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Plane Wing Falls Off During Air Show (Video)
www.youtube.com ^ | Aug 8, 2013 | Twev63

Posted on 02/12/2014 6:59:13 AM PST by Yosemitest

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To: Yosemitest

Quite the show! WOW!

Thanks for posting. :-))


41 posted on 02/12/2014 9:08:23 AM PST by Aria ( 2008 & 2012 weren't elections - they were coup d'etats.)
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To: Aria
The Pitts Special, I've been told, is pure adrenaline.
My father lost a good friend at the Reno Air Races, in 2002.Tommy "Ramblin" Rose.
42 posted on 02/12/2014 9:18:35 AM PST by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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I actually witnessed a plane fall out of the sky at air races in Las Vegas. There was a big cloud of dust and two women standing next to me went running out to the site.

Have been haunted by that in the years since and subsequently by the deaths of boat racers I knew. What is the point? They leave families behind.

I find it interesting to watch these things as long as I don’t know the people at risk. I suppose the world needs people to do these things...to blaze trails in new challenges that fuel progress. That must be why God created men.


43 posted on 02/12/2014 9:31:05 AM PST by Aria ( 2008 & 2012 weren't elections - they were coup d'etats.)
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To: Yosemitest

Obama’s subsidizing planes now?.


44 posted on 02/12/2014 9:31:25 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: Aria
Sooner or later, we all pay the debt that ALL men pay.
Better to go quickly, than in a long and drawn out and painful process.
I feel for the families that watch their love ones go "splat", but they died doing what they loved.
Pushing the envelope into new areas and creating new technologies along the way, is nothing to be ashamed of.
But those who choose this path must weigh the risk.
45 posted on 02/12/2014 9:37:57 AM PST by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Vaduz
Huh?
I must have missed that one.
46 posted on 02/12/2014 9:38:59 AM PST by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Yosemitest

Everything backs fails.
Stimulus deal ..............


47 posted on 02/12/2014 9:41:20 AM PST by Vaduz
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48 posted on 02/12/2014 10:12:05 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Aria
One other thing, Tommy Rose was working on a Thunder Mustang and had decided NOT TO TAKE IT to Reno for that race.
He wanted it for the next year.
But his sons sold it, I think because they couldn't stand the reminder of their father's tragedy around the house.
49 posted on 02/12/2014 10:12:44 AM PST by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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I can totally understand selling it.

My husband’s Pitts is for sale....to my relief.


50 posted on 02/12/2014 1:15:38 PM PST by Aria ( 2008 & 2012 weren't elections - they were coup d'etats.)
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To: Yosemitest

It’s an Extra, not an RV, and the plane with no wing is an RC.

Clever photo editing of a real performer and it’s scale model counterpart.


51 posted on 02/12/2014 2:19:31 PM PST by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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