Richard Riding, the founding editor of Aeroplane Monthly - forerunner of today's Aeroplane - died of heart failure on 5 January. He was in his 77th year. Richard Trevor Riding was born in north London, the son of the illustrious E. J. 'Eddie' Riding whose detailed articles and superb three-view drawings of historic aircraft enhanced the pages of numerous contemporary magazines, not the least being those of Aeromodeller. The death of Eddie Riding with his friend, the renowned pilot Stanley Orton Bradshaw (nicknamed 'Esso-Bee') in the prototype Auster Autocar on 5 April 1950 deprived Richard of a devoted father but left him imbued with a desire to follow a career in aviation and photography.
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