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AirMike
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 Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 6:46 pm Post subject: Steve Fossett N240R crash - pont of interest - anomoly |
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In looking at the RGJ.com Reno Gazette photos of the Fossett crash it is interesting to note that the back right cylinder (not sure of the number) seems to have the cylinder head detached. I guess that the NTSB will have to determine if the separation is pre or post crash.
The crash site is approx at the halfway point of a line drawn between Thousand Island lake and Devils Postpile. It is just a few hundred feet off the old trail to the Minaret Mine.
Interesting that the area was flown over 19 times after the crash occurred by the CAP.
Also it is a fairly well traveled area and there was apparently a small post crash fire. I have long suspected that Fossett crashed in the Sierras rather than in rural Nevada. Amazing that it took so long to find the crash site and that nobody observed him flying low that day or saw the small post crash fire.
Fossett was a great sportsman in the spirit of Messner, Hillary and a hundred others who pushed the human envelope. Just a month earlier he had a marvelous talk at OSH where he related how he had broken the all time soaring record for absolute altitude in a glider over the Andes (50,727 ft). He was working with a team in Reno on the land speed record when he died. Steve held over 60 world records at the time of his death.
An amazing guy or look up on wikopedia - we will miss you Steve
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Mitch Hodges
Joined: 10 Jan 2006
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Location: Powder Springs, GA
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| Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 6:03 am Post subject: Re: Steve Fossett N240R crash - pont of interest - anomoly |
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| AirMike wrote: | | ...He was working with a team in Reno on the land speed record when he died. Steve held over 60 world records at the time of his death.... |
I think he was living the life many of dream of living, he will definitely be missed.
I was reminded of this tragedy again only about 3 or 4 weeks ago when there was a small unassuming ad in the classified section of Autoweek magazine offering the "Steve Fossett World Record Attempt Landspeed Car" for sale. For those that don't know, last year Fossett had purchased the "Spirit of America" car Craig Breedlove used in 1997 to attempt to break the sound barrier on land, only to be bested by the ThrustSSC team from Britain. It has been reported Fossett was looking at sites for the record attempt run on his final flight.
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