Patrick Hine

Air Chief Marshal Sir Patrick Hine GCB GBE was a senior Royal Air Force commander.

Patrick Hine was born near Southampton, England in 1932 and was educated at Peter Symonds School in Winchester.

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.