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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Australia's top aerobatic pilot, Paul Bennett, is set to make
his Northern Territory debut this weekend at the Darwin Supercarts. Now.
He is set to perform gravity defying formation loops and
stunts in this unique well it's a unique aircraft and
it's capable of reaching speeds of up to four hundred
(00:22):
and fourteen k's an hour. He joins me in the
studio right now, Paul, good morning, Good morning mate. This
sounds wild. That's good fun, that's for sure, I said
to you off air. I don't know if I'll get
in trouble for saying it, but it sounds like some
crazy shit that you do it.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
That's a pretty good description, I reckon.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Mate, tell me, like to anybody listening this morning, that's like,
what exactly is this? Paint a bit of a picture
for me.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I guess in a lot of ways, it's making aeroplanes
do things that you think are completely impossible and could
never be done. Yep, And that's the trick of it,
but making it safe at the same time.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
I mean, like, how do you get to the point
as somebody who can fly flying aircraft when and how
do you reach a point where you're like, do you
know what, I reckon? I can make this plane flip,
I reckon, I can make it do all sorts of
crazy stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Well, it's not in your first couple of hours. I
can assure you that maybe once you get to five
or six thousand hours and you go up high and
you start trying to figure some stuff out, which I've
done for a long time. I guess, yeah, that's what's about,
trying to make airplanes doing possible things.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Were you a crazy kid? Were you a kid that
your mum worried about, you know, the different things you
might get up to on your mountain bike, or or.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
As crazy as I thought as I thought I was,
but like I did, used to jump off the roof
of the umbrella.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Because no joke. As the mom of a teenage boy,
I'm listening, you know, I'm hearing more about what you do.
I'm thinking, wow, you know, boys and girls, But certainly
it sounds it sounds crazy.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yeah, it's a bit crazy and a bit mad. And
now I've got a twenty year old that's following my
footsteps trying to do the same thing. So that's more
scary than me do when it could be honest.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
It is, isn't it when your kids do do different stuff? Now,
tell me about your aircraft and what sort of makes
it unique.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
That's four hundred doll spower six cylinder engine, which is
probably the sort of the highest performance engine you can
get in this topic category of aeroplane. But it's a biplane,
which you know, possibly nowadays you might say is a
little bit unusual, but just a lot more agile than monoplanes.
It's lighter, it's overall weight s lighter, so I can
hang on the prop for longer, and it just it's
short so it can go end over and just does
(02:29):
the coolest tricks ever.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
So, like, how did you travel or how have you
trained to get to a point where you can do
this kind of thing? Because I would imagine it's not
just sort of you know, the training in terms of
like getting your hours up as you know, as you
touched on and becoming competent pilot to begin with, but
even physically, like it must be quite a physical strain
on your body, is it in terms of you know,
(02:53):
making an aircraft twist and turn in the way that
you do.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Yeah, well, when you do like plus ten or eleven
g's and minus eight or nine got to You've got
to have your G talents up, so you've got to
practice almost every day to be able to do it.
So if you have a week off, you'll find it.
Then you'll start getting towards graying out, like you won't
be able to fly the full sequence. So you sort
of got to practice every day, like I'm going to.
I've been flying up here for the last two days,
so now I'm going to go and practice this afternoon
(03:17):
to keep me G talents up.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
But it is a lot of fun, mate, just graying
out mean passing out.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yeah, you lose your vision a bit.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
So it's like the curtains come down and then you
can you can release their back pressure on the stick
and the curtains go back up again.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
That's how it works.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
My mind is blowing like I can't even I can't
even begin to imagine it. I'm someone who gets a
bit carsick, you know, if I go around too many turns,
So I don't think i'd even be slightly capable of
doing something like this.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
You may not want to come for a ride.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I don't reckon I'd be able to tell me about
some of the you know, the different things that people
are going to be able to see you do at
Hitton Valley this weekend.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Well, you see our planes go forward, but you don't
always seem go backwards. So I'm going to go straight
up in the sky, rolling to the left, and then
I'm going to reverse back down back through exactly where
I just came from, come back a thousand feet, going
to do some forward flips. So there are plane's going
to go end over in front ways. I'm going to
double hammerhead so it's going to go end over in sideways.
(04:17):
It's pretty cool if you haven't so, I mean, obviously
I haven't been a Darling before. There's not many people
around that can do some of these tricks, so it
should be a pretty cool thing for Darling people to see.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
How cool cool I mean, you are Australia's top aerobatic pilot.
You know what's it like sort of getting to the
point of your craft where that is what you consider it.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Well, there's always room for improvement, you know, you can
always do better and so and there's always new maneuvers
that we haven't really figured out yet. I'm always working
on some new minervers. But you can't necessarily put them
into a display sequence until you've you can repeat them
over and over and over again, because when you start,
you practice up higher, and when you obviously it's down
(05:01):
a lot lower to the ground, so you can't have
anything going wrong or have any mistakes.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Wow, were like, weed? Do you practice at home?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
I live in Newcaston. I've got a private air field
five miles to the west, so I practice there almost
every day.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
How cool. And your son is keen to get into
it as well.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
He's into it.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
He floes formation with us now in our formation team,
and he's doing solo. He's one several advanced competitions. So yeah,
he's on the way up the ladder.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
How cool. Where have you just been all over the
world doing this stuff?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yeah? We do our shows all over the world. This
is well.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Now this ticks off all the boxes for Australia. I
hadn't flown in NT before, so now I have. So
that's all of Australia as well as we do a
lot of shows in China, South Korea. As soon as
I get back, hopefully I'm going to get back on
Tuesday hour or Wednesday morning. This aerplane gets packed to
get air freighted to the US to go to Flight,
the biggest air show in the world at Oshkosh.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah, right, so it's got to go across as well.
That makes sense, you know that you've actually got to take.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Your Yeah, I've got other airplanes that I'll send to
China and South Korea, but yeah, this one's my favorite
one that normally lives in Australia, but because it got
built in America, they want to see it back in America,
so I'll take it.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yep. Now someone's message through asking what's the plane like
for those plane spotters out there.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
It's yellow, bright colors, it's loud. It's quite small, biplane,
so wing on the top, wing on the bottom. Yeah,
I don't know how else to describe it. Cool s
I can thing.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Ever. Have a look at my website, you'll see a
picture of it.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
And what kind of like what's you know, what are
the capabilities of that?
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Well, it's more capable than what the human body can handle,
you know, like so we can handle say twelve g's.
I normally keep it at ten or eleven minus eight
or nine, which is a lot of crossover in the g's.
So it's very strong it's very agile. The surfaces move
a long way like it's got a lot of travel,
but it's very very touchy on the control So flying
(06:57):
a long way from Newcastle to here extremely touchy, so
you can't relax.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Yeah right, how many years have you been doing this
kind of stuff?
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Twenty four?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
How many times do you reckon? You've what was it?
Grade out?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I've never actually fully grayed out, but because I can
control it, yeah, I've come close to it.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Jeez. Look, this is what I mean like the you know,
it's actually kind of the physicality of it as well,
would be like it would be really tough.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
It makes you tired, that's for sure. It would makes
you feel old after a day's fine.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Now tell me, do you know what time you're going
to be taking to this guy's over the weekend?
Speaker 3 (07:34):
I think it's eleven twenty five and twenty five on
Saturday and two twenty five only on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
I reckon, There's going to be a lot of people
very very keen to see what you do. It's been
awesome speaking to you this morning. I'm truly fascinated by it.
As soon as you leave the studio, I'm going to
be googling and trying to have a look at exactly
what it looks like. Thank you so much for joining
us in the studio this morning. Paul Bennett, Australia's top
aerobatic pilot. Thank you, thank for me, Thank you
Australia's top aerobatic pilot, Paul Bennett, is set to make
his Northern Territory debut this weekend at the Darwin Supercarts. Now.
He is set to perform gravity defying formation loops and
stunts in this unique well it's a unique aircraft and
it's capable of reaching speeds of up to four hundred
(00:22):
and fourteen k's an hour. He joins me in the
studio right now, Paul, good morning, Good morning mate. This
sounds wild. That's good fun, that's for sure, I said
to you off air. I don't know if I'll get
in trouble for saying it, but it sounds like some
crazy shit that you do it.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
That's a pretty good description, I reckon.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Mate, tell me, like to anybody listening this morning, that's like,
what exactly is this? Paint a bit of a picture
for me.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I guess in a lot of ways, it's making aeroplanes
do things that you think are completely impossible and could
never be done. Yep, And that's the trick of it,
but making it safe at the same time.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
I mean, like, how do you get to the point
as somebody who can fly flying aircraft when and how
do you reach a point where you're like, do you
know what, I reckon? I can make this plane flip,
I reckon, I can make it do all sorts of
crazy stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Well, it's not in your first couple of hours. I
can assure you that maybe once you get to five
or six thousand hours and you go up high and
you start trying to figure some stuff out, which I've
done for a long time. I guess, yeah, that's what's about,
trying to make airplanes doing possible things.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Were you a crazy kid? Were you a kid that
your mum worried about, you know, the different things you
might get up to on your mountain bike, or or.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
As crazy as I thought as I thought I was,
but like I did, used to jump off the roof
of the umbrella.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Because no joke. As the mom of a teenage boy,
I'm listening, you know, I'm hearing more about what you do.
I'm thinking, wow, you know, boys and girls, But certainly
it sounds it sounds crazy.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yeah, it's a bit crazy and a bit mad. And
now I've got a twenty year old that's following my
footsteps trying to do the same thing. So that's more
scary than me do when it could be honest.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
It is, isn't it when your kids do do different stuff? Now,
tell me about your aircraft and what sort of makes
it unique.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
That's four hundred doll spower six cylinder engine, which is
probably the sort of the highest performance engine you can
get in this topic category of aeroplane. But it's a biplane,
which you know, possibly nowadays you might say is a
little bit unusual, but just a lot more agile than monoplanes.
It's lighter, it's overall weight s lighter, so I can
hang on the prop for longer, and it just it's
short so it can go end over and just does
(02:29):
the coolest tricks ever.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
So, like, how did you travel or how have you
trained to get to a point where you can do
this kind of thing? Because I would imagine it's not
just sort of you know, the training in terms of
like getting your hours up as you know, as you
touched on and becoming competent pilot to begin with, but
even physically, like it must be quite a physical strain
on your body, is it in terms of you know,
(02:53):
making an aircraft twist and turn in the way that
you do.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Yeah, well, when you do like plus ten or eleven
g's and minus eight or nine got to You've got
to have your G talents up, so you've got to
practice almost every day to be able to do it.
So if you have a week off, you'll find it.
Then you'll start getting towards graying out, like you won't
be able to fly the full sequence. So you sort
of got to practice every day, like I'm going to.
I've been flying up here for the last two days,
so now I'm going to go and practice this afternoon
(03:17):
to keep me G talents up.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
But it is a lot of fun, mate, just graying
out mean passing out.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yeah, you lose your vision a bit.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
So it's like the curtains come down and then you
can you can release their back pressure on the stick
and the curtains go back up again.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
That's how it works.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
My mind is blowing like I can't even I can't
even begin to imagine it. I'm someone who gets a
bit carsick, you know, if I go around too many turns,
So I don't think i'd even be slightly capable of
doing something like this.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
You may not want to come for a ride.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I don't reckon I'd be able to tell me about
some of the you know, the different things that people
are going to be able to see you do at
Hitton Valley this weekend.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Well, you see our planes go forward, but you don't
always seem go backwards. So I'm going to go straight
up in the sky, rolling to the left, and then
I'm going to reverse back down back through exactly where
I just came from, come back a thousand feet, going
to do some forward flips. So there are plane's going
to go end over in front ways. I'm going to
double hammerhead so it's going to go end over in sideways.
(04:17):
It's pretty cool if you haven't so, I mean, obviously
I haven't been a Darling before. There's not many people
around that can do some of these tricks, so it
should be a pretty cool thing for Darling people to see.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
How cool cool I mean, you are Australia's top aerobatic pilot.
You know what's it like sort of getting to the
point of your craft where that is what you consider it.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Well, there's always room for improvement, you know, you can
always do better and so and there's always new maneuvers
that we haven't really figured out yet. I'm always working
on some new minervers. But you can't necessarily put them
into a display sequence until you've you can repeat them
over and over and over again, because when you start,
you practice up higher, and when you obviously it's down
(05:01):
a lot lower to the ground, so you can't have
anything going wrong or have any mistakes.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Wow, were like, weed? Do you practice at home?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
I live in Newcaston. I've got a private air field
five miles to the west, so I practice there almost
every day.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
How cool. And your son is keen to get into
it as well.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
He's into it.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
He floes formation with us now in our formation team,
and he's doing solo. He's one several advanced competitions. So yeah,
he's on the way up the ladder.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
How cool. Where have you just been all over the
world doing this stuff?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yeah? We do our shows all over the world. This
is well.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Now this ticks off all the boxes for Australia. I
hadn't flown in NT before, so now I have. So
that's all of Australia as well as we do a
lot of shows in China, South Korea. As soon as
I get back, hopefully I'm going to get back on
Tuesday hour or Wednesday morning. This aerplane gets packed to
get air freighted to the US to go to Flight,
the biggest air show in the world at Oshkosh.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah, right, so it's got to go across as well.
That makes sense, you know that you've actually got to take.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Your Yeah, I've got other airplanes that I'll send to
China and South Korea, but yeah, this one's my favorite
one that normally lives in Australia, but because it got
built in America, they want to see it back in America,
so I'll take it.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yep. Now someone's message through asking what's the plane like
for those plane spotters out there.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
It's yellow, bright colors, it's loud. It's quite small, biplane,
so wing on the top, wing on the bottom. Yeah,
I don't know how else to describe it. Cool s
I can thing.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Ever. Have a look at my website, you'll see a
picture of it.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
And what kind of like what's you know, what are
the capabilities of that?
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Well, it's more capable than what the human body can handle,
you know, like so we can handle say twelve g's.
I normally keep it at ten or eleven minus eight
or nine, which is a lot of crossover in the g's.
So it's very strong it's very agile. The surfaces move
a long way like it's got a lot of travel,
but it's very very touchy on the control So flying
(06:57):
a long way from Newcastle to here extremely touchy, so
you can't relax.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Yeah right, how many years have you been doing this
kind of stuff?
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Twenty four?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
How many times do you reckon? You've what was it?
Grade out?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I've never actually fully grayed out, but because I can
control it, yeah, I've come close to it.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Jeez. Look, this is what I mean like the you know,
it's actually kind of the physicality of it as well,
would be like it would be really tough.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
It makes you tired, that's for sure. It would makes
you feel old after a day's fine.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Now tell me, do you know what time you're going
to be taking to this guy's over the weekend?
Speaker 3 (07:34):
I think it's eleven twenty five and twenty five on
Saturday and two twenty five only on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
I reckon, There's going to be a lot of people
very very keen to see what you do. It's been
awesome speaking to you this morning. I'm truly fascinated by it.
As soon as you leave the studio, I'm going to
be googling and trying to have a look at exactly
what it looks like. Thank you so much for joining
us in the studio this morning. Paul Bennett, Australia's top
aerobatic pilot. Thank you, thank for me, Thank you
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