Masters of Disaster

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The Masters of Disaster are an airshow team that performs edge of your seat aerobatics in combination with ground based Jet Trucks and pyrotechnics. The team lost two founding members (Jimmy Franklin and Bobby Younkin) in a crash during a performance at Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, on July 10, 2005.

The team re-grouped and was seen again on the airshow circuit in 2005.

The team now, in 2007, offers two shows, entiteled Tinstix, and Codename mary's lamb.

[edit] Team Members

  • Jimmy Franklin (Deceased July 10, 2005)
  • Bobby Younkin (Deceased July 10, 2005)
  • Jim Leroy - Bulldog Aerobatics and team leader
  • Les & Kent Shockley - Jet Trucks [1]
  • Jurgis Kairys - Aerobatics
  • Skip Stewart - Aerobatics
  • John Mohr - Aerial Transfer
  • Gene Soucy - Aerobatics
  • Rich Gibson - Pyrotechnics