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AuStIN RIEDER JOINS REDLINE AIRSHOWS By Jim Froneberger

Flying on His Father’s Wing

A s a young boy growing up in building his first Van’s Aircraft RV-8, he he was licensed to fly.
a neighborhood located in
Today, Austin is again following in his
started flying formation with other RV
the shadow of Cincinnati’s
owners and eventually joined an RV air-
father’s footsteps as a member of an air-
Lunken Airport, Ken Rieder
Ken’s son, Austin, was also mesmer-
was fascinated by airplanes. show formation team. show team, but there is something very
special about this team – Austin is flying
He remembers going with his parents to ized by airplanes at a very young age, and on his father’s wing.
watch the airplanes takeoff and land and thanks to his father, he often got to fly in
even recalls seeing the Blue Angels per- the back seat of his dad’s RV-8s, even get- REDLINE AIRSHOWS IS bORN
form at Lunken Field, flying F-4 Phan- ting the chance for some occasional stick Redline Airshows traces its roots
toms back in the early 1970s. time. Austin learned to fly gliders and back to 2013 when Ken Rieder and Jon
By his early 20s, Ken had learned to powered planes as a teenager, and with Thocker decided to form their own two-
fly himself, and almost immediately, he his dad as his mentor, was introduced to ship airshow team after several years fly-
started flying aerobatics. Years later, after formation flying and aerobatics as soon as ing their RV-8s as members of another
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