Storm just hit SnF.

[turbo]

these shirts sold out on saturday. the snf store or pilot mall will have some in a week or so. glad all people were ok.

 

[The Wizzard]

Tiedowns

I have seen this kind of damage before and there are no such thing as good tiedowns, especially when it comes to sand! I have personally watched rebar tiedowns that were holding 5/8" wire rope rip out of the ground and all of the airplanes attached to it destroyed. Folks, my point is, mother nature is way more powerful that a good set of tiedowns.

 

[KatieB]

Tornado Path Report from NOAA

Here's the official report for Thursday's severe weather events in Florida. Sun n Fun starts on Page 7. Very interesting... and very chilling.

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/images/tbw/TopNews/PDF/survey31mar2011.pdf

 

[AeroLEDs_Support]

The whole thing was very sad... hard to see such beautiful machines mangled like that. I am just glad that no one was seriously injured. If it had been more than an EF-1, it could have been devastating to the people there. The exhibit hangars were all packed with people seeking shelter, and if they had blown down it would have been horrific. At one point I was worried that the roof was about to lift off the hangar I was in...

Dean Wilkinson
CTO, AeroLEDs LLC

 

[turbo]

more pics

recieved more pics for a friend in fl. he even got a nice shot of the rv formation fly over. he sure did a nice job photographing the event.https://picasaweb.google.com/scroggins.james/SunNFun2011?feat=directlink#

 

[Ron B.]

Just reading sad details on one of the tornado surviving Aviat Huskies. Unfortunetly it never made it home from Sun N Fun. The pilot reported stalling on the radio and was fatally injured. My sympathies to his family and Aviat

 

[Flyguytki]

Talk about even worse news on top of bad news.
-david

 

[aerhed]

That was Blake Chapman. Good guy. Lots of hours in lots of stuff. Bad deal.

 

[fatherson]

RIP

That was Blake Chapman. Good guy. Lots of hours in lots of stuff. Bad deal.