Glen Dell

Glen Dell (1962 to 2013) was a South African airline training captain and aerobatic pilot who qualified for the Red Bull Air Race World Championship in the 2008 and 2009 seasons. The son of a Second World War pilot, he gained his private licence around 1979, flew helicopters in the South African Air Force and joined South African Airways in 1994. Dissatisfied with the heavy aluminium aircraft he flew in competition, he worked with the Pretoria firm Aerocam on a locally designed composite aircraft, the Slick 360, which he used to win the 2004 national title. He won the South African National Aerobatic Championships twelve times in various categories, competed at the World Aerobatic Championships from 1994 and became Advanced World Aerobatic Champion in 2004. He died in 2013 after his Extra EA-330 crashed at the Secunda Airshow.