Bevo Howard is another very good pilot who eventually met with misfortune. Another, whose name escapes me, was billed as the flying professor. At any rate, I saw his routine twice at airshows. He would use a local ( where ever the show) completely restored to original J-3 and do his performance under 100 feet. He was killed at the very next show after the last time I saw him fly. He was using a J-3 from an owner in Baton Rouge,La, if my memory is accurate, and the cause the investigators said was the stick in the rear cockpit had not been secured in it's socket as the plane was regularly flown with a passenger and the rear stick was just pressed in. Having seen R/C fliers in the 1950s do aerobatics with rudder only models, and having seen how well this show pilot could control the J-3, I wondered why the crash was fatal. I learned that he, indeed, had nearly recovered using only throttle and rudder, but contact with the ground rolled the engine into him.