Micron energizer: Chief steering chipmaker into a new era

From: Deseret News (Salt Lake City) | Date: January 15, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

BOISE -- Just as he completed a low-level aerobatic loop above the Idaho desert, Steve Appleton's single-engine stunt plane stalled 25 feet off the ground while traveling 160 mph.

In the second before the aircraft plowed into the sagebrush, Appleton stomped the left rudder pedal, slightly raising the right wing and elevating the nose.

"That's about all you can do, because the fact of the matter is you're going to hit," Appleton told The Associated Press recently in his first interview about the July 2004 crash, which left him with a gash across his head. "I got it in a slightly better profile ...

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