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K7SGJ
09-16-2011, 08:28 PM
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2011-09-16/plane-crash-Reno/50436272/1
W7XF
09-16-2011, 08:52 PM
I think we just saw the LAST Reno Air Races.
kb2vxa
09-16-2011, 09:11 PM
It gets worse.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zejdh6Ab478

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndd9PVDM3jU

Jimmy Leeward was a stunt pilot who appeared in several top movies... then there was the prophetic Thunder Over Reno.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0498812/
W5RB
09-16-2011, 09:56 PM
Report from the press conference is that his age was 74 , not 80 .
K7SGJ
09-17-2011, 09:16 PM
This could very well have been the problem.

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2011/09/17/nr-nv-crash-tail-tab.cnn
NQ6U
09-17-2011, 09:30 PM
I just found out that my buddy Randy knew Jimmy Leeward from when he used to work on one of Leeward's other Mustangs. Here's some pix he took from the rear seat of a chase plane:

http://i815.photobucket.com/albums/zz79/gyrogeerloose/Hollister0049.jpg
http://i815.photobucket.com/albums/zz79/gyrogeerloose/Hollister0047.jpg
K7SGJ
09-17-2011, 09:37 PM
I always was fond of the Mustang. There is a group out here that flys a couple, and there is no mistaking a RR Merlin power plant when you hear one.
K7SGJ
09-18-2011, 01:59 PM
Pre and post crash photos.

http://framework.latimes.com/2011/09/17/reno-air-races-crash/#/0
NQ6U
09-18-2011, 02:18 PM
Pre and post crash photos.

http://framework.latimes.com/2011/09/17/reno-air-races-crash/#/0

The first one of that series really got me.
K7SGJ
09-18-2011, 03:20 PM
No kidding. I wonder just how much the human brain can process what is happening in the short amount time between when the plane malfunctioned and he actually augured in. I know I've been in a couple of bad rollover wrecks, and from what I can remember I didn't really know what was happening. I think I realized I was in trouble but didn't have time to consider any available actions. Things happened so fast I'm sure whatever I did was all subconscious reaction. I certainly had no time for thoughts of being hurt or dying, although I did get busted up pretty badly. I can only hope that in the pilots case, he didn't have time to contemplate his predicament or for anything other than trying to regain control.