Air Sport
Does not include those who died in aircraft sport crashes such as aerobatics and air racing. Those names go in a separate article.
Further information: List of people who died in aviation-related incidents- Carl Boenish, 43, American cinematographer (1984)
- Patrick de Gayardon, 38, French skydiver and aviation pioneer (1998)
- Rob Harris, 28, American skydiver (1995)
- Roger Nelson, 47, American skydiver (2003)
Read more about this topic: List Of Sportspeople Who Died During Their Careers
Famous quotes containing the words air and/or sport:
“At length, having come up fifty rods off, he uttered one of those prolonged howls, as if calling on the god of loons to aid him, and immediately there came a wind from the east and rippled the surface, and filled the whole air with misty rain, and I was impressed as if it were the prayer of the loon answered, and his god was angry with me; and so I left him disappearing far away on the tumultuous surface.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Rabelais, for instance, is intolerable; one chapter is better than a volume,—it may be sport to him, but it is death to us. A mere humorist, indeed, is a most unhappy man; and his readers are most unhappy also.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)