In their time few writings on the .subject of aviationcan have been as avidly read, as furiously debatedand as lovingly quoted, as have those signed“C.G.G.” The initials stand for Charles Grey Grey.Spelt with an “E”. Both times. My recollections areof a man with no special gifts in the way ofscientific ability or technical achievement 'who, inthe most advanced industry of his day, grew to astature when he became a figure of much concern toindustrialists and civil servants alike. He walkedand flew with dictators but, though very much a manof the right, never lost the common touch. Somebody,I think it was the late Roland Dangerfield, calledhim a “democratic old aristocrat”.