Sport Aerobatics, March 1999
Rod Jocelyn ________________________________________________________________________________
"If a single person could be the genesis of modern aerobatics, it must be Rod." - Lindsey Parsons
Building Excellence in American Aerobatics
"If a single person could be the genesis of modern aerobatics, it must be Rod", says Lindsey Parsons, a 1962 U.S. Aerobatic teammate of Jocelyn's. "More than any other individual, Rod changed exhibition aerobatics from its former stunt-oriented, fragmentary sequences emphasizing circus-like thrills to the continuously flowing, tightly-linked aerial ballets we are accustomed to today," he says. "His astonishing flying style was always smooth, aggressive and surgically precise."
Rod Jocelyn soloed a week before his 19th birthday in Tuscaloosa, Alabama as a member of the Army Air Coprs. He was
