Jim Leroy crashed his plane at the Dayton air show today and died in route to the hospital. He and Skip Stewart were performing their dual show "Mary's Lamb" (I believe thats the name).
Prayers to his family and everyone involved.

Extremely sorry to hear this,

May God Bless Jim's family and friends during this terrible time. My prayers will be with all of those effected as they struggle to accept their loss.

Originally Posted by Boulder

Extremely sorry to hear this,

May God Bless Jim's family and friends during this terrible time. My prayers will be with all of those effected as they struggle to accept their loss.

Same here.. I've seen his airshow, he was one crazy mo fo with that bi-plane, right up there with Sean Tucker..

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,291268,00.html

He was the BEST aerobatic pilot on the PLANET !

this is horrible news that's hard for me to stomach
we've been losing a lot of good people lately

Video of the crash..

http://www.whiotv.com/news/13774845/detail.html

You can see right at the end, he knew what was coming...Damn...

R.I.P

Originally Posted by Mokken

Video of the crash..

http://www.whiotv.com/news/13774845/detail.html

You can see right at the end, he knew what was coming...Damn...

R.I.P

the only video i see is the home and its tiny and i can't see what happens at all?

looks like a flat spin and got to low to pull out.. sad news.. but anyone in the bussiness has to know that theres always a chance... may fair weather grant you endless flying.
mike

Man... prayers go out. This is really horrible. Very very sad.

It really shows you how brave these guys who fly full scale aerobatics really are.
This is a reality everytime they get into the airplane. No matter how calculated, there is always a chance. Man... very sad day... very sad.

Looked like he did one extra snap then normal...my thoughts and prayers with Jim and his family....

Wow I had a chance to meet Jim and talk to him for about a half hour after one of his shows in Cleveland about two years ago, he was a great guy, sorry to see him go. Thoughts and prayers go out to the faminly and friends.

One to many snaps..

It almost looks like when he pulled up after that last snap that his wing tips stalled. You could see them rocking. So he probably stalled it into the ground. He was close to pulling out. Amazing that a simple spin too many took him out. He has done way crazier things.

thanks for posting the video!

Such a shame.....


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OMG! I can't belive this. So sad.