Svetlana Kapanina is the most titled pilot in world sports aviation, and well earned! This flight was a beautiful extreme aerobatics demonstration she performed the past August 31st at MAKS 2019 airshow in Zhukovskiy, Moscow. This time she delighted the crowds flying a german Extra EA-330LX aerobatic aircraft. Svetlana Vladimirovna Kapanina (Светлана Владимировна Капанина) was born on 22 December 1968 in Shchuchinsk, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union, now Kazakhstan. She dedicated herself to several sports modalities at school and always liked motorcycles and other motor vehicles. She enrolled at medical school in Tselinograd, now Astana, where she graduated in pharmaceutical sciences. She started flying at age 19, in 1988, on a Sukhoi Su-26M3, while working as a technician at the Kurgan sports aviation club of DOSAAF. By 1991 she was already an instructor pilot at DOSAAF's Irkutsk club, and then back at Kurgan. Also in 1991, she became a member of the Russian National Aerobatic Team. In 1995 she gradu
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