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Title: Pilot killed
Post by: 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
Title: Re: Pilot killed
Post by: M0nkey_Man on August 21, 2011, 10:13:01 AM
 :salute
Title: Re: Pilot killed
Post by: RichardDarkwood on August 21, 2011, 10:40:43 AM
Two men were killed by Dayton,Ohio flying a wright flyer not to long ago.
Title: Re: Pilot killed
Post by: CAP1 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?
Title: Re: Pilot killed
Post by: Sol75 on August 21, 2011, 11:49:20 AM
Nah, I'm in Cincinnati OH area..
Title: Re: Pilot killed
Post by: rogwar on August 21, 2011, 11:56:55 AM
That's too bad.
Title: Re: Pilot killed
Post by: A8EJay on August 21, 2011, 01:09:33 PM
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? 
Title: Re: Pilot killed
Post by: ebfd11 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

Title: Re: Pilot killed
Post by: Sol75 on August 21, 2011, 03:11:30 PM
Were you flying the giant scale version? 

Yes I was
Title: Re: Pilot killed
Post by: B4Buster on August 22, 2011, 05:36:36 PM
R.I.P.  :salute