Multiple cockpit cameras recorded flights for customers, but only the GoPro that flew off with the canopy survived the crash. This one looked especially sleek, with silver wings and a royal blue fuselage. Designed in 1987 by Walter Extra, these are strong, sexy aerobatic thoroughbreds. They were flying a 2009 Extra Flugzeugbau EA 300/L, a tandem two-seat tailwheel monoplane with 310 horsepower Lycoming engine driving a three-bladed constant-speed MT propeller. The NTSB docket shows the $699 25-minute package purchased this time was advertised “for the aerobatic extremist…not for the faint of heart…you are at the controls…no flight experience necessary…includes our dynamic low level bombing run, where you strike a ground target utilizing the same tactics as an F-16 fighter jet!” However, this wasn’t his first time in a cockpit, as he’d flown with the same company at its Las Vegas location once before. In the front seat was a 34-year-old passenger who lived in McKinney, Texas. The company president stated that he was a good mentor, conservative in nature, and provided supervision for some of the younger pilots. He was hired at the flight experience company in May 2017, passed training and by October had 113 hours in the Extra 300. After a ground career at aerospace companies, he became a full-time pilot in San Diego, giving scenic rides and teaching tailwheel flying, aerobatics and emergency maneuver training. His mother was an aviation physiologist, his father a Navy aviator, his wife an airline pilot. In the rear seat was a 54-year-old commercial pilot with about 4,300 total hours, of which 2,200 were as a flight instructor.
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