General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Banshee7 on August 16, 2024, 04:23:59 PM
Title: Scott Bloomquist Plane Crash
Post by: Banshee7 on August 16, 2024, 04:23:59 PM
Idk if any of you follow dirt track racing, but my favorite driver of all time, Scott Bloomquist, died this morning in a plane crash. Link says “vintage” plane. One of the pictures I saw of him had some type of WW1 era biplane in it (I’m not too familiar with those airframes).
Reported that he crashed into a barn on his property.
J3 cub landing speed is 35mph
As they say, a Cub can just barely kill you.
- oldman
Title: Re: Scott Bloomquist Plane Crash
Post by: Maverick on August 17, 2024, 10:01:52 AM
My local newspaper article said it was a J-3 and impact with a barn. I'm wondering if he didn't get a bad crosswind and tried to do a go around.
Title: Re: Scott Bloomquist Plane Crash
Post by: RUSH1 on August 17, 2024, 10:55:24 AM
He was a character.
Title: Re: Scott Bloomquist Plane Crash
Post by: nopoop on August 17, 2024, 11:51:41 AM
Friend of mines father had a cub. Half moon bay has an emergency strip for SFO. With the sock straight down the runway he took 45 minutes to fly from one end to the other
Title: Re: Scott Bloomquist Plane Crash
Post by: Busher on August 17, 2024, 07:27:50 PM
Friend of mines father had a cub. Half moon bay has an emergency strip for SFO. With the sock straight down the runway he took 45 minutes to fly from one end to the other
When I did my PPL in 1963, I flew J3's, PA11's, and when available the school's 1 Luscombe 8E. The J3 was fun - when the wind was strong enough, you could take off, climb to circuit height, fly backwards down the runway, then descend to the threshold and land. Only when the CFI wasn't watching!
Title: Re: Scott Bloomquist Plane Crash
Post by: Shuffler on August 17, 2024, 09:35:28 PM
Yup a 1938 model... 65 hp. Now there is talk he may have done it purposely. They do not know for sure.
Title: Re: Scott Bloomquist Plane Crash
Post by: Banshee7 on August 18, 2024, 03:06:36 PM