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June 29, 2022

Disabled Pilot Successfully Pursues Freedom—And YouTube Viewers

The Persistence of Possibility

Aviation marks perhaps the most breathtaking confluence of man’s intellect and passion. It is the poetry of magnitude expressed in the language of superlatives: fastest, highest, farthest, longest, stealthiest, deadliest. The inveterate aviator is invariably numbed by the sheer preponderance of supremacies. Occasionally, however, the ambient din of technological, aspirational, and regulatory excesses is punctuated by an instance of sublime simplicity, and the whole of the aviation sphere—if only for a moment—is reminded that freedom is flying’s first blessing.

Utah Event Contends With Its Own Success

After a four-year hiatus, the Warriors Over the Wasatch Air and Space Show returned to the skies over Utah’s Hill Air Force Base. The 25–26 June event was attended by immense crowds eager to take in aerial displays, pyrotechnics, and world-class acts such as the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds and Hill Air Force Base's own F-35A Lightning II Demonstration Team. The show also included eighty static aircraft displays chronicling the history, evolution, and diversity of military air-power.

Pilot Was Found Strapped In His Parachute And Harness With The Canopy Closed

On June 5, 2022, about 1630 central daylight time, a Schweizer SGS135C glider, N2817H, was undamaged when the pilot was found deceased after a landing near Midlothian, Texas. The glider was operated under the provisions of Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 as a personal flight. According to members of the Texas Soaring Association (TSA), the pilot was launched via a towplane around 1500 that day. About 1700, the glider was found by another pilot when he landed at the TSA Gliderport (TA11), Midlothian, Texas.