Didn't know he had passed away, very sad... His dining out night speech was fabulous. Quite relevant to what the services ask today of its aircrew. Part of it was to remind pilots that although they had the glamorous lifestyle and pretty girls, they were exactly the same as troops in the trenches, there to go into harms way. 'When the Queen pays you the Shilling, one day she might ask for her money back, remember you are just a number so live with it!!' It all brought a tear to the eye.