October 12, 1997, Henry John Deutschendorf Jr took off in an experimental aircraft from the Monterey Peninsula Airport

John Denver was just plain a lot of fun in the 70s... he is where we get the expression "Faaaar out!"

He died flying a modified experimental Long-EZ aircraft designed by Burt Rutan. He loved to fly. Here is an explanation of what happened.

(Copy and paste the links in your browser window... there are too many of them to make them clickable... the software is confused.)

http://www.asktog.com/columns/027InterfacesThatKill.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Denver


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC8nDdPM_Qk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLBKOcUbHR0&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFgKkTKqh9Y&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eivZd4j5MBs&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwARpaKHx_w&mode=related&search=

And a duet with Karen Carpenter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzlpeV0gK-M&mode=related&search=