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Title: Remembering Art Scholl today
Post by: Widewing on December 18, 2013, 09:24:44 AM: Art Scholl's birthday is next week (Christmas eve). He would have been 82 years-old. Art was a spectacular aerobatics pilot and for many years worked the airshow circuit. He worked on many films as well. He died in a crash of a Pitts S-2 in 1985, filming a spin sequence for the movie Top Gun. I saw him fly several times...

A short video of Art flying his famous "Super Chipmonk".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-kHTmYjBQk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-kHTmYjBQk)
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Post by: Waldo on December 19, 2013, 05:45:41 PM: Thanks for posting. I saw his shows 3 times when I was younger. At the time my dad was building an r/c version of his plane. Art allowed us to take many pictures
of the plane up close. A super nice guy I was very glad to have met him.

Here is another video you might enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQKfvwoKc6w
Title: Re: Remembering Art Scholl today
Post by: Vraciu on December 19, 2013, 06:55:55 PM: Quote from: Waldo on December 19, 2013, 05:45:41 PM
Thanks for posting. I saw his shows 3 times when I was younger. At the time my dad was building an r/c version of his plane. Art allowed us to take many pictures
of the plane up close. A super nice guy I was very glad to have met him.

Here is another video you might enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQKfvwoKc6w

He was awesome. I saw him many times at the CAF Airsho' in Harlingen growing up. The things he did with that Super Chipmunk were awesome. IRON EAGLE is one of my favorite films. He did the Aerobat and Tomahawk stuff. I am in awe of what he could do with a CE-150.
Title: Re: Remembering Art Scholl today
Post by: ren on December 19, 2013, 07:37:33 PM: :salute
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Post by: Traveler on December 20, 2013, 03:20:59 AM: As my Dad told me while teaching me to fly at age 17. There are old pilots and there are bold pilots, but there are no old bold pilots.

"Scholl was regarded as the last of three top Hollywood stunt pilots. The others were Paul Mantz, who was 61 when he crashed in the desert near Yuma, Ariz., in 1965 while flying for a scene in "The Flight of the Phoenix," and Frank Tallman, who died at 58 when his twin-engine plane crashed into an Orange County cliff in 1978.