I thought I had read the name somewhere and it bugged me for ages. Eventually I remembered that Roy Braybrook wrote about him in a article in "Air International" sometime in the 80's - the maddening thing was that I remember the story had something to do with a firepower demonstration given to visiting Soviet officials in the late 40's but I can't recall the details! I did a bit of research on him after reading the story and he impressed me a great deal.
Anyone have any idea what happened as I cannot find the magazine anywhere - when you move house 6 times in 10 years you lose a lot of stuff.
I was saddened to read about his death, another giant of the golden years of the jet age has passed away. I give my condolences to the family.