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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)

1 Rewrite and cats
2 Source
3 World's tallest BD-5 Pilot?
4 CFL

[edit] Rewrite and cats

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)

[edit] Source

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

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

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)