Career
His most famous stunt is flying inverted under a pedestrian bridge (height 7 meters) over the Nemunas River wash in Kaunas on September 2, 2000, (nicknamed Ultraflight). He also flew under all bridges over the Neris River in Vilnius on September 18, 1999, (nicknamed Flight of the Century). However, the family was able to return to Lithuania when Kairys was still a small boy.
His interest in flying started at an early age when watching planes landing and taking off at an airstrip near his home in Lithuania.
He became an airframe engineer and was able to start flying aerobatics at the Kaunas Flying Club. The style of acrobatics we see today was developed over twenty years ago by Lithuanians Stepas Artiškevičius and Kairys competing with each other while on the Soviet team, and coaching each other.
Today every unlimited pilot flies in the style promoted by the soviet aerobatics society in the 70s. His engineering and piloting skills were recognized when he was asked to work with the Sukhoi Design Bureau to develop the Sukhoi 26, 29 and 31 series of completely new aerobatics aircraft using new ideas future to dominate the Unlimited World Aerobatic Championships.
This legacy continues to this date with the Su31 winning again in the 2003 Women's Army Corps in Lakeland, Florida.
Jurgis" forte has always been Unlimited Freestyle aerobatics which has allowed him to develop his quest for new flight possibilities from himself and his aircraft. He recently flew his own creation in the form of the "Juka" aircraft and has since been fine-tuning this aircraft for future displays and competitions. He has invented several aerobatics maneuvers including the Kairys Wheel, Small Loop and was the first to successfully perform the Pugachev"s Cobra maneuver in a propeller-driven aircraft.
