Renny Price (bio)
- Renny Price
- Tualatin, Oregon
Flight Training
Renny is a retired airline captain and has logged over 23,000 hours since his first flight in 1969. Renny holds FAA ratings of Airline Transport Pilot, Flight Engineer, Multi-engine instrument flight instructor, Aerobatic competency evaluator, and FAA safety counselor. When he is not performing airshows for your company, he flies an Astra private jet.
World class aerobatics are a spectacle, but almost nothing comes close to the performance of the Russian designed and built Sukhoi-29. The Sukhoi is considered to be the very best two place unlimited competition aircraft in the world today.
| Engine: | 360 horse power 9 cylinder radial. Uses compressed air canister to start the engine. |
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| Wingspan: | 27 ft |
| Length: | 24 ft |
| Empty wieght: | 1,738 pounds. (Less than a grossed out Cessna 150.) With pilot and fuel for a show flight it still only weighs 2,028 pounds. The power to weight ration returns an awesome performance. |
| Roll rate: | 360 degrees per second on its verticle axis (wing over wing). |
| Normal climb rate: | 3,150 feet per minute at a normal at 1 gee. The verticle speed indicator (VSI) can't keep up when Renny pulls the stick back to 9 gee's.) |
| Gee's: | Certified to +11/ -9 (the spar was factory tested to +/- 23 gee’s without failure) |
| Stall speed: | 71 mph, or Vmo for all you pilots. |
| Red Line: | 273 mph or as my Russian brothers say ("twice around the meter is ok") |
| Flight maneuvers: | All the graceful classics, plus loops with snaps on top, inside-out-side snaps, torque rolls, tumbles and just for fun a few flat spins |
Renny and his SU-29 are based just south of Portland, Oregon at the Aurora State Airport. Renny's other interests are hunting, fishing with his wife and kids, guitars, baseball, and of course, teaching, talking, and learning about flying aerobatics.
Contact Renny Price at rennyprice@msn.com or call (503) 381-5564.
