Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
Wing walking, airplane stunts Lillian Boyer (January 15, 1901 – February 1, 1989) was an American wing walker who performed numerous aerial stunts that included wing walking, automobile-to-airplane transfers, and parachute jumps between 1921 and 1929.
— June 22, 2013 — A pilot and a wing-walker were killed when their World War II-era Boeing-Stearman IB75A biplane crashed into the ground and burst into flames during a performance at the ...
The crash occurred on the final day of ... 2013 — A pilot and a wing-walker were killed when their World War II-era Boeing-Stearman IB75A biplane crashed into the ground and burst into flames ...
N130HP crash scene from NTSB report. Lockheed C-130A Hercules registration N130HP, call sign Tanker 130, was flying against the Cannon Fire, [2] near Walker, California on June 17, 2002, when it experienced structural failure of the center wing section, causing both wings to fold upward and separate from the aircraft.
On 30 January, B-52E (tail number 57‑0018) attached to 6th Bombardment Wing out of Walker AFB, New Mexico, crashed when the tail broke off in turbulence. The aircraft crashed over the Sangre de Cristo Mountains ten miles (16 km) northwest of Mora, New Mexico. Of the crew on board, two died and four ejected successfully.
On 1 May 1994 at Luskintyre a Tiger Moth was to do a wing walking display for a group of canteen kids (kids with cancer). On take-off a carburettor fault caused a loss of engine power, the port wing stalled and the aircraft spun into the ground and burst into flames. Both the pilot and the wing-walker were killed in the accident. [3]
An early wing walker who performed daring stunts was American Ormer Locklear. [3] In November 1918, Locklear performed at Barron Field, Texas, with the first public performance of his daredevil wing-walking stunts. Wing walking was seen as an extreme form of barnstorming, and wing walkers would regularly take up the challenge of outdoing one ...