Everard Cunion’s Articles and Images: Contents
This web site consists of photos and text about brave men and beautiful women, and even some info about me. It covers hang gliding, mainly in the part of England where I live, life-size dolls, philosophy (the nature of consciousness), book and film reviews, and plastic model kits.
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- Hang gliding
- Life-size dolls
- Articles
- Book reviews
- Anime and CGI reviews
- Movie reviews and overviews
- Other
- Plastic models
- About
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Hang gliding
The first hang gliding sub-section is organised in chronological order (roughly) and the second sub-section consists of hang gliding subjects in no particular order.
Hang gliding chronology
Hang gliding in 2016
- Hang gliding 1974
- Hang gliding 1975
- Hang gliding 1976
- Hang gliding 1977 to 1979
- Mid-day lightning in Vermont, my review of the Francis Freedland documentary film 1978 Pico Peak International Hang Gliding Meet
- Flying squad, a short history of the east coast U.S. hang glider manufacturer Sky Sports
- Skyhook Sailwings: History of the UK hang glider and powered ultralight manufacturer
- Hang gliding 1980s
- Hang gliding 1990 to 1993
- Only once, an anecdote in Lanzarote involving the editor of a monthly aviation magazine
- Hang gliding 1994 and 1995
- Hang gliding 1996 to 2003
- Hang gliding 2004 and 2005
- Hang gliding 2006 to 2009
- Hang gliding 2010
- Hang gliding 2011
- Hang gliding 2012
- Hang gliding 2013
- Hang gliding 2014 part 1
- Low Level Hell (Crowding and turbulence at Bell Hill, July 29th, 2014)
- Hang gliding 2014 part 2
- Hang gliding 2015 part 1
- Hang gliding 2015 part 2
- Hang gliding 2015 part 3
- Hang gliding 2016 part 1
- Hang gliding 2016 part 2
- Hang Gliding 2016 part 3
- Hang gliding 2017
- Hang gliding 2018
Hang gliding miscellany
- Spring thermals
- A painted history of hang glider design
- Hang glider names
- Hang gliding preparation
- Hang gliding equipment
- Dangers of hang gliding
- Rigging a Wills Wing 145 U-2 flat on the ground
- Overview of Ringstead (a sight-seeing guide, not a flying site guide)
- Space flight and hang gliding
- Paragliding
Life-size dolls
Faina’s pet hippo
- Rebecca and friends (some of my life size dolls)
Articles
- Technical writing and programming
- Forum etiquette
- You only live twice (We each live for only one day and that is the key to immortality)
- A slow comfortable screw—Reflecting on the mystery of humour, with commentary by Davecat
- Clive James on the North American P-51 Mustang and Other Aircraft
- Instructions for building and flying a paper Rogallo wing
- Guns and roses: My overview of Guys and Dolls, a documentary by North One Television, 2006
- Blade runner blues about language and conscioussness
Book reviews
Phantom over Vietnam by John Trotti, 1984
- Smilin’ Al, of the Cape—my review of Light This Candle, The Life and Times of Alan Shepard, America’s First Spaceman, by Neal Thompson, 2004
- Spring loaded to the freedom position—my review of Hammer from Above, Marine Air Combat over Iraq, by Jay Stout, 2007
- Shooting a line—my review of Requiem for a Wren, by Nevil Shute, 1955
- Requiem for an aircrew—my review of The Exbury Junkers, a World War II Mystery, by John Stanley, 2004
- Dennett’s dangerous idea—my review of Freedom Evolves, by Daniel C. Dennett, 2003
- Armageddon tired of books without pictures—my review of Diary of a Spaceperson by Chris Foss, 1990
- Armageddon II: Solar Wind—my review of Solar Wind by Peter Jones, 1980
- Strange love—my review of Wings of Fire by Henry Zeybel, 1988
- Snow devils in Alaska—my Overview of the novel The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey, 2012
- Whisky Kilo Two Eight tells all—my review of Trailblazers, Test Pilots in Action, by Christopher Hounsfield, 2008
- New clear days—my review of The Amtrak Wars book 1, Cloud Warrior, by Patrick Tilley
- Among friends, my review of The Alien Way by Gordon R. Dickson, 1965
- South Atlantic Star, my review of Hostile Skies by David Morgan, 2006
- Phantom of the operator, my review of Phantom over Vietnam by John Trotti, 1984
Anime and CGI reviews
Miss Winters in episode 13 of New Captain Scarlet
- Saving Private Kouta—my review of the anime Elfen Lied by Mamoru Kanbe, 2004
- Hero to Zero–overview of the anime The Wind Rises by Hayao Miyazaki, 2013
- No more heroes–review of Gerry Anderson’s New Captain Scarlet, 2005
Movie reviews and overviews
Robert Redford in ‘Little Fauss and Big Halsy,’ 1970
- Paint it black—my overview of the movie Sky Riders, 1976
- The man who loved women—my overview of the movie The Man Who Loved Women by François Truffaut, 1977
- Space suits and frocks (on the box)—my review of the movie The Right Stuff, 1983
- Stairway to Paradise—my review of the movie Sucker Punch, 2011
- Saving pilot Durant—my review of the Ridley Scott movie Black Hawk Down, 2001
- Midnight lightning in Connecticut—my review of the movie The Stepford Wives, 1975
- Vtg Goth Lolita–my review of the movie Lolita by Stanley Kubrick, 1962
- A ridge too far—my review of the movie The Bridges at Toko Ri, 1954
- Adolf versus Adolph—my review of the movie The Battle of Britain, 1968
- Saving Major Tom, my review of the 1967 James Bond movie You Only Live Twice
- 20th century Fauss, my review of the 1970 motorcycle racing movie Little Fauss and Big Halsy
- Lesbie Avenue—my review of the movie When Night is Falling by Patricia Rozema, 1995
- Easy riser—my review of the movie Fly Away Home, Columbia Pictures, 1995
- Blue, blue, electric blue—my review of the motorcycle film Electra Glide in Blue, 1973
- Mid-day lightning in Vermont, my review of the Francis Freedland documentary film 1978 Pico Peak International Hang Gliding Meet
- Witches, gang bangers, and crocodiles, my overview of the Zack Snyder movie Suicide Squad, 2016.
- Lars and the real Everard — my review of the Canadian movie Lars and the Real Girl, 2007
- Comet Adaline–my review of the 2015 romantic fantasy The Age of Adaline
Other
Boat moored on the river Avon in 1988 (in Miscellaneous photos)
- Aviation computer-based training
- Where is the horse? (Who pays for it all?)
- Miscellaneous photos
- Off-road bikes
- Powered flight
- Defying Newton, powered ultralight operations at Newton Peveril in Dorset, England
Plastic models
Glencoe Models 1/76th scale Vanguard research rocket
- Vietnam war plastic models
- Korean war plastic models
- World War 2 plastic models part 1
- World War 2 plastic models part 2
- Other plastic model aircraft
- La muerte negra, my Kinetic 1/48th scale Falklands War Sea Harrier
- Falcon excel, my Skunk Models Workshop 48th scale General Dynamics F-16XL
- Rocket science, my Glencoe Models 1/76th scale Vanguard research rocket
- Plastic models–contemporary with Vietnam
- Night flight to Venus, my Comet Miniatures 1/200th scale Fireball XL5
- Wooden wûnder — my Airfix 1/24th scale De Havilland Mosquito
- Plastic models — land vehicles
- Motocross in miniature: Building Joël Robert’s Suzuki motocross bike of 1970 in 1/12th scale
- Mr Moto Cross — my Revell 1/12th scale Husqvarna motocross bike
- Mentioned in dispatches — Italeri 1/9th scale Triumph 3HW motorcycle of World War 2
- Engineering development then and now by guest contributor Jonathan H.
- Viva Protar, my Protar 1/9th scale Montesa Cota 247 trials bike
- Duck à l’orange — Airfix 1/76th (OO) scale DUKW with scratch built hang gliders
