Reading about the Spitfire formation & spectacular tailchase at DX this weekend, I thought I’d ask about the pilot who organised it.
Most of us have heard of, and know the current crop of Warbird & Historic pilots on the U.K airshow circuit, but one that seems to get little mention is ARC’s Jack Brown.
He appears to have been on the airshow circuit flying Warbirds as long as his contemporaries, flying Spencer Flack’s P-51 and TFC IIRC.
Anyone have any info about him and his aviation career or a photo?
Maybe he should have been one of the ‘Faces From The Blue’!
Cheers
Paul
By: Avro's Finest - 12th September 2005 at 23:04
Jack Brown,
one of the best display’s I saw was at Milldenhall in the early 90s. Jack was down to fly TFCs P47. As an engineer with TFC at the time I went to Milldenhall as ground crew for the weekend. Jack was due to depart of his slot and go to Southend for another display so was well topped off with fuel. As He straped in, he asked what sort of display would you like to see, I just said, “the normal, and don’t bend it, whats the chance of a dirty pass” I’ll see how it goes say’s Jack. As he took off I never gave it a second thought, but to my pleasure the 47 goes well out over the far side drops the gear and flaps and give the croud a great view of a dirty low and slow P47, Great to see. A lot of cameras where clicking away then.
Jack is a great bloke, we had some good shows. Jack has no need to stand up and tell every one who he is, he lets his flying do it for him.
It was good to see him again at the weekend. He’s a good mate and a fine pilot.
AF (Ex BBMF)
By: ZRX61 - 12th September 2005 at 17:26
Do they still call him “whisky jack”?
By: Merlinmagic - 12th September 2005 at 00:06
Maybe he should have been one of the ‘Faces From The Blue’!
Do you really want to scare young children and OAP’s?????
😮 😮 😮
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