Airlink Adrenaline Show makes South African Airshow History
The 2017 Airlink Adrenaline Show that took place at Wonderboom National Airport, 10-11 June 2017, made South African civilian airshow history, by becoming the first airshow in South Africa to have 44 different acts in one day, and a record-breaking six new airshow acts that have never been seen before at any airshow in South Africa.
These six new acts were:
- The Airlink formation that was made up of Airlink’s newest aircraft, the Embraer 190 flying in formation with its Embraer 135
- The ‘Over Under’, that saw a stunt bike driven by Nick De Wit do a backflip over an Extra 330SC aircraft flown by Nigel Hopkins
- A twin tail formation made up of the Paramount Group AHRLAC aircraft and a Cessna 337
- The inverted parachute drop from the GoodYear Eagles Pitt Special, performed for the first time by a female parachutist – Amy Shaw, who is also an airline captain for Airlink
- The South African Air Force Silver Falcons in formation with a Gripen from the South African Air Force
- The jet car meltdown
The Airlink Adrenaline Show, now dubbed a ‘Super show’, combine both action-packed motorsport and aviation into a two-day event.
With over 40 acts that took place on the Saturday, show goers were treated to a variety of adrenaline filled acts that included the Torre Pitt Special Aerobatic team, the Formula Renault and Bell 407 helicopter race, the Paramount dog show, Team Xtreme, Extra 330SC race against the helicopter and a supercar, the B737-880NG from Mango airlines, Mustang Sally – P-51D Mustang aircraft, Puma Energy Flying Lions in their Harvards, the GoodYear Eagles Pitt Special Aerobatic Team, the five-ship jet formation made up of two L39 jest, two L29 Jest and an Impala jet, the Aloutte II and Biker display, the Huey Helicopter and P-51D Mustang display, the Huey car drop, as well as many more.
There were over 130 circuit racing cars, oval racing cars, circuit race bikes, drag racing as well as drift cars on display, including 15 single-seater race cars and nine different classes of Saloon race cars, that took to the makeshift drag strip at different time slots showing off to the vast crowds.
The drag rail car was driven by Vanessa Fourie
There were three Ford Mustang Power Houses on display that were showing of their respective performance modifications.
This year the show coincided with Airlink’s Silver and Gold Jubilee on 11th June, celebrating 25 years in its current iteration with uninterrupted leadership, and recognizing that its roots date back fifty years to Lowveld Air Services founded in 1967.
This year Jacaranda FM joined as the official broadcast partner for the show, and broadcast live during the Saturday and Sunday shows.
Once again, the 2017 Airlink Adrenaline show had a wide range of exhibitors, that include for the first time ‘Parabot’ from the Paramount Group.
Show goers were had the option to ‘upgrade’ to one of the two grandstands that had been erected, and for the first time at an airshow, a cashless system was introduced at all the vendors.
The 2017 show not only broke airshow records, but also hosted for the first time, the Spitfire Restoration Project – a project to rebuild Spitfire 5518,as well as launched the first-ever PinkFly campaign, a campaign that creates awareness for the presence of breast cancer, cervical cancer, prostrate and testicular cancer.
For more information contact:
Mark Mansfield (Media Boss Airlink Adrenaline Show) Tel: +27 82 463 2436
A special thank you to all the Airlink Adrenaline Show sponsors: