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Yahoo
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Rose City Airfest adds second day after record attendance in 2024
TYLER, Texas (KETK) — CampV is flying high after last year's Rose City Airfest saw more than seven thousand people. Leading them to add a second day to the event for 2025. 'We heard a lot from the community, of you know, they missed it on Saturday, they still wanted to attend,' CampV executive director Travis Gladhill said. The airshow also received attention from the International Council of Air Shows, an organization in charge of some of the biggest airshow acts in the country. ICAS also recommended CampV extend the show to attract more performers. 'We can start receiving demo teams such as the Blue Angels and the Thunderbirds,' Gladhill said. After much feedback, CampV decided to add an additional day to the 2025 show, allowing more people to witness magic in the sky. This year will see 16 performers fly out of Tyler Pounds Regional Airport on Oct. 4 and Oct. 5. 'We have an opportunity to really put Tyler on the airshow map,' Gladhill said. 'We have an aircraft that is going to be making its first-ever airshow debut here at Rose City Air Fest. It is a very specialized aircraft.' CampV will provide new seating so you can witness all the action up close with a new 1 p.m. takeoff time. 'Starting the show a little bit earlier this year as well to take advantage of, to make sure that no one's getting sun glare in their eyes while they're watching the airshow,' Gladhill said. Tickets for the Rose City Airfest go on sale July 1 and CampV expects to sell out both days. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
26-04-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Stunt pilot Rob Holland killed in plane crash before air show
Famed aerobatic pilot Rob Holland has died after a plane crash at the Langley Air Force Base in Hampton, Virginia. His death on Thursday was announced in a statement on his official Facebook page. Mr Holland, 50, was due to perform this weekend at Air Power Over Hampton Roads, a popular air show at the Virginia base. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said it was investigating the crash of the experimental MX Aircraft MXS. Mr. Holland previously piloted the carbon-fibre, custom-built MXS-RH, a single-seater aircraft made by the same Australian company whose experimental plane crashed. He was approaching the runway "for a normal landing" when the crash happened, NTSB's lead investigator Dan Boggs said at a news conference on Friday. "There was no acrobatic (sic) manoeuvres or nothing planned at that time." Jim Bourke, president of the International Aerobatic Club, said Mr Holland "revolutionized our sport, not just within the USA but on the world stage, arriving on the aerobatic competition scene like a wrecking ball laying waste to everyone who challenged him". John Cudahy, president of the International Council of Air Shows, told the Associated Press, Mr Holland "demonstrated what the end of the road for a pursuit of excellence looks like". He performed at the 2023 edition of the biennial air show at the base and won several competitions for his daring stunts in the cockpit. He won the U.S. National Aerobatic Championships a record 13 consecutive times with his last win being in 2024. In 2012, he was the recipient of the Art Scholl Award, which is presented by the International Council of Air Shows. His website details a list of his 2025 appearances, including airshows in Chicago, Milwaukee and Gold Coast, Australia. Mr Holland was from New Hampshire and was a teenager when he first qualified as a pilot, according to his website. He also studied aviation at a now-defunct New Hampshire college. "Even with an absolutely impressive list of accomplishments, both in classical competition aerobatics and within the air show world, Rob was the most humble person with a singular goal to simply be better than he was yesterday," the Facebook statement said. The air show this weekend is expected to draw over 100,000 visitors, the air base said a day before the crash.
Boston Globe
25-04-2025
- General
- Boston Globe
Rob Holland, aerobatic pilot, dies in crash at Langley Air Force Base
A professional air show and aerobatic pilot for more than 20 years, Holland was a 13-time US national aerobatic champion, a six-time world four-minute freestyle champion, and the 2015 World Air Games freestyle gold medalist, according to his website. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Holland had been planning to fly this weekend in Air Power Over Hampton Roads, an air show at Langley, according to the event's website. The show, which also features military jets such as the F-22 Raptor, attracts thousands of spectators. Advertisement Langley confirmed a crash had occurred but did not immediately release further information. An NTSB investigator was expected to arrive at Langley on Friday, the agency said. The investigator will begin the process of documenting the scene and examining the aircraft. The plane will then be moved to a secure facility for further evaluation, the board said. Holland's website says that he flew an MXS-RH aircraft, which it described as 'a one-of-a-kind, all-carbon-fiber masterpiece,' designed to his specifications by the MX Aircraft Co. in North Carolina. Advertisement Weighing a relatively light 1,200 pounds and powered by a 380-horsepower engine, the single-seat plane was capable of 'pulling 16 positive and negative G's, and rolls at nearly 500 degrees per second,' the website says. Holland had a custom harness to keep him secure in the plane, the website says, and wore a helmet and a custom-built parachute for emergencies. Videos of Holland's performances show him flying giant loops and tumbling and rolling in his plane, which appeared at times to stall in midair, all while releasing a trail of white smoke. The moves had names like Frisbee and double hammerhead. 'One of my goals is to take aerobatics to the next level,' he was quoted as saying on his website. 'I want to push the limits of what can be done.' John Cudahy, the president and CEO of the International Council of Air Shows, said in an interview Thursday that Holland was 'very well known in the whole industry and very well respected in the whole industry.' It was not clear, he said, what caused his plane to crash. While he was known for daring flying maneuvers, Holland was an 'advocate for air show safety and professionalism and doing things with practice — all the things you would expect of a professional pilot,' Cudahy said. 'He was sort of a poster boy for that.' Jared Isaacman, a billionaire entrepreneur and private astronaut who has been chosen by President Trump to serve as the next NASA administrator, was among those mourning Holland. 'Deeply saddened to hear about the passing of Rob Holland — an airshow legend,' he wrote on social media. Advertisement Holland has said he fell in love with aerial tricks as a boy, when he saw a plane flying upside down at an air show. From then on, he said, all his model planes hung upside down in his bedroom. He earned a pilot's license as a teenager and began flying aerobatics almost immediately, while also working as a corporate pilot, commuter pilot, flight instructor and ferry pilot, and operating his own aerobatic flight school, his website says. A 1997 graduate of Daniel Webster College in New Hampshire, where he studied aviation, he had logged more than 15,000 hours of flight time in more than 180 types of aircraft, according to his website. 'Rob was one of the most respected and inspiring aerobatic pilots in aviation history,' the statement on his Facebook page said. 'Even with an absolutely impressive list of accomplishments, both in classical competition aerobatics and within the air show world, Rob was the most humble person with a singular goal to simply be better than he was yesterday.' This article originally appeared in
