Posted on 11/07/2017 1:44:55 PM PST by ZagFan
Former MLB pitcher Roy 'Doc' Halladay has been killed after his plane crashed in the Gulf of Mexico.
Halladay, 40, was a keen pilot whose Twitter feed includes several references to his love of flying - including his brand new ICON MY2018 A5 plane, which was seen floating upside down in shallow water on Tuesday.
But Halladay will be best known for playing for the Toronto Blue Jays and Philadelphia Phillies from 1998-2013, and for being one of just six MLB pitchers to win the Cy Young award for both American and International play.
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This is a bizzare title that makes it sound like he meant to crash his plane.
It’s true... Pasco County Sheriff announced it...WFLA reported it, too...
Looks like a kit plane like John Denver’s.
Huh?
Do they mean "American and National Leagues?" WTF?
Google the Wing Design, John Roncz, and the Patents to make this bird Stall Proof, doesn't make sense, I want to know more...
Editing in "journalism" is dead and buried. You see this crap every day now.
Exactly my thoughts as well. Horrible.
>>This is a bizzare title that makes it sound like he meant to crash his plane.<<
As journalism died, grammar was the second casualty.
Facts were the first.
I just saw him pitch a couple of months ago at the NBC tournament in Wichita. He was on the Kansas All-Stars which was a team of former major leaguers.
Sad day here. Roy Halladay was one of my son’s baseball coaches. A nicer man (and his wife and children) you would never meet. My kids go to school with his and I will never forget the time my son did a report on airplanes (his favorite topic), and Roy came up to him afterwards and told him how much he enjoyed his report and then they talked about airplanes for a few minutes.
Prayers up to his family.
Man, only 40.
Hope he knew the Lord.
Prayers for the family and the scores of others saddened by the news.
Part of the Phillies’ dream pitching team of a few years back that on paper looked like one of the best ever assembled - then a few minor injuries, the Phils’ usual anemic hitting, and a silly trade or two and the dream’s gone like smoke in the wind.....
It’s an amphibian. With smoke in the cockpit he my have hit the water at to steep of an angle and nosed in hard.
I remember him in his Toronto days. A great talent wasted on a mediocre team.
Not a kit plane.
Denver was killed in a Long EZ, a Burt Rutan design, trying to change fuel tanks with a pair of pliers while on final.
The Long EZ is a canard aircraft - little wing up front (the canard), winglets, two-place tandem.
As for being stallproof, a canard is the only really stallproof aircraft type out there, short of some sort of automatic intervention when the AOA starts to get to the red zone.
Another example of the reporting that is done these days.
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