Originally Posted by
Thoughtful_Flyer
I have also mentioned the crash of the Gnat at a show less than a year before Shoreham. If I remember correctly the pilot had just enough total flying hours in the preceding year to maintain a PPL! Yet he was legally qualified to display a historic swept wing fast jet at a public show!
The Gnat crash at Car Fest was barely 5 weeks before the Shoreham crash.