6/28/2005: Keyword: "homemade"
"One of the country's richest men, John Walton, died Monday when his homemade aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff from the Jackson Hole Airport in Wyoming just after noon.
Walton, 58, a son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton and a member of the company's board, was piloting a lightweight, homemade aircraft. It crashed near the airport in Grand Teton National Park, the company said. He was pronounced dead at the scene." (AP)
There's a very good reason why most people don't fly in "homemade" airplanes..
John-Boy was worth about $18.2 billion, which put him at #11 on the world's richest people list. Hopefully his death will give us another round of vicious Walton family in-fighting over good ol' Sam's money. It's always fun for us little people to watch the super-rich quibble and self-destruct over billions.
BTW it may strike folks in the middle of the country as unbelievable, but there are lots of us on the edges who don't have a Wal-Mart anywhere near us.
