To: CFIIIMEIATP737
Read
this (Tommy Rose Pre-Crash Photo: Source?) and if you want the photo of the pre-crash evidence of that 2002 wake turbulence crash, you can request it yourself.
From
another source about Tommy Rose's crash.
The aircraft is believed to have entered the wake turbulence of another racer, began porpoising, had the tail detach, then crashed into the ground.
Tommy was pronounced dead at the scene at 14:45 (GMT)
Have you seen this photo?
Tom Rose is a commercial pilot in Mississippi whose father died racing in the same Reno event in 2002 in what appeared to be similar circumstances, although he crashed far from the crowd.
His father, 62-year-old Tommy Rose, was flying an experimental sport plane about 200 feet off the ground when a stabilizer broke off the tail, his son said Saturday. At that altitude, he had nowhere to go but down.
He said in his dad's case, like many crashes at the air show, he had just pushed his plane beyond its limits in an effort to win, and it broke apart.
"But you want to push your plane to its limits because you want to be competitive. That's what you're there for," he said.
Still, Rose said, he'd like to see the races continue.
"My dad passed doing what he loved, and I think so many of those guys who fly out there would say the same thing," he added. "They'd rather go this way than in a nursing home."
119 posted on
09/18/2011 10:09:41 PM PDT by
Yosemitest
(It's simple, fight or die.)
To: Yosemitest
All you have to do is talk to the race pilots. They all say wake avoidance is paramount and most have encountered it on the race course
About 5 minutes before the unlimited racers were brought onto the race course by the pace plane the color commentator was asked by the announcer if they preferred more wind or calm conditions and the guy said they prefer it windy as it blows the wake turbulence off the course
We thought about that later and said it may have been prophetic
122 posted on
09/19/2011 1:20:09 PM PDT by
hattend
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