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- November 15th, 2018: Added section titled The mysterious lady and a photo to About the author
- November 8th, 2018: Added a quotation from Adam Parer at the top of Dangers of hang gliding (and added a link to the applicable page of his blog)
- November 4th, 2018: Added two illustrations by Léon Benett (woodcut engravings, I think) of the original Lina to Rebecca and friends (page 4)
- November 3rd, 2018: Added new page Web sites, social media, and language, a sub-page of Technical writing and programming
- October 29th, 2018:
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Added a photo of June to Rebecca and friends
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Prompted by a question from Emily the English teacher in North Carolina, I added a couple of paragraphs about a report in a psychology journal (some years ago) that studied biking on the Oregon Trail to MTB, Trials riding on the Nukeproof Scout Race mountain bike.
- October 28th, 2018: Prompted by feedback from a former technical author and current English teacher in North Carolina, I added more text to Technical writing and programming.
- October 22nd, 2018: Added section Monk’s Down in October to Hang gliding 2018
- October 16th & 31st, 2018: Added an update to the saga of the series of broken rear hubs in MTB, Trials riding on the Nukeproof Scout Race mountain bike
- October 1st, 2018: Added two photos of Brian Wood to Hang gliding before 1976 and the same two photos to Off-road bikes
- September 22nd, 2018:
- September 20th, 2018: Added 12 old photos of Rebecca to Rebecca and friends (page 3)
- September 18th, 2018:
- September 9th, 2018: Added two more photos to Rebecca and friends (page 4)
- September 7th, 2018: Added two photos to Rebecca and friends (page 4)
- September 6th, 2018: Added some observations from Gun Button to Fire by Hurricane pilot Tom Neil to Adolf versus Adolph—my review of the movie The Battle of Britain, 1968
- September 5th, 2018: Added separate Life-size dolls section to the contents list, moving the links from the Other section
- September 1st, 2018: Added new page Rebecca and friends (page 4)
- August 29th, 2018: Added three photos of Faina to Rebecca and friends (page 3)
- August 25th & 26th, 2018: Added three photos of Faina to Rebecca and friends (page 3). (One replaces an earlier photo.)
- August 19th, 2018: Added two new photos to Rebecca and friends (page 3)
- August 17th, 2018: Added more to About the author
- August 15th, 2018: Added new page Rebecca and friends (page 3)
- August 6th, 2018: Added new page Defying Newton, powered ultralight operations at Newton Peveril in Dorset, England, moving some photos from Powered flight to the new page
- August 4th, 2018: Added 10 new photos to Powered flight
- July 31st, 2018: Added section Ringstead in July to Hang gliding 2018
- July 22nd, 2018: Added two more new photos and one from 2014 to Rebecca and friends (page 2) (one replaces an earlier photo)
- July 15th, 2018: Added two more new photos to Rebecca and friends (page 2)
- July 1st, 2018: Added two new photos to Rebecca and friends (page 2)
- June 30th, 2018: Added new page Rebecca and friends (page 2) with 11 newly uploaded photos and two moved from its parent page Rebecca and friends
- June 29th, 2018: Added some more text to Lars and the real Everard
- June 26th, 2018: Added two photos of Ron Smith to Hang gliding 1996 to 2003
- June 22nd, 2018: Added two photos from my paragliding days to Hang gliding 2004 and 2005
- June 9th & 10th, 2018:
- Also added two photos to Rebecca and friends
May 30th, 2018:
May 21st, 2018: Added a photo of me and Laura to Rebecca and friends, replacing the photo of Anoushka and Laura
May 18th & 19th, 2018: Added 16 photos to Rebecca and friends
May 13th, 2018: Added Rebecca and friends (some of my life size dolls) and added Hang gliding 2018
May 12th, 2018: Added new section titled Under fire with photos in About the author
April 22nd, 2018: Added a new photo (replacing an earlier one) and more text to MTB, Trials riding on the Nukeproof Scout Race mountain bike
April 1st, 2018: Added three photos of my Kinetic 1/48th scale Falklands War Sea Harrier in La muerte negra. (One replaces an earlier photo.)
March 28th, 2018: Added two photos by Roly to Powered flight
March 26th & 27th, 2018: Added four photos to Hang gliding 1977 to 1979. Two of the new photos are contributed by hang glider sailmaker and powered ultralight pilot Roly.
March 23rd, 2018: Added two photos of my Kinetic 1/48th scale Falklands War Sea Harrier next to the same scale USMC AV-8B in La muerte negra
March 20th, 2018: Added La muerte negra, my Kinetic 1/48th scale Falklands War Sea Harrier
March 17th, 2018: Modified my haul-up chord
March 15th, 2018: Added sub-section Haul-up chord under Emergency parachute on the Hang gliding equipment page
March 10th, 2018: Added another three photos to Viva Protar, about my 1/9th scale Montesa Cota 247 trials bike (one replaces an earlier photo)
March 5th, 2018: Added four air-to-air photos by Gary D to Hang gliding 2004 and 2005 under the sub-heading Coast patrol
March 1st, 2018: Added another photo to Viva Protar, about my 1/9th scale Montesa Cota 247 trials bike (replacing an earlier photo)
February 25th, 2018: Added Phantom of the operator, my review of Phantom over Vietnam by John Trotti, 1984
February 24th, 2018: Added two more photos to Viva Protar, about my 1/9th scale Montesa Cota 247 trials bike
February 22nd, 2018: Added first photos of my Xtrakit Supermarine Scimitar in 1/72nd scale to Plastic models–contemporary with Vietnam
February 2nd, 2018: Added another image (kit box art) to Saving pilot Durant—my review of the Ridley Scott movie Black Hawk Down, 2001
January 26th, 2018: Added two photos of me apparently flying a Soviet-built transport airplane in Vietnam on my Powered flight page. It is in the sub-section titled Nam.
December 31st, 2017: Added South Atlantic Star, my review of Hostile Skies by David Morgan, 2006
December 15th, 2017: Added comment by trials rider Anton Jolkovski to Viva Protar, about my 1/9th scale Montesa Cota 247 trials bike
November 12th, 2017:
October 8th, 2017: Added two photos to Viva Protar, about my 1/9th scale Montesa Cota 247 trials bike
October 7th, 2017: Added new page Dangers of hang gliding
October 6th & 7th, 2017: Added more photos and text to Flying squad — a short history of the east coast U.S. hang glider manufacturer Sky Sports
October 1st, 2017: Added two new pages:
September 2nd, 2017: Added two photos to Hang gliding 2017
August 31st, 2017: Moved some photos from Off-road bikes to MTB, Trials riding on the Nukeproof Scout Race mountain bike and added new sub-sections Comparing bikes and Different tyres (to the latter)
August 15th, 2017: Added two photos to Hang gliding 2017
August 12th & 13th, 2017: Replaced two photos with better ones in Mentioned in dispatches — my Italeri 1/9th scale Triumph 3HW of World War 2
August 9th, 2017: Added two photos and an update on my new mountain bike to Off-road bikes
August 5th, 2017: Added some new photos to Mentioned in dispatches — my Italeri 1/9th scale Triumph 3HW of World War 2. Also added another photo of its rider, the 1/9th scale Tank girl.
July 30th, 2017: Added Mentioned in dispatches — my Italeri 1/9th scale Triumph H3W of World War 2 (in a section of the page Plastic models — land vehicles)
July 25th, 2017: Added supporting snippet from the legendary Belgian cartoonist Hergé (Georges Remi) to Water in the wheelhouse; how dreams are formed
July 22nd, 2017: Added a couple more photos to Duck à l’orange — my Airfix 1/76th (OO) scale DUKW with scratch built hang gliders
July 19th, 2017: Added Duck à l’orange — my Airfix 1/76th (OO) scale DUKW with scratch built hang gliders
July 15th, 2017: Added You’re never alone with a drone — the Revell 1/48th scale General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper/Predator B — in Other plastic model aircraft
July 8th, 2017: Moved some content from Other plastic model aircraft (previously titled Other plastic models) to new page Plastic models — land vehicles and added photos of a 1/9th scale female figure under the subtitle Tank girl
July 1st, 2017: Added two more photos to Hang gliding 2017
June 23rd, 2017: Added photos of my Revell 1/24th scale Mercedes-Benz 540K Cabriolet to Plastic models — land vehicles under the subtitle Mercedes bends
June 16th, 2017: Added more photos to Wooden wûnder — my Airfix 1/24th scale De Havilland Mosquito
June 11th, 2017: Split World War 2 plastic models into World War 2 plastic models part 1 and World War 2 plastic models part 2
June 10th, 2017: Added Wooden wûnder — my Airfix 1/24th scale De Havilland Mosquito
May 21st & 22nd, 2017: Added action photos to Mr Moto Cross — my Revell 1/12th scale Husqvarna motocross bike
May 21st, 2017: Rewrote Paint it black, Review of the 20th Century Fox movie Sky Riders (1976), with new stills from the recently released DVD
May 20th, 2017: Added Overview of Ringstead (a sight-seeing guide, not a flying site guide)
May 17th, 2017: Added Mr Moto Cross — my Revell 1/12th scale Husqvarna motocross bike
May 15th, 2017: Added Hang gliding 2017
April 15th, 2017: Added MTB, a sub-page of Off-road bikes
March 12th, 2017: Added Motocross in miniature: Building Joël Robert’s Suzuki motocross bike of 1970 in 1/12th scale. (More photos added the following day.)
February 25th, 2017: Added photos and description of my new mountain bike to Off-road bikes
January 7th, 2017: Added two screenshots and accompanying text to Blue, blue, electric blue
January 1st, 2017: Added Blue, blue, electric blue, my review of the 1973 motorcycle film Electra Glide in Blue
December 24th, 2016: Added two new photos to Night flight to Venus
December 18th, 2016: Added Night flight to Venus, my Comet Miniatures 1/200th scale Fireball XL5
December 5th, 2016: Added Among friends, my review of The Alien Way by Gordon R. Dickson, 1965
October 31st, 2016: Added new section titled Fly Navy to Hang gliding 1980s. It recounts a disorientation and decompression course organized by the BHGA and run by the Royal Navy School of Aviation Medicine at a mansion requisitioned during World War 2.
October 17th, 2016: Split new page Plastic models–contemporary with Vietnam from Other plastic model aircraft and added a photo of my Revell 1/32 scale ASK-21 sailplane to the latter
October 9th, 2016: Added photos to new sub-section titled North wind in Hang Gliding 2016 part 3
October 1st, 2nd, & 3rd 2016: Added new photos of my Glencoe Models 1/76th scale Vanguard research rocket to Rocket science. They show launch tower cables stays that I added. I also inserted a paragraph explaining how I made them and an explanation of how I set up the night photo.
September 25th, 2016: Added Rocket science, my Glencoe Models 1/76th scale Vanguard research rocket
September 4th, 2016: Added another photo of my Academy 1/48th scale Lockheed P-38 Lightning to Late Second World War in World War 2 plastic models and added a photo of my Airfix HO scale Viper (Angel Interceptor) to Science fiction/fantasy in Other plastic model aircraft
August 31st, 2016: Added a photo of my Academy 1/48th scale Lockheed P-38 Lightning to Late Second World War in World War 2 plastic models
August 14th, 2016: Added photos to new sub-section titled Hazardous cliff in Hang Gliding 2016 part 3
August 10th, 2016: Added some photos to new sub-section titled Crossing the street in Hang Gliding 2016 part 3
August 8th, 2016: Added four photos of my Tamiya 1/48th scale Mitsubishi Zero to sub-section titled The Pacific in World War 2 plastic models
August 7th, 2016: Added two photos to new sub-section titled Hazards of the cloud in Hang Gliding 2016 part 3, including one of British champion Grant C flying my wing
July 30th, 2016: Added an in-flight photo by novelist Vaughn Entwistle to Hang gliding 2006 to 2009 in a section titled Stateside view
July 24th, 2016: Started new page Hang Gliding 2016 part 3
About July 17th, 2016: Split Hang gliding before 1977 into Hang gliding before 1976 and Hang gliding 1976. I also deleted about 20 repetitious and/or less interesting photos from the hang gliding pages.
July 15th, 2016: Added photos to Hang gliding 2016 part 2
July 6th & 7th, 2016: Added some photos to Hang gliding 2016 part 1, subsequently moved to new page Hang gliding 2016 part 2
July 3rd, 2016: Added two photos of my Gulf War Buccaneer, the 1/48th scale Airfix kit
June 29th, 2016: Added Falcon excel, my Skunk Models Workshop 48th scale General Dynamics F-16XL
June 12th, 2016: Added No more heroes, my review of Gerry Anderson’s New Captain Scarlet, 2005
June 9th, 2016: Added some photos of Val Lapsa’s Icarus II in Canada in a section of Hang gliding before 1977 subtitled School for perfection
May 30th, 2016: Added some photos to Hang gliding 2016
May 24th, 2016: Added page Flying squad (originally titled Sky Sports Sirocco) — a short history of the east coast U.S. hang glider manufacturer Sky Sports
May 22nd, 2016: Added short page Spring thermals and added some related text to Hang gliding 2016
May 14th, 2016: Photos (taken from the ground and the air) added to Hang gliding 2016
May 8th, 2016: Three photos of a friend’s radio control Vietnam era UH-1B added to Vietnam war plastic models
April 30th, 2016: Photos (taken from the ground) added to Hang gliding 2016
April 24th, 2016: Started Hang gliding 2016
April 18th, 2016: Added article Rigging a Wills Wing 145 U-2 flat on the ground
March 6th, 2016: Added article Blade runner blues about language and conscioussness
February 19th, 2016: Split combined World War 2 and Korea plastic models page into World War 2 plastic models and Korean war plastic models
February 14th, 2016: Added two digitized images of old paintings to A painted history of hang glider design, including one of the 1980 Southdown Sailwings Lightning
December 26th, 2015: Added Mid-day lightning in Vermont, my review of the Francis Freedland documentary film 1978 Pico Peak International Hang Gliding Meet
December 7th, 2015: Added two photos to Hang gliding 1994 and 1995
November 17th & 18th, 2015: Added some text and minor tweaks to Easy riser. Also added section titled Rise early, work late, strike oil to Bondsmanship, a digression from Saving Major Tom (my review of the James Bond movie You Only Live Twice).
November 14th, 2015: Added Easy riser, my review of the movie Fly Away Home, Columbia Pictures, 1995
November 10th, 2015: Added more screenshots and text to Lesbie Avenue and I made the photos clickable to expand them (although not by much)
November 7th, 2015: Added Lesbie Avenue—my review of the movie When Night is Falling by Patricia Rozema, 1995
October 10th, 2015: Added School of hard Knox: Collected extra digressions linked to in 20th century Fauss, my review of the motorcycle racing movie Little Fauss and Big Halsy, 1970
October 3rd and 4th, 2015: Added a four photos of my new Airfix 1/72 scale Avro Vulcan to Other plastic model aircraft and three photos of the interior of the real thing
September 28th, 2015: Added 20th century Fauss, my review of the motorcycle racing movie Little Fauss and Big Halsy, 1970
September 26th, 2015: Added 6 old photos to Off-road bikes and added 2 old photos to Hang gliding 1977 to 1979
September 14th, 2015: Added more photos from the same day out: Children of Paradise in Hang gliding 2015 part 3
September 8th, 2015: Added some photos in a new section titled Children of Paradise in Hang gliding 2015 part 3
August 21st, 2015: Added page Kimmeridge Khmer Rouge, containing a handul of poor quality photos taken in 2010 at this once popular flying site. Also added Wing-mounted camera rig section to Hang gliding 2010.
August 16th, 2015: Split Hang gliding 2015 part 3 from Hang gliding 2015 part 2, adding two photos
August 14th, 2015: Added Hero to Zero–my overview of the anime The Wind Rises by Hayao Miyazaki, 2013.
August 4th, 2015: Added section titled No fly zone to Hang gliding 2015 part 2
July 22nd, 2015: Added a bunch of photos to Hang gliding 2015 part 2 and added two photos of my new AV-8B to Other plastic model aircraft
July 12th, 2015: Added some text comparing the handling qualities of my U-2 with other gliders in Update on my Sting III and a comparison with other wings in Hang gliding 2014 part 1 and added new sub-section TRX (with photos) in Hang gliding 1994 and 1995
July 10th, 2015: Added a couple more photos to Vietnam war plastic models and to World War 2 and Korea plastic models. (Neither the models nor the photos are new, just newly added to this web site.)
July 5th, 2015: Split Hang gliding 2015 into Hang gliding 2015 part 1 and Hang gliding 2015 part 2, adding two new photos to the latter
July 1st, 2015: Split Hang gliding 1990 to 1995 into two: Hang gliding 1990 to 1993 and Hang gliding 1994 and 1995, adding several photos and more text to the latter
June 30th, 2015: Changed Hang gliding 2004 and 2005 to chronological order and added two more photos
June 29th, 2015: Changed Hang gliding 2006 to 2009 to chronological order
June 28th, 2015: Added some miscellaneous photos, added two photos to Hang gliding 1996 to 2003, added three photos to Hang gliding before 1977, and split Hang gliding 1977 to 1990 into Hang gliding 1977 to 1979 and Hang gliding 1980s, adding three photos to the latter. I also added a photo and some notes about the in-flight camera equipment I used in Hang gliding 1990 to 1995.
June 27th, 2015: Added new page Off-road bikes (spun off from Miscellaneous photos, but with a few more photos) and added a photo to Hang gliding 2010
June 22nd, 2015: Changed Hang gliding 1990 to 1995 to chronological order and added some more photos and some text
June 20th, 2015: Changed Hang gliding 1977 to 1990 to chronological order (more or less) and added a couple more photos and some text
June 17th, 2015: Added three photos and some words to Hang gliding before 1977
June 12th, 2015: Added some words about SpaceShipTwo test pilot Mark Stucky’s new hang glider in the Eclipse section of Space flight and hang gliding. It includes a link to a brief report by Mark and an in-flight photo.
June 5th, 2015: Added a section titled Firebase Monk in Hang gliding 2015 (more hang gliding photos)
June 5th, 2015: Added a section titled Psychology of flight in Hang gliding 2015
May 31st, 2015: Added more photos in a section titled Wild is the wind in Hang gliding 2015 and I added an additional photo from a few weeks previously to the section titled Ring your Bell
May 24th, 2015: Added some photos of paragliding to Hang gliding 2015
May 19th, 2015: Added new page Hang gliding 2015
May 15th, 2015: Added some more text and two photos to Hang gliding 1996 to 2003
April 7th, 2015: Added a section titled Einstein a go go to You only live twice, We each live for only one day, and that is the key to immortality (not to be confused with my review of the James Bond movie You Only Live Twice…)
April 5th, 2015: Added Saving Major Tom, my review of the 1967 James Bond movie You Only Live Twice
March 29th, 2015: Added page Water in the wheelhouse; how dreams are formed and added some images to liven up You only live twice
March 28th, 2015: Added new section headed 2001 revisited to You only live twice (subtitled We each live for only one day, and that is the key to immortality)
March 25th, 2015: Added a previously overlooked photo of Jodi K at Ringstead in the summer of 2014 (taken on the ground by my wing-mounted camera): Cloud warrior
March 21st, 2015: Added new page Hang glider names
February 7th, 2015: Added new page Hang gliding equipment, which includes the What to wear section moved from the Preparation page. Also added a bit about emergency parachute manuals in Technical writing and programming.
January 28th & 30th, 2015: Added a brief description of the 2007 movie Lars and the Real Girl to Guns and roses: My overview of Guys and Dolls, a documentary by North One Television, 2006
January 14th, 2015: No new content added, but spun off Powered flight from the miscellaneous photos page, which is over-full
December 18th, 2014: Added some memories to the Parachuting section of my miscellaneous photos page, along with a snippet from my still unpublished novel
November 16th, 2014: Added New clear days (previously titled Skyhawks and the Lady from Louisiana)—my review of The Amtrak Wars book 1, Cloud Warrior, by Patrick Tilley
November 3rd, 2014: Added some photos to the miscellaneous photos page
November 2nd, 2014: Restored the Space flight and hang gliding page from an earlier incarnation of this web site and updated it with Mark Stucky’s newest adventure
October 17th, 2014: Two photos of an unusual 1/48 scale Cessna O-2 in Science fiction/fantasy in Other plastic model aircraft, including a bit about the sci-fi-fantasy novel The Amtrack Wars book 1 Cloud Warrior by Patrick Tilley
September 21st, 2014: Four new photos in Hang gliding 2014 part 2
September 13th, 2014: Added two more photos (from the same old flight in August) to Hang gliding 2014 part 2
September 2nd, 2014: Split hang gliding 2014 into two, starting Hang gliding 2014 part 2 and added some more photos
August 29th, 2014: Two more photos added to Hang gliding 2014 (now in Hang gliding 2014 part 2)
August 25th, 2014: Added two photos to Hang gliding 2014 (now in Hang gliding 2014 part 2) and three to Tour of Bell Hill part 2: Top landing at Bell Hill
August 6th, 2014: Added advice about eyeshields and gloves to Hang gliding preparation (subsequently moved to Hang gliding equipment)
August 6th, 2014: And two more from the same flight in Hang gliding 2014 (now in Hang gliding 2014 part 2)
August 4th, 2014: Two photos taken with a new wing-mounted camera added to Hang gliding 2014 (now in Hang gliding 2014 part 2)
August 3rd, 2014: Added page Low Level Hell (Crowding and turbulence at Bell Hill, July 29th, 2014)
July 31st, 2014: Eight more photos added to Hang gliding 2014
July 21st, 2014: Two more photos added to Hang gliding 2014
July 1st, 2014: Four more photos added to Hang gliding 2014
June 20th, 2014: Another two unremarkable photos added to Hang gliding 2014. One is a repeat of a photo of one of my plastic models.
June 14th, 2014: Report of a flight test of new equipment (includes two photos) in Hang gliding 2014
April 20th, 2014: Added Adolf versus Adolph—my review of the movie The Battle of Britain, 1968
April 17th, 2014: Three photos to start Hang gliding 2014
February 23rd, 2014: Added photos of my 1/32nd scale Westland Lysander in Plastic models; Korea and Word War 2
January 30th, 2014: Added A ridge too far—my review of the movie The Bridges at Toko Ri, 1954
January 19th, 2014:
January 12th, 2014: Uploaded article, originally written in 2001, Skyhook Sailwings: History of the UK hang glider and powered ultralight manufacturer
November 4th, 2013: Added a copy of a magazine page to Hang gliding 2013. It is an advert for the 2014 hang gliding calendar; featuring one of my photos taken in the summer.
September 30th, 2013: Buckminster Fuller adds his weight to Where is the horse? (Who pays for it all?)
September 21st, 2013: Added to Hang gliding preparation. I also moved it in the contents list so it is no longer a sub-section of hang gliding in 2010.
September 7th, 2013: Added article about NOTAMs in Hang gliding 2013: Notices to airmen
August 28th, 2013: Two photos added to Hang gliding 2013
August 17th, 2013: Added article Unexplained lift at Ringstead, August 8th, 2013
August 9th, 2013: Photos added to Hang gliding 2013
July 30th, 2013: Added new page Midnight lightning in Connecticut—my review of the movie The Stepford Wives, 1975
July 21st, 2013: Added new page Saving pilot Durant—my review of the Ridley Scott movie Black Hawk Down, 2001
July 16th, 2013: Several photos of yet another 48th scale F-4 added to Plastic models (Vietnam war) and I added a second photo of my 1/72nd scale CH-54. I retitled the page as well.
July 16th, 2013: I split out the non-Vietnam images to create a new page: Other plastic model aircraft
May 30th, 2013: New photos in Hang gliding 2013
May 24th, 2013: Added a few more paragraphs in my hang gliding Hang gliding preparation page
May 9th, 2013: New page Hang gliding 2013
March 31st, 2013: Guns and roses: My overview of Guys and Dolls, a documentary by North One Television, 2006
March 10th, 2013: Added a short section about what to wear in my hang gliding Preparation page
February 28th, 2013: Added a page about technical writing and programming, Source code and prose, which includes a snippet from my still unpublished novel.
January 31st, 2013: Expanded About the author
January 11th, 2013: Photo of a dragonfly and a photo of my first mountain bike added to Power riders (miscellaneous photos)
September 30th, 2012: New photo added to Hang gliding 2012 and one added to Tour of Bell Hill part 2: Top landing at Bell Hill
September 23rd, 2012: Three photos added to Hang gliding—the early days (before 1977). They are among several photos I had on an earlier version of this web site. I have yet to get round to re-uploading all of them.
September 18th, 2012: Six photos added to Hang gliding 2012
September 1st, 2012: Hang gliding 2012
August 24th, 2012: Snow devils in Alaska—my overview of the novel The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey, 2012
June 4th, 2012: Added another photo of my Tamiya 48th scale Battle of Britain Spitfire and some body text in Plastic models; Korea and Word War 2
May 27th, 2012: Three more photos of my Tamiya 48th scale Battle of Britain Spitfire in Plastic models; Korea and Word War 2 (one replaces an earlier photo)
March 24th, 2012: Terry Prendergast was a fighter pilot in World War 2, then a hang glider and paraglider pilot.
January 28th, 2012: Skeatsy sent in more feedback in Hang gliding—the early days (before 1977). It was too jumbled to publish, but I did my best to incorporate some of his points and comment on them in my own feedback. However, on April 21st, I deleted that feedback and my replies.
January 1st, 2012: Stairway to Paradise—my review of the movie Sucker Punch, 2011
September 8th, 2011: Photo of magazine cover added to Hang gliding 2011. (It is a copy of a photo already on that page.)
September 1st, 2011: Created new page Preparation (split from Tour of Bell Hill part 1) and added a new photo Tour of Bell Hill part 2: Top landing at Bell Hill
August 30th, 2011: Two new photos added to Hang gliding 2011 and two added to Tour of Bell Hill part 1: Front, back, and sides
August 28th, 2011: Added article Instructions for building and flying a paper Rogallo wing
August 23rd, 2011: Four photos added to Tour of Bell Hill part 1: Front, back, and sides
August 21st, 2011: Clive James on the North American P-51 Mustang and Other Aircraft in Articles. (I wrote it in 2009.)
August 21st, 2011: Photo (taken in April) added to Hang gliding 2011. I also replaced some other photos by versions with the wide-angle distortion reduced.
August 11th, 2011: Strange love—my review of Wings of Fire by Henry Zeybel, 1988
August 10th, 2011: Three updates:
August 4th, 2011: Two updates:
August 3rd, 2011: Armageddon II: Solar Wind—my review of Solar Wind by Peter Jones, 1980
July 30th, 2011: Added new photos to create new page Tour of Bell Hill part 1: Front, back, and sides and I also moved some photos from other pages into the new page. Added a new photo to Tour of Bell Hill part 2: Top landing at Bell Hill and I deleted an earlier photo. I also went back to a previous theme (style sheet) which seems less buggy than most provided by this vendor.
July 23rd, 2011: Added new photo in Hang gliding 2011
July 10th, 2011: Added some paragraphs about my days as a hang gliding instructor in Hang gliding—the early days (before 1977) and I also changed the page to normal chronological order (which I will also do to the other pages when I can get round to it)
July 2nd, 2011: Added another photo to Hang gliding 2011 (although it is not a particularly good one)
May 30th, 2011: At last I added these two plot spoiler sub-pages to Saving Private Kouta (anime review):
May 15th, 2011: Added another photo to Hang gliding 2011
May 5th, 2011: Added two more photos (from later in the same flight) in Hang gliding 2011
April 25th, 2011: Started new page Hang gliding 2011
April 1st, 2011: A slow comfortable screw—Reflecting on the mystery of humour (in Articles)
March 27th, 2011: Armageddon tired of books without pictures—my review of Diary of a Spaceperson by Chris Foss, 1990 (in Book reviews)
March 5th, 2011: Two photos of my 48th scale Spitfire Mk 1 (Battle of Britain) in More plastic models (Korea and WWII) (photos taken of the 75th anniversary of the first flight of the Spitfire)
February 27th, 2011 (2): You only live twice (originally titled We each live for only one day, and that is the key to immortality, in Articles)
February 27th, 2011: I changed the title of this site from Everard Cunion’s Book Reviews and Hang Gliding Photos to Everard Cunion’s Articles and Images.
February 19th, 2011 (1): I changed to a different layout so the automatically generated menu is on the right edge instead of in a huge block at the top, which made every page look identical untill you scrolled down.
December 2009: Dennett’s Dangerous Idea—my review of Freedom Evolves, by Daniel C. Dennett, 2003 (in Book reviews)
I started this page in February 2011.
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