Thanks, Jim. I realised that, having read that link before I replied. It
still brought the story alive for me.
The only fellow trainee I have lost (as far as I know) was Graham Wardell, also
a test pilot. He trained with me on the first Hawk course in 1977, we flew
Jaguars together, based at Brüggen and we were in the USA on simultaneous
exchange tours in the mid-80s. He had trained at Pax River then was the first
foreign F117 pilot.
Then we worked together on the Eurofighter project before he lost patience with
the RAF and joined BAe on the Hawk 200 programme. He died in that aircraft,
doing a barrel roll, at Bratislava in 1999.
Chris
On 25 Jun 2012, at 06:54, Jim Nichols wrote:
> was typing from memory, and memory is not infallable. Lou Everett flew
> the X-13, but was killed in another unique aircraft. See the link below.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Everett
>
> Lou was not the only loss from our small group of Aeronautical Engineering
> graduates. Fred Obarr, who graduated a year after me, was a First
> Lieutenant assigned to the USAF Experimental Flight Test Pilot School at
> Edwards AFB. He was killed in a planned parachute jump at El Centro,
> California three weeks before he was scheduled to graduate.
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