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William Thomas Piper Jr. (September 8, 1911 – August 24, 2007) was an American businessman and president of the Piper Aircraft Corporation from 1968 to 1973. [1] He oversaw the company through its sale to Bangor Punta Corporation in 1969, and after his father 's death in 1970, who was the first and founding president of the manufacturer. [2] [3]
In 2006, a Devon folk singer, Sheelagh Allen, wrote a song about him, "The Highland Piper". Millin played the pipes at Lord Lovat's funeral in 1995. Millin, who suffered a stroke in 2003, died in hospital in Torbay on 17 August 2010, aged 88. His wife Margaret (née Dowdel, from Edinburgh) died in 2000. They were survived by their son John.
Turriff, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Died. 14 December 2005. (2005-12-14) (aged 41) Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland. Instrument (s) bagpipes, low whistle. Gordon Duncan (14 May 1964 – 14 December 2005) was a Scottish bagpiper, low whistle player and composer, born in Turriff, Aberdeenshire .
Pipe Major Paul Burns, the same man who played the pipes for Queen Elizabeth II each morning, helped lay her to rest Monday.
The funeral ended with the Queen's Piper, Pipe Major Paul Burns of the Royal Regiment of Scotland, playing "Sleep, Dearie, Sleep," adapted from a Gaelic song called Caidil mo ghaol. The coffin ...
Piper Aircraft Company factory in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania during the 1930s, with the Piper Cub logo superimposed at the top Piper PA-18-150 Super Cub. Built 1958. Built 1958. Piper PA-28-161 Warrior II Piper PA-34 Seneca -200T Piper PA-31 Navajo airframe used for crash testing by NASA after a 1972 flood inundated Piper's factory Early ...
The Queen’s Piper will help close her state funeral with a rendition of the traditional piece Sleep, Dearie, Sleep. Pipe Major Paul Burns, the monarch’s personal player at the time of her ...
1963 Camden PA-24 crash. On March 5, 1963, American country music performers Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas, and Hawkshaw Hawkins were killed in an airplane crash near Camden, Tennessee, United States, along with pilot Randy Hughes. The accident occurred as the three artists were returning home to Nashville, Tennessee, after performing in Kansas ...