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Valkyre1(at)comcast.net
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 Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 7:37 am Post subject: STUNT PILOT DIES DURING PRACTICESTUNT PILOT DIES DURING PRAC |
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Hans,
You are right. I've lost three out of my four friends who were excellent pilots while they were doing air shows or practicing for them. All were excellent professional pilots. Cindy Rucker was one of my roommates at old Western Airlines and a crowd pleaser. Started a roll/loop a tad too low and didn't quite pull out at the bottom in front of hundreds of people.
Rick Brickert could and did fly anything. It was his life's love. He was lost at the Reno Air Races when his Pond Racer caught fire, engine quit, and he almost made it to a dead stick in the desert. The fire got him first. ( Don't even go there about the flight suit.) The other was practicing a complex series of maneuvers over the Pacific ocean for his next air show in a Chipmunk. Only Bob Hoover remains.
The whole point of this type of flying is to push the envelope and there's only one way to find out when you've exceeded it. It seems to attract the high achievers. They love and are generally up to the task, but it only takes one mistake at the altitudes they generally fly at.
- Val
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viperdoc(at)mindspring.co
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| Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 9:57 am Post subject: STUNT PILOT DIES DURING PRACTICESTUNT PILOT DIES DURING PRAC |
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Well said...the PK of the ground is still 1!
Doc
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