2025 Obituary

[Stuart Galbraith]

Oh crap, I didn't know he went. He was a nice guy. 😞

[RETAC21]

21 minutes ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

Oh crap, I didn't know he went. He was a nice guy. 😞

He was, and super-helpful. RIP.

Also, Felix Baumgartner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Baumgartner

Baumgartner died on 17 July 2025, at the age of 56, during a paragliding flight in Porto Sant'Elpidio (Fermo), Italy. He lost control of the craft and crashed into a swimming pool at a coastal resort, striking a young woman who was injured on impact.

[Stuart Galbraith]

13 hours ago, RETAC21 said:

He was, and super-helpful. RIP.

Also, Felix Baumgartner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Baumgartner

Baumgartner died on 17 July 2025, at the age of 56, during a paragliding flight in Porto Sant'Elpidio (Fermo), Italy. He lost control of the craft and crashed into a swimming pool at a coastal resort, striking a young woman who was injured on impact.

Well thank you for that about Hans. I notice on his website it will be up 'for at least a year', so Im currently PDFing as much of it as I can. Really it warrants being hosted up on Archive.org, its really to valuable a source to lose.

[RETAC21]

36 minutes ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

Well thank you for that about Hans. I notice on his website it will be up 'for at least a year', so Im currently PDFing as much of it as I can. Really it warrants being hosted up on Archive.org, its really to valuable a source to lose.

Here you go: https://kitselas-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/p/gis/ESEE8KhsRwZMh-jQJabIsXkBOsFijJYB6UUOIsC3411Zrw?e=zgMdtA

[Stuart Galbraith]

Oh you utter rockstar, thank you!

[Tim Sielbeck]

6 hours ago, RETAC21 said:

Here you go: https://kitselas-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/p/gis/ESEE8KhsRwZMh-jQJabIsXkBOsFijJYB6UUOIsC3411Zrw?e=zgMdtA

Thank you!

[RETAC21]

This is the one post I truly hate to make.

Ken Estes was diagnosed with dementia with Lewy bodies 3 years ago, but earlier this year his situation took a turn for the worse when he was in the US, including a fall and breaking a hip, to the point that he needed to be in a caring home.

Only recently his wife has managed to get him back to Spain into a proper caring home, where he's now resting. If you want to get in contact, drop me a private message.

[Tim the Tank Nut]

our casualty rate is getting worse and worse.  

[NickM]

Just now, Tim the Tank Nut said:

our casualty rate is getting worse and worse.  

Oh Lord! I'll keep Ken in my prayers. 

[Rick]

2 hours ago, RETAC21 said:

This is the one post I truly hate to make.

Ken Estes was diagnosed with dementia with Lewy bodies 3 years ago, but earlier this year his situation took a turn for the worse when he was in the US, including a fall and breaking a hip, to the point that he needed to be in a caring home.

Only recently his wife has managed to get him back to Spain into a proper caring home, where he's now resting. If you want to get in contact, drop me a private message.

Sad news. He was gracious and gave me a copy of his "Marines Under Armor."

[sunday]

Horrible news. Meet Ken several times, and he always was nice and kind.

[futon]

I had the opportunity for the pleasure to give a little help with his Super Heavy Tanks book. He sent me a signed copy. I have his  Marines Under Armor book as well. Sad to hear the news.

[BansheeOne]

13 hours ago, RETAC21 said:

This is the one post I truly hate to make.

Ken Estes was diagnosed with dementia with Lewy bodies 3 years ago, but earlier this year his situation took a turn for the worse when he was in the US, including a fall and breaking a hip, to the point that he needed to be in a caring home.

Only recently his wife has managed to get him back to Spain into a proper caring home, where he's now resting. If you want to get in contact, drop me a private message.

Shit.

I'll send you a message to relay.

[RETAC21]

6 hours ago, futon said:

I had the opportunity for the pleasure to give a little help with his Super Heavy Tanks book. He sent me a signed copy. I have his  Marines Under Armor book as well. Sad to hear the news.

He really appreciated your help, and the japanese part of the book would have been impossible without it, he mentioned it several times.

[futon]

42 minutes ago, RETAC21 said:

He really appreciated your help, and the japanese part of the book would have been impossible without it, he mentioned it several times.

Yeah, he said that to me in our message exchange as well. With the great difference between him and me in seniority, knowledge, and position in the field, that was very gracious of him.

[Stuart Galbraith]

20 hours ago, RETAC21 said:

This is the one post I truly hate to make.

Ken Estes was diagnosed with dementia with Lewy bodies 3 years ago, but earlier this year his situation took a turn for the worse when he was in the US, including a fall and breaking a hip, to the point that he needed to be in a caring home.

Only recently his wife has managed to get him back to Spain into a proper caring home, where he's now resting. If you want to get in contact, drop me a private message.

I really can't think of anything halfway adequate. Just wish him well from me, and relate that we are all thinking of him.

Jesus, life is too goddamn cruel.

[lucklucky]

 

[Ivanhoe]

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/cosby-show-star-malcolm-jamal-warner-dies-by-drowning-54-2025-07-21/
 

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LOS ANGELES/SAN JOSE, July 21 (Reuters) - American actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who played Bill Cosby's son Theo on the 1980s groundbreaking television hit "The Cosby Show," died at age 54 on Monday by drowning, a law enforcement source confirmed to Reuters.

Warner was vacationing in Costa Rica with his family, media reported. The Central American nation's judicial investigation department (OIJ) confirmed that a U.S. citizen with the last name Warner had drowned after being pulled out to sea by a rip current.

 

Despite being typecast by his role on the Cosby Show, he managed to keep working. I thought he did a good job on the episodes of the Jeremiah series that I watched.

[urbanoid]

RIP Ozzy

[Stuart Galbraith]

Ozzy is dead. What a shit decade this is turning out to be.

 

 

[RETAC21]

Credit DougK in fakebook:

A giant has passed. Shunsaku Tamiya, dead at age 90. https://www.tamiya.com/.../info/2025/07/22/250722_en.pdf

[Murph]

31 minutes ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

Ozzy is dead. What a shit decade this is turning out to be.

 

 

Beat me to it.  Till later Ozzy.

[Stuart Galbraith]

15 minutes ago, RETAC21 said:

Credit DougK in fakebook:

A giant has passed. Shunsaku Tamiya, dead at age 90. https://www.tamiya.com/.../info/2025/07/22/250722_en.pdf

Yes, a very great loss.

[17thfabn]

On 7/22/2025 at 2:51 PM, urbanoid said:

RIP Ozzy

Ozzy was 76 chronologically  when died. 

I think he is a good example of Rock Star years should be calculated different. He probably had the wear and tear of a typically 106 year old. 

[NickM]

On 7/22/2025 at 12:26 PM, Murph said:

Beat me to it.  Till later Ozzy.

Speaking of war pigs, there's an AI version of war pigs as if sung by John Denver 

Edited July 24, 2025 by NickM