Peteff
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| posted on 16/9/06 at 04:10 PM |
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Raymond Baxter dead.
Sad news for Tomorrows World fans. It's one programme I always used to watch.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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Hellfire
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| posted on 16/9/06 at 05:33 PM |
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I ONLY JUST remember him... very intelligent, interesting bloke. Tommorows World was one of the programmes I used to dedicatedly watch every Thursday
Night!
Sad loss...
Why don't they bring that programme back - it was a great format and it would fit in with todays technology breakthrough's. Then they
wonder why there are no scientists... this is why!!!
Steve
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planetester
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| posted on 16/9/06 at 05:55 PM |
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He came to make a documentary about a new aircraft we were building in 1986, he sat in my office while the film crews were preparing for each scene,
we talked quite a lot, very decent sort
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rusty nuts
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| posted on 16/9/06 at 07:16 PM |
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He stopped and asked me directions once , seemed like a nice guy .
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coozer
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| posted on 16/9/06 at 08:28 PM |
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Sad news indeed, I couldn't believe he was 84, it doesnt seem that long ago when I was a kid and he was just like me dad on telly..
How time flies....
1972 V8 Jago
1980 Z750
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Mark Allanson
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| posted on 16/9/06 at 08:40 PM |
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I am sure he used to commentate F1 when the drivers wore leather helmets, he was also a Spitfire ace who developed the method of tumbling V1 rockets
using the aircrafts wing tips
If you can keep you head, whilst all others around you are losing theirs, you are not fully aware of the situation
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 16/9/06 at 08:46 PM |
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He did tell a story about when he was one of several spitfire pilots attacking a V2 rocket base - he said that he couldn't believe it when one
started to lift off as they approached - especially when his wingman started firing at it! As he said, they were flying at several hundred mph
towards a ton of explosive and rocket fuel, and if he'd hit it then the whole squadron would have been blown out of the sky!
David
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