View Full Version : Whatever happened to Tony Haig-Thomas?
DogTailRed2
21st Jan 2024, 17:52
Is the gentleman still with us? Remember him flying the Harvard and Avenger at many a display.
Came across this article on the Flypast forum.
Aeroplane meets Tony Haig-Thomas (key.aero) (https://www.key.aero/article/aeroplane-meets-tony-haig-thomas)
treadigraph
21st Jan 2024, 18:18
Still around as far as I know, not heard anything to the contrary...
POBJOY
21st Jan 2024, 23:49
Still around as far as I know, not heard anything to the contrary...
Still warm I believe
Great (very non PC book) that gives a very good feel of his aviation voyage.
Jhieminga
22nd Jan 2024, 11:40
Good to hear! I picked up a copy of his biography just last summer and really enjoyed the read. It's this one: https://amzn.to/3OehOXc
Edited to add: here he is running up his Avenger in 1994. He wandered into the local ops room that morning patting his pockets and exclaiming "Nobody move! Where are my specs...." I guess he found them 😉
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53480337629_7f6dd3e47c_c.jpg
sycamore
23rd Jan 2024, 17:42
Tony H-T is alive but a little unwell with the usual complaints of `older age`,but not limited to complain to his BiL,a retired Admiral about the RN antics between HMS Chiddy-Chiddy-Bangor...!
POBJOY
23rd Jan 2024, 23:11
Tony H-T is alive but a little unwell with the usual complaints of `older age`,but not limited to complain to his BiL,a retired Admiral about the RN antics between HMS Chiddy-Chiddy-Bangor...!
Now there is a guy who really had his service flying 'organised', not to mention Bank clerk to SA Hunter ops in 3 days !!!. He used to send letters to Michael at the Tiger Cub which were suitably relating his latest unofficial type check. You have to read this type of book to see how it was when we still had an air force. Shooting party trips using the trusty Meteor, test flight on another Meteor to find an aileron was fitted upside down !!!, and his description on his first Hunter solo is like being in the cockpit with him, brilliant. Sycamore send our regards (and look after yourself as well.). We await your publication 'Rotary Death Machines'