Red Bull 105: April 2009

Dienstag, 28. April 2009

Winning of Emmy Award

Unbelivable but true! We won tonight the Emmy Award 2009 in the "outstanding Technical Team Remote" category as the first ever European TV Sports production on behalf of the Red Bull Airrace. It is a Co production of skymedia, Member of the Lionsair Group, together with SI Vision, West4Media and Riedel Com......., what a success for the whole team, great job......
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Montag, 27. April 2009

Emmy Award 2009

A delegation from the Red Bull Airrace (Bernd Loidl, Sarah Zimmermann, Adriaan Thierry, Imre Sereg, Sascha Strohmer and Jürg Fleischmann) will attend tonight the Emmy Award Ceremony. For the second consecutive time we are nominated, what a success for the whole team. During the day we visited the islands around Manhattan. What a scenery........
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Emmy Award Ceremony 2009

A delegation from the Red Bull Airrace (Bernd Loidl, Sarah Zimmermann, Adriaan Thierry, Imre Sereg, Sascha Strohmer and Jürg Fleischmann) will attend tonight the Emmy Award Ceremony. For the second consecutive time we are nominated, what a success for the whole team. During the day we visited the islands around Manhattan. What a scenery........

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Freitag, 17. April 2009

RB 105 soon ready again

Our baby is soon ready again......., great job from our Crew (Martin, Sascha, Gio, Hilmar, Rene and the whole Lions Air Group Crew in Zurich and Innsbruck) great teamwork from everbody......,
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RB 105 grounded on an Island

Due to a technical malfunction we had to land on an Island offshore Abu Dhabi. Martin, Sascha, Gio and Hilmar from our Crew are working on our Lady to get her asap back in the Air........
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Freitag, 10. April 2009

Airrace Abu Dhabi 2009, 1. Race of the season 2009

The skymedia Crew (Giovanni, Jürg, Kari Marco, Martin, Richi and Sascha. Ursula and Bas will follow next week) arrived a few days ago in Abu Dhabi for the first race of the season....., the whole installation of the onboard equipment has to be completed within a few days before the first flying starts. Also our Helicopter, RB105 HB-ZHS is again flying this season as the official Airrace Helicopter. Again we will also perform our Pyrocopter Show with RB105 on Race evening.......
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JÜRG FLEISCHMANN – RED BULL AIR RACE HELICOPTER PILOT

There is another pilot in the Red Bull Air Race whose name may not be familiar and who is rarely seen in front of the camera but who has a crucial role to play in the World Series competition. Jürg Fleischmann is the official helicopter pilot, flying the TV camera crew and photographers right up close to the action to ensure they capture the most spectacular images of the race.

The 45-year-old from Switzerland is an accomplished pilot with an impressive résumé in flying. He has clocked up over 11,500 flight hours on more than 100 different types of aircraft, spent 23 years in the Swiss Air Force, nine years as a commercial airline pilot and has his own airline company which has been running for 20 years.

He’s also had his fair share of glamour, working with big names in sport and show business. He was personal pilot for Formula 1 champions, Michael Schumacher and Kimi Räikkönen and has flown in several film productions with stars such as Harrison Ford.

Fleischmann was born in Zurich and now lives just north of the city in a small village. Fleischmann earned his private pilot’s license at the age of 17. In 1987 he was flying as a helicopter pilot for the Swiss Air Rescue Service. During periods when he wasn’t flying, he embarked on a project to form his own company – Lions Air - which started life as an aerial photography and filming operation and which has evolved into a world wide specialized aviation company with more then a dozen helicopters and six airplanes.
Sitting behind the controls of a Eurocopter B0105, Fleischmann is in the enviable position of having a bird’s eye view of the race. Unfortunately, however, he’s unable to just sit back and enjoy the action. It takes an immense amount of skill and precision to be able to fly so close to the track without disturbing the pilots and Fleischmann, who has been involved with the Red Bull Air Race since it started, is the perfect man for the job.

As well as being the official helicopter pilot, Fleischmann also works as Deputy Aviation Manager alongside Head of Aviation, Heinz Möller.

The personable Swissman is so passionate about flying that he spends much of his spare time in the air too but when he is on the ground he can be found mountain biking, playing football or relaxing at home with family and friends.

Fleischmann is looking forward into each new Airrace and helping to bring the competition to life on the page and screen.

“I have an amazing job – I get to fly all over the world to incredible and different locations, doing something I absolutely love and working with a fantastic team of people.”

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