"Tim" wrote in message
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On Sat, 17 Sep 2011 09:16:50 -0700, Steve B wrote:

"Richard" wrote in message
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On 9/17/2011 10:06 AM, Sunworshipper wrote:
This is the best video I can find.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JAQyM3ZSY0

Seems like he was coming in from the back side and pulling up and
rolling inverted over the stands and then straight in...

That takes a number of control inputs for a tool jammed in the cables.
Or maybe intermittent and his attention was focused in the cockpit.
Strange.

Checked out one of the TV stations in Vegas and they are intent on the
carnage not the news.


SW


Or control surface flutter, or a heart attack (he was 74?).

It will be a very short investigation. An aircraft going in on the nose
like that at 400+ MPH, there isn't much left to inspect.

I have already made a determination, and will bet ten bucks it will be
the fed determination. Pilot error. Whenever they can't prove
anything,, the pilot gets the blame.

Did he have a license to drive a car? Or was he too old? My heart goes
out to his family, but pulling G's like that on a race course is a young
man's game. I expect there will be some changes in the rules, and
ensuing lawsuits.

"WADDYA MEAN 90 IS TOO OLD TO FLY ONE OF THESE 500 HP 500 MPH 65 YEAR
OLD PLANES? I DID IT JUST FINE FOR MANY YEARS."

Condolences to all involved, but I do see a couple of obvious safety
questions ...........

The first, in my libertarian heart, is why should we change anything at
all, when we know that crashes happen at airshows?


--
Tim Wescott

First, I am a life long registered libertarian.

WE should do nothing. The federal government has some jurisdiction because
it involves aircraft. The states would have some jurisdictions over public
events. Air ports, and landowners where special events have some
responsibility, if not jurisdiction to set rules regarding special events
held on their properties. Insurance companies have the right to set
parameters on whatever they insure, be it a boat or a special event.

I see lawsuits 90 ways to Sunday in this aftermath, the first being filed
any minute now.

I went to one air race at Boulder City, Nevada. It was put on by the same
people that put on the Reno races. There were P-51's racing. The course
was over multiple properties, BLM being one of them. It was one of the most
boring afternoons of my life after five minutes.

We do not need to get into legislation and regulations as deep as we see the
governments have gotten into them, but we do at least have to protect the
public AS BEST WE CAN, and after that, **** and acts of God happen. And
people who attend public events do so at (mostly) their own risk, that is,
unless they are injured, then disclaimers be damned, bring on the ambulance
chasers.

My prayers are with those hurting today, and also hope that a little good
comes from this.

Steve