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10-04-2007, 01:30 PM
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| Legendary Member   Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Neverland
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 | Neville Duke DSO, OBE, DFC, AFC has died Flying legend Neville Duke DSO, OBE, DFC, AFC has died at the age of 84. He is reported to have landed at Popham on Saturday. Shortly afterwards he collapsed. An ambulance was called and arrived quickly, taking him to hospital. Sadly, he died later that evening. Duke was famous for, among other things, holding the world air speed record. In 1963 he achieved 727.63 mph flying a Hawker Hunter. His autobiography, Test Pilot, regularly features among pilots' lists of favourite Courtesy Seager Publishing / Flyer Magazine |
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10-04-2007, 02:31 PM
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__________________ Spidge,  ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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23-04-2007, 04:46 AM
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| Senior Member   Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: House of Bedfords, Perth, Western Australia
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 | I know I've said it before but another of my heroes is gone. Just read the Telegraph obituary and realised how easy it is to forget just how much Neville Duke did in his life. The Robert Taylor Spitfire print that I treasure is signed by Neville Duke. Treasure it even more now, if that's at all possible. Neville Duke touched my print!
__________________ Cheers Andy Apres moi le deluge But there are deeds that should not pass away....And names that must not wither - Byron HMAS Sydney II - lost with all hands and waiting to be found |
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