Undaunted Airshows  RV-7 and RV-8

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Stephen Christopher, call sign “Christo”. Christo pilots the red and white side by side RV7 that he built ten years ago, Stephen has collected more than 2,500 hours flying across the country, with the Blackjack Squadron, in air shows with the West Coast Ravens, Lightning Formation, and at the Reno Air Races. Stephen has trained many formation pilots all along the west coast. He’s a patient and thorough and fair instructor.

Todd Rudberg (Christo calls him “Woody”), pilots the Orange RV8. Todd began flying with his dad as an infant in the late 1960s and grew up watching airshows with his family in the 1970s. Todd has logged more than 2500 hours in the RV8 alone. Todd learned formation flying techniques in the Blackjack squadron starting in 2006

Undaunted Airshows uses the most popular kit plane, the Van’s Aircraft series of sport planes. How popular? Van’s Aircraft was founded in 1970, meanwhile a little ways north, the first Boeing 737 was delivered in 1968. The 737 was, until recently, the most successful single aisle aircraft hitting a build rate of 60/month in 2019. As of this writing, there have been 11,154 Boeing 737s delivered compared to the Vansaircraft tachometer showing 11,158 First Flights.

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