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.
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ReplyDeleteYou dont know were to find the doc on him that was on you tube?
Hi just come across this site, I was lucky enough as a young lad to know Robin at Roborough when he was still learning to fly and subsequently spent many happy hours being flown by him in his Auster
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Hi Gordon, You can follow Robin's story at www.facebook.com/nottheredbaron
DeleteHi Helene thanks I did find that and the short film again with a few old friends
ReplyDeleteI met Robin at. a airshow he was flying the Pitts and then. the triplane nice guy. I have also got Video of him being interviewed by tv station at a airshow
ReplyDeleteRobin was a very dear friend of my brother Gordon and i knew him also, he use to play jazz in a band called the cats whiskers, such a wonderful polite gent and we miss him still .. God Bless you Robin ...
ReplyDeleteThank you! If you use Facebook, you can follow 'Not the Red Baron' at https://www.facebook.com/nottheredbaron. 'Not the Red Baron - A Pilot's Lovestory' is also available as an ebook.
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