Brigadier General Dick Lord's obituary
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: London
Posts: 1,256
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Brigadier General Dick Lord's obituary
Ppruners may be interested in today's obit in the Telegraph of Dick Lord. Ex FAA, Top gun before Tom Cruise, and Brig General in the South Africal Air Force.
Gnome de PPRuNe
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Too close to Croydon for comfort
Age: 60
Posts: 12,644
Received 300 Likes
on
168 Posts
Just been reading the obit and have been prompted to buy a copy of his autobiography "From Tailhooker to Mudmover".
RIP Dick.
Just read his obit.
Great Pilot. I was on Ark when he caught that perfect 3 wire but the deck was pitching so badly that his gear was wrecked.
Dick and Chumly (another Royal Navy pilot I'm just using his phonetic callsign as I haven't asked him if I can use his name) were graduates of the RN AWI school who went to Miramar on exchange with the USN. They set up Top Gun.
History at Top Gun is now being rewritten to remove any suggestion that the FAA was involved. What a shame and a disservice to a great aviator.
Great Pilot. I was on Ark when he caught that perfect 3 wire but the deck was pitching so badly that his gear was wrecked.
Dick and Chumly (another Royal Navy pilot I'm just using his phonetic callsign as I haven't asked him if I can use his name) were graduates of the RN AWI school who went to Miramar on exchange with the USN. They set up Top Gun.
History at Top Gun is now being rewritten to remove any suggestion that the FAA was involved. What a shame and a disservice to a great aviator.
