Jim LeRoy

Their performance generally consisted of three pilots flying a simultaneous, chaotic, interweaving aerobatic display through clouds of smoke generated by circling jet-powered trucks below.

After two seasons of successful airshows, an accident occurred on July 10, 2005, during a routine performance when Jimmy Franklin and Bobby Younkin collided in mid-air.

[1] Initial indications showed that he was performing a 1/2 Cuban 8 and snap rolls on the 45-degree down line,[2] but recovered too low to the ground to pull out.

[3][4] LeRoy was pronounced dead in a military MEDEVAC helicopter while in transit to Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, Ohio.

The coroner's report states that LeRoy died on impact due to a fracture of his neck, but that he also was badly burned.