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Offline Nordic

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Drivers and Planes
« on: October 25, 2004, 10:46:51 am »
Following the terrible news from the US regarding the Hendricks team.

Here are a few more drivers, teams & families that have perished in plane crashes. Sad reading.

Graham Hill
Tony Brise
Tony Alcock
Ron Flockhart
Tony Benthausen
Alan Kulwicki
Carlos Pace F1
Al Holbert
Mack Hellings (Indy driver)
John Cannon
Rick Newsome (NASCAR driver)
Richie Panch (retired NASCAR driver)
Chip Mead
The USAC officials in 1978
Deake Lyndall Jr. and his father, retired driver Deake Lyndall Sr. (NASCAR West)
Gary Weir and the Pacemaker Sprint Car team
Lance Reventlow
Davey Allison
Ron Flockhart
Henry Liddon and Nigel Harris
David Prophet - helicopter - '81 Silverstone
Jon Woodner - plane - '88 Wash. D.C.
Jose Dolhem - plane - '88 - St. Etienne
Bertie and Mark Fisher - helicopter - 01
Harald Ertl - plane - '82 Germany
David Purley
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Re:Drivers and Planes
« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2004, 02:33:57 pm »
From the 2 wheeled world

Steve Hislop, helicopter crash 2003

Loss of a great talent, and a really nice bloke. RIP

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Re:Drivers and Planes
« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2004, 02:47:49 pm »
Not a fatal, but close; Coultard in Paris I think.
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Re:Drivers and Planes
« Reply #3 on: October 25, 2004, 02:54:32 pm »
Wasnt the DC crash around the time of the Frankie Detorri crash?  Rumours of betting syndicates involved?  :o
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Re:Drivers and Planes
« Reply #4 on: October 25, 2004, 04:02:23 pm »
Quote from: Mark (DR) on October 25, 2004, 02:54:32 pm
Wasnt the DC crash around the time of the Frankie Detorri crash?  Rumours of betting syndicates involved?  :o

I'm sure DC has never had anything to do with the championship or be high enough up in the pecking order to even get on the radar screen of betting syndicates, unless they were looking at the number of retirements he has in one season ;)
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Re:Drivers and Planes
« Reply #5 on: October 25, 2004, 04:05:19 pm »
Didn't one of the Bentley Boys lose thier lives trying to break thier own London to Cape Town records, I cant rember wich one?  
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Re:Drivers and Planes
« Reply #6 on: October 25, 2004, 05:16:09 pm »
Ron Flockhart died whilst practising for a solo London-Australia flight.

John Hindmarsh - Lagonda boy and Le Mans winner, test pilot... Hawker Hurricane on test, St george's Hill, Weybridge, Surrey, England

Glen Kidston - Bentley Boy and Le Mans winner... Drakensberg, South Africa

Chris Staniland - Brooklands boy, motorcycle racer, racing driver, test pilot - Fairey Battle.

Luis Fontes - Lagonda boy and Le Mans winner, Air Transport Auxiliary pilot in wartime... Wellington on
delivery, Pembrey, Wales

 
Johnny Wakefield - Maserati boy, FAA or RAF pilot in wartime

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with thanks to the atlas fourm for the info
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Re:Drivers and Planes
« Reply #7 on: October 25, 2004, 06:08:54 pm »
Glen Kidston!! Thats the chap, thank Nordic its been bugging me all day.....
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Re:Drivers and Planes
« Reply #8 on: October 26, 2004, 06:55:54 am »
Quote from: Nordic on October 25, 2004, 05:16:09 pm
with thanks to the atlas fourm for the info

The atlas forum and the 8w forum are a terrific source of info, absolutely excellent.
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Re:Drivers and Planes
« Reply #9 on: October 27, 2004, 01:34:52 am »
Ok not a driver but motorsport related all the same.

Paul Morgan, (Ilmor Engines) who died when he crashed his Hawker Sea Fury.
 If you ever saw the pictures then he was damn unlucky as it flipped over on landing with very little damage apart from crushing the canopy where he was sat !
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Re:Drivers and Planes
« Reply #10 on: October 27, 2004, 04:40:26 pm »
I also remember Patrick Depailler smashing his legs up hang gliding.
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