Red Bull Air Races - Abu Dhabi, UAE 2007

This weekend Dan and I just fulfilled a dream of ours. We flew a 40 min flight to the United Arab Emirates to watch the Red Bull Air Races. We have enjoyed watching the races on tv, but now we were able to go and see them live. The Red Bull Air Races are similar to equestrian horse jumping shows, but all is done in an airplane. It is incredible the agility of the pilots and the airplanes as the fly through the courses at 400 kph, pulling 3-9 G-Force, and are less than 100 feet above the water.(Formula 1 race cars only pull 5.5 G-Force) Here are some pictures that Dan took with his new camera. The first one is the race course and in RED you will see where we were sitting to get such great pictures! The next one is the control tower that was controlling all the aircraft and judging the pilots. Then there is a pic of us. Don't forget to look in the background and see the plane....even though we are so cute to look at!! After that are more pictures of some of the planes. Dan took 378 pictures in one day, so they are not all here, but you will be able to get an idea of how crazy spectacular it was.

Red Bull Air Races - Abu Dhabi, UAE 2007

Red Bull Air Races - Abu Dhabi, UAE 2007