Aviation and Commercial Aircraft Painting » Bill Reesman http://leadingedgecorp.com/aviation-blog Aircraft Painting, Restoration and Maintenance on all makes and models of aircraft commercial, private and military Fri, 11 May 2012 15:47:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 67 Year Old Man Pulls 8Gs http://leadingedgecorp.com/aviation-blog/2008/10/67-year-old-man-pulls-8gs/ http://leadingedgecorp.com/aviation-blog/2008/10/67-year-old-man-pulls-8gs/#comments Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:25:37 +0000 admin http://leadingedgecorp.com/aviation-blog/?p=5 Bill “Pit Bull” Reesman, a retired Air Force pilot, continues to razzle and dazzle audiences with his aerial performance at the 2008 Miramar Air Show in San Diego. Taking to the air in his MiG-17 Russian warplane, Reesman was a crowd favorite “executing steep climbs, dives, loops and rolls, all the while pulling 8 G’s, or eight times the force of gravity.”. The spotlight still belongs to the U.S. Navy’s world famous Blue Angles, who performed their wing-to-wing, death-defying maneuvers flawlessly for over 700,000 attendees.

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