Hedski;
I believe I may have been with you that day at Barton. Faced with hours of sitting around he brightened my day and seemed to take great delight in shocking many of the Barton Flying Club members.
A highly experienced operator he was funny, loud and utterly outspoken, he was always mighty kind to me and was a fund of excellent knowledge as well as astonishingly blue stories and de-fenestrating character sketches of people in authority.
The world will be a much poorer place without this man (and a hell of a lot quieter!)
God rest him and bless his familly. Maybe its time for an old style goodbye from his colleagues.
FF