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Offline Sol75

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Pilot killed
« on: August 21, 2011, 10:07:57 AM »
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/08/20/missouri.air.show/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

He was flying a modified Pitts called "The Beast"

Odd thing is, yesterday, I was flying a scale RC model of this plane....
Gunna be a bit weird flying it for a while after seeing this...

Sol
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Re: Pilot killed
« Reply #1 on: August 21, 2011, 10:13:01 AM »
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Offline RichardDarkwood

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Re: Pilot killed
« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2011, 10:40:43 AM »
Two men were killed by Dayton,Ohio flying a wright flyer not to long ago.
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Re: Pilot killed
« Reply #3 on: August 21, 2011, 11:31:01 AM »
there was a midair over hammonton nj yesterday. one guy bailed......the other didn't get out.

sol....you're in jersey, right?  you ever seen that black/green biplane out of south jersey regional? the one with the overpowered(if there is such a thing) radial on the nose?
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Offline Sol75

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Re: Pilot killed
« Reply #4 on: August 21, 2011, 11:49:20 AM »
Nah, I'm in Cincinnati OH area..
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Offline rogwar

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Re: Pilot killed
« Reply #5 on: August 21, 2011, 11:56:55 AM »
That's too bad.
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Offline A8EJay

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Re: Pilot killed
« Reply #6 on: August 21, 2011, 01:09:33 PM »
Quote from: Sol75 on August 21, 2011, 10:07:57 AM
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/08/20/missouri.air.show/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

He was flying a modified Pitts called "The Beast"

Odd thing is, yesterday, I was flying a scale RC model of this plane....
Gunna be a bit weird flying it for a while after seeing this...

Sol

Were you flying the giant scale version? 
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Re: Pilot killed
« Reply #7 on: August 21, 2011, 01:38:06 PM »
Well they paid tribute to him, they did a missing man formation for him.

Video can be seen here
http://www.kmbc.com/video/28930867/detail.html

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Offline Sol75

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Re: Pilot killed
« Reply #8 on: August 21, 2011, 03:11:30 PM »
Quote from: A8EJay on August 21, 2011, 01:09:33 PM
Were you flying the giant scale version? 

Yes I was
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Offline B4Buster

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Re: Pilot killed
« Reply #9 on: August 22, 2011, 05:36:36 PM »
R.I.P.  :salute
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