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Aviation History
1953
1953 - 1212.PDF
I) Ranald Porteous (2) "Tim" Wood Auster Blackburn iS) E. H. Stat ham i (6) "Sox" Hosego Bristol i (3) "Dickie" Mancus (4) "Ben" Gunn Boulton Paul (10) Peter Bugge (11) Derek Taylor de Havilland (7) Peter Wilson (8) Walter Gibb (9) "Bill" Pegg THE MEN AT DURING the course of each afternoon's flying programme at Farnborough, and indeed on many other occasions during the year, thousands must wonder what manner of man is up there at the controls, and what may be his thoughts and feelings. Such questions could never be fully or adequately answered for the multitudes who will thrill to the daily evolu tions of some forty different types of aircraft taking part in the S.B.A.C. Display. But many watchers balow will like to glance at these portraits as the pilots' names and those of their aircraft are announced, and perhaps provide in their own minds a personality to suit the features and the individual flying demon strations which they see. Though among the world's finest, these pilots would never theless make no claim to being supermen. Rather does their mettle comprise an unusual combination of opposites—dash MM 23) "Johnnie" Baker (24) "Roly" Folk (25) Jock Wales (26) "Jim" Cooksey (27) Brian Smith (28) "Bill" Waterton Hawker Siddeley Group—Amro, Gloster, Hswker (29) "Geoff' Worral (30) "Bill" Bedford (31) Frank Bullen (32) Neville Duke (33) Frank Murphy (34) "Dick" WheUon Rolls-Royce Saunders-Roe (36)JJJ.Heyworth (37) H. N. D. Bailey (38) "Jim" Heyworth (39) Geoffrey Tyson (40) J. J. M. Jeffery (35) "Joe" F. Arnold k I
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