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I had the privilege of attending the memorial service today, and would like to use this forum to say thank you to Flying Lawyer for the moving and wonderful tribute to Ray.
On this particular occasion, I hope that Flying lawyer will not object to having his anonymity revealed.
He is, of course, Tudor Owen FRAeS, a barrister by profession and a man for whom the aviation community has much to be grateful for.
His written obituary of Ray in The Times, and his spoken eulogy at Ray's memorial service were masterpieces.
Thank you Tudor.
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I'd also like to thank Flying Lawyer for his tribute to Ray, which in my opinion, was one of the finest I have ever heard at a memorial service
I felt very privileged to have known Ray Hanna both in a professional capacity and as a fellow display pilot, and FL's address summed him up to a tee.
A very moving day
I felt very privileged to have known Ray Hanna both in a professional capacity and as a fellow display pilot, and FL's address summed him up to a tee.
A very moving day
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Heads up - Ray Hanna obit
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/lastword.shtml
Even those overseas can 'tune in' to the BBC 'Listen Again' service. This will be available for a week from now. Nice words.
Even those overseas can 'tune in' to the BBC 'Listen Again' service. This will be available for a week from now. Nice words.
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Originally Posted by G-CPTN
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/lastword.shtml
Even those overseas can 'tune in' to the BBC 'Listen Again' service. This will be available for a week from now. Nice words.
Even those overseas can 'tune in' to the BBC 'Listen Again' service. This will be available for a week from now. Nice words.
A few words on the service for those who could not attend
The church was lit by a bright, low, winter sun as the congregation assembled. The service started at mid-day with Nimrod by Elgar immediately preceding the service, and the church ground floor pews were packed, the overflow were acommodated in the upper levels.
The music in terms of the choir and the soloist, Helen Parker, who sang Pokarekare Ana was outstanding, and filled the church with a truely beautiful sound. The Hymn's were done justice too by the assembled congregation. As someone who is not a natural church goer the sound was genuinely uplifting.
The readings were from Sir Adrian Swire (Cathay Pacific), Lee Proudfoot ('Old Flying Machine Company' pilot) and Sara Hanna. The most poigniant for me was hearing Sara Hanna read 'The Airman's World', as a parent I know it would give me immense pride to hear any of my daughters read a passage so well at such an emotive event.
Tudor Owen FRAeS ('Flying Lawyer') gave an address relating many interesting elements of Ray Hannas life, to the congregation. These all set the tone superbly I felt, just the right amount of reflection of Ray Hannas life including some of the lows, and the undoubted highs.
As the service end many of the congregation chatted outside the church, and there were clearly many friends who knew one another and were renewing previous memories, friendships and aquaintances.
As the farewells and partings continued it began to lightly snow, ending a very thought provoking and memorable service.
(Left) Flt Lt Jim Schofield - Harrier Test Pilot, MoD Boscombe
(Centre) Mr James Hallam - Airline Pilot
(Right) Lee Proudfoot - airline pilot, 'OFMC' pilot, read 'Those Who Were Truly Great'
(Left, partly hidden) Sir John Allison KCB CBE - Air Chief Marshal of the Royal Air Force (retd) and display pilot
js
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Names added. Let us have any others you know.
The music in terms of the choir and the soloist, Helen Parker, who sang Pokarekare Ana was outstanding, and filled the church with a truely beautiful sound. The Hymn's were done justice too by the assembled congregation. As someone who is not a natural church goer the sound was genuinely uplifting.
The readings were from Sir Adrian Swire (Cathay Pacific), Lee Proudfoot ('Old Flying Machine Company' pilot) and Sara Hanna. The most poigniant for me was hearing Sara Hanna read 'The Airman's World', as a parent I know it would give me immense pride to hear any of my daughters read a passage so well at such an emotive event.
Tudor Owen FRAeS ('Flying Lawyer') gave an address relating many interesting elements of Ray Hannas life, to the congregation. These all set the tone superbly I felt, just the right amount of reflection of Ray Hannas life including some of the lows, and the undoubted highs.
As the service end many of the congregation chatted outside the church, and there were clearly many friends who knew one another and were renewing previous memories, friendships and aquaintances.
As the farewells and partings continued it began to lightly snow, ending a very thought provoking and memorable service.
(Left) Flt Lt Jim Schofield - Harrier Test Pilot, MoD Boscombe
(Centre) Mr James Hallam - Airline Pilot
(Right) Lee Proudfoot - airline pilot, 'OFMC' pilot, read 'Those Who Were Truly Great'
(Left, partly hidden) Sir John Allison KCB CBE - Air Chief Marshal of the Royal Air Force (retd) and display pilot
js
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Names added. Let us have any others you know.
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Ray Hanna's Memorial Service - another view
I was there also and thought I would relate a few thoughts on proceedings.
The church was absolutely packed. All the old faces were there from the Red Arrows thoughout the '60s and '70s.
Superb and poignant addresses by Tudor Owen FRAeS, also by Sir Adrian Swire, Lee Proudfoot and daughter Sarah. A VERY moving service and excellent tribute to such a fine man.
This was one thing that I just felt compelled to do – to make a pilgrimage to London to show my respect for a man who I have greatly admired for 40 years. I first met Ray when the “Red Arrows” first formed at Fairford in 1965, but didn’t really get to know him until the team moved to Kemble the following year. I was a mere 16-year old ATC cadet and one telephone call to Ray was all it took to be invited over to Kemble by him to watch rehearsals. He always had time for me and never let me leave without giving me the latest brochure, publicity material and photographs. I lost track of him when he went to fly for Lloyd International and Cathay Pacific, but caught up with him again in the late ‘70s when he formed the Old Flying Machine company at Duxford. Amazing-he remembered me and was still the same man! I made a point of just saying ‘hello’ on every occasion I saw him, with the last chat being at Biggin Hill Air Fair in 2005 when he was part of the Red Arrows 40th Anniversary celebrations.
Thursday’s service was packed out, the church being filled with lovely choir music. There were tributes by Sir Adrian Swire, whom he acquired Spitfire MH434 from, from Lee Proudfoot of the Old Flying Machine Company and a lovely poem entitled “The Airman's World” from daughter Sarah.
However, the best tribute came from Tudor Owen, who is a pilot and London barrister specialising in aviation law and who got to know Ray when he operated a Harvard with OFMC. Tudor related Ray’s love of aviation from his days watching Tiger Moths in New Zealand, followed by learning to fly, then working his passage to England and continuing flying lessons. He was then accepted by the RAF and Tudor went into great detail about certain ‘exploits’ when Ray was leader of the Red Arrows, to much amusement. His whole aviation life was related and personal life touched on, with reference to the sad loss of son Mark.
Finally, after relating the magnificent Spitfire and warbird flying Ray executed during his final years, Tudor came full circle, back to that young boy that was stood watching Tiger Moths by the fence in Auckland – ‘THAT was Ray Hanna’, he said!
On that note, a bit of emotion overcame me!
At the end of the service, everyone started filing out and there were all the old faces I had known from the “Red Arrows” of the ‘60s and ‘70s, ‘Dinger’ Bell, his No.2, Henry Prince, Peter Evans, the very first Team Manager Dick Storer and subsequent leaders, Dickie Duckett, Ian Dick and Brian Hoskins, the last leader when the team flew Gnats. Also Henry Plosczek, in whose capable hands I flew with the "Red Arrows" in 1988.
I met up with some of them afterwards and made a special point of personally thanking Tudor Owen for his Address.
A wonderful tribute and something I wouldn't have missed for anything!
Adrian Balch (alias 'Amos Keeto')
The church was absolutely packed. All the old faces were there from the Red Arrows thoughout the '60s and '70s.
Superb and poignant addresses by Tudor Owen FRAeS, also by Sir Adrian Swire, Lee Proudfoot and daughter Sarah. A VERY moving service and excellent tribute to such a fine man.
This was one thing that I just felt compelled to do – to make a pilgrimage to London to show my respect for a man who I have greatly admired for 40 years. I first met Ray when the “Red Arrows” first formed at Fairford in 1965, but didn’t really get to know him until the team moved to Kemble the following year. I was a mere 16-year old ATC cadet and one telephone call to Ray was all it took to be invited over to Kemble by him to watch rehearsals. He always had time for me and never let me leave without giving me the latest brochure, publicity material and photographs. I lost track of him when he went to fly for Lloyd International and Cathay Pacific, but caught up with him again in the late ‘70s when he formed the Old Flying Machine company at Duxford. Amazing-he remembered me and was still the same man! I made a point of just saying ‘hello’ on every occasion I saw him, with the last chat being at Biggin Hill Air Fair in 2005 when he was part of the Red Arrows 40th Anniversary celebrations.
Thursday’s service was packed out, the church being filled with lovely choir music. There were tributes by Sir Adrian Swire, whom he acquired Spitfire MH434 from, from Lee Proudfoot of the Old Flying Machine Company and a lovely poem entitled “The Airman's World” from daughter Sarah.
However, the best tribute came from Tudor Owen, who is a pilot and London barrister specialising in aviation law and who got to know Ray when he operated a Harvard with OFMC. Tudor related Ray’s love of aviation from his days watching Tiger Moths in New Zealand, followed by learning to fly, then working his passage to England and continuing flying lessons. He was then accepted by the RAF and Tudor went into great detail about certain ‘exploits’ when Ray was leader of the Red Arrows, to much amusement. His whole aviation life was related and personal life touched on, with reference to the sad loss of son Mark.
Finally, after relating the magnificent Spitfire and warbird flying Ray executed during his final years, Tudor came full circle, back to that young boy that was stood watching Tiger Moths by the fence in Auckland – ‘THAT was Ray Hanna’, he said!
On that note, a bit of emotion overcame me!
At the end of the service, everyone started filing out and there were all the old faces I had known from the “Red Arrows” of the ‘60s and ‘70s, ‘Dinger’ Bell, his No.2, Henry Prince, Peter Evans, the very first Team Manager Dick Storer and subsequent leaders, Dickie Duckett, Ian Dick and Brian Hoskins, the last leader when the team flew Gnats. Also Henry Plosczek, in whose capable hands I flew with the "Red Arrows" in 1988.
I met up with some of them afterwards and made a special point of personally thanking Tudor Owen for his Address.
A wonderful tribute and something I wouldn't have missed for anything!
Adrian Balch (alias 'Amos Keeto')
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I would like to add my own memories to the above recollections of Ray's memorial service.
Ray had for so many years been a focus, a hub of the air display world. On Thursday 2nd March, 2006, that hub was at St Clement Dane's church. From all points of the compass a vast range of people came to pay their respects to Ray, and never has the phrase "pay their respects" been so apt. Some were personal, some on behalf of organisations and even countries that owed him so much. The whole day was centred on someone who commanded ultimate respect in the world of aviation. But the day was about more than just Ray's flying expoits. I went with my wife and daughter who both have always enjoyed watching him fly, but also knew him as a kind and gentle person who was always there at air shows; everyone's respect extended to Ray as a person as well as a pilot.
Before the service, in the winter's chill of a breezy day with crisp, bright, sunny blue skies, old friends gathered, welcoming each other warmly but all feeling the sadness of the occassion. Slowly, they filled the magnificent church that has long been the spiritual centre of the Royal Air Force. Quiet, polite conversation continued until the service started, precisely on time as befitted Ray's sense of precision! The whole service, the choir, musicians and speakers, were so appropriate, so polished and so worthy of Ray. Sarah's reading of "The Airman's World" was very brave at her father's memorial service, and I am sure that Lee Proudfoot had many special memories of Ray whilst reading "I Think of Those Who Were Truly Great" with great composure. The reading from Philippians by Sir Adrian Swire was spoken with great dignity and deliberation.
At the start of the service I sat with a friend who had been at Ray's funeral along with my wife and I. He commented that he hoped that Tudor Owen would give the same eulogy as at the funeral as it was such a marvellous tribute. Well, Tudor excelled once again in capturing Ray's life and personality. Some of the tales were old favourites, some were new to us, some were poignant, and some were funny. There was laughter, there were tears. And at the end I am sure that many (including me) wanted to applaud. However, conventional protocol maintained a warm silence. How long Tudor spoke for I do not know. But it was a tribute that lost no-ones concentration; any chaplain would be overwhelmed to have such attention paid to one of their sermons!
As the service finished, a congregation grew in front of the church once again. It seemed that no-one wanted to leave, until a snow shower reminded us that we had to move on! Ray's family kindly invited friends to a reception at the RAF Club where the exchange of stories continued well into the afternoon. When we finally had to leave, I felt a calmness that stemmed from the knowledge that I had been privileged to know and fly with one of the greatest. He will be there with us this season in spirit only, but he has left us a wonderful legacy of films and photographs and memories, with two great ladies, Eunice and Sarah, as custodians! He has left us the Old Flying Machine Company to keep his memory in the skies. And his charitable work for the Blond McIndoe Centre, the Hanna Surgical Research Fellowship, which he helped establish, will continue.
It was a fitting day to close not just a chapter in our lives but a book.
Ray had for so many years been a focus, a hub of the air display world. On Thursday 2nd March, 2006, that hub was at St Clement Dane's church. From all points of the compass a vast range of people came to pay their respects to Ray, and never has the phrase "pay their respects" been so apt. Some were personal, some on behalf of organisations and even countries that owed him so much. The whole day was centred on someone who commanded ultimate respect in the world of aviation. But the day was about more than just Ray's flying expoits. I went with my wife and daughter who both have always enjoyed watching him fly, but also knew him as a kind and gentle person who was always there at air shows; everyone's respect extended to Ray as a person as well as a pilot.
Before the service, in the winter's chill of a breezy day with crisp, bright, sunny blue skies, old friends gathered, welcoming each other warmly but all feeling the sadness of the occassion. Slowly, they filled the magnificent church that has long been the spiritual centre of the Royal Air Force. Quiet, polite conversation continued until the service started, precisely on time as befitted Ray's sense of precision! The whole service, the choir, musicians and speakers, were so appropriate, so polished and so worthy of Ray. Sarah's reading of "The Airman's World" was very brave at her father's memorial service, and I am sure that Lee Proudfoot had many special memories of Ray whilst reading "I Think of Those Who Were Truly Great" with great composure. The reading from Philippians by Sir Adrian Swire was spoken with great dignity and deliberation.
At the start of the service I sat with a friend who had been at Ray's funeral along with my wife and I. He commented that he hoped that Tudor Owen would give the same eulogy as at the funeral as it was such a marvellous tribute. Well, Tudor excelled once again in capturing Ray's life and personality. Some of the tales were old favourites, some were new to us, some were poignant, and some were funny. There was laughter, there were tears. And at the end I am sure that many (including me) wanted to applaud. However, conventional protocol maintained a warm silence. How long Tudor spoke for I do not know. But it was a tribute that lost no-ones concentration; any chaplain would be overwhelmed to have such attention paid to one of their sermons!
As the service finished, a congregation grew in front of the church once again. It seemed that no-one wanted to leave, until a snow shower reminded us that we had to move on! Ray's family kindly invited friends to a reception at the RAF Club where the exchange of stories continued well into the afternoon. When we finally had to leave, I felt a calmness that stemmed from the knowledge that I had been privileged to know and fly with one of the greatest. He will be there with us this season in spirit only, but he has left us a wonderful legacy of films and photographs and memories, with two great ladies, Eunice and Sarah, as custodians! He has left us the Old Flying Machine Company to keep his memory in the skies. And his charitable work for the Blond McIndoe Centre, the Hanna Surgical Research Fellowship, which he helped establish, will continue.
It was a fitting day to close not just a chapter in our lives but a book.
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Is it possible to post the readings & eulogy?
I'm sure there would be world-wide appreciation by those who weren't at the memorial service.
I'm sure there would be world-wide appreciation by those who weren't at the memorial service.
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Ray's Memorial Service
I to would like to thank The Flying Lawyer for his beautiful eulogy. I felt privileged to attend and to thank Ray for all he has given us, and for the inspiration given to me personally.
The day after Ray's memorial service was my forty-seventh birthday, my sister gave me a very old book by Ray Hanna & Auther Gibson, entitled 'Red Arrows', signed by them both. I will treasure it for ever, along with my personal memories of the past thirty-six years.
Steve.
The day after Ray's memorial service was my forty-seventh birthday, my sister gave me a very old book by Ray Hanna & Auther Gibson, entitled 'Red Arrows', signed by them both. I will treasure it for ever, along with my personal memories of the past thirty-six years.
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Copied from the service booklet
The Airman's World
by Gill Robb-Wilson
read by
Sarah Hanna
by Gill Robb-Wilson
read by
Sarah Hanna
YOU'VE been cruising the brooding hills under
heavy skies – maybe a little lonely and a
bit uncertain – when suddenly the westerning sun
finds a slit in the canopy overhead.
.
Long after you’ve forgotten the sweat of the journey
you’ll remember the glimpse of that sunkissed
valley with the fingers of the hills all pointing
to it as though fearful that you might
miss its loveliness.
.
When you’ve flown enough years to have
crossed many hills and valleys, and known much
loneliness and endured many uncertainties – why then
you’re a pilot, and on the walls of your memory
are hung such frescoes as no other breed of
man has ever seen. And because of them you can
never grow too old and you can never be too
much afraid of what lies ahead.
.
Just as the fact of flight telescopes time and space,
so the experience of flying telescopes the
pattern of life itself for the airman.
.
If you don’t venture on sullen skies, you never
come to sunkissed valleys. If you palms have never
been moist, your heart has never thrilled. If you
have never been afraid, you have never been courageous.
.
You have learned that if skies were always
cloudless, the hills and valleys beneath would be
barren. You have seen primordial forces at
work beyond the control of any man, but you have
fashioned a skill to live with them
in security and peace. You have sensed that where
there is no challenge there is no achievement.
.
So I think he learns of life, this one with the seven
league boots, this airman who goes from
place to place with such swiftness that even the
moods of the sky itself are
all caught up in his going and coming.
.
And if it does not mould him in humility of mind
And in peace of heart – and if he does not
become in spirit at one with the fingered hills
pointing eternally to some bright human hope which
nestles in the shadows of the sullen
history – then I have not read with understanding
for most of a lifetime the long, long thoughts
of my confrères – they who have earned a
citizenship in the airman’s world.
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THE Memorial Service 2nd March 2006
A Thanksgiving service in every sense of the word .. The sights and sounds will live with me for ever -- The towering stained glass windows of St.Clement Danes, the haunting rendition of Pokarekare Ana, (an instant emotion of Ray's New Zealand) the beautiful reading of The Airman's World from Sarah, and the inspiring eulogy from Tudor Owen.
All played their part in a memorable, poignant service for a true gentle airman .... Ray Hanna .... ALWAYS remembered
All played their part in a memorable, poignant service for a true gentle airman .... Ray Hanna .... ALWAYS remembered
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Thank you very much for the kind comments.
I felt deeply honoured to be asked to give the address at the Service, but there was obviously a corresponding responsibility to do justice to a great aviator and fine man. If I managed to come close to doing that, I'm content.
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A few people have PM'd asking me to post the tribute here. The problem is that my notes are in 'bullet points' form which mean a lot to me but wouldn't mean much to anyone else. I'll prepare a full version and post it.
FL
I felt deeply honoured to be asked to give the address at the Service, but there was obviously a corresponding responsibility to do justice to a great aviator and fine man. If I managed to come close to doing that, I'm content.
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A few people have PM'd asking me to post the tribute here. The problem is that my notes are in 'bullet points' form which mean a lot to me but wouldn't mean much to anyone else. I'll prepare a full version and post it.
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Ray Hanna
For Eunice and Sarah:
I was a member of the Red Arrows Groundcrew for some ten years - from 1967 to 1977, when I left the Gnat Team to learn about the Hawk.
The working premise for the Team was set by Ray Hanna and was followed religiously by subsequent leaders ; Denis Hazell, Bill Loverseed, Ian 'Widgie' Dick, Dickie Duckett, Frank Hoare and finally (for the Gnat), Brian Hoskins.
When I was asked why I had stayed with the Team for ten years, my reply was that I was doing the job I had been trained to do and that I had learned from Ray the value of being a team player. He knew personally who all his (groundcrew) Team were and what they were capable of. We managed the 10 Gnats of the Team with a travelling party of some seventeen airmen - when we met with the USAF's Thunderbirds - flying (I think six aircraft), they had some ninety-eight groundcrew!
I met Mark Hanna while I was Line Controller at RAF Valley. When I asked him how his father was, the following day he came to see me to pass on Ray's best wishes. He had remembered me, and asked, by name, how my family were.
As we used to say in the RAF - When they made Ray Hanna, they broke the mould. He will be sadly missed.
Goodchap
I was a member of the Red Arrows Groundcrew for some ten years - from 1967 to 1977, when I left the Gnat Team to learn about the Hawk.
The working premise for the Team was set by Ray Hanna and was followed religiously by subsequent leaders ; Denis Hazell, Bill Loverseed, Ian 'Widgie' Dick, Dickie Duckett, Frank Hoare and finally (for the Gnat), Brian Hoskins.
When I was asked why I had stayed with the Team for ten years, my reply was that I was doing the job I had been trained to do and that I had learned from Ray the value of being a team player. He knew personally who all his (groundcrew) Team were and what they were capable of. We managed the 10 Gnats of the Team with a travelling party of some seventeen airmen - when we met with the USAF's Thunderbirds - flying (I think six aircraft), they had some ninety-eight groundcrew!
I met Mark Hanna while I was Line Controller at RAF Valley. When I asked him how his father was, the following day he came to see me to pass on Ray's best wishes. He had remembered me, and asked, by name, how my family were.
As we used to say in the RAF - When they made Ray Hanna, they broke the mould. He will be sadly missed.
Goodchap
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There was a very moving tribute to Ray Hanna today at the Goodwood Revival meeting.
Lord March spoke very well about his life and there was an flypast by 2 Spitfires and Mustangs.
I must admit to including Hoof in my thoughts as Lee Proodfoot demonstated a single Spitfire in very difficult flying conditions earlier in the day.
Lord March spoke very well about his life and there was an flypast by 2 Spitfires and Mustangs.
I must admit to including Hoof in my thoughts as Lee Proodfoot demonstated a single Spitfire in very difficult flying conditions earlier in the day.
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I agree. It was a wonderful tribute.
Ray contributed significantly to the success of the Goodwood Revival, and it was good to see that recognised in an appropriate way.
For those who didn't recognise the setting, this picture I posted earlier in the thread was taken at one of the Revival meetings. (It's not my photograph, so I don't know which.)
Entirely agree about Hoof. When he was killed, it was more than the loss of a superb pilot - he was wonderful company.
Lee is a fine display pilot and a credit to his father.
Another link - one of the drivers in the Tourist Trophy race was Alain de Cadenet - commentator in the famous 'Oh my God!' video.
Video
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Ray contributed significantly to the success of the Goodwood Revival, and it was good to see that recognised in an appropriate way.
For those who didn't recognise the setting, this picture I posted earlier in the thread was taken at one of the Revival meetings. (It's not my photograph, so I don't know which.)
Entirely agree about Hoof. When he was killed, it was more than the loss of a superb pilot - he was wonderful company.
Lee is a fine display pilot and a credit to his father.
Another link - one of the drivers in the Tourist Trophy race was Alain de Cadenet - commentator in the famous 'Oh my God!' video.
Video
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Ad astra!
Ray Hanna;
Blasting over the crowd from behind in his Gnat in the 70's.
Flying up the dispersal at Gutersloh in a spitfire during the 80's.
Simply landing at Goodwood in the P40 a couple of years back.
Thank-you,
Ad Astra!
PS; The dream spitfire display team; Hanna / Henshaw!
Blasting over the crowd from behind in his Gnat in the 70's.
Flying up the dispersal at Gutersloh in a spitfire during the 80's.
Simply landing at Goodwood in the P40 a couple of years back.
Thank-you,
Ad Astra!
PS; The dream spitfire display team; Hanna / Henshaw!
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These pictures were taken during the tribute to Ray Hanna at the Goodwood Revival by Doug Nye, who will be well-known to any F1 fans as the distinguished Grand Prix writer and author of numerous leading books about GP teams, cars, drivers and races.
Doug has kindly given me permission to post the pictures on PPRuNe as a record of Goodwood's "tributes to the great man."
They belong to Autosport's GP library.
Tudor
Doug has kindly given me permission to post the pictures on PPRuNe as a record of Goodwood's "tributes to the great man."
They belong to Autosport's GP library.
Tudor
Well done Goodwood Revival
Well done Lord March & the Goodwood Revival team - what a wonderful tribute to Ray.
Sept' 3rd was a personal memory anniversary for me.......
EGMC, approx' 16:00 local time, sept' 3rd 1989, MH434 in the hands of the master flew a run and break overhead just after I landed upon completion of my GFT, it was personal magic for me & the sight & sound was superb !!
The examiner enjoyed it too !!
God speed Ray - we miss you but we'll never forget you.
Sept' 3rd was a personal memory anniversary for me.......
EGMC, approx' 16:00 local time, sept' 3rd 1989, MH434 in the hands of the master flew a run and break overhead just after I landed upon completion of my GFT, it was personal magic for me & the sight & sound was superb !!
The examiner enjoyed it too !!
God speed Ray - we miss you but we'll never forget you.
