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The 13th edition of the Bucharest International Air Show & General Aviation Exhibition will take place on August 25-26, 2023, as follows:
August 25:
• Press conference;
• trainings open to the public;
• General Aviation Exhibition & Static Display, open to the public between 10:00 and 17:00.
August 26 – air show: 10:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m. (public access starts at 8:00 a.m.).
In case of adverse weather conditions, #BIAS2023 will be rescheduled for August 27, 2023.
participant
AEROCLUB OF ROMANIA
We open the list of BIAS 2023 participants with the "Hawks of Romania", the high aerobatic formation of the Romanian Aeroclub, which has not been missing in any of the 12 editions so far.
Whether performing in a formation of 5 or 6 aircraft, or performing solo, they manage to take the audience through dozens of states and increase the adrenaline of any viewer, all culminating in extreme maneuvers and low-altitude passes with white smoke.
For the Aeroclub of Romania, 2023 is an important year because, although founded in 1920, at the initiative of Prince George Valentin Bibescu, his effort to formalize the institution was crowned with success only in March 1923, with the adoption of the Law establishing the Royal Aero-Club Romanian, including by publishing it in the Official Gazette. The 100 years of promotion of the aeronautical field are celebrated, during the whole season, through aviation rallies in Clinceni, Craiova, Cluj, Iași, Mureș, etc., through events dedicated to the public organized in all the aeroclubs, to make their activity known, for to present its fleet, personnel, infrastructure, as well as the results obtained as the country's ambassador in aeronautical sports - it is important to know that, in addition to the unique air shows, the pilots of the Romanian Aeroclub represent Romania at the world and European championships, the international podiums being won in consistently by national teams in recent years (1st place in Standard class, individual, in Poland, at PreJWGC 2023; 2nd place with the team at the European Acrobatic Championship, Intermediate class, in 2022; 3rd place in the world, in 2021).
The increasingly intense activity, in all disciplines, PPL, ULM, gliding and parachuting (every day, in all territorial flying clubs, hundreds of hours of instruction are flown, hundreds of kilometers are covered with the glider in thermal currents and hundreds of parachute jumps), the European or world championships organized in Romania, the constant investment in the fleet and infrastructure, as well as the intense promotion of the Romanian wings have brought our general aviation back to the attention of the international aviation world.
Romanian Air Force
The SMFA promise for the 2023 edition is a seasoned program with maximum difficulty maneuvers and difficult flight elements, involving a considerable number of aircraft, with multiple and varied evolutions, which demonstrates the professionalism of the Romanian Air Force.
The Flying Bulls – back to BIAS!
After missing them at the 2022 edition, here are The Flying Bulls returning to BIAS with four of the most spectacular aircraft in their fleet:
The old Corsair (CHANCE VOUGHT F4U-4 "CORSAIR"), proudly declared the mascot of the Flying Bulls, a demanding aircraft that requires almost 40 hours of maintenance for every hour of flight and whose engine never ceases to delight pilots with its sounds hardened by time and yet incredibly soothing;
The B 25 Mitchell, one of the most amazing aircraft ever built in the United States, whose aerodynamic shape was designed in 1938, at a time when computers did not even exist in the sci-fi movies of the time, and which carries more legends surrounding him, the aircraft named after General William Mitchell shining, since 2001, both in the Flying Bulls collection and in their countless air shows;
Lockheed P-38 Lightning, the 1944 American counterpart to the German Air Force ME-109, whose effectiveness led General George Kenny to consider it "the best method of fighting the Japanese", convinced that the P-38 shortened the of World War II by one year. One of the Flying Bulls' treasures, the P-38 Lightning is a unique specimen in Europe and unique in every way. Revolutionary for its time with two engines and a single seat in the cockpit, the plane in which Antoine de Saint-Exupéry embarked on an expedition from which he never returned was a perfect warbird, superior to all fighter planes of the time.
The T28 Trojan, or "Old Lady" as pilots call it, which has served the air forces of no fewer than four countries, required 8 years of restoration, 30,000 hours of work and 95 liters of paint before its resume flying in 2016.
Jurgis Kairys
What would BIAS be without Jurgis, without the dizzying strings of ascending tones, no Cobra and no "hanging" in the propeller for tens of seconds, no "Kairys Wheel" and no "Little Loop"?! We would probably no longer know what it means to defy the limits without the legend Jurgis, the one who constantly tests his own resistance, but also that of the aircraft and for whom, even in the 71 years that we do not see, watchwords are: "innovate, look ahead, don't repeat what others have done, be different". We are waiting again at BIAS for the unrepeatable Jurgis Kairys, the one like no other...
The Acrobats
The story of the Iakari began in 2006, with a little more madness than you would expect because their dream came true through stubbornness and the refusal to give up when reality told them "it can't be done". They had the courage to believe and became the first independent aerobatic formation, which defies the heights and amazes at air shows in Romania, Europe and even the Middle East. Every year we wait for that moment in BIAS when the Air Bandits take over and, accompanied by Jurgis Kairys, simulate a World War II piston and propeller air combat, enhanced by the music of Rammstein and the famous pyrotechnic effects, in an aerial acrobatic number that gives the audience energy and addiction.
SLOVENIAN AIR FORCE
We already learned about the Pilatus PC-9, the single-engine tandem turboprop trainer aircraft at the previous edition of BIAS, where we saw it both at the General Aviation Show and in development. This year, it will only be present in Static Display; instead, the Slovenian Air Force will enter the Saturday air show program with the Turbolet L 410, a light transport aircraft produced by the Czech company "Aircraft Industries" (formerly Let Kunovice). The Turbolet L 410 can carry up to 19 people or 1.7 tonnes of cargo, the ability to land or take off from short, unpaved runways being one of the strengths of this aircraft.
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