内容摘要：storyline. She quit the show to focus on her music career. Mia Rodgers and Gracie Lawrence have been added to the mix as series regulars.

storyline. She quit the show to focus on her music career. Mia Rodgers and Gracie Lawrence have been added to the mix as series regulars.

“I flew against him many times, and, like a lot of people, I couldn’t beat him,” said Bourke, who was Holland’s friend, rival and teammate on the U.S. Unlimited Aerobatic Team. “They didn’t have anyone who could beat him. He was just that good.”Holland won 12 consecutive U.S. National Aerobatic Championships, which was a record, according to his website. He also racked up five world Freestyle Aerobatic Championships and a prestigious award for showmanship from the International Council of Airshows.

Holland was known for inventing new maneuvers that no one saw before, Bourke said. One of them was his famous “frisbee” that rotated his 1,200-pound (540-kilogram) plane horizontally, while the “inverted frisbee” pulled off the same maneuver upside down.“A lot of people expect an airplane to fly like an arrow, it’s moving very fast in one direction,” Bourke said. “With Rob, the airplane would be pointed in some crazy direction. It wouldn’t be pointed the way it’s traveling. It would be flipping on an axis that would be unexpected.”Videos from Holland’s YouTube channel show his red-and-black MXS streaking through the sky with a stream of billowing white smoke. A video from Holland’s cockpit presents a nausea-inducing blur of sky and farmland.

Holland was a big guy whose body could handle the gravitational forces of aerobatic flight more than most pilots, Bourke said. It allowed him to spend more time practicing.“Rob would fly figures faster than we would because the g-forces weren’t as much as a concern for him,” Bourke said. “And he developed an airshow style of flying that no one else has. People have copied it, but it was his.”

Holland told the Press of Atlantic City in 2016 that he wasn’t a stuntman, because a stunt is trying something for the first time without knowing the results.

“I know the results of everything that is in my show,” hePavlo Romanovskyi, chief of a Ukrainian drone laboratory who lost a leg in battle, stands in an FPV drone storage area in the Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Feb. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

“From the first moment (when the injury happened), comrades told me: ‘“We are waiting for you to come back.’”Pozniak, 50, serves as a commander of a sniper unit within the 27th Brigade of Ukraine’s National Guard.

His left leg was amputated after he stepped on a mine in November 2022 during a counteroffensive in the Donetsk region. He returned to the military in December of 2023.Serhii Pozniak, a commander with a Ukrainian sniper unit who lost a leg after stepping on a mine, carries his rifle during training near Kyiv, Ukraine on Feb. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)