![]() ![]() The Coast Guard presented their role as an emergency resource and marine patrol. The performers included the T-6 AeroShell Aerobatic Team, Chef Pitts and his S1S Pitts Special, Thom Richard of Warbird Adventures flying a P-40, and Patty Wagstaff with her Extra 300. Most were relaxed, focused on their separate tasks. I scanned the expressions around the large conference table as Raymond’s casual briefing progressed. That being said, it was hard not to notice the gleam in Raymond’s eye when he watched a Pitts Special perform a perfect Cuban eight. ![]() He keeps the door open to his former life by maintaining his International Council of Air Shows qualification as an air boss. ![]() He pursued a more stable and safer career path to raise his son-employed for five years now as an Atlas Air Boeing 747 first officer. Raymond had been following in his father’s footsteps from the day he could reach the controls of an airplane, but the family sold the air-charter/airshow business a short time after the accident. Freddy and his Mexican photographer passenger died after crashing in a Super Decathlon. A respected airshow performer and fixture in Key West, Florida-his bright-red Waco a perpetual part of the local skyline-Freddy Cabañas had logged over 24,000 hours of flight time in a potpourri of airplanes before tragedy struck in Cozumel, Mexico, while filming for a Mexican reality TV show in January 2013. Though Raymond Cabañas maintained a sober tone during the briefing, his barely perceptible grin offered a hint of mischievousness, most likely a character trait inherited from his late father. ![]()
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