Jay Sata Quite so.
My next question is this.
Where exactly - I mean exactly, did the Spirit of Artifice end up in Winslow?
All the statements I can find suggest a loss of power immediately after take-off but Winslow's runways are huge for a Stearman so why on earth was an off airfield landing necessary, and how did power lines come into play on an airfield?
Or perhaps the problem wasn't exactly "on take off" and occurred some time after by which you'd expect the aircraft to be at many hundreds of feet or more before it apparently encountered those unavoidable power lines in its path.
Can anyone pinpoint the accident site exactly?