Just remembering Tony Brown again... I flew our Chippy into the Southport Air Show (landing on the beach) a couple of years ago. I was delighted, when calling in on the airshow frequency, to hear Tony's unmistakable voice. He was as cool and professional as ever, co-ordinating my join and landing on the beach with a low fly-by of a pair of fast jets.. "Golf sierra lima, can you please confirm you will NOT be going around from this approach?". No problem with that of course; the beach is very long (even if the marked runways weren't).
Strangely I was recently reading Cedric Flood's autobiography (a Liverpool-born pilot who flew for Cambrian and later BA at MAN on the S1-11). He, too flew into that show in his home-built, and mentions in his book how delighted he was to hear Tony's voice again after many years.
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