Vale JL
Very sad...JL did my final check with ZL (base training) in the SAAB out at Dubbo.
A very down to earth bloke...old school.
Condolences to his family...the following from Ernest Gann (Fate is the Hunter) which he wrote to a pilot friend who was dying from cancer at the time...
You are standing upon a shore… somewhere
A ship before you spreads her white sails and starts for the blue ocean
She is a beautiful and strong ship and you watch her until she hangs like a speck of white cloud… just where the sea and sky come down to mingle with each other.
Then someone at your side says, “There…well, well she’s gone.”
Gone where... gone from your sight-that’s all.
She is still as large in mast and spar as when she left your shore, just as strong and able.
Her diminished size is in you, not in her,
And while someone at your side is saying…”she’s gone"…there are other eyes watching her coming…and ready to take up the glad shout…"There, there she comes!"
RIP JL