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This article tells about his education and career, Lee Sentman III:
http://www.ocala.com/article/20100321/ARTICLES/100329966?Title=Pilot-in-fata
l-crash-was-professor-at-University-of-Illinois
Sentman taught for more than 35 years, his wife, Janice Sentman, said
Sunday. A professor emeritus with the University of Illinois, he graduated
from the university with a bachelor's degree in aeronautical engineering in
1958 and a doctorate in aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford
University in 1965. The University Illinois Web site listed him as director
of the Chemical Laser Laboratory with the department of aeronautical and
astronautical engineering at the university and listed several honors and
awards, including the AIAA Plasmadynamics and Lasers Award in 2002 and
Outstanding Teacher of the Year, Student Chapter AIAA, in 1975-76 and again
in 1995-96.
His daughter, Jeanne Griswold of Orlando, said her father, who retired a
couple of years ago but still worked for the university, was "very
meticulous" and "careful" in the construction of aircraft as well as his
flight plan. He had finished the aircraft he was flying Saturday in 2008 and
the plane, certified with the Federal Aviation Administration, had been
tested and retested.
"He loved flying," Griswold said.
A member of the Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 812 Ocala, Sentman
had participated in February in a Young Eagles program giving flights out of
the Dunnellon Airport to about 50 children, said the chapter's vice
president, Wayne Fieldhouse of Ocala. The Young Eagles program promotes
interest, among children, in flying and careers in that industry.
Sentman has a wife, four children and 11 grandchildren, his daughter said.
Funeral arrangements were being determined Sunday.
Investigators with the FAA have not yet determined the cause of the
collision, the Sheriff's Office reported.
Sentman was participating in a "fly-out" to the Williston Municipal Airport
as part of a regular meeting, held every third Saturday of the month, of EAA
Chapter 812, Fieldhouse said. It was agreed that people would fly to the
Williston airport to attend a luncheon. Fieldhouse said four or five
different planes from the chapter were flying in to that airport from Ocala
as well as other planes from other areas.
Some residents in the area near the crash site had said that there appeared
to be an unusually high number of planes in the air Saturday.
The airport does not have a control tower or radar, an employee said
Saturday.
Joe Ball, the airport's superintendent, said the set-up is described as an
"uncontrolled" environment where pilots operate in a "see and be seen
situation."
Otherwise, Ball said, he could not comment on the crash Saturday or the
investigation, which is in the preliminary stages.
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