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NAS OCEANA AIR SHOW 2026

🇺🇸 Saturday Sept 19 + Sunday Sept 20, 2026 · NAS Oceana, Virginia Beach, VA

Blue Angels • F-22 Raptor Demo • F/A-18F Rhino Demo • Mike Goulian • Redline Airshows + more

NAS Oceana Air Show 2026 - live on LiveAirShowTV, September 19 and 20
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✈️ FEATURED PERFORMANCE Melissa Burns flies her Zivko Edge 540 over Lake Washington at the Boeing Air Show, Seafair 2026 — a full unlimited-class aerobatic routine of tumbles, tail slides and gyroscopic maneuvers, finished with the thing she looks forward to most: a head-to-head run down the straightaway against an H1 Unlimited hydroplane, flown inverted at surface level. Her airplane is Edge 540 serial number 35, the last of the classic Edges before the design shifted toward an air-racing configuration. She has owned it since 2005 and named it Goddess of the Dawn — Dawn being her own middle name, and the mythology being a long-standing interest. SOURCE: https://www.sportsgal.com/ 👩‍✈️ ABOUT THE PILOT Melissa Burns began flying as a teenager, started competing in aerobatics at 19, and flew her first airshow at 20. In 2006, at 22, she became the youngest woman ever named to the United States Unlimited Aerobatic Team, and she went on to place third in the world at the 2015 World Aerobatic Championships. She has flown more than 300 shows. Seafair is close to home — she has lived in Seattle and has family and roots in the region, and she describes it as among her favourite shows to fly, both for the community and for the chance to show a lakeshore full of children what an airplane can actually do. When she is not flying displays she is full-time faculty at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, teaching the next generation. Melissa Burns – Official site https://www.sportsgal.com/ Instagram: @melissasportsgal YouTube: @MelissaDawnBurns SOURCE: https://erau.edu/hub-spoke/stories/eagle-on-the-edge 🛩️ ABOUT THE AIRCRAFT The Edge 540 is an experimental, factory-built unlimited aerobatic airplane from Zivko Aeronautics — a carbon-fiber shell over a steel tube frame, mid-wing, with a symmetrical airfoil that flies as willingly inverted as upright. That wing is what holds on through the sharp, high-G corners without letting go. Power is a high-compression Lycoming six, turning a Hartzell "claw" propeller chosen to bite through the air in slow-speed, low-energy maneuvers — the moments where the airplane is nearly stopped and control depends entirely on thrust over the tail surfaces. The control surfaces are enormous by training-aircraft standards, and they are the reason it rolls at roughly 420 degrees per second — well over a full revolution every second. SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zivko_Edge_540 📊 SPECIFICATIONS Zivko Edge 540 Length: 20 ft 7 in Wingspan: 24 ft 4 in Empty Weight: 1,170 lb Max Aerobatic Weight: 1,550 lb Max Weight: 1,800 lb Roll Rate: 420 degrees per second Climb Rate: 3,700 ft/min G Limits: ±12 g Powerplant: Lycoming AEIO-540, approx. 310 hp SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zivko_Edge_540 ⏱️ CHAPTERS 00:00 Edge 540 serial 35 — Goddess of the Dawn 00:39 Diving ratchet roll and tail slide 01:05 Tumbles, and what ten G actually feels like 02:03 Melissa Burns on her Edge 540, in her own words 04:08 Three hundred shows, and a Seattle homecoming 05:28 Lining up against the hydroplane 06:58 Inverted down the straightaway 08:15 How she started — driver's licence first 10:04 Teaching the next generation at Embry-Riddle 11:22 Inverted at surface level, and why the controls reverse 12:48 Smoke on — topside, then underside 13:39 Aresti, and how a routine is really planned 🌎 ABOUT THE AIRSHOW Seafair is Seattle's summer festival, and its Boeing Air Show over Lake Washington is one of the most distinctive venues in North American airshow flying — performers work over open water with the city skyline behind them, sharing the course with the H1 Unlimited hydroplane fleet, which is what makes an airplane-versus-boat race possible in the first place. SOURCE: https://www.seafair.org/ ▶️ WATCH MORE Extreme Flight Demos playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMIGyCOqVOSBQYG951kKAIbECiC4sYwZT #LiveAirShowTV #Seafair #SeattleAirShow #MelissaBurns #Edge540 #ZivkoAeronautics #Aerobatics #UnlimitedAerobatics #LakeWashington #Hydroplane #WomenInAviation #Airshow #Aviation
Melissa Burns – Zivko Edge 540 | Seafair Boeing Air Show 2026 | Seattle, WA
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