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Departed During 2025
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llondel » Fri Jan 03, 2025 10:49 pm
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Britt Allcroft has died, aged 81. She was responsible for the TV series of Thomas the Tank Engine, watched and enjoyed by many children (and adults).
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Here you are then, sorted:
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Last post by FD2
Tue Jan 14, 2025 7:15 pm
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Departed During 2024
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llondel » Thu Jan 04, 2024 6:29 pm
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First one in for this year, it seems. Niklaus Wirth compiled his last on 1st January.
Known for his work on various programming languages.
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Very sad to hear of the passing of Johnnie Walker. One of the best DJs ever, IMHO. A calm reassuring voice, and although I understand that the choice...
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Last post by tango15
Tue Dec 31, 2024 9:53 pm
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Last post by Karearea
Sun Dec 22, 2024 9:07 pm
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Disappeared without trace
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Pontius Navigator » Tue Dec 17, 2019 9:27 am
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Recently we were worried about the absence of one of our members who was actually alive and well.
I made an enquiry about someone with whom I...
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My phone demands 5, bank 6, increasingly some allow biometrics.
I distrust the security of biometrics. If someone conks you over the head they can...
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Last post by llondel
Fri Oct 04, 2024 10:31 pm
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Departed During 2023
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Wodrick » Sun Jan 01, 2023 9:26 am
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Anita Pointer, I think the last of the Pointer Sisters.
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'Compared to What' performer Les McCann, a wellspring for hip-hop samples, dies at 88
The Kentucky native joined the West Coast jazz scene, but his...
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Last post by PHXPhlyer
Mon Jan 01, 2024 4:47 am
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Colin Pritchard-GF/RAF
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limeygal » Sun Oct 22, 2023 6:53 pm
GF flight engineer Colin Pritchard passed away last night. He had been ill for some time. I don't know if any of you were lucky enough to have known...
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Last post by limeygal
Sun Oct 22, 2023 6:53 pm
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An obituary to admire.
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OneHungLow » Sun Sep 24, 2023 12:45 pm
Graham Mason
Denizen of Soho, journalist
1942-2002
In the 1980s, Graham Mason, who has died aged 59, was the drunkest man in the Coach and Horses,...
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Last post by OneHungLow
Sun Sep 24, 2023 12:45 pm
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Departed During 2022
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PHXPhlyer » Sun Jan 02, 2022 9:42 pm
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World-renowned Kenyan conservationist Richard Leakey dies at 77
CNN)Kenyan paleoanthropologist and conservationist Richard Leakey, who unearthed...
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Well know rally driver Ken Block was killed in a snowmobile accident..
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Last post by TheGreenAnger
Tue Jan 03, 2023 12:46 pm
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Erik Molberg GF
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limeygal » Sun Jul 31, 2022 9:54 am
Erik Molberg - 1942 – 2022
It is with deep, deep sadness we share with you that Erik passed away on Friday 8th July 2022, after bravely fighting a...
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Last post by limeygal
Sun Jul 31, 2022 9:54 am
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Not Departed During 2022.
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by ribrash » Wed Feb 16, 2022 1:56 pm
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Everyone not mentioned by the Obituary readers.
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Well contrary to the news that the delectable Ms Swit had crossed the dark River Styx with the dread boatman in 2021, she is alive and well in 2022....
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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
Wed Feb 16, 2022 6:57 pm
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Departed during 2021
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ian16th » Fri Jan 01, 2021 12:30 pm
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Just setting up the thread, so that it is ready.
Anyone up to running a book on who will be the 1st notable/notorious person entered for 2021?...
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Just in under the wire, Betty White has died at 99.
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Last post by llondel
Fri Dec 31, 2021 7:26 pm
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fareastdriver (Al Tait) RIP
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CharlieOneSix » Sun Nov 07, 2021 12:18 am
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I have copied below the sad notification from TOP that one of our members, Al Tait - fareastdriver- has died. We were never on the same fleet in...
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RIP fareastdriver. Your contributions on Ops-Norm have always been appreciated.
Alison/Admin
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Sun Nov 07, 2021 4:17 pm
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Yvonne Pope Sintes
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limeygal » Tue Sep 21, 2021 9:33 am
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Captain Yvonne Pope Sintes passed away on August 16. Flew as a passenger on one of her 748 flights before I worked for Dan-Air. Her Times obituary...
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Captain Yvonne Pope Sintes passed away on August 16. Flew as a passenger on one of her 748 flights before I worked for Dan-Air. Her Times obituary...
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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
Tue Sep 21, 2021 6:58 pm
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Billy's Apple has crumbled
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TheGreenGoblin » Mon Sep 06, 2021 5:17 am
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Ground-breaking’ New Zealand artist Billy Apple dies aged 85
Country’s ‘foremost conceptual artist’ exhibited alongside Andy Warhol and Roy...
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OOH! There would have been tears and sleepless nights (and BM and 'is mate Piers leading street rallies...)
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Last post by Boac
Mon Sep 06, 2021 6:28 pm
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Dan Air News
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Wodrick » Fri Feb 09, 2018 1:43 pm
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Just been advised that John O'Regan has passed. B727 at MAN then B737 @ LGW
Neither of us remember him.
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Captains Mike Ralph and John Cotter have died in the last week. John might not be known as he was on the various Boeings but had joined DAN in 1963....
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Last post by Wodrick
Sun May 16, 2021 4:20 pm
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One of the greats
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admin » Mon Jan 11, 2021 1:12 am
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WW2's 'Spitfire Women': Eleanor Wadsworth, one of last female pilots, dies
One of the last surviving Spitfire Women , who ferried aircraft to the...
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RIP Eleanor. You did good.
+1.
I wonder just how many of the ATA Ladies are left now. :-? Knew a couple of them when I was a kid.
Stored away in...
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Last post by Pinky the pilot
Mon Jan 11, 2021 3:30 am
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Departed during 2020
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CharlieOneSix » Sat Jan 04, 2020 11:50 am
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Medium and psychic Derek Acorah has died
Never heard of him but I bet he didn't see that coming...
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One more for Robin Jackman...
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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
Fri Jan 01, 2021 3:37 pm
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OM15
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Wodrick » Mon Nov 02, 2020 2:55 pm
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Who hasn't signed in since September.
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He had a tantrum.
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Last post by Boac
Mon Nov 02, 2020 3:33 pm
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LaserNigel
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Wodrick » Sun Nov 01, 2020 5:13 pm
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Whenever I hear of another Typhoon clobbering the Philippines I wonder how Nigel is getting on.
He doesn't know it I don't suppose but him posting...
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Romantic rather than cholesterol if I remember correctly.
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Last post by k3k3
Sun Nov 01, 2020 8:07 pm
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Shere Hite RIP.
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TheGreenGoblin » Thu Sep 17, 2020 5:37 am
An extraordinary lady! A feminist who taught us more about female sexuality than that nincompoop Freud could ever do. Appeared in Playboy and...
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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
Thu Sep 17, 2020 5:37 am
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Last post by Pontius Navigator
Tue Sep 08, 2020 8:18 pm
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Peter Green
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Wodrick » Sat Jul 25, 2020 4:25 pm
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RIP
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In the skies tonight
Superb.
A lot of the stuff he later did (after his noodle started to come right) with his Splinter Group was very good too!
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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
Tue Aug 11, 2020 4:06 pm
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Ronan O’Rahilly. Who??
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by Capetonian » Mon Apr 20, 2020 10:01 pm
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Many will have long forgotten who he was, but in his day he was a controversial and influential figure.
Ronan O’Rahilly, the founder of the...
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I had never heard of Mr Rahilly until today, despite being a fan of Radio Caroline and all its doings and people.. What an interesting character...
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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
Tue Apr 21, 2020 6:17 pm
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Charlie 16 aka C16
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TheGreenGoblin » Sat Mar 07, 2020 12:54 am
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A bloody decent man, a legend, and a pilot who has much to tell us lesser folk...
He and FD2 have made a huge impact on my life, even by proxy, and...
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C16, did I give you an update on my hearing aids?
PN - I've replied in the Hearing thread:
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Last post by CharlieOneSix
Sun Mar 08, 2020 12:44 pm
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Angels
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Wodrick » Sun Dec 17, 2017 8:18 am
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It is 11 days since *Angels* posted here and 13 since he posted on TOP anyone know anything ?
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Will do guys but I think he looks in occasionally.
Please RiS 'club secretary' can't think of a worse job in the world apart from an Airline Pilot.
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Last post by Ex-Ascot
Fri Feb 14, 2020 12:04 pm
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