This blog is dedicated to the life and times of Robin Bowes, a British civilian display pilot who earned his living flying a remarkable selection of historic and replica aeroplanes including: the Fokker triplane, the Sopwith triplane, a Pitts Special, the Curry Wot known famously as "Airey Mouse" and many others.
My interest in Robin's remarkable story comes at the very end of his life when I witnessed his final flight at Stourhead Gardens in Wiltshire in 1995. Since that fateful incident, a series of coincidences has led me to research his life story through his many friends and family, and in the years since his death I have been trying to find a publisher for his autobiography.
In addition to his flying, Robin was an accomplished jazz band drummer, sports car driver, aviation artist and engineer, and I'm going to use the blog to highlight these various abilities for which he was widely known and loved by so many.
I hope that you get something out the blog as it grows, and that you'll become a follower of Robin who flew as the "Red Baron" in his scarlet red triplane; but this is not the story of the Red Baron, this is the story of Robin Austin Bowes.
