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September 04, 2012

Airborne 09.04.12: Richard Bach Accident, QCAS Airshow Crash, Sikorsky Prize

Also: NASA Radiation Mission, FAA PED Plans, AAL Pilots Looking For Agreement, Electric Cri-Cri, Vote OSH2012 High and Low Points!

Aviation author, Richard Bach, remains in serious but improving condition following his approach to landing accident on Saturday while flying an Amateur Built-Experimental SeaRey Amphib he purchased earlier this year. The Hoppers Jet Team has lost the newest member of the team after the crash of a L39 Albatross jet aircraft Saturday at the 2012 Quad City Airshow in Iowa. The accident occurred at approximately 1325 local time. The pilot has been identified as Glen A. Smith, 58, of Frisco, Texas. A group of students at a university in Maryland are a little closer to claiming the two-hundred-and-fifty-thousand-dollar ‘Sikorsky

"Hope he enjoyed the boat ride." Source: USCG Petty Officer 3rd Class Larry Odell, officer-of-the-day at Station Cleveland Harbor, after a member of the Golden Knights parachute team was pulled from Cleveland Harbor by the USCG Saturday.

An event during landing that results in excessive G-forces being transmitted into the structure of the aircraft.

'Friends of Leiston Airfield'

The 'Friends of Leiston Airfield' was formed in the summer of 1995 by Peter Saunders, Chris Betson and the late Peter Barker, after a group of people with holiday caravans on the 'Cakes & Ale Park', had become concerned that a small memorial erected on a hardstand in an area hidden from view from the general public, had become neglected and rubbish strewn.