Welcome to the website of Jon Melby Airshows!  Jon is a 30+ year highly experienced pilot and also an eight year veteran airshow pilot.  You can participate by becoming a member of the Jon Melby Airshows Extreme Flight Team!  There are multiple benefits of being on the Extreme Flight Team.

• * You will have better health
• * Potentially earn additional income
• * Elite membership with a great team
• * You help sponsor Jon Melby Airshows

Being a member of the Extreme Flight Team is really quite simple.  Verve logos on the Jon Melby Airshow aircraft are seen by millions of people each airshow season either in person, TV, or in news print.  The Verve Energy Drink product is typically sold by individuals and can either be shipped directly to the consumer or sold to retail establishments.

There are two ways to be part of the Extreme Flight Team:

• * Purchase Verve on a monthly basis via auto-shipment.
• * Purchase Verve monthly and tell others about the Verve product (Best)

- You receive compensation for purchases made by others that you help Join the Extreme Team

To learn more about the Verve products and/or make a purchase, click here.  My recommendation is to choose “Get Verve as a Member”.  This has the best value and allows you to make income from others who become part of the Extreme Team.

Imagine that being part of the Extreme Team, other people you do not know from all over the world become members.  If you join the team as a “Member”, you will be receiving residual income from all the other members who join as well.

If you are unsure and would like more information, contact Lee Melby of the Extreme Flight Team.  He will guide you further.

Jon

I first learned to fly at age 8, when I created a pile of leaves in my Duluth, Minnesota lawn, climbed onto the roof of my 2 story home, and jumped like a bird into the leaves.

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Watch in/out of cockpit shots while Jon performs Extreme Aerobatics. Most of these were shots taken at the Arctic Thunder 2008 in Anchorage, Alaska.

Special thanks to Airshow Pro videos for the on-board and outside video taken in Alaska.

If you use the desktop paper, please let me know. I might get some new ones made up but not if it’s not being used.

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Choose some Jon Melby Airshows Wallpaper:

Below are different Jon Melby Airshows wall paper for your computer desktop which you can choose from. To use the wall paper, simply:

1. Select which wall paper and which size by clicking on the size link.
2. A new browser window will pop up displaying the wall paper at full size.
3. Right click on the image and select “Set as background”.

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Watch this video as I talk to Don the Phoenix Fox 10 helicopter pilot as I practice about 300 yards away from him. Don relays my conversation back to the the Fox 10 morning show anchors. This is a really fun interview to do. I never knew how easily I could talk during my maneuvers before I saw this.

Before I get “cleared into the aerobatic box”, I do an engine run-up, review my first 3 maneuvers, and ensure that my controls are free and not blocked. I close my eyes and thank God I can do what I love to do, then give it full throttle for take off.

Many times, it’s important that I am ready to go right on time because of a tight airshow schedule. While I wait for the previous performer to finish their routine, it’s fun to look back at the crowd to see the size of the crowd and visualize what they see from their vantage point.

To be honest, I like flying in formation just as much as flying aerobatics. It’s a different kind of skill set which is much more precise and it takes time to master.

In this shot, I am flying next to a Beechcraft Bonanza (6 passenger light plane) and they have their rear door removed. The photographer is in a harness and is hanging near the door taking the shots. He has a headset on and talks to me on the radio to let me know where I should be (forward/back/further/closer). We were flying over the Ocean near Jacksonville, Florida taking a bunch of photos. What fun eh?

Personally, I like the bi-plane and the Black/Yellow paint scheme. It doesn’t perform quite as nicely as some of the single wing aircraft on the airshow circuit, but the appeal is how it looks when it flies. It’s unique, fast, slow, powerful, and loud.

Whenever I fly the plane to the next airshow, I usually fly over fuel stop airports and nearly everyone comes around to see what it is. There is a special relationship between a pilot and their plane. My Pitts S-1-11B and I have seen a lot of North America together. After these past few years of flying together, I know this particular aircraft better than any other I have ever flown.