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Red Bull Air Force acrobats, pilot to perform at Show Me State Air Show for first time. The Red Bull Air Force team, known for its stunning aerial performances, will opening next week's 2026 Show Me State Air Show. The event running from Sept. 12-13 at the Jefferson City Memorial Airport will feature a choreographed aerial and aircraft show from the Red Bull team, one of the country's most popular aerial teams. "They do this daredevil stuff that just blows my mind," said Penny Smith, director of the Show Me State Air Show. "And they don't release a parachute until you can clearly see their face, which is very different than a normal parachutist." Smith estimated roughly 12,000-14,000 people attend the air show each year, but expects the red Bull team to attract even more attendees. The dynamic sky displays brought by the Red Bull team include its signature aerobic acrobats with winged suits and legendary pilot Erik Edgren. Aerial acrobats on the Red Bull team jump from 3,000 meters in the sky to perform precisely-choreographed maneuvers. Their smoke-trailed movements make it easier to spot the team members among the clouds. Attendees will also get to see Kirby Chambliss, a fearless pilot with the Red Bull team, perform his signature cobra takeoff, during which he lifts off from the ground at a near-90 degree angle, flips upside down and twists his way back upright. The air show includes more than seven separate aircraft flight demonstrations, which will take to the skies from 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. each day. Among the flying aircraft is the B-2 Spirit, a one-of-a-kind, Missouri-based stealth bomber flown out of Whiteman Air Force Base that will appear at the show only on Sept. 12. The UH-1 Huey and AH-1 Cobra - Vietnam-era helicopters that played important roles during the war - have been preserved by the Army Aviation Heritage Foundation and restored to take flight again. Attendees can take flights in these aircraft with a separate purchase. Smith added that the SBD Dauntless - "a very rare aircraft to get to see" - will also be offering public flights. This year's show is dedicated to the 35th anniversary of the Desert Storm operation and 25th anniversary of the Afghanistan War. To honor the veterans of these wars, Smith said students from the Nichols Career Center interviewed and filmed local veterans from the two conflicts. Their interviews will be shown to attendees at the air show. Smith said that when the airshow isn't taking place, she helps bring veteran and military education to local schools. Incorporating them into the air show allows the public to also "have that education (and) hear real-life stories from current veterans that have been overseas and fought for our country," she said. Smith tries to coordinate the aircraft with the particular military era they recognize every year, but said many aircraft from the Desert Storm and Afghanistan War periods have been decommissioned, making them harder to acquire for appearances. More than 10 grounded military aircraft can also be viewed up close by the public during the airshow, including the F-16 Fighting Falcon, SBD Dauntless, C-130 Hercules - a cargo aircraft - and several others. "Those are really cool to look at, and that's one of the smaller ones," Smith said of the C-130 Hercules. "So just to look at that is really neat." Apart from the main aircraft attractions, the event will showcase tables and booths for veteran assistance organizations, a kid's zone equipped with bounce houses and obstacle courses, a food court and merchandise booths for air show memorabilia. Military vehicles and classic cars will also be on display. The 2026 Show Me State Air Show will run from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Sept. 12-13. Gates open at 10 a.m., and aircraft will begin to take off at around 11:30 a.m. Tickets are required to enter and are $11 for ages 11 years and older, and $5.50 for children ages 5-10. A ticket is only valid for one day of the event. Children 4 and younger enter for free. Current and former military service members enter for free with proof of service and also have access to a shaded seating area and bottled water, Smith said.

Red Bull hire Aston Martin engineer McCullough as head of racing. F1 Correspondent * 5 hours ago Red Bull have head-hunted former Aston Martin performance director Tom McCullough to become their head of racing from 2027. The 50-year-old Briton is a replacement for Gianpiero Lambiase, who is moving to McLaren to become their chief racing officer at an unspecified time by 2028. Red Bull said in a statement that they "looked forward to the wealth of experience and expertise he will bring to the role" when he joins at the beginning of 2027. McCullough, a highly respected figure in F1, spent more than a decade at the team now known as Aston Martin, through its previous guises as Force India and Racing Point. Before that, he worked at Williams and Sauber. In January 2025, a restructure led to him being moved off the F1 race team and to their performance technologies division. The new role effectively runs all aspects of the race team under team principal Laurent Mekies. It remains to be seen whether his appointment will ease the path to Red Bull and McLaren negotiating a settlement that allows Lambiase to leave earlier than currently stated. Lambiase has become well known as Max Verstappen's race engineer, and for the direct and unfiltered relationship between them through their team radio messages. Related topics.

Racing Bulls join the macarena wing race with Imola test. * Published on 28 Aug 2026 15:51 * 0 * By: Bob Plaizier Racing Bulls are testing their own variant of the rotating rear wing design at Imola during a filmday on Tuesday, according to Italian outlet F1inGenerale. The Red Bull sister team could introduce the so-called macarena wing as early as the Italian Grand Prix at Monza if initial feedback proves positive. Ferrari pioneered the concept during winter testing, and both Red Bull and McLaren have since developed their own iterations. The filmday format restricts running to demonstration tyres and a 200-kilometre limit, but provides the team with controlled track time to validate computational simulations. Arvid Lindblad drove the car during the morning session, with Liam Lawson took over in the afternoon. Lawson raced for Racing Bulls at Zandvoort last weekend and completed a tyre test for the team at Mugello on Monday. No images of the new rear wing have yet emerged. More about Red Bull Racing Ferrari's rotating element spawns a development race. The macarena wing label stems from Ferrari's Bahrain pre-season test, where the Scuderia debuted a rear wing in which the entire top flap rotates during Straight Mode activation. Formula 1's 2025 technical regulations reintroduced active aerodynamics after nearly three decades, permitting moveable elements on both front and rear wings. The ruleset offers significant design freedom, and teams have responded with wildly divergent interpretations of the Straight Mode architecture. Red Bull brought their own rotating-flap design to the grid earlier this season, followed by McLaren. Racing Bulls' development timeline suggests the concept has proven aerodynamically viable across multiple wind tunnel philosophies. Monza represents the ideal proving ground: the circuit's long straights and low-downforce character make rear wing efficiency critical to lap time and overtaking potential. Tsolov logs TPC mileage in older chassis. Separately, Racing Bulls are running a Testing of Previous Cars session at Imola with Nikola Tsolov behind the wheel of an older-spec machine. The Bulgarian leads the Formula 2 championship and has been linked to a 2027 race seat at the team, though no formal announcement has been made. The TPC outing offers Tsolov his first extended experience with Formula 1 machinery outside of a structured rookie session. If Racing Bulls deploy the macarena wing at Monza, they will join a growing subset of the grid exploiting the regulation's rotational-flap loophole. Whether the design delivers a measurable performance gain on race day remains the open question, but the investment suggests the team believe they can extract qualifying and race pace from the architecture. Imola's data will determine whether that belief translates into hardware.