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It is reported that 58-year-old "Wild Bill" Walker experienced G-LOC during an aerobatic "heart" maneuver and was fatally injured in the resulting crash. [157] March 12 – Wingwalkers Kyle and Amanda Franklin were severely injured while performing their Pirated Skies wing walking act at the CAF 2011 Air Fiesta in Brownsville, Texas.
August 9 – North Montana State Fair (Great Falls, Montana) – Seven were killed when two A-26 Invader attack bombers, part of a low-flying three-plane formation, collided in mid-air 750 feet in front of a grandstand filled with 20,000 spectators. The wing from one bomber sheared off the tail section of another.
On June 22, 2013, a Boeing-Stearman Model 75 stunt plane carrying wing walker Jane Wicker crashed at the Vectren Dayton Air Show, killing both Wicker and pilot Charlie Schwenker. The airplane completed a "tear drop" style turn as the wing walker positioned herself on the lower left wing. The airplane then rolled left to fly inverted.
Wilson died in Cleveland, Ohio, in an air crash while doing flying stunts at the 1932 Cleveland Air Races show. [1] Biography ... including wing-walking, ...
Loss of right wing due to wing strut fitting failure during demonstration flight; [12] Maj. William B. Robertson also dies in this accident [13] Nick Begich Sr. United States 1972 US Congressman from Alaska Cessna 310: Alaska, United States Disappeared, body never recovered, presumed dead. Hale Boggs was also on this flight. Derek Bennett ...
Gladys Roy (1896 – August 15, 1927) was an American wing walker, barnstormer and film actress. Early life ... Roy died in Ohio on August 15, 1927, when she ...
Three crew are killed in crash of U.S. Air Force Boeing B-47E Stratojet, AF Ser. No. 52-0615, of the 22d Bomb Wing, at March AFB, California. This is the last fatal crash at that base until 19 October 1978. [107] Pilot was Major Clarence Weldon Garrett. 8 January
A mechanical failure caused an abrupt nose pitch-down of United States Air Force Boeing EC-135N ARIA, 61-0328, call sign AGAR 23, of the 4950th Test Wing, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, from Flight Level 290, disappearing from radar at 10:49:48 EDT to crash in a farmer's field, in Walkersville, Maryland.