Sunday, September 02, 2012

HopperFlight-RIP

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — Authorities have identified the pilot who was killed when his plane crashed during an air show in eastern Iowa.
The Quad-City Times reported that Glenn A. Smith, of Frisco, Texas, was the pilot killed in the crash.
Smith was CEO of the Warbird Educational Foundation that owned the Soviet-era jet he was flying.

HopperFlight
The Hoppers are a group of private individuals who donate their time and money, flying the L-39 Albatros jets.

We saw them at EAA Oshkosh this summer.
Terrible.

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