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Title: Salute and farewelll !
Post by: straffo on November 28, 2001, 04:03:00 AM

WING COMMANDER ROLAND "BEE" BEAMONT
who has died aged 81, followed dazzling wartime service as a fighter pilot and wing leader with a long and sustained peacetime career as a test pilot.
21 Nov 2001

Wing Commander Roland 'Bee' Beamont (http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&targetRule=5&xml=%2Fnews%2F2001%2F11%2F21%2Fdb01.xml)

Title: Salute and farewelll !
Post by: funkedup on November 28, 2001, 06:02:00 AM

:(

<S> Bee!!!

Title: Salute and farewelll !
Post by: straffo on November 28, 2001, 07:30:00 AM

Article in the Times The Times (http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,60-2001541566,00.html)

Have a look to this page : The Hawker Tempest Page (http://user.tninet.se/~ytm843e/)

Title: Salute and farewelll !
Post by: Gunthr on November 28, 2001, 07:51:00 AM

Quote

From the moment as a child when the pilot of a silvery Hawker Fury waved to him, young Beamont was determined to join the RAF.

And now, after a remarkable life, another larger-than-life WWII fighter pilot flys off into the distance...  <S>

Title: Salute and farewelll !
Post by: Replicant on November 28, 2001, 10:28:00 AM

Salute from all those at 56 Sqn!  

Regards

Nexx

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