Many readers remember Harry 'Plum' Brown for his good work for the community at Barton, Oxford.

He started a youth club, ran football teams and organised outings and holidays.

In 1935, he helped make history. Thanks to him, his day-old son became not only the youngest air passenger in the world, but the youngest person to loop the loop.

Plum', of Bernwood Road, Barton, Oxford - real names, Henry Charles - had been fascinated by aeroplanes since his aunt sent him an airmail letter in 1911 when he was six.

He spent many hours at Port Meadow aerodrome, and saw the fatal accident there in 1912 when a monoplane crashed, killing the pilot and observer.

He flew for the first time on his 14th birthday in 1919. It cost him 19s 6d, money he had saved for St Giles Fair.

A year later, he joined the RAF apprentice school at Cranwell, graduated as an aero engine fitter and, for the next 30 years, "wandered around the world in service and civil aviation".

In 1935, as managing director of an aircraft repair firm and flying school, he made his contribution to aviation history.

His wife gave birth to their fourth child, a boy named Kenneth, and the next day, his proud father took him on his first flight over Gravesend, Kent.

The decision filled some medical experts with fright, but it didn't seem to affect young Kenneth. He went on to do his National Service in the RAF and in 1964, he and his wife produced a daughter, Claire.

A year later, her first birthday, by way of continuing a tradition, was spent in the air.

Plum' took his son and granddaughter to Oxford Airport, at Kidlington, chartered a Piper Cherokee and took them for a spin over Oxford.

Plum', who spent his later working life at Pressed Steel, the car body factory at Cowley, told the Oxford Mail at the time: "Many children have flown at a year old. But I doubt if any had a father who flew when he was a day old, let alone a grampy whose aerial baptism was at 14.

"So together we provide a record that will take some beating - three generations, whose total first flying ages are 15 years and a day."

Any more memories of 'Plum' Brown?