We salute you

摘要

Fg Off Jack Colpus dfc~* - Australian Lancaster pilot who survived a collision with another bomber over Germany while flying 'S-for-Sugar', which is now on display at Hendon - died recently, aged 95; Flt Lt Henry (Harry) Clark Darnton dfc -flew at least 30 missions on Lancasters with 49 Squadron, his final one being a raid on Stuttgart in 1944 - on November 17, aged 93; Flt Lt Christopher Donne - Canberra pilot who flew in the Suez operation and was a leader during Britain's final airborne test of a thermonuclear bomb during Operation Grapple - on November 18, aged 80; Geoff Hood - flight engineer who flew 28 operations on the Halifax with 427 Squadron RCAF - on November 2, aged 91; Gp Capt Geoffrey Howard-Jones dfc - Mitchell pilot with 180 Squadron who flew operations with 2 TAF - on December 16, aged 96; Flt Lt Colin 'Huggiss' Hughes afc - Shackleton and Nimrod captain, renowned as a Cold War submarine hunter, later becoming a training captain for DanAir and British Airways - on January 5, aged 78; Air Cdre Pat King cbe - a Hunter and Harrier pilot who commanded RAF Wittering and later became the Chief Executive Officer of the Royal Flight Abu Dhabi - on November 8, aged 80; Flt Lt A L 'Sandy' McPhee - RAAF pilot who flew Wellingtons, Stirlings and Lancasters, and also undertook clandestine sorties, completing 30 'ops' before his 21st birthday, and later awarded the Legion d'Honneur-Chevalier -aged 91; Master Navigator Tony Melton mbe - ejected from his Javelin and spent three days in the Bengal jungle before rescue, later serving on RAF Search and Rescue helicopters - on November 20, aged 91; Flt Lt Rex Poland - flew on Avro Lancasters with 626 Squadron - on December 30; Sqn Ldr David Rowe lvo - pilot with the Queen's Flight who completed over 500 Royal flights - on December 21, aged 83; Fg Off 'Rusty' Townsend - flew Hawker Typhoons with 175 Squadron, moving to France with the squadron in June 1944 - in December; Maj Andre Turcat - French test pilot who flew the maide flightof Concorde 001 and was the first to fly the airliner through the sound barrier - on January 4, aged 94.