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kent4142

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Mike Patey's Draco Totaled Today
« on: September 16, 2019, 06:58:24 pm »
So sorry to see Draco turn into a pile of parts.  Mike, his wife and a friend are all injury free.  The accident happened at their home airport with a very strong cross wind with gusts.

Youtube has a video.
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Adam Frisch

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Re: Mike Patey's Draco Totaled Today
« Reply #1 on: September 17, 2019, 02:10:19 am »
Mike is such an inspiration to aviation in general. His work ethic is beyond comprehensible. I feel he encapsulates the true American get-er-done spirit in a way rarely seen even here. Sad to see this plane gone, but look at it from the bright side - now he has a spare PT6 he can build a new project around!  ;)
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Re: Mike Patey's Draco Totaled Today
« Reply #2 on: September 17, 2019, 04:34:16 pm »
Quite an airplane, saw it on display last week at the Air Races.

It was quite a rough day there yesterday; I had packed up support gear into my trailer for the drive home about 1-2 hours before the Draco incident. It was a terribly windy, cross-wind day.

My Biplane racing buddy I support chose to leave his plane at KRTS until a better flying day comes along. Glad he did; it poured rain on us driving home and then it snowed on Donner Pass later that afternoon.

Sad to see this happen to anybody / any plane. And glad they all walked away.

Roy
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