Red Bull Air Races

We have also recently gone to the Red Bull Air Races. This is really cool, and if you have a chance to check it out you definitely should. Pilots flying <20 feet off the Thames between big air-filled pylons at 200+ miles per hour. Pretty incredible. Sometimes they'd misjudge the pylons and fly into them - they were made of special parachute-like material that was designed to explode or disintegrate in sections on impact to stay out of their propellers. Then the crew would stitch a new section back on and fill it full of air again and it would be back up in less than 5 minutes. Really spectacular.

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