Vic Hewes - RAF & Founding CAF Dixie Wing Member Goes West
Sun Jul 03, 2011 3:02 pm
Vic's obit can be found below...
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/atlant ... =152320024
Our C-45 is painted in the RAF Expeditor scheme from one of his aircraft.
I was very fortunate to know both Vic and Betty; he met her while training US pilots in Macon GA. Vic was one of the founding members of the Dixie Wing and flew quite a few of the CAF aircraft. His house was like an mini-RAF museum that contained many pictures and artifacts from his RAF service with Spitfires and Mosquitos; Vic donated restoration funding for the IWM and Mosquito museum birds.
Years back when I was getting my private ticket I asked Vic for two flying tips...here is what he said:
+ Always make you tighten your throttle lock down as tight as it will go; Spitfires and just about every other aircraft have a tendency for the throttles to roll back when you least need them to. When I go thru the Cessna 172 checklist I always make a note to do that...
+ Always remember no matter what happens...you are pilot in command.
I sure he is sharing those tips with many RAF, Luftwaffe and other veterans right now somewhere up there in the skies...
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/atlant ... =152320024
Our C-45 is painted in the RAF Expeditor scheme from one of his aircraft.
I was very fortunate to know both Vic and Betty; he met her while training US pilots in Macon GA. Vic was one of the founding members of the Dixie Wing and flew quite a few of the CAF aircraft. His house was like an mini-RAF museum that contained many pictures and artifacts from his RAF service with Spitfires and Mosquitos; Vic donated restoration funding for the IWM and Mosquito museum birds.
Years back when I was getting my private ticket I asked Vic for two flying tips...here is what he said:
+ Always make you tighten your throttle lock down as tight as it will go; Spitfires and just about every other aircraft have a tendency for the throttles to roll back when you least need them to. When I go thru the Cessna 172 checklist I always make a note to do that...
+ Always remember no matter what happens...you are pilot in command.
I sure he is sharing those tips with many RAF, Luftwaffe and other veterans right now somewhere up there in the skies...
Re: Vic Hewes - RAF & Founding CAF Dixie Wing Member Goes West
Mon Jul 04, 2011 9:39 am
I am one of the handfull of Colonels that founded the Dixie Wing, & I got to know Vic pretty well. I have never met anyone like Vic. What an outstanding man. Vic probably forgot more about planes & flying, than most aviators will ever know. Vic will be missed, & those of us that knew him are very lucky. Godspeed Vic!