Many years
ago, when I was a kid, some voices on the radio were familiar to me : Henry
Simons, Gerard Vallet and Georges Pradez. Many peoples of this generation and specially these voices were
aviation minded. With passion and a lot of humor, Georges talked on the air about
a lot of subjects but we he talked about Saint Ex, Lindbergh or the Antarctic
flights of the Prince de Ligne, he can talk during hours, days or weeks. He was the speaker in a lot of air shows in Belgium
and he jumped on any occasion to fly.
A few years
ago, our friend Christian asked the help of friends of the BAMF. Georges was broadcasting
his last radio show with kids at the Brussels Air Museum and he asked some amateur
aviation historians to intervene during the show. For many of us, he was already
a radio hero, then we meet the man and a wonderful friend. When he definitively
retired, he joined the BAMF and from this moment he share with us his
incredible creativity, his enthusiasm and his extended knowledge of aviation.
He had an
unique talent to talk with all possible Belgian accents. He transformed any stories or anedoctes in a show attracting
the attention of his public by laughter.
Born in
Liège, he came from a long lineage of creative craftsman.
His first job was a manual one. The result was Georges was also a master in scale modeling.
No models, diorama or subjects was out of reach for him. He was behind the
exquisite models on show in many prestigious exhibitions.
When we
started the B-25 story, he supported us making our meetings moments we will
never forget.
This
morning, we learned Georges has a new appointment to share his talents with
some of his aviation heroes he made alive for us so many time.
We lost
more than a friend, we lost a voice but he will stay one of our sources of
inspiration.
As he said
so many time, The sky's the limit.
Picture Pierre Taquet
