John Blacet has passed away.
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John Blacet has passed away.
Anyone know?
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- BananaPlug
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Fuck. John Blacet passed away last month...
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/sonomaw ... t6658.html
Lots of love, peace and blessings to his family and loved ones. Rest in peace.

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/sonomaw ... t6658.html
Lots of love, peace and blessings to his family and loved ones. Rest in peace.


That’s terrible to hear. He was always nice and helpful when communicating and has made some great modules. Some are still among my favorites
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- diophantine
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This is awful news to hear!! Sadly it looks legit; there's also references to his blacet.com email on some gliding sites, etc., so he was part of that community.
On June 19th there was a cryptic email sent out to the mailing list:
Really saddened to hear this. I didn't know him well, or arguably barely knew him - he never ever mentioned anything personal. But his designs, contributions, and inspiration to this community were immense. My thoughts & condolences go out to his family!
On June 19th there was a cryptic email sent out to the mailing list:
I figured it was in reference to the FX3030 being discontinued, as the website was still up... but it went down a few days later, and then came back up. But now the DNS record is gone (though there's still a record for email).Subject: Blacet Research News: Order Window Closed
Sorry, closed for now.....
Really saddened to hear this. I didn't know him well, or arguably barely knew him - he never ever mentioned anything personal. But his designs, contributions, and inspiration to this community were immense. My thoughts & condolences go out to his family!
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after googling around it appears it is same guy. he posted in some hang gliding/flying forums and put his email in there which is blacet@blacet.comsoup wrote:Fuck. John Blacet passed away last month...
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/sonomaw ... t6658.html
Lots of love, peace and blessings to his family and loved ones. Rest in peace.
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i couldn't find an obituary though and i searched several county/newspaper obit sites.

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As it sounds like the guy on the gliding site is in contact with John's family, I've written to him asking him to please extend our condolences to the family and ask if there's any way we can help as a community.
I'll let you all know if I hear anything...
In the meantime I'm listening to some great recordings made possible by Blacet circuits! RIP!
I'll let you all know if I hear anything...
In the meantime I'm listening to some great recordings made possible by Blacet circuits! RIP!
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