Dale ‘Snort’ Snodgrass, seemingly the highest-time F14 pilot in the world.
He has also been a contender in the unlimited racing events at Reno.

Sorry Adbert, I stumbled across the photo, and have no more details.
I would say it is fast asleep, certainly not just having 40 winks.

Check this out!!! See thread on WIX for more (Warbird Information Exchange)

Knock once for yes, twice for no, etc.

Charles Church was lost on about July 4th 1989- the sad news was announced at the PFA rally at Cranfield. If things had worked out difference, he might have had his own B of B Memorial Flight- Lanc, Spit Hurri.

I second that. There is a huge, excellent thread from last year, which will address all your questions.

This would be better posted in ‘Historic’ . GA has never really embraced the whole ejection seat bit, though the Cirrus has a parachure for the entire airframe!

Any embarassment will be gone and forgotten by this time next week,
like all the previous ‘crisies’ we have had on the forum, which we can’t even remember now anyway. I doubt if SG has suffered much pain, and even if he has, I daresay he will somehow manage to deal with it- you don’t get to be a ‘captain of industry’ without the abiltity to cope with the slings and arrows.

Don’t take it so seriously, it is only the internet!

His absence from the helm of his magazine ‘Pilot’ became very evident very quickly, after he sold the title three years ago. He stamped his own robust, generally un-PC character upon it, and in the pre-internet era, it was THE place for GA gossip, news etc, as well as a very strong vintage content, and flight tests. He also operated his own Bucker Jungmeister G-AXMT in the 1970’s.

The new owners have managed to alienate the bulk of the readership in a remarkably short time, despite the creditable (but brief) editorial input from Phillip Whiteman.
It is traditional to say how much an individual will be missed, but James Gilbert has already been missed for a couple of years, and his magazine informed and inspired for three decades.