Human Fly comes into the light
With seats on flights to Melbourne at a premium for this week’s Grand Final perhaps Dockers fans have to emulate the Human Fly to get to Melbourne?
Arguably one of the most spectacular aircraft stunts ever was performed by Canadian Rick Rojatt dressed up as comic book super hero the Human Fly.
In the early 1970s Rojatt teamed with famous US pilot Clay Lacy to ride atop a four-engine Douglas DC-8.
The stunt was performed several times at speeds of up to 300mph (480km/hour), mainly in California.
Lacy, number one pilot for United Airlines when he retired is one of the most experienced pilots of the modern era and flew the DC-8 as low as 200ft in a high speed pass that thrilled crowds.
Very few pictures exist of the event and until recently no video was available.
However Clay Lacy Aviation has recently released a 23-minute video of the event.
Clay Lacy Aviation is arguably the world’s leading producer of air-to-air video and still photography with cameras specially developed by Lacy to fit into corporate jet chase planes.
