Terence Spinks Terence Spinks Terence "Terry" George Spinks MBE (28 February 1938 – 26 April 2012) was a boxer from Great Britain, who won the gold medal in the flyweight division (– 51 kg) at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. In the final he defeated Mircea Dobrescu of Romania on points. He was also British featherweight champion from 1960 to 1961. He was an apprentice jockey before finding boxing to be more lucrative. Spinks had 200 amateur fights, and was the 1956 ABA flyweight champion. Spinks had 49 professional bouts of which he won 41. He had his first professional
Spinks Akromaster team. Hillard placed third in the 1970 world aerobatic championships with the aircraft. Spinks Akromaster The Spinks Akromaster is an aerobatic aircraft that was designed by Charlie Hillard. "Pappy" Spinks provided the funding and name to Charlie Hillard for the creation of the Akromaster. The Akromaster is a single-seat, low-wing, monoplane with conventional landing gear and a symmetrical airfoil. It features inverted fuel and oil systems and an air show smoke system. During certification testing of the cabin version of the Akromaster, aerobatic pilot Harold Krier was unable to recover from a flat spin and died due to a parachute