2008 in Aviation - Deaths

Deaths

  • 6 October – Richard Heyser, 81, American U-2 pilot during the Cuban missile crisis.
  • 3 October – Edsel Dunford, 73, American aerospace engineer, cancer.
  • 16 September – John Fancy, 95, British World War II RAF airman.
  • 28 July – Margaret Ringenberg, 87, an American aviator, who had logged more than 40,000 hours, natural causes.
  • 23 July – Dick Johnson (glider pilot), 85, American glider pilot, aeronautical engineer, plane crash.
  • 8 June – Gene Damschroder, 86, American politician, WWII pilot, plane crash.
  • 20 March – Ann Baumgartner, 89, first American woman to fly a jet.
  • 15 March – Vicki Van Meter, 26, American pilot, youngest-pilot distance-flying record setter, suicide.
  • 11 February – Frank Piasecki, creater and pilot of America's second successful helicopter the PV-2 and creater of the tandem rotor design.
  • Diana Barnato Walker
  • Donald Blakeslee
  • Donald S. Lopez, Sr.
  • Tadeusz Kotz
  • Wally Phillips
  • Joe Shell
  • Bert Shepard
  • Frank Blackmore (traffic engineer)
  • Jimmy Dell
  • Bertram James
  • Norman Smith (record producer)
  • Albert William Baker
  • Andrzej Andrzejewski
  • Harry Goonatilake
  • Frank Piasecki

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