Air Chief Marshal Sir Patrick Hine was a senior Royal Air Force commander. An Air Chief Marshals sleeve/shoulder insignia Air Chief Marshal is the most senior rank active in the Royal Air Force (RAF) today, after the inactivation of Marshal of the Royal Air Force as a substantive rank in peacetime during defence cuts of the 1990s. ... Sir is an honorary title. ... The Royal Air Force (often abbreviated to RAF) is the air force branch of the British Armed Forces. ...

Patrick Hine was born near Southampton, England in 1932 and was educated at Peter Symonds School in Winchester. Civic Centre, Southampton Southampton is a city and major port situated on the south coast of England. ... 1932 (MCMXXXII) is a leap year starting on Friday. ... Peter Symonds College is a sixth form college in Winchester, Hampshire, in the south of England. ... Winchester is a city in southern England, with a population of around 40,000 within a 3 mile radius of its centre. ...

As a junior officer, Hine flew the Gloster Meteor and then the Hawker Hunter. From 1957 to 1959 he performed on the Black Arrows, then the RAF’s aerobatics display team. Later in his military career, he served as Vice Chief of Defence Staff and Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Strike Command. He was Joint Commander of all British forces during the first Gulf War. Hine retired from the RAF in 1991 and subsequently became a military advisor to British Aerospace from which he retired in April 1999. The Gloster Meteor was the first first jet fighter aircraft of the British Royal Air Force, introduced into service only weeks after the Third Reichs Messerschmitt Me 262, in August 1944 during World War II. It was thus the second fighter jet in history and the first of the... The Hawker Hunter was a British jet fighter aircraft of the 1950s. ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Black Arrows, forerunners of the Red Arrows, were an aerobatic demonstration team formed in 1917. ... Combatants U.S.-led coalition Iraq Commanders General Norman Schwarzkopf, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell Saddam Hussein Strength Casualties The 1991 Gulf War was a conflict between Iraq and a coalition force of approximately 30 nations mandated by the United Nations and led by the United... 1991 (MCMXCI) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... British Aerospace (BAe) was a UK aircraft manufacturer, now part of BAE Systems. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...