Sad loss..

Fair dinkum Aussie warbird Legend!

Condolences to family and friends.

RIP

Croweater

Plane and pilot located, photo of plane.:(

http://stgeorge.yourguide.com.au/news/national/general/plane-crash-inquiry-begins/1101738.htm

Very sad news ….

RIP
Stieglitz

No doubt he will be as much missed down under as Ray and Mark Hanna (not forgetting all the other excellent display pilots lost over recent years – Hoof Proudfoot for one)

Sad Loss R.I.P.

Truly sad news.

I first met Col as a boy with my Dad and then later in life I would drop into Scone on my student pilot Navs before doing the same as an young instructor climbing the greasy aviation pole.

My overwhelming memory is a man of modesty with time for young blokes like me with stars in their eyes. We must have been a real inconvenience to the operation at Scone; sniffing around the hangar for the various machines that passed through the doors. Spitfire, Mustang, Bird Dog, Kittyhawk, etc, etc. Yet he always took the time to stop and say g’day.

Clear skies Col.

Owen

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Terribly sad news, such a leading light in the warbird scene down-under, he will be sorely missed. RIP Col.

Tom

Gosh, it is twenty years since we rolled the old Spitfire out for a photograph.

RIP Col.

At this time I’m gutted.

I had the pleasure of speaking to Col twice in my life. Once quite a few years ago at his Scone workshop when we dropped in as we passed through. We had a look around the workshop (I seem to remember a P40 fuselage in a jig), dropped some cash in the visitors box and was about to leave when he told us to hang around a bit. Once some scheduled visitors arrived Col gave us an impromptu display in his Mustang which rocked the socks of my wife who wouldn’t know anything remotely aviation related.

The second time at Temora a couple of weeks ago as part of the ramp talk after the Flying Day was over.

Always a nice guy in my eyes.

Col Pay departing for his display at Temora 17 Nov 2007

Blue Skies Col

Wardie

Really tragic news.

RIP Col 🙁

Very sad news. 🙁

R.I.P Mr Pay.

Paul

oh God that is bad news … RIP C.P.

This is the newspaper report which would have confused readers about three occupants in the plane. There was only one.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22885390-2702,00.html

Done..

Didn,t want to jump the gun in case it wasn,t true.Alas it is..First saw a “real” spitfire was with him piloting the MkVIII at the Moree air show about 25 years ago.

That’s aweful news, he’s been a fantastic influence on the warbird scene here in Aus. I’m sure they were his warbirds that used to visit the Albury airshow in the early 1980s when I was young and impressionable.
Respect Mr Pay, respect.

Perhaps the intitial post could be edited in title to identify Mr Pay?

RIP Col

Indeed, a sad loss for the community downunder…:(

Oh ******!

I suppose he died doing what he loved…..
I didn’t realise he was as old as that, but, I guess, time moves on for all of us…..

Condolences to his family and friends……

Rest in Peace old fellow.

Condolences to his family and friends.

That’s a hard hit.