The Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona has always been interested in preserving history, but last Wednesday they were making history! The massive 25×45 foot paper airplane was dropped from a helicopter at “The Flying Crown Ranch”! The gigantic plane flew half a mile and reached 98mph!
All this started out as a dream! [...]

Over the last few years, Kirby and the Team seem to get lots of questions about the race engines. Everyone wants to know, “What is in that engine that makes that airplane so fast!” Well, some things we can tell you and some we can’t! We will talk about some of the details, but everything [...]

Aerobatic Superstar! Photo by Mauricio Ramos

1. No substitute for practice!
2. Second place is first loser.
3. You live and you learn, or you die and you don’t.
4. Out, in, out! (something skydivers say when they are in the door and ready to jump)
5. Only your imagination is a limitation! (referring to the Edge 540)

When Kirby and Team Chambliss talk about the off season, it leads people to believe that the Team actually takes the season off. This is not the case and sometimes the “off season” is busier than the air show and air race season. There are schedules to firm up and continued training for the coming [...]