I last saw Stan at a Raydon Wings airshow around five years ago. He was in good form but I think he had then ceased flying P1 due to lack of a medical. However he might well be back in harness now. No doubt someone on the forum from deepest Suffolk will be able to confirm or deny. Monewdon was Stan’s main base for many years after the closure of Ipswich.

A magic man who completed my own assistant instructor course on a McAully Group Tiger Moth back in 1960 when he was CFI at the East Anglian Flying Club.

His crazy flying routine in an Autocrat or an Auster 5 was legendary using a fabulous disguise of a French onion seller on his bike with a highly disreputable flashers mac and a Breton beret. I have never seen anyone fly an Auster so appallingly yet with supreme skill. A fantastic total aviation person indeed. They do not make them like that anymore.

Cheers,

Trapper 69