| World War 2 fighter pilot sells up his treasures.
Escalating high insurance costs helped prompt the sale of the memorabilia of one of the UK,s few surviving and respected flying aces.
Neville Duke a distinguished WWII fighter pilot is to auction off medals and mementoes marking 65 years of flying because of security fears about his collection at his Hampshire home.
The Distinguished Flying Cross with two bars and an OBE are among the items Squadron Leader Neville Duke, 83, from Lymington,Hants,is selling.Duke will be remembered for his record breaking flights in the fifties flying the beautiful Hawker Hunter jet aircraft.
Lets just hope that these treasured items will remain in the UK and even better be entrusted to a museum to look after them,that is if the necessary cash can be raised to save them for the nation.
Neville Dukes interest in flying started as a very young lad when he built up a collection of small model aeroplanes,the very machines that he saw flying overhead his parents home in Gloucester.
STOP PRESS:The items were purchased by a British collector and realised some £138,000
__________________ 'And there I was oil on my goggles from a broken pipe,then I looked at the altimeter,all I could see was the makers name !' www.wonwinglo.scale-models.net/ | 
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