Hunter down in Oregon

It has been broadcast to millions already,you don’t have to watch but the choice is yours.
Personally i hope it was’nt aired before the family and friends of the pilot had been informed.

I agree. If you don’t wanna watch then don’t!

Shame it happened. A sad loss to the aviation community.

It has been broadcast to millions already,you don’t have to watch but the choice is yours.
Personally i hope it was’nt aired before the family and friends of the pilot had been informed.

Video of the crash

I don’t think posting pictures or video of fatal crashs is very appropriate.

Video of the crash

http://www.alert5.com/2006/07/hawker-hunter-f58-j-4061crashed-at.html

Sad news,and if he did have time to bang out but did’nt, a brave man.

Agree whole heartedly

RIP Bob 🙁

Dan

Sad news,and if he did have time to bang out but did’nt, a brave man.

My abiding memory of Bob Guilford was at Oshkosh 85.

Bob, not one of the tallest of Warbird aviators, had kitted himself out in a full RAF tropical issue officers uniform, short trousers the lot, to fly David Price’s Mk XIV FEAF liveried Spitfire.

To the amusement of some and the chagrin of others, this uniform sported full RAF wings and assorted gallantry medals. If I said Don Estelle and ‘It ain’t half hot Mum’ you would get the picture. 🙂

Here is a shot of Bob, all togged up and wearing his RAF service cap in this image by Robert DeGroat.

RIP Bob,

Mark

Bob sent me the attached photo a couple of years ago.
He absolutely loved flying N58MX and was delighted with its subsequent Blue Diamonds paint-job.

RIP Bob, the United States classic jet movement will certainly be poorer with your passing.

Very sad. Never believe an eye witness – Bob was not ‘doing a loop’. From the video and other more believable accounts this was an engine failure in straight and level flight.

My thoughts exactly, having read the post on PPrune….

Tragic news, my thoughts go out to Bob’s family and friends.

RIP Bob 🙁

Here is the Fox News report.

HILLSBORO, Ore. — A vintage British fighter jet crashed into a densely populated neighborhood near the Hillsboro Airport during an air show Sunday afternoon, exploding, destroying a home and killing the pilot.

Fire officials said no residents or others on the ground were hurt.

The 1951 jet was taking off to return to California when it went down, said Connie King, a spokeswoman for the Hillsboro Fire Department.

The jet slammed into a house at 4:28 p.m. and destroyed it, she said. No one was home at the time, she said. The pilot’s name was not immediately released.

Another house with people inside sustained “significant damage,” but no one was hurt, King said. The attic exterior of another house was damaged, and there was fire damage in the yard of another, she said.

Dave Driscoll, who lives in the area, said he heard a whistling sound of the jet “and it cut out, cut out, cut out, then there was a big boom.”

The crash occurred toward the end of the two-day Hillsboro International Air Show, about a mile and a half from the airport in a Portland suburb.

“It was doing a loop and couldn’t pull out in time,” Kory Hauser, a witness, told the (Salem) Statesman Journal. “It clipped about three houses and went down.”

The show was immediately canceled and Hauser said the streets in that section of Hillsboro were in gridlock.

A 33-year-old Hillsboro firefighter was taken to St. Vincent Hospital where he was listed in good condition.

Very sad indeed :(:(

Bad news.

RIP 🙁