Tianmen Cave Flight
TIANMEN CAVE FLIGHT



Zhang Jia Jie, Hunan Province, PR China
11 December 1999


The Pilot's secret was revealed over Tianmen mountain, the soul of Wuling...

To mark the entry into the new millenium, the first pilots to fly through Tianmen Cave, the "Gate to Heaven", and to enter the Guinness Book of Records.

This cave is called the Gate to Heaven, not because it is dangerous to fly through, but because of its location and shape… 130m high, 70m deep, 30m wide...

The event was televised live by CCTV and had an estimated television coverage of 1 billion viewers.

The "AEROBEATS 2000" video covers this event and is featured in the "Best of Haute Voltige - Vol 1 DVD.


 
THE PILOTS SECRET

OR WHY DID WE FLY THROUGH THE CAVE...


- What are you on earth for? Asked the bird to the pilot.

- I am fighting for excellence and perfection, to be a winner, to be N°1, to be the best! He replied

- How common, said the bird…

I know some of these pilots who finally understood Become a true pilot, fight against yourself and your own fears, then you will discover the pilot’s secret, the secret of life… that flying was a philosophy and not only moving a machine in a third geometrical dimension…
Flying took them so many times between life and death that they experienced the magical flight through the gate to heaven, where you can hear the famous pilot’s secret…

A secret to be revealed in the closing days of the millennium in the Wulingyuan area, over Zhang Jia Jie, where you will find Tianmen Cave, “The Gate to Heaven”…
Between life and death, pilots will fly through the Gate and hear the secret of life...

- “Fight against the spirit of gravity and activate your particle of creation, this little chip which is sleeping in all of us”… said the bird.

- “Fight against the spirit of gravity” echoed the aerobatic pilots… and they created an Air Ballet to celebrate the marriage of their wings with nature… “Four Seasons Over Zhang Jia Jie”… an original choreography for this unique and magical environment…

- “Artists never die” thought the bird, thinking that he would have made a good pilot…

J.L. Monnet
Zhang Jia Jie 04th September 1999

 
PILOTS


Formation Teams Nation
Sky Box CZE
Space Knights FRA
   
Solos  
BESENYEI Peter HUN
BORIAK Sergei KAZ
KIRBY Chambliss USA
KAIRYS Jurgis LTU
KAPANINA Svetlana RUS
SCHRODT Klaus GER
STAHALIK Martin CZE
TCHMAL Viktor RUS
TIMOFEEV Nikolay RUS
 

 

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