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The Ace of Sewanee

Air Facts

A man in a Nomex flight suit and brown leather flight jacket stood on the tarmac as I taxied in. Then came rolls, loops, multi-turn spins, and aileron-only spin recoveries. Franklin County Airport, Ace’s international base of operations, is about fifty miles northwest of Chattanooga, in the hill country of southern Tennessee.

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Air Force pilot dies after attempting high-risk fighter jet stunt: video

Aerotime

Squadron leader Asim Jawad, 32, was performing aileron rolls at low altitude when the fuselage of the Yakovlev Yak-130 he was flying scraped along the tarmac. An aileron roll is an aerobatic maneuver in which an aircraft does a full 360-degree revolution about its longitudinal axis.