Sad news for Tomorrows World fans. It's one programme I always used to watch.
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
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
He stopped and asked me directions once , seemed like a nice guy .
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....
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
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