An obituary has appeared in today’s Daily Telegraph:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2005/10/22/db2203.xml

I’d suggest you make it possible to donate through “Paypal” as it is a lot easier than moving money to a German bank account from the UK.

I worked on Harriers for several years. They do have a relatively poor safety record associated with the single engine and all the complications associated with the additional controls needed for hovering flight. They are then also vulnerable to the usual ground attack jet issues, like operating close to terra firma!

Well, it is a long time ago so I talked to my mate who was also at Binbrook with me to try and jog each others memory. There were at least two aircraft that came back without rudders, but the main problem was delamination within the structure which meanr they had to be changed.t

We were always short of spares, as nobody wanted to spend money on the aircraft towards the end, so robbing was a fact of life which cost a huge amount of man-hours, but then as servicemen nobody had to pay overtime!

I was there three years earlier in ASF running a major servicing team!

Only one I can find that fits up to the end of 1941 is W7436, crashed at Plouguerneau 18/12/41. raid on Brest