Talk:Scott Manning

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Untitled[edit]

This material was recovered from BD-5's history. Though the writing is clearly un-encyclopaedic, I felt that Scott was noteworthy enough to warrent his own article, and this content had enough interesting information and background to serve as a starter. Somegeek 14:28, 19 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Rewrite and cats[edit]

I've had a go at rewriting this a little and added cats etc. It still needs making more encylopedic by someone with more knowledge of this guy than me Steve-Ho 19:38, 21 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Source[edit]

much of the content of this page I have found was sourced from: [1] Steve-Ho 19:50, 21 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

World's tallest BD-5 Pilot?[edit]

I was sorry to learn of Scott's death which I first learnt of in this article last week. Scott was a man who followed his dreams.

In the text of this article, there's a line that reads: "Manning piloted his own plane, and was known as the tallest BD-5 pilot in the world...."

Manning was described as being 6'3" in an extensive article on the crash in Globe & Mail on July 22nd, 2006. Although this is quite tall, there's a pilot of similar stature, possibly taller than Manning: novelist Richard Bach, who also owned a BD-5x (i.e. x = type unknown). Bach was featured on the cover page and in a feature article about his BD-5 several years ago in Flying Magazine. Does anyone recall Bach's height?

Zoomeri July 25, 2006 (former would-be '5D flyer)

CFL[edit]

He did not play in the CFL and shows up on no all time roster. Thanx. Mundster 18:38, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes he did. He played with the Saskatchewan Roughriders and the Montreal Alouettes during the mid-late 80s. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Flybd5 (talk • contribs) 22:56, August 20, 2007 (UTC).

Tracking down the references[edit]

Added one new reference to a news article I found about the crash, in Aero-News.Net. Doesn't add much new, but it helps prove the details.

I took out an external link:

International Council of Airshows profile.

and moved it here, because it no longer resolves to any info about Scott Manning. Unfortunately Steve-Ho says (above) that most of the information he put in the article came from this link.

I tried to locate the official government report on the crash, from the info supplied in the article, but was unsuccessful. The government web site is not very user-friendly, but it repeatedly denies that there is any such report as the one whose number is given. I thought of adding a 'fact' tag to the article, but prefer to leave this comment here for a while to see if anyone else has guidance on the issue. EdJohnston 16:11, 11 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]