 | RIP Elmer Ward| News Discuss RIP Elmer Ward in the News & Announcements :: READ forums; I read on the AAFO Hangar Talk board that Elmer Ward has passed away. Most everyone who has been to ... |
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09-20-2007, 05:35 PM
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#1 | | "Shooter"
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I read on the AAFO Hangar Talk board that Elmer Ward has passed away. Most everyone who has been to Chino will remember him, and his most noticeable airplane, the P-51 "Man O War" http://www.aafo.com/hangartalk/showt...t=elmer +ward
Rest well, Elmer, and thanks for all the great memories.  
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09-20-2007, 05:56 PM
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#3 | | the old Sage
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09-20-2007, 10:27 PM
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09-21-2007, 05:50 AM
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09-21-2007, 08:07 AM
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I would like to announce another loss, but it isn't allowing me to start a new thread. We lost a Hurricane at the Shoreham Air Show with the pilot, Brian Brown from Doncaster. The aircraft had been 'scrambled' to intercept two Bf 109s in a mock fight. It then split from formation and dived into a hill, investigations are going on.
In Britain we've lost 8 pilots in 17 years in vintage aircraft; the last incident was 2003 when two Royal Navy crew were killed when their Firefly crashed at Duxford. Pilot dies in Hurricane crash at show | the Daily Mail
We've got a bigger article in the local newspaper...as I live in Doncaster. But I can't find it on the net.
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THat stinks a lot of times the planes capabilities arent as good as they were 60 yrs ago........Sad | |
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