Dave Rahm

{{Short description|American geologist, professor and stunt pilot}}

{{Infobox person

| name = David Allen Rahm

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| image = David-Rahm.jpg

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| caption = Dave Rahm

| nationality = American

| birth_date = 1931

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| death_date = {{Death year and age|1976|1931}}

| death_place = Amman, Jordan

| occupation = Geologist, professor, stunt pilot

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| father =

| mother = Hilda

| relatives = sons - Steve and Brian, adopted son, Ronald Bruce

}}

David Rahm (1931–1976), nicknamed "the Flying Professor",{{cite web|url=http://rovettosinecuador.com/flyinghigh.html|title=Flying High - Soaring Above the Tragedies of Life - Katy Rovetto|accessdate=July 15, 2017}} was an American geologist, professor and stunt pilot. He taught at Western Washington State University and was a visiting professor of geology at the University of Jordan. Rahm lived in Anacortes, Washington.{{cite book|last=Dillard|first=Annie|authorlink=Annie Dillard|title=The Writing Life|year=2013|publisher=Harper Perennial|location=New York, London|isbn=978-0-06-091988-7|pages=[https://archive.org/details/writinglife000dill/page/91 91–111]}}{{cite journal|url=https://www.airshows.aero/GetDoc/1169|journal=Air Shows|last=Berriochoa|first=Mike|title=Flying for King Hussein|date=1999|volume=30|issue=1|pages=10–12|format=PDF|accessdate=July 14, 2017}}

Rahm met King Hussein of Jordan in 1974 at the Abbotsford Air Show in British Columbia. Hussein asked him to come to Jordan and train the Royal Jordanian Falcons aerobatics team. Rahm was killed in a crash in the summer of 1976 while performing with co-display pilot, Steve Wolf in Amman, Jordan.{{cite journal|url=http://archive.aramcoworld.com/issue/198906/jordan.s.royal.falcons.htm|journal=Saudi Aramco World|title=Jordan's Royal Jordanian Falcons|last=Lyons|first=Bill|date=November–December 1989|volume=40|issue=6|pages=20–27|accessdate=July 15, 2017}}{{cite journal|url=http://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/from-pilot-to-president-35484682/?all|journal=Air & Space/Smithsonian|title=From Pilot to President|last=Tillman|first=Barrett|authorlink=Barrett Tillman|date=August 2009|accessdate=July 14, 2017}}

Rahm died performing a dual routine with Steve Wolf of a Hammerhead maneuver in an S2 Pitts Special. Rahm's wife, Katy Rahm, and King Hussein were both present.

Writer Annie Dillard wrote an essay about Rahm called "The Stunt Pilot", reprinted as the last chapter of her collection, The Writing Life. Rahm's widow later wrote a memoir, Flying High: Soaring Above the Tragedies of Life.