{"id":55133,"date":"2024-03-12T14:35:11","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T13:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=55133"},"modified":"2024-03-17T21:49:36","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T20:49:36","slug":"the-brilliant-stunts-of-the-spanish-pilot-juan-velarde-explained-by-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/03\/12\/the-brilliant-stunts-of-the-spanish-pilot-juan-velarde-explained-by-himself\/","title":{"rendered":"The brilliant stunts of the Spanish pilot Juan Velarde explained by himself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Juan Velarde is a name that deserves to be pronounced with reverence and admiration by aviation fans in Spain.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/03\/04\/this-is-one-of-the-classic-aircraft-exhibitions-of-the-fundacion-infante-de-orleans\/\">This is one of the classic aircraft exhibitions of the Fundaci\u00f3n Infante de Orle\u00e1ns<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/02\/16\/the-beechcraft-c-45-twin-beech-of-the-fio-a-jewel-of-spanish-aviation-from-1942\/\">The Beechcraft C-45 Twin Beech of the FIO, a jewel of Spanish aviation from 1942<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>This pilot, born in Madrid in 1974, <strong>combines his passion for flying in two very different ways:<\/strong> the first, as a commercial aircraft pilot as <strong>commander of Iberia<\/strong>, and the second and more spectacular, as an acrobatic pilot. I saw him for the first time many years ago at the Vigo Air Festival and I was amazed by his skill. Juan has been a member of the National Aerobatic Flight Team and <strong>has been winning trophies as an aerobatic pilot in several countries for years<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53582178717_f49ed153b6_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">The Zivko Edge 540 V2 by Juan Velarde (Photo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.juanvelarde26.com\/67-2\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">juanvelarde26.com<\/a>).<\/div>\n<p>Nowadays Juan flies a <a href=\"https:\/\/zivko.com\/gallery\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zivko Edge 540 V2<\/a>, a single-engine plane specially designed for stunt flying, with a fuselage 6.3 meters long, a span of 7.43 meters, a weight of 540 kg and a power of 300 HP. <strong>What Juan can do with this machine seems purely unreal<\/strong>, as he demonstrated on March 3 at the Cuatro Vientos airfield in Madrid, during an exhibition of the <a href=\"https:\/\/fio.es\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fundaci\u00f3n Infante de Orle\u00e1ns<\/a>, of which he is a collaborator. Today <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@flybywire-aviation\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fly By Wire Aviation<\/a> <strong>has published a video of that exhibition <\/strong> in which Juan Velarde himself explains the maneuvers he carried out (the video is in Spanish, you can activate the automatic English subtitles in the bottom bar of the player):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Juan Velarde Comenta Su Exhibici\u00f3n en la FIO\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yzgMyWBNV74?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Main photo: Paco Rivas \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.juanvelarde26.com\/67-2\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">juanvelarde26.com<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juan Velarde is a name that deserves to be pronounced with reverence and admiration by aviation fans in Spain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19534,17020],"tags":[1259],"class_list":["post-55133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-portada-eng","category-civil-aviation","tag-juan-velarde"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-12 02:46:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}