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09-21-2013, 09:23 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Chandler, AZ
Posts: 2,904
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Sad
Very sad news. I met him a couple of years ago at Osh. Like so many, we don't really know them but we are all family.
This is one that is shocking in so many ways. We really need to know what happened to learn and prevent!!!
Thoughts are with the family.
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Darwin N. Barrie
Chandler AZ
www.JDair.com
RV-7 N717EE-Flying (Sold)
RV-7 N717AZ Flying, in paint
EMS Bell 407,
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09-21-2013, 09:28 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: woodbine, NJ
Posts: 18
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I know the feeling
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Originally Posted by KCBerner
It's amazing how I can feel such a loss for someone I haven't met. I guess that's the power of this great community. I know it will come back in time but this morning I don't feel like building and I don't feel like flying, I just feel like hanging out with my wife and son. So many have said it but what a kick to the gut.
My prayers and condolences to his family.
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That is what I have been doing all day so far then into work which is going to be pretty difficult.
Chip
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09-21-2013, 09:56 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Albuquerque, NM
Posts: 427
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Godspeed, Cousin-to-us-all. I learned so much from you, Tony. Thank you for making me a better pilot.
This "hobby" of ours can be awfully brutal, but the people I've met along the way make those risks worth it. Usually. Right now, I'm struggling as I weigh that balance. Remembering Tony as he lived is a large comfort in acknowledging the risk.
Blessings to your family, Amy.
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Stephen
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Stephen & Tyson Humphrey
father-son team building new lives and an RV-9
VAF Donors: 2008 to 2014 * Friends of the RV-1
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09-21-2013, 09:56 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Atascosa, TX
Posts: 106
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It is very hard to express the pain of loosing one from this family. Tony is the second RV8 builder this year that the VAF community has lost, and although I did not know Tony, I also feel it as though I did. I will continue to pray for his family and their healing. The Lords prayer.
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09-21-2013, 10:42 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: KRTS
Posts: 1,798
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I had to do a double take, when I saw this post.
Why?
Prayers and support for his family, they'll need it. 
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09-21-2013, 10:57 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Bay Pines, FL (based @ KCLW)
Posts: 1,955
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Sad, sad day.
I was really shocked when I first saw the post. I've never met Tony but read plenty of his posts.
My thoughts & prayers go out to his family.
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Danny "RoadRunner" Landry
Morphed RV7(formally 7A), N20DL, PnP Pilot
1190+ hours
2019 Donation Paid
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09-21-2013, 11:04 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Yuma, Az
Posts: 87
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Absolutely shocked. I've read so many of his posts. Our prayers go out to his family that they may find comfort and peace in this time of tragedy and sorrow...
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Ron Hasenbeck
Yuma, Az
RV-14 Wannabe
=VAF= Dues Paid October 2018
EAA 1109496
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09-21-2013, 11:19 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 3,275
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Thanks for posting the pictures. I wish I had been able to meet him.
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09-21-2013, 11:24 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Posts: 179
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Surely, this can't be true
I had the privilege of meeting Tony and Amy when they took a holiday in Ireland a while back. With a name like Kelly, you can guess his attraction to this country. He used VAF to make contact with the small community of RVers here and he brought Amy to visit my little workshop as a result. I drove them to have lunch with my pal Bryan and afterwards Tony flew with Bryan in EI-VII, taking off from his farm strip and landing about an hour later at EINC. It was a wonderful day.
Tony was a super-cool guy and I feel bereft of the chance to return the visit and get to know him better.
Amy, if you can ever bear to read this thread, you will see the esteem in which your husband was held by this community, who all regard him as a brother. When the present horror fades and the positive memories of Tony come to the fore, maybe the warmth and affection of his many RV friends and admirers will be one of the things that will help a little.
Ar dheis D? go raibh a anam d?lis (on God's right may his sweet soul be)
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Loman O'Byrne
RV9 TU. O-320-E2D. Engine hung, working on FWF, Arklow, Ireland
=VAF= dues paid through Dec 2020
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09-21-2013, 11:34 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: New Smyrna Beach, FL
Posts: 305
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I'm new around here and I didn't have a chance to interact with Tony, but it is obvious that he was very respected and loved by this aviation community, and no doubt tremendously loved (and now missed) by family and friends and coworkers. I pray that they somehow find peace and feel much love in the difficult upcoming days and weeks.
In my 27 years of flying, I have lost more friends than I care to recall, and each time it feels shocking ("how could that happen to him?), and then it feels so unfair ("WHY did it happen to him?"). I work with the terminally ill every day, and, especially when the person is younger, it feels very unfair.
In fact, life often is NOT fair.
One lesson for those of us left behind is that we usually don't know which day is our last, and, in the pilot world, we should realize that any particular flight could be our final one.
Plan for tomorrow, but live as though today just may be your last...
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Arlen
Donation to VAF 10.29.18
RV-6, February '14, SOLD December '15
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