Svetlana Kapanina is the most titled pilot in world sports aviation, and well earned! This flight was a beautiful extreme aerobatics demonstration she performed the past August 31st at MAKS 2019 airshow in Zhukovskiy, Moscow. This time she delighted the crowds flying a german Extra EA-330LX aerobatic aircraft.
Svetlana Vladimirovna Kapanina (Светлана Владимировна Капанина) was born on 22 December 1968 in Shchuchinsk, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union, now Kazakhstan. She dedicated herself to several sports modalities at school and always liked motorcycles and other motor vehicles. She enrolled at medical school in Tselinograd, now Astana, where she graduated in pharmaceutical sciences. She started flying at age 19, in 1988, on a Sukhoi Su-26M3, while working as a technician at the Kurgan sports aviation club of DOSAAF. By 1991 she was already an instructor pilot at DOSAAF's Irkutsk club, and then back at Kurgan. Also in 1991, she became a member of the Russian National Aerobatic Team. In 1995 she graduated from Kaluga aeronautical technical school.
Kapanina was World Aerobatic Champion in the women's category in 1996, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2011 and has won the title more times than any other pilot in the category. Additionally, she was overall World Air Games Champion in 1997 and 2001.
Together with Mikhail Mamistov and Oleg Spolyansky, she won the team gold medal in the 16th FAI European Aerobatic Championships 2008 in Hradec Králové (Czech Republic). She placed fourth overall and was best female participant.
In 1997, she received the Paul Tissandier Diploma by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI). In 2005 she was awarded the Sabiha Gökçen Medal and the Centenary Medal by the FAI. She was awarded Russia's Order of Courage by President Vladimir Putin on 22 December 2014.
Nowadays, she lives in Moscow with her husband and two children.
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The Extra 330LX is a Lycoming AEIO-580-powered tandem-seat aerobatic monoplane capable of Unlimited cathegory competition. It was designed in 1987 by Walter Extra, a German aerobatic pilot, and built by Extra Flugzeugbau. The 330LX features a carbon fiber construction both on the wing assembly with integral tank and empennage structures, as well as a fiberglass landing gear. The powerplant, a Lycoming AEIO-580-B1A, 315 hp, 6 cylinder engine uses a 3-blade propeller, electric starter, two fuel pumps (1 engine-driven, 1 electric), and a single oil cooler system.
Design of the Extra 300/330 was based on the Extra 230, an early 1980s monoplane having a wing made of wood. The first two-seat Extra 300 made its maiden flight on 6 May 1988, with German type certification following on 16 May 1990. The aircraft is FAA/EASA certified for stress up to ±10 G with one person on board and ±8 G with two.
SPECIFICATIONS:
Crew: 1 or 2
Length: 6.9 m
Wingspan: 8 m
Height: 2.6 m
Wing area: 10.7 m2
Empty weight: 660 kg
MTOW:
- 950 kg 2-pilot normal (+6g / -3g)
- 870 kg 2-pilot aerobatic (+8g / -8g)
- 820 kg 1-pilot aerobatic (+10g / -10g)
Fuel capacity:
- Total capacity: 189 l
- Usable fuel: 187 l
- Usable fuel - acro tanks only: 67 l
Powerplant: Lycoming AEIO-580-B1A, 315 hp
Propellers: 3 bladed composite MT-Propeller
Cruise speed: 317 km/h
Stall speed: 102 km/h at 820 kg, 111 km/h at 950 kg
Never exceed speed: 407 km/h
Manoeuvring speed: 293 km/h
Service ceiling: 4875 m
Roll rate: 400°/s
Rate of climb: 16 m/s
Power/mass: 3.6 kg/kW in typical solo configuration
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