Noted aerobatic pilot Eddie Andreini died today at an airshow performance at Travis AFB in California. He was flying his Stearman, and the word on some aviation forums is that he was performing an inverted very-low-pass ribbon-cut trick (the plane flies close to the ground, upside down, and slices a vertically-stretched paper ribbon with its wing(s) as it passes). He was 77 years old - which, I feel, raises the rather uncomfortable question of just when is enough enough? I'm not saying someone who's 77 can't be a competent regular pilot; but we're not talking about normal flying.
via JREF Forum http://ift.tt/1ibvwF9
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