All Things Aviation & Aerospace

Flying Upside Down for a Living: Like the Idea? Meet Airshow Performer/Air Racing Pilot Extraordinaire, Anthony Oshinuga

April 29, 2023 Vincent Mickens Season 4 Episode 45
Flying Upside Down for a Living: Like the Idea? Meet Airshow Performer/Air Racing Pilot Extraordinaire, Anthony Oshinuga
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All Things Aviation & Aerospace
Flying Upside Down for a Living: Like the Idea? Meet Airshow Performer/Air Racing Pilot Extraordinaire, Anthony Oshinuga
Apr 29, 2023 Season 4 Episode 45
Vincent Mickens

It is not everyday that you meet and have an extended, enlightening, and candid conversation with a Black aerobatic airshow and air race pilot. Yes, outside of the Navy Blue Angels pilot, Lieutenant Commander Julius Bratton, Anthony Oshinuga is currently the only Black airshow aerobatic pilot actively performing, competing, and racing.

Anthony Oshinuga, founder, owner, and chief pilot of Air Oshi based in Temecula, California, competed in his first US National Aerobatic Championships when he was 24, followed by the National Championship Air Races in Reno, Nevada at 25. By the time he was 27, he made his airshow performing debut at the Miramar Air Show, and soon after, became the first Black pilot to perform aerobatics in the Arctic Circle.

All Things Aviation & Aerospace is an aviation career-oriented webcast that provides insight on the variety of opportunities and possibilities in the aviation and aerospace industries. Its host and moderator, Vince Mickens, is a long time private pilot who flies frequently for both personal and business. Mickens background includes strategic partnership executive roles over the last 17 years with the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA), the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA), and the Bob Hoover Legacy Foundation, all after a 28-year broadcast journalism career working in seven major television and radio broadcast markets nationwide.

All Things Aviation & Aerospace is also available on my Private Air Media YouTube Channel, Facebook Live Page, and Linkedin Profile.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnAgvYp8gF4w8WSRdU7Dn4w

https://www.facebook.com/privateairmediagroup

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It is not everyday that you meet and have an extended, enlightening, and candid conversation with a Black aerobatic airshow and air race pilot. Yes, outside of the Navy Blue Angels pilot, Lieutenant Commander Julius Bratton, Anthony Oshinuga is currently the only Black airshow aerobatic pilot actively performing, competing, and racing.

Anthony Oshinuga, founder, owner, and chief pilot of Air Oshi based in Temecula, California, competed in his first US National Aerobatic Championships when he was 24, followed by the National Championship Air Races in Reno, Nevada at 25. By the time he was 27, he made his airshow performing debut at the Miramar Air Show, and soon after, became the first Black pilot to perform aerobatics in the Arctic Circle.

All Things Aviation & Aerospace is an aviation career-oriented webcast that provides insight on the variety of opportunities and possibilities in the aviation and aerospace industries. Its host and moderator, Vince Mickens, is a long time private pilot who flies frequently for both personal and business. Mickens background includes strategic partnership executive roles over the last 17 years with the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA), the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA), and the Bob Hoover Legacy Foundation, all after a 28-year broadcast journalism career working in seven major television and radio broadcast markets nationwide.

All Things Aviation & Aerospace is also available on my Private Air Media YouTube Channel, Facebook Live Page, and Linkedin Profile.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnAgvYp8gF4w8WSRdU7Dn4w

https://www.facebook.com/privateairmediagroup

https://www.linkedin.com/in/vincentmickens-privateairmediagroup-allthingsaviationandaerospace/