A war hero who has selflessly served this country for the thick end of 80 years. We will never see his like again.
I will personally fight any lefty who wishes to besmirch his reputation.
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A war hero who has selflessly served this country for the thick end of 80 years. We will never see his like again.
I will personally fight any lefty who wishes to besmirch his reputation.
It's worse than that, he's dead, Jim
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-a7716861.html
**** him. and the rest of his family imo.
I'm no lefty btw.
non taken, b.
those who worship the privileged few (based purely on bloodline) are obviously a little bit mental :aaron: ;-)
He's 95. Whatever good or bad he's done no-one should be forced to work at that age for goodness sake.
He has made a tremendous difference to precisely **** all since he left the navy. Served his country selflessly for decades? I am sure we could all manage to unveil the odd plaque here and there if we didn't have to, you know, earn money and feed ourselves and whatnot.
Boycott I can live with, although I would take Michael Vaughan over him.....
As honorary patron of the Tiger Club he did a great deal to encourage and support aerobatic and formation flying in the 60s and 70s. Without the Tiger Club there would have been no Neil Williams, no Nigel Lamb and no Brendan O'Brien.
So that's your 'point' utterly debunked.
He was. And I loved watching him as a bat. It was frustrating the way he declined and allowed technical errors to creep into his game - such as missing straight ones on off stump. Although how much of that was down to the fact that his knee was fûcked I couldn't say.
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Lovely bowler, Neil Williams - didn't realise he could fly a plane as well
Here he is, in fact, flying a Turbulent. (I subsequently flew that exact aircraft, so I'm now semi-royal.)
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It's a death trap, to be honest. It has a VW Beetle engine of around 40 bhp and can barely drag itself into the air. Anything more than a rate 1 turn is highly likely to end up with a dynamic stall/spin and subsequent painful connection with terra firma. I've no idea what they were for, really. It's a sort of Tiger Club tradition; you have to survive an amount of Turb flying to be a real Tiger Club pilot.
Here they are at an air show. Going very, very slowly.
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