NEW WINDSOR, N.Y.—Flying with Andrew Wright, the pilot whose plane crashed Friday, Aug. 28 while practicing for the New York Air Show, was a truly amazing experience.
I was at Stewart International Airport on Thursday, Aug. 27, to take pictures ahead of the New York Air Show, when the media coordinator offered to let me ride in one of the aircraft. I of course jumped at the opportunity, and she introduced me to Wright.
Besides being a kind and genuine person, Wright, was an experienced pilot and a patient teacher.
One of the first things I knew about Wright was that he was trying to set a world record for the most number of inverted flat spins, which is when the aircraft is upside down spinning parallel to the ground. He said he had already broken the world record of 81, but nobody from the Guinness World Records was there to witness it, so it didn’t count.
