I dont know about you folks but I think it is time aerobatics entered the Olympics. You could say it involves a machine, but then how do you justify the shooting or archery events?
Heck they even have that retarded horse trotting where the score the form of a HORSE's trot!
So.....why not hard-core aerobatics like in the IAC?
If someone says it is not physical then I ask them to go up with Rob Holland or Sean D Tucker...

An international aerobatic competition was held in conjunction with the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. http://www.france-voltige.org/Docs/OriginsWAC.PDF


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Perhaps the most splendid aviation events in pre-World War II Germany were those held in connection with the 1936 Olympic Games, though only the glider events featured as Olympic contests. There was an Olympic Air Display at Berlin Tempelhof aerodrome, a balloon race, two air rallies and on 29-31 July an International Aerobatic Competition consisting of a compulsory and a freestyle programme. Pilots from Germany and Czechoslovakia dominated the results, with a striking difference in placings between the two programmes: Willi Stor, winner of the compulsory programme came only sixth in the overall results; while young Otto von Hagenburg overall winner (and master of the eye-level inverted pass!), achieved only eighth place in the compulsory. He owed his eventual success to a freestyle programme of unparalleled brilliance with the Focke-Wulf Fw 44 Stieglitz (Goldfinch).

wahubna wrote on Jul 30^th, 2012 at 8:49pm:

I dont know about you folks but I think it is time aerobatics entered the Olympics. You could say it involves a machine, but then how do you justify the shooting or archery events? Heck they even have that retarded horse trotting where the score the form of a HORSE's trot! So.....why not hard-core aerobatics like in the IAC? If someone says it is not physical then I ask them to go up with Rob Holland or Sean D Tucker...

Love the horse trotting comment... I get stuck doing standby emergency medical like 6x a year for an equestrian event and I forget every time to bring my gun so I can shoot myself, I've been contemplating convincing them to make it into a destruction derby event... It would be much more entertaining!