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Pilot Zone => Pilot Zone => Topic started by: EppyGA - White Christian Domestic Terrorist on August 16, 2024, 09:40:06 AM

Title: Cutting across Aviation and Motorsports....
Post by: EppyGA - White Christian Domestic Terrorist on August 16, 2024, 09:40:06 AM
Title: Re: Cutting across Aviation and Motorsports....
Post by: Rush on August 16, 2024, 10:01:15 AM
A “vintage” airplane, is all we know?
Title: Re: Cutting across Aviation and Motorsports....
Post by: EppyGA - White Christian Domestic Terrorist on August 16, 2024, 10:29:14 AM
Not much more info here. Crashed into the barn, small two seater.

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/dirt-track-racing-legend-scott-bloomquist-60-killed-tennessee-plane-crash
Title: Re: Cutting across Aviation and Motorsports....
Post by: Rush on August 16, 2024, 10:46:00 AM
Quote from: EppyGA - White Christian Domestic Terrorist on August 16, 2024, 10:29:14 AM
Not much more info here. Crashed into the barn, small two seater.

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/dirt-track-racing-legend-scott-bloomquist-60-killed-tennessee-plane-crash

It won’t let me read it. I’ve reached my number of free articles?
Title: Re: Cutting across Aviation and Motorsports....
Post by: EppyGA - White Christian Domestic Terrorist on August 16, 2024, 11:52:22 AM
Quote from: Rush on August 16, 2024, 10:46:00 AM
It won’t let me read it. I’ve reached my number of free articles?
Well, bummer
Title: Re: Cutting across Aviation and Motorsports....
Post by: Lucifer on August 16, 2024, 02:09:18 PM
Another one that thought “I’m not vulnerable” and “the rules don’t apply to me”.
Title: Re: Cutting across Aviation and Motorsports....
Post by: Rush on August 16, 2024, 02:32:10 PM
It let me read it now. Doesn’t really say what happened. Flew into a barn in his two seater. Sounds like a low and slow accident. Just tooling around close to the ground not paying attention or maybe had some kind of failure in his “vintage” (“old” lol) airplane.
Title: Re: Cutting across Aviation and Motorsports....
Post by: Lucifer on August 16, 2024, 04:24:42 PM
It was a ‘39 Piper Cub. 
Title: Re: Cutting across Aviation and Motorsports....
Post by: Rush on August 16, 2024, 05:16:31 PM
Quote from: Lucifer on August 16, 2024, 04:24:42 PM
It was a ‘39 Piper Cub.

Ah…  it just barely killed him.
Title: Re: Cutting across Aviation and Motorsports....
Post by: Anthony on August 16, 2024, 06:01:05 PM
Quote from: Rush on August 16, 2024, 05:16:31 PM
Ah…  it just barely killed him.

Well duh Scott. Fly the plane...Fly the plane...as my instructor used to say.