"gatt" wrote in message
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The IFPF was an honor society. It's "official function" was simply
fellowship. Most of us knew each other, and shared a common
interest.....flight safety
in the demonstration environment.

Hey, is/was Dick Schramm the guy that did that really strange airshow
performance where they pretended somebody got in the Piper and bounced it
helter skelter all over the runway?
Saw that fifteen years or so ago. That was great stuff. The entire
family
next to us thought the announcer was serious.

That was the same show (Hillsboro, Rose Festival Airshow) in which the
wing
walker fell off and they had to figure out how to rescue him as the plane
ran out of fuel. 80,000-100,000 people dead silent. That was surreal!

-c



The pilot you are referring to was Dick Schram Sr. "The Flying Professor"
and good friend. He was killed at the Reading Show on June 4th 69 when the
stick came out in his hand during a loop in a borrowed Cub that had been
used for a photo hop the day before. The cotter pin was never replaced in
the stick bottom.
It was a missed item in Dick's usually thorough preflight before his clown
act.
His son Dick Jr, was on the mike narrating as Dick went in. I was there. It
was a bad day to say the least.
Dick's accident was used by all of us for years, and is still used today as
an example of the need for absolute thorough preflight inspections by
airshow performers. Dick Jr. was the Public Affairs Officer of the Blue
Angels.
Both of these fine people were personal friends and members of the IFPF.
Dudley Henriques