October 4, 20232 yr Great NFL football career and long involvement in aviation. Life is precious. Flight is precious. God Speed Russ Francis.https://www.foxnews.com/sports/details-emerge-plane-crash-killed-super-bowl-champion-russ-francis Frank Patton Corsair 5000D Airflow Case; MSI B650 Tomahawk MOB; Ryzen 7 7800 X3D CPU; ASUS RTX 4080 Super; NZXT 360mm liquid cooler; Corsair Vengeance 64GB DDR5 4800 MHz RAM; RMX850X Gold PSU;; ASUS VG289 4K 27" Display; Honeycomb Alpha & Bravo, Crosswind 3's w/dampener. Former USAF meteorologist & ground weather school instructor. AOPA Member #07379126 "I will never put my name on a product that does not have in it the best that is in me." - John Deere
October 4, 20232 yr I guessed tight end Dolphins. Memory was bad. It was the Patriots. You have to be big enough to push people around, and yet fast and agile to play that position. 5800X3D, RTX4070, 600 Watt, one or two 1440p 32" screens, 64 GB RAM, 4 TB PCle 3 NVMe, Warthog throttle, VKB NXT EVO stick, Honeycomb Alpha yoke, CH quad, 3 Logitech panels, 2 StreamDecks, Desktop Aviator Trim Panel. Crystal Light VR.
October 4, 20232 yr Administrators @Mike A Did you ever hear anyone else refer to him as "cupcake"? I seem to remember that nickname for him! 🧁 Charlie AronAVSIM Board of Directors-ADMIN/Moderator-RegistrarJust going to run a Chromebook and not upgrade to a Windows computer. Too many problems with the new Sims! 😱Trying to keep peace and harmony and the will of Landru on the site seems to be a full time job!
October 4, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, charliearon said: Mike A Did you ever hear anyone else refer to him as "cupcake"? I seem to remember that nickname for him! 🧁 Funny you should mention that; I was thinking about a nickname when remembering Russ Francis. I think you may mean the following. Jerry Rice was drafted in 1985. He had an interesting haircut when he arrived: Russ Francis coined the nickname his teammates called him: "FiFi"🐩. Jerry Rice subsequently changed his hair styling. 😂 P.S. Niners looking "Purdy-good" with Mr. Irrelevant. Edited October 4, 20232 yr by Mike A Emoji
October 4, 20232 yr The real odd twist was his passenger was Richard McFadden, AOPA air safety institute with dozens of videos on youtube analyzing crashes and what went wrong just like this one. Would kind of think he would be the man to have next to you to get you down safely.
October 5, 20232 yr It's kind of a big deal in Hawaii. Back in the 80s he did commercials for a bank that people still remember. scott s. .
October 5, 20232 yr 3 hours ago, starstream707 said: The real odd twist was his passenger was Richard McFadden, AOPA air safety institute with dozens of videos on youtube analyzing crashes and what went wrong just like this one. Would kind of think he would be the man to have next to you to get you down safely. Juan Browne (Blancolirio) talks about this accident at about the 3:30 mark of the video.
October 5, 20232 yr Yes I remember him from my youth, very sad but he went doing something he loved and living his life RIP Matthew Kane I'm Dyslexic, what's an error to you is not to me
October 5, 20232 yr I remember reading somewhere a long time ago, that he was supposed to be on AA 191, the DC-10 that crashed in Chicago but had a change of plans at the last minute.
October 5, 20232 yr 20 hours ago, scott967 said: It's kind of a big deal in Hawaii. Back in the 80s he did commercials for a bank that people still remember. I read in his Bio that he went to Kailua High School in Honolulu, so that would explain his connection to Hawaii Matthew Kane I'm Dyslexic, what's an error to you is not to me
October 6, 20232 yr He was also sports director at local TV station KGMB, and ran for US Congress for the HI 2d CD in 2000. scott s. .
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