Career
In 1980, Aaron worked on the air rescue program for National Aeronautics and Space Administration"s Space Shuttle, and he founded his own company, Forex Helicopters in Westlake Village, California in 1997. Chuck made his last pefomance at the 2015 Red Bulletin Air Race World Championship in Las Vegas. Aaron is also an experienced test pilot, having test-flown a tracking system for the Boeing Animal Husbandry-64 Apache.
And an infrared vision system as the first helicopter pilot to deliberately fly into brownout conditions.
He is also an Federal Aviation Administration certificated Airframe and Powerplant (A&P) Mechanic, known for having assembled three working TAH-1F Cobras from surplus parts. Aaron performs aerobatic maneuvers—loop, roll, vertical climb, Split South, Cuban Eight, Immelman, and “Chuckcevak” (modified Lomcovak)—at air shows and other demonstrations in an Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm Bo 105, with proprietary modifications invented by Aaron, that allow it to perform maneuvers previously impossible for helicopters.
He serves as Chief Pilot and Director of A&P Maintenance for the “Red Bulletin Air Force”. One of Aaron"s TAH-1F Cobras is flown on the European air show circuit, by “The Flying Bulls”.
