The 24 Hours of Le Mans seen like never before from a Stampe SV4 RS ✈️

Video from the channel LM Aviation about Stampe SV-4, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 14:59. Language: French. Video type: Onboard.

The video follows a flight in a Stampe SV4 RS, the microlight version of the biplane, from an airfield with grass runway 20. After the ground presentation and taxiing, the pilot takes off, flies over the 24 Hours of Le Mans circuit in the direction of the race and ends with a series of traffic circuits at 1,200 feet.

While taxiing, the biplane's nose blocks forward visibility and forces the pilot to zigzag along the taxiway. Radio communications can be heard at the holding point, on takeoff and on leaving the circuit. Over the track, the pilot names each section: the pit straight, the Dunlop curve and its chicane, the Tertre Rouge and the Hunaudières straight, about 5.5 km long according to him, with its two chicanes. These are followed by the Mulsanne curve, the fast section to Indianapolis, where according to the pilot cars exceed 320 km/h, the Arnage curve, the slowest on the circuit, and the Porsche curves before returning to the pit straight.

The pilot highlights the Stampe's open cockpit, which allows flying in the open air, and notes that the day's crosswind helps keep up his practice. The aircraft belongs to the flying club it takes off from.