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 Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 5:37 am Post subject: CorvAircraft> Sad news --WW forward |
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Gig Giacona
Joined: 10 Jan 2006
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Location: El Dorado Arkansas USA
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| Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 7:53 am Post subject: Re: CorvAircraft> Sad news --WW forward |
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The post didn't make it to the web forum so I'll repost...
>Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:13:34 EDT
>From: WilliamTCA(at)aol.com
>Subject: CorvAircraft> Sad news
>To: corvaircraft(at)mylist.net
>Message-ID: <c25>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
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>Friends,
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>I just got a call from a friend who had seen the story of Ken's accident. I
>read the news story, and some of the comments. It just left me feeling sick. I
> had just spent an hour in Ken's company at the Arlington airshow. He had not
>yet flown his plane. It was the first time I ever met him in person. I had
>spoken with him on the phone and e-mailed many times, and as photos showed, he
> was technical and did very nice work. Meeting him in person showed a much
>more animated and positive guy than e-mail or even the phone conveyed. He had a
>lot of photos of his plane with him, and he was very interested in flying
>his plane down to California after the time was flown off. His personality
>makes it very hard to think of him as gone.
>
>The newspaper report in which some person alleged he was doing aerobatics in
>the pattern of an airport shows how low the standards of local journalism
>can be. The last line in Teddy Roosevelt's "The Arena" speech is "If he fails,
>at least he fails while daring greatly, so his place shall never be with
>those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory or defeat." Usually
>irresponsible writing makes me mad, but in this case I just think that Ken's values
>could not even be remotely understood by the writer.
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>My heart goes out to Ken's family and close friends. Even though flying
>might have been one of the great joys in his life, today that will likely be
>little comfort to the people who will miss him the most. Teddy Roosevelt's son
>Quentin was shot down and killed in the final months of WWI. All of Teddy's
>personal philosophy failed to lessen his anguish, and he died emotionally broken
>six months later. He had the unbearable burden of knowing that his sons had
>tried to live up to their father's philosophy. I certainly don't expect words
>written 98 years ago to mean much to those who grieve for Ken today.
>However, hopefully in time they will help to put his choices in context and make
>the loss of him somewhat more bearable.
>
>As always, actual investigators place very low value on "eyewitness"
>reports. In the long run, we may get more information from official sources. Until
>then, I would like to thank everyone in advance for not speculating on Ken's
>tragic accident. If anyone on this list knew Ken personally and would like to
>share anything about what kind of a person he was, I would like to hear from
>them.
>
>Will someone who is also on the 601 list please forward this to that group.
>
>Thank you.
>William Wynne
>5000-18 HWY 17 #247
>Orange Park, FL 32003 USA
>_http://FlyCorvair.com/hangar.html_ (http://www.flycorvair.com/hangar.html)
>- August Update 2008
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