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Wait, the designer of this plane died landing it?
by burlesona 6y ago
Wait, the designer of this plane died landing it?
- sokoloff 6y agoYes. “During a short test flight of the new highly modified production version in September 1987 the airplane stalled during approach to landing and Charles Ligeti was killed.” [0] http://ligeti-stratos.com/history.html http://ligeti-stratos.com/history.html
- FlyMoreRockets 6y agoNo, different plane. “During a short test flight of the new highly modified production version"
- sokoloff 6y agoIt was a modified version of the prototype upon which the current efforts are based. That’s not cleanly “exactly same” nor “totally different” airplane design, but the mishap airplane was clearly closer to this effort than to a 172.