Yes the days of Allen Wheeler and delightful Dickie were sublime.The Late "Enfant Terrible" Dickie was adept at grass cutting and removing freeloaders from the said gate.I had the honour to be at Goodwood many years ago now,when Raymond Baxter introduced a 70 year old in an Aircraft well over 60 years old approaching from the west!!!You could hear it but not see it,as Ray H came down the Lavant Straight around 300 kts below the level of the grass banking on the outside of the track,pulling up around Woodcote to the delight of the crowd.There are wonderful aerobatic pilots today,who perform routines that only a few can really appreciate,but none could portray an aeroplane or please the crowd as Ray H and the Albatross,also known as Black Pete!!
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