Another Tough Airshow Weekend Takes Place...

The International Airshow community suffered extensive losses this weekend as an L-39 Albatros went down in South Africa, and a deHavilland Hummingbird, DH53, also went down in the UK. Our friends at African Pilot Magazine, told ANN that at a Saturday morning airshow in Klerksdorp, in the North West province of South Africa, L-39 pilot Gianfranco Cicogna (pictured, left), went down about 1030 local time. Athol Franz, the Editor of African Pilot, reported that, "It appears that nearing the completion of the final loop in his privately owned L-39 ZU HIT following another L-39 in formation he got into the wake turbulence of the lead aircraft and encountered a compressor stall, quickly followed by a high speed wing stall before im