** The Silver Bird during its first flight in
June 2011.**
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Two volunteer pilots, Mitchell Cary and Don Gum, were killed when their replica Wright Model B Flyer, the "Silver Bird," crashed in rural Ohio following an engine malfunction during a test flight.
The pilots were highly experienced trustees for Wright "B" Flyer Inc., an organization dedicated to preserving the Wright Brothers' aviation history.
Despite the "Silver Bird" accumulating 25 trouble-free flight hours since its first formal test flight in June, this accident is one of at least five crashes involving Wright brother replicas in the past decade.
Two men were killed on Saturday when they made a forced landing in a replica Wright Model B Flyer in a rural Ohio field.
The men were conducting a test flight in the replica, known as the “Silver Bird,” when they made a radio call from the air alerting authorities about their impending forced landing.
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