Friends of Creighton King, the racing pilot who died in a West Jordan plane crash Wednesday, are now remembering him and the hobby they bonded over.
Mike Patey had known King for 20 years as friends and business partners who shared the same passion for building planes and flying them in competitions.
The National Transportation Safety Board said King was flying an “experimental homebuilt” Hensler Cassutt. The hobby of building an airplane is becoming more popular, and there's no reason have to tweak it or test it’s extremes like the competitive world Patey and King are a part of. “There’s two different sides of experimental,” said flight instructor Matthew Kalm. “There’s the ‘go fast, push the aircraft to its limits, race the aircraft’ which is wonderful and great and it’s brought a lot of advancement to aviation. But there’s also the more leisurely flying.”
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