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The pilot who died was Gerry Beck, he was in his new build P51-A .

There was a P-51 pilot killed in a landing accident on his first solo.

A T-6 had to put down on a freeway on its way to Oshkosh.

On Monday, a veteran pilot trying to break a speed record en route to Oshkosh was killed when his small, experimental plane crashed into an apartment building and playground in Switzerland.
The pilot, identified as Hans Georg Schmid, a former Swissair pilot, had been trying to break a world record for a solo single-engine flight. He had planned to fly more than 4,970 miles with a C1-D class of plane, aiming to reach his destination in 30 hours.

A stunt plane crashed in Dayton killing its pilot, Jim LeRoy of Billings, Montana.

A bad week for civilian flown military a/c.