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Re: Flight Lieutenant Eric Gordon Parkin
Hi Chris,
Further to the reply from Nibbler i to had the pleasure of flying with Gordon Parkin (and Joan Hughes of ATA fame) when he was a flying instructor with the Airways Flying Club (as it was then) during 1984.
When my regular instuctor was unavailable - he was a longhaul skipper with BA and not always in the UK - i opted for lessons with Gordon.I was too busy sweating under "the hood" to discuss his service career to any great extent but understood that he was in Afghanistan (the first time round) flying Hinds and/or Harts and then Hurricanes during the WW2.
He cleared me to go solo and accompanied me on my dual cross country.
At the time I understood that he had just been diagnosed with a heart defect and would shortly be giving up instructing.
Really sorry to find out that he had passed away a couple of years ago -a real gentleman and a great loss to flying.
regards,
Alan
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