Apollo 8 Astronaut Bill Anders dies in a plane crash
I saw what I thought might be adjustments to the bank angle to take out unintended deviation from the vertical plane of a loop that might have had the effect of delaying the amount of pull at that point needed to stay out of the water, assuming it was possible given the altitude at the start of whatever the maneuver was. It also might have been a roll gone bad with an attempt at split-S type recovery (see https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=23035)
First of all, tribute to a man who painted himself into history as a member of Apollo 8 - what days they were for those of us old enough to remember them.
For an aviator of some renown I guess it could be argued better that way than in a hospital bed but that’s an argument for another day.
More interesting is the concept of when to hang up the licence. There can be no hard and fast answer though I guess it could be suggested that for every competent pilot over say, seventy five, there are many others who should have called it a day and have not done so.
For an aviator of some renown I guess it could be argued better that way than in a hospital bed but that’s an argument for another day.
More interesting is the concept of when to hang up the licence. There can be no hard and fast answer though I guess it could be suggested that for every competent pilot over say, seventy five, there are many others who should have called it a day and have not done so.
If it was one of these aren't they considered historic, important?
Beechcraft T-34 Mentor - Wikipedia
Anyway it was a nice aircraft.
Beechcraft T-34 Mentor - Wikipedia
Anyway it was a nice aircraft.
He had a fabulous collection. They - he and his family via the museum they owned/operated - have a P-51, one of the Tora Zeros (T-6 conversion), a Mig-21, a great collection of trainers - quite an impressive private collection. I met (very briefly, just “Hello”-hand shake) him once at a Paine Field fly-day about 10/12 years ago and have visited his collection. The plane lost was part of that in Burlington, north of Seattle. Linked above, with the other two T-34s he owned.
Ah, here’s a link to the whole inventory:
https://heritageflight.org/explore/explore-aircraft/
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