Ken Wallis has died at 97

[MechFx]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-23952207

[Gleeso]

I was only talking about Him last week, he certainly had an interesting life.

[birdy]

This isa big loss to the gyro show. Only hope he had the fortune to die with his boots on.Gess ill never meet him now. :-

[Brian]

I was only talking about Him last week, he certainly had an interesting life.One of the early pioneers & its sad to see him passing but most certainly a great innings to achieve 97 !!My ambition is to fly my gyro on my 100 birthday. I think Wing Commander Wallace was still flying not all that long ago.We went within a whisker of having him here in Australia a couple of years ago. Would have been an experience to remember meeting him & hearing him talk on his adventurers

[mad max]

Bugger, I hoped Ken would fly on his 100th B/day. An Englishman was here taking photo"s of my flying a young Irishman last Sat. and said he was going back in 5 days and would show the photo"s to Ken Wallis. (He seemed to know him)

[gbw]

"Only hope he had the fortune to die with his boots on."Each to his own. I prefer having my boots off.Graham

[chook]

My wife just called me in to see that a program that she watches has an interview with Ken. In it they show the interior of his workshop and storage area for around 30 gyros.Open this link ...https://au.tv.yahoo.com/plus7/escape...-5/?play=1Then select

[MadMuz]

Hi chook, watching it now, the interview starts at 36 minutes.... very good interview, about 4 minutes or soThanks Chook and Mrs Chook