Schaumburg Live Work & Play - March/April 2009 - (Page 20) Flying high by arlene miles Ask John Rippinger what he does well and he will tell you that he has successfully run a number of insurance and employee benefits firms under the aegis of Rippinger Financial Group. Ask him what he loves to do well, and the answer will be different. Flying. It’s his life. While flying in and of itself is not such a rare pursuit, the type of flying Rippinger does, is. Rippinger is a member of the Lima Lima Flight Team, which is the only civilian six-airplane aerobatic formation demonstration team in the world. Chances are you have seen the Lima Lima Flight Team in action, or at the very least have seen footage of them performing. The team appears annually at the Chicago Air and Water Show, and at approximately 15 to 30 similar events throughout the United States each year, with at least 10 of those major air shows. Rippinger joined Lima Lima as a pilot in 1992, but his love affair with flying began years earlier.
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