11/30/2005. From Wikipedia: "Milo Burcham (pictured) was Lockheed's Chief Pilot, killed in the crash of a YP-80 Shooting Star that flamed-out on take off at the Lockheed Burbank airport, California, on October 20, 1944. In 1936 he won the World Aerobatic Championship at the National Air Races in Los Angeles, California, flying a Boeing 100."