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Yoshihide Muroya

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Nationality
  
Japan

Name
  
Yoshihide Muroya

Aircraft
  
Zivko Edge 540


Best position
  
6th (2009)

First race
  
2009

Role
  
Pilot

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Born
  
27 January 1973 (age 51) (
1973-01-27
)

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Yoshi Muroya's Winning Lap from Abu Dhabi 2019


Yoshihide Muroya (born 27 January 1973) is a Japanese aerobatics pilot and race pilot of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship. He started glider flight training in 1991 because it was an inexpensive way to fly. Yoshi went to America privately to earn his airplane license at the age of twenty.

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After that, he worked long hours to earn enough money to get his training in America for a period of two months a year. At the same time, he continued glider training in Japan and learned long-distance flight techniques in Australia.

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In 2009 he participated in the Red Bull Air Race World Championship as first Japanese and first Asian pilot. Special Team Mate Robert Fry joined as Team coordinator. In the final race in Barcelona, Spain he took 6th place.

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Until now, he has held some 170 air-shows over 12 years without incident.

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Red Bull Air Race World Championship

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Legend: * CAN: Cancelled * DNP: Did not take part * DNS: Did not start * DSQ: Disqualified

References

Yoshihide Muroya Wikipedia