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Preliminary report released on fatal plane crash (SLIDESHOW)
The Northwest Florida Daily News
Witnesses also told NTSB investigators that Gutierrez's plane “pitched nose high and rolled to the right,” according to the report. “When you have an excessively high nose angle in a small airplane like that, you're going to start losing air speed, ...

Las Vegas Sun
Reno Air Races plans to change course this fall
Fond du Lac Reporter
He said the change would include the softening of some curves to ease the gravitational pull on pilots — including coming out of a stretch called the "Valley of Speed" where planes flying at speeds up to 500 mph gain momentum on the high Sierra ...
APNewsBreak: Reno Air Races still a go this fallBusinessWeek

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Las Vegas Sun
Officials: 2 killed in plane crash near Boulder City Airport
Las Vegas Sun
The plane, built as a high-performance military trainer, went down in a mostly barren desert area near a string of power lines. Local authorities are reporting that both people aboard the plane were killed. The plane crashed about 12:30 pm as it was ...

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On the mend
Altoona Mirror
The 70-year-old, who has 54 years' piloting experience flying gliders and other aircraft, was competing in the National 15m Glider Race when he crashed, he said over the phone in a gravely voice shortly before leaving Altoona Regional on Tuesday in an ...

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New York Times
Wing-Suited Stuntman Takes a Super-Hero Plunge
New York Times
It was a scene fit for a Batman movie, Connery dropping from high above Henley-on-Thames, England, a dark speck in a clear blue sky. He launched from the helicopter at 3:32 pm and reached speeds of 75 miles an hour on his 40-second fall.

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The National
Russian Plane Likely Crashed in Fog
AccuWeather.com
"Some bodies have been found," Dashiell Bennett wrote, "but there is little hope after one rescuer described the incident as: 'A high speed jet plane hit the cliff, exploded and tore apart.'" A Russian jet on a demonstration flight near Jakarta, ...
Relatives wait in anguish as Indonesian rescue workers search for plane crash ...msnbc.com (blog)
Rescuers discover bodies in Indonesian plane crashThe National
No survivors in Indonesia plane crashSydney Morning Herald
World Socialist Web Site
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Video: High-Speed Plunge Transforms Robo-Copter into a Plane
Wired News
Pointing them forward transforms the V-22 into an airplane for high-speed cruising. But design compromises such as short rotor blades (to allow the Osprey to fit aboard ships) and delicate, high-horsepower engines (to compensate for the short blades), ...

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ABC7Chicago.com
Indiana prep basketball standout who survived plane crash says he'll play for ...
Washington Post
An Indiana high school basketball standout who survived a Michigan plane crash last year that killed his father and stepmother after surviving a 2003 crash that killed his mother plans to play college basketball next year. Austin Hatch, of Fort Wayne, ...
Survivor of 2 plane crashes still intends to play college ballCNN (blog)
Student who survived plane crash to play basketball for MichiganABC7Chicago.com
Survivor of two plane crashes to play basketballDAWN.com
Daily Mail
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Reno Air Races plans to change course this fall
MSN Money
He said the change would include the softening of some curves to ease the gravitational pull on pilots — including coming out of a stretch called the "Valley of Speed" where planes flying at speeds up to 500 mph gain momentum on the high Sierra ...

Inquest hears plane crash that killed Talbot Green pilot was probably caused ...
WalesOnline
Senior AAIB inspector Peter Coombes said the phenomenon was not due to low temperature but was connected with the physics of air being sucked at high speed into the engine. He said: “Ice can build up on the insides of the carburetor blocking the throat ...