Plane crash at Ardmore
 

Sympathy to that guy. 3 years building his Glassair..TIO540, Retracts..a real rocket..First flight today and pranged by the test pilot..poor bugger..boys will buy you some beers at Airline Flying Club on the weekend.

bugger.. pilot ok? What happened?

Something wrong with the nose wheel perhaps causing it to collapse, then a cartwheel or some other manoeuver to end up upside down on 21.

only three years??
 

That Glassair was a real work of art, and absolutely immaculate. Real building time must have felt closer to 10 years. A year of work in the wing alone.
ECT?

I actually heard he had been working on it for 12 years.

A pristine aircraft, no expense spared.
12 years is correct, a damn shame.
A lot of us have drooled over this Glassair for some years.

At least he was not injured.

Greg's one did the same last year? a design fault of sorts perhaps, something for the engineering boffins to nut out.

LocoDriver