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"comanche driver" wrote: the aircraft was a F6F belonging to planes of fame in chino. the pilot was a very well know warbird pilot and also raced at Reno. he flew safety cap at Reno in his mustang after bob Hoover retired from that position. from secondhand info I have heard, he had mechanical problems of some sort and was trying to put it down on the freeway and clip some power lines. my condolences to his family. there is more info on www.aafo.com R. Burns I just got the news that it was Art Vance, well-known Warbird pilot and president of the Unlimited Racing Assn. See: http://www.aafo.com/hangartalk/showt...8165#post18165 "George Patterson" wrote in message news:kUF2f.4373$Iq3.3841@trndny01... Mortimer Schnerd, RN wrote: Anybody have a clue what might have happened? Was the weather bad? We had crappy weather in the Carolinas but it's another world on the other side of the mountains. According to weather.com, it sounds pretty good. Visibility 10 miles, winds variable at 3 mph, temp 60, dew point 54, cloudy, no fog. They do not say how low the clouds were, but they'd be low with that dew point spread. That area is sort of hilly -- you're getting into the Cumberlands there. George Patterson Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you quarrel with your neighbor. It makes you shoot at your landlord. And it makes you miss him. |
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