Upside down and right side out

The climbing and diving at 220 mph, slaloming the tips of cactus and mesquite trees, corkscrewing, banking at 6Gs, flying upside down and end-over-end barely lasted five minutes, yet AP writer John Marshall says his first aerobatic flight seemed to have the cumulative effect of a monthlong flu.

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Wed., Oct. 14, 2015

Associated Press sports writer John Marshall, in the cockpit left, flies upside-down with Red Bull plane racing pilot Kirby Chambliss near the pilot's home Wednesday, April 29, 2015, in Eloy, Ariz. Practicing three times a day, seven days a week, Chambliss turned himself into a five-time U.S. national aerobatics champion and was one of the founding pilots in the Red Bull Air Races when the series began in 2003.

Ross D. Franklin Associated Press
Marshall flies upside-down with Red Bull plane racing pilot Kirby Chambliss near the pilot's home Wednesday, April 29, 2015, in Eloy, Ariz. Practicing three times a day, seven days a week, Chambliss turned himself into a five-time U.S. national aerobatics champion and was one of the founding pilots in the Red Bull Air Races when the series began in 2003.

Ross D. Franklin Associated Press
Marshall, right, smiles as he talks Red Bull plane racing pilot Kirby Chambliss, left, after an aerobatic flight near the pilot's home Wednesday, April 29, 2015, in Eloy, Ariz. Practicing three times a day, seven days a week, Chambliss turned himself into a five-time U.S. national aerobatics champion and was one of the founding pilots in the Red Bull Air Races when the series began in 2003.

Ross D. Franklin Associated Press
Marshall flies upside-down with Red Bull plane racing pilot Kirby Chambliss as he flies near the pilot's home Wednesday, April 29, 2015, in Eloy, Ariz. Practicing three times a day, seven days a week, Chambliss turned himself into a five-time U.S. national aerobatics champion and was one of the founding pilots in the Red Bull Air Races when the series began in 2003.

Ross D. Franklin Associated Press
Marshall rides with Red Bull plane racing pilot Kirby Chambliss as the plane spins in an acrobatic maneuver as they fly near the pilot's home Wednesday, April 29, 2015, in Eloy, Ariz. Practicing three times a day, seven days a week, Chambliss turned himself into a five-time U.S. national aerobatics champion and was one of the founding pilots in the Red Bull Air Races when the series began in 2003.

Ross D. Franklin Associated Press