Red Arrows missing leader?
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FL and the MOD you are both quite right. I for one am rather glad he did not continue in that role and it would appear that that pragmatic outlook was what propelled that individual to the top and placed him as one of the finest combat leaders in modern British air combat operations. I for one am glad he was leading there than in the Reds!
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Tonka Toy
Confusion again, I'm afraid.
Two different people.
Confusion again, I'm afraid.
- The leader referred to by me in post 18 and by the Mod/ PPRuNe Pop was the man Ray Hanna was recalled to replace in 1969. (See question that started this thread.)
- The man you are referring to resigned as Leader, continued his distinguished career and, in due course, became CAS.
Two different people.
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Lee Jones
Somewhere in my archives I believe I have an original MoD PR (RAF) brochure outlining the new team with the said leader's mugshot covered by a pasted-in snap of his replacement...
Does anyone know what happened to original leader Lee Jones following his post-Service time in Australia and Jordan, please? I kept in touch for some years after we met at the Team end-of-season dining-in night at CFS in 1975 (when Lee was captain of King Hussein's air academy, where later he generously set up a Bulldog 'diamond nine' for my employer for an air-to-air sortie down Wadi Rum - halcyon days). Alas, I did not retain contact with Lee, whose in-laws were in Ringwood and to which area (perhaps?) he and 'Billy' retired, probably in the '90s?
Earlier this year I was able to renew acqauaintance with Dickie Duckett from that same period; the older I get, the further back I look...
Does anyone know what happened to original leader Lee Jones following his post-Service time in Australia and Jordan, please? I kept in touch for some years after we met at the Team end-of-season dining-in night at CFS in 1975 (when Lee was captain of King Hussein's air academy, where later he generously set up a Bulldog 'diamond nine' for my employer for an air-to-air sortie down Wadi Rum - halcyon days). Alas, I did not retain contact with Lee, whose in-laws were in Ringwood and to which area (perhaps?) he and 'Billy' retired, probably in the '90s?
Earlier this year I was able to renew acqauaintance with Dickie Duckett from that same period; the older I get, the further back I look...
