Who is your HERO ?
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Who is your HERO ?
We need heroes in our lives. Without heroes, we are all plain people and we don't know how far we can go.
I have my own HERO in aviation , my ex-instructor, whom I not only envy but also try to emulate because of the inspiration and strength it "provides".
So who is your HERO and why that person ?
Also, state your ANTI-HERO and why
I have my own HERO in aviation , my ex-instructor, whom I not only envy but also try to emulate because of the inspiration and strength it "provides".
So who is your HERO and why that person ?
Also, state your ANTI-HERO and why
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Peter Gurney:
Former military and then civilian ATO. His memoirs of Belfast in the late 60s and then London in the late 70s and early 80s put anyone else's bitching about boots not getting through and lack of clothing seem like small fry. What makes his story all the more humbling for the rest of us is Gurney's modesty and matter of fact approach towards what he and his colleagues do. The title of his book reflects this: Braver Men Walk Away.
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Former military and then civilian ATO. His memoirs of Belfast in the late 60s and then London in the late 70s and early 80s put anyone else's bitching about boots not getting through and lack of clothing seem like small fry. What makes his story all the more humbling for the rest of us is Gurney's modesty and matter of fact approach towards what he and his colleagues do. The title of his book reflects this: Braver Men Walk Away.
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Is that Brigadier Peter Gurney - who used to glide from Bicester?
My hero? What, just one?
BEagle, naturally, and Lee 'Buddy' Archer, Keith Park, Jimi Hendrix, .....
My hero? What, just one?
BEagle, naturally, and Lee 'Buddy' Archer, Keith Park, Jimi Hendrix, .....
Group Captain Sir Douglas Bader.
A man who lost his legs in a terrible flying accident, yet fought back and rebuilt his life, then fought the system to get back into the RAF and becoming an outstanding fighter pilot and commander.
A man who lost his legs in a terrible flying accident, yet fought back and rebuilt his life, then fought the system to get back into the RAF and becoming an outstanding fighter pilot and commander.
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Sqn Ldr Roger Bushell - the real Big X in The Great Escape from Sagan prison camp in WWII. Having been given his final (escape or die) warning from the Nazis, he organised the breakout of some seventy Officers from Sagan causing untold headaches in the German military machine. Mr Attenborough just about did him justice in the film!
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