View Full Version : [Watauga] Watauga man dies in motorcyle crash on runway
wonder91178
08-28-2007, 10:22 AM
GEEZ, another Watauga one, subject to change the rider's age, location, gender and mode of transportation.
Posted on Tue, Aug. 28, 2007
Watauga man dies in motorcyle crash on runway
BY BILL MILLER
wmiller@star-telegram.com
http://www.star-telegram.com/news/story/216091.html
A Watauga man died late Monday following a motorcycle wreck on an airstrip northwest of Saginaw in unincorporated Tarrant County, according to reports.
Kenneth Wilson, 23, was identified by the Tarrant County medical examiner's office. He died 11 p.m. at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, the medical examiner's office reported.
The wreck occurred earlier at Hicks Airfield in northwest Tarrant County, said Terry Grisham, sheriff's department spokesman.
"The young man apparently was trying to see how fast his motorcycle would go,'' Grisham said. "He tried it out on the airport runway.
"We think he lost control and crashed at a high rate of speed."
No other information was immediately available Tuesday morning.
Bill Miller, 817-390-7684
cannondale
08-28-2007, 10:56 AM
, subject to change the rider's age, location, gender and mode of transportation.
:lol2: Pretty sad when you have to put in a disclaimer........
scar04
08-28-2007, 03:08 PM
Its a shame really. Sounds like he was being a little more responsible than most by going someplace with no traffic.
Sleepy Weasel
08-28-2007, 03:17 PM
Its a shame really. Sounds like he was being a little more responsible than most by going someplace with no traffic.
Hicks isn't an active airfield?
scar04
08-28-2007, 04:18 PM
Hicks isn't an active airfield?
I dont know. I would have hoped it wasnt, if not then I partially retract my last statement.
Squidward
08-28-2007, 04:27 PM
http://www.hicksairport.com/
If you have more than 3 seconds of air time, does it still count as a motorcycle fatality?
Hood Ornament
08-28-2007, 05:19 PM
Might want to wait and see if they change the story to state he was actually in an airplane when he crashed. :lol2:
SeanFromTX
08-28-2007, 05:37 PM
Maybe he was lost and thought he was on Hwy or FM 14 or 32 depending on which way he was going.
Hicks Airport is active. That's where I fly.
RedPill
08-29-2007, 08:56 AM
You fly at Hicks, Ken? That's where I did my training. At Split S, no longer in business. The FAA smacked the owner really hard after one of his planes veered off the runway and clipped two T-28s. Tony was found to be using non-approved parts.
Hicks is also not terribly long, and seems a really stupid place to speed-test a bike.
Gilk51
08-29-2007, 09:12 AM
Maybe he was lost and thought he was on Hwy or FM 14 or 32 depending on which way he was going.
A little flight humor... :lol2:
:thumb:
Sleepy Weasel
08-29-2007, 05:54 PM
Might want to wait and see if they change the story to state he was actually in an airplane when he crashed. :lol2:
Now, what did I do with that Bill Engvall story about being in a small plane that hit a deer? You know... the one where he tells his wife about it and she says, "Oh my God! Were you on the ground?"
Hotboot
08-29-2007, 06:17 PM
..... there's your sign....
Tracker
08-29-2007, 10:47 PM
some of the smaller airports' runways lights are activated by the pilot keying the mic on a certain frequency with a certain pattern. Otherwise, the lights stay off. I'm sure one of the real pilots can 'splain that more clearly than I can.
If I read this link correctly, though, they have dusk to dawn lighting on the runways.
http://www.airnav.com/airport/T67
from the Hicks website: The center piece of the airfield is the hard-surface runway extending 3760 feet long and 60 feet wide
Long enough for a 1/4 mile drag and shutdown.
DANNYROTH
08-29-2007, 10:55 PM
It wasn't mentioned, so he must have been wearing a helmet!
Several years ago when the DPS got those Ford Mustangs I was out near the local airport late one evening and saw a couple of those guys radaring each other driving them up and down the main strip.
Dan, I have friends at Hicks that I sometimes fly RC with and occasionally get an invite to tag along in their full-scales. The hanger the T-28s were in is empty. I don't know what happened to them.
RedPill
08-30-2007, 10:30 AM
Dan, I have friends at Hicks that I sometimes fly RC with and occasionally get an invite to tag along in their full-scales. The hanger the T-28s were in is empty. I don't know what happened to them.
I think I heard something about them moving to Denton, but I'm not sure. I know when Tony's Apache (I think) lost an engine on takeoff, it smacked two of them.
The funny thing is I went to a birthday party out there with my daughter a little over a year ago, and the party was in Tony's old hangar. That's where I heard that Tony was out of business. The birthday girl's family is in it now, and they have several other relatives with nearby hangars, including one who has a Chinese copy of a Russian Yak. I got to fly in that, but the overcast came in and we couldn't go out over the lake to do aerobatics. Jim, the owner, let me fly a pattern and do a low pass. Nice, stable, powerful airplane. The kids all got flights in a Malibu and Young Eagles certificates.
Sleepy Weasel
08-30-2007, 01:29 PM
some of the smaller airports' runways lights are activated by the pilot keying the mic on a certain frequency with a certain pattern. Otherwise, the lights stay off. I'm sure one of the real pilots can 'splain that more clearly than I can.
If I read this link correctly, though, they have dusk to dawn lighting on the runways.
http://www.airnav.com/airport/T67
from the Hicks website: The center piece of the airfield is the hard-surface runway extending 3760 feet long and 60 feet wide
Long enough for a 1/4 mile drag and shutdown.
I've flown into a few fields that use that system... After hours, you key the mic on the tower frequency something like 5 times in 3 seconds and it turns the lights on for "X" minutes, if I remember right. It's like having the world's coolest Clapper.
Curtis
08-30-2007, 01:55 PM
That's the way the grass landing strip behind my house is.
Every so often I'll be up in the gym after dark and the landing lights will come on. And I think surely someones not going to land on that short runway at night.
Probably some of the local pilots from the other runway down the road keying the mics just to make sure they are where they think they are.
Sad about the young man tho. We lost one of the boys my son ran around in school with in Watauga like that. Only he was on Rufe Snow. He hit the median going triple digits and that was all she wrote. Standard Squid Safety Gear. "T" shirt, shorts and flip flops... No Helmet!
Curtis
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