
Competing on the global stage requires not only exceptional flying skills, but also huge personal dedication by each pilot, including significant commitment of personal time, money and energy to mastering the sport.
“Aerobatics is not just about making shapes in the sky,” commented Nick Buckenham, the British Aerobatic Association’s Head of Contests. “It is about intellectual strength to make split second decisions in a stressful environment, it is about the physical demands of high G manoeuvring, it is about meticulous planning and execution of a sequence of figures that the pilot may have only seen for the first time a couple of hours before and then the ability to string together those figures in the correct order in a small cube of air without making any mistakes and on a World stage this is vitally important if you are to beat the best in the World.”
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