Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote in
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I can't either. I was dumbstruck when we heard what had happened. Ed
knew better than to do that. He was always aggressive with his approach
to aerobatics, but he knew the score, and he knew g loads.
We all assumed there was some kind of pressure involved, or perhaps a
tight time schedule. The rub of it is that all of us knew that it was
exactly this kind of thing that gets you killed.
Ed's reason for not waiting will always remain one of life's great
unanswered questions for me.



the word around was he said the he had "flown with worse" . Good lesson in
that. If someone like that can screw up what about us mere mortals?
That airplane was always immaculate. It's not like he was a shirt-tail out
kind of guy.


Bertie




"Flown with worse" in the business isn't a positive trait to posess and
can end up being a fast trip to a hole in the ground. Unfortunately in
Ed's case, it ended that way.
My job has always been to keep pilots alive in the acro environment. I
have to say that I never used Ed as a positive example. His kind of
aggression toward aerobatics was just beyond my comfort limit.

--
Dudley Henriques