Dudley Henriques wrote in
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Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote in
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Cool. Not a lot you can do when you leave a wreck somewhere anyway
but own up.
Wonder what he'd make of his countrymen's craze for burying vintage
aircraft.


Bertie


It's been a mess over there for sure. That last Hurricane was a real
shame. I lost three friends in the UK in unrelated accidents in the
last several years. Ted Girdler (ex- Red Arrow 1972 was killed several
years ago doing a show, and Ormond Hayden-Bailee was killed several
years ago. Both were in the old IFPF as charter members. Hoof
Proudfoot dug a hole at Duxford with a P38 doing a double roll.
Another first rate display pilot gone.
The list gets larger every year it seems.


eah, I saw Proubfoot display that -38 and I have to say I was less than
impressed. Loops were done with precious little room and he was doing
fairly low rolls pointed right at the crowd. This was at the 50th anniv
of D-day so was June 1994, about a year before he crashed it. I also
recently saw that RN guy who keeps crashing airplanes display a
Skyraider. To be fair he didn;t get as low as I've seen him do in the
past, but still, it all just didn;t look right and I thought it was all
kind of pointless, especailly since the airplane was fairly ugly anyway!


Bertie