Hughes Racer Crash?

IDENTIFICATION
Regis#: 258Y Make/Model: EXP Description: EXP- HUGHES 1 B
Date: 08/05/2003 Time: 0030

Event Type: Accident Highest Injury: Fatal Mid Air: N
Missing: N
Damage: Destroyed

LOCATION
City: YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK State: WY Country: US

DESCRIPTION
ACFT CRASHED UNDER UNKNOWN CIRCUMSTANCES, ONE PERSON ON BOARD WAS
FATALLY
INJURED, NORTH OF OLD GEYSER IN YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, WY

INJURY DATA Total Fatal: 1
# Crew: 1 Fat: 1 Ser: 0 Min: 0
Unk:
# Pass: 0 Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0
Unk:
# Grnd: Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0
Unk:

WEATHER: SPECI KWYS 042346Z AUTO 16008KT 20SM BKN040 22/09 A3026

OTHER DATA
Activity: Pleasure Phase: Unknown Operation: General
Aviation

Departed: GILLETTE, WY Dep Date: 08/05/2003 Dep.
Time: 0030
Destination: EUGENE, OR Flt Plan: UNK Wx
Briefing: Y
Last Radio Cont: UNK
Last Clearance: UNK

FAA FSDO: CASPER, WY (NM04) Entry date: 08/05/2003

This is just awful.
When I spotted the bird at OSH, it gave me a thrill that made me feel like a
kid again. I feel so bad for the family of the pilot and everyone who put so
much love into the airplane. Sometimes life really sucks.
--
Dan
C172RG at BFM

"john smith" wrote in message
...

DESCRIPTION
ACFT CRASHED UNDER UNKNOWN CIRCUMSTANCES, ONE PERSON ON BOARD WAS
FATALLY
INJURED, NORTH OF OLD GEYSER IN YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, WY


It is really sad and I thought about it alot today. I feel for the family.
But what a way to go... flying the finest airplane I have ever seen (and
that is without any exaggeration).

The paper in Casper, Wyoming has a story on the crash. Pilot James
Wright was killed. It sounds he mentioned mechanical problems during
his refueling stop in Gillette.

http://www.trib.com/AP/wire_detail.php?wire_num=113724


Smithsonian Air & Space page on the H-1 replica:

http://www.airandspacemagazine.com/A...AM03/h1rr.html

--

Paul Hirose