Mark Sorenson loves flying. As a commercial airline pilot, the veteran often can be found flying jet airliners around the country. However, over the last decade, modern technology has essentially taken the flying out of the pilot’s hands in the name of safety.
Problem is, Sorenson’s a pilot’s pilot — he needed an outlet for his aeronautical passion. The answer he found is the Tiger Airshow, which will be making its Northeast Ohio debut Labor Day Weekend at the Cleveland National Air Show.
“You know, in today’s modern airlines, there’s a lot of uniqueness to it, the skill of mastering technology, but there’s not a lot of flying involved,” said Sorenson, calling from Atlanta. “I’ll be honest, you can get on an airliner these days, and the pilot may actually hand fly six to eight minutes of a three-hour flight.
“So for guys like me who like to fly, we get home, we drag out these airplanes on our days off and fly to the middle of nowhere.”
Tiger Airshow pilots Sorenson and Mark Nowosielski will be entertaining audiences in the air with their identical Yak-55 planes, displaying aerial demonstration of precision and skill.
The duo performs razor-sharp maneuvers that will highlight the demanding skills required to fly close-formation aerobatics, all while combining the challenges of flying through smoke rings in the sky.
Yes, that’s right, smoke rings in the sky, which Sorenson said is completely original and helps create a circus-style theme for these airplanes, which are painted like tigers.
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