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Old 5th Dec 2012, 19:51
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You are quite right about it being CH, I always remembered his Hunter displays pre Reds. I believe he left the Reds after that and was in Oman.
Re summary of C's career, he had been in Oman before Hunters at TWU. I don't think he returned to Oman. Re his Reds' crash - we were airborne in a 4-ship when the Reds were doing a practice session during their winter workup in Cyprus. On landing back, there was a little red jet parked on the grass beside the runway, with a pole sticking out of the cockpit. I believe that C didn't intentionally eject - the seat fired on impact and the drogue chute pulled him out. I think he then had an accident in a FJ overseas.

I did see the MiG-29 crash at Paris in 1989. Now that was spectacular, and there are pics of the vertical jet and nearby pilot approaching the grass very adjacent to each other. Years later I met Anatoly Kovatcha (sp?) as a Su tp, and by then he had already ejected from an Su-27.

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