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What’s new
See also What’s new in Hang Gliding History, a separate web site to which I moved applicable pages from here in March 2020.
- April 10th 2022: My last ever model kit: Biplane airliner — almost
- April 1st 2022: New painting Sunlit sail in the sky, 1976 (Sky Sports Merlin)
- March 23rd 2022: New painting Skyhook Sunspot, 1977. I also split Painted history of hang glider design part 1 into part 1 and part 2, the original part 2 becoming part 3.
- March 22nd 2022: New page Boscombe
- March 18th 2022: New painting Hang glider over Berkshire, 1975
- March 10th 2022: New painting Miracle over Wisconsin
- February 27th 2022:
- New photos of several paintings in Painted history of hang glider design part 1. They include the Wasp Nova (a much better photo), Hiway Cloudbase, Phoenix VI, Super Swallowtail, and Sun IV.
- New photo in On the hill part 2: North, east, and west (replaces an earlier photo)
- February 26th 2022: New and better photo of my 1985 painting titled Ground skimmer, the first in Painted history of hang glider design part 1
- February 24th 2022: New photo of Rebecca (replaces two earlier photos). I also replaced the photos of the individual paintings in Day at the beach after I carried out some retouching of the backgrounds.
- February 21st 2022: Day at the beach: Completed the second and third of the three paintings
- February 17th 2022: Day at the beach: First of three paintings, acrylic on canvas, that portray a hang gliding competition held on June 29th to July 6th, 1974, at the Elberta dune on the shore of Lake Michigan, near Frankfort
- February 9th 2022: New photo under Central in On the hill part 1: South and central
- February 5th 2022: New photo of Ramsdown Hill in On the hill part 2: North, east, and west
- February 1st 2022: New page Parachute lift, my Hobby Craft 1/48th scale DHC-3 (U-1A) Otter
- January 30th 2022: Added new section Paintings by Charles William Carey to shed light on Charcoal drawings, Holloway College, about 1937 by my mother
- January 29th 2022: Split Painted history of hang glider design into the following pages:
- Painted history of hang glider design part 1
- Hang gliding drawings
- Painted history of hang glider design part 2
- January 21st 2022: Comment by Mike Pilkington of the Volvo engineering back up team, who accompanied the racers in Round-Britain powerboat race 1969
- January 18th 2022, added new photos of dolls with their pet animals to each of the following pages:
- Angela in Angela, Greta, and Karen
- Cynthia
- Sara and Zoe
- War to end all wars part 1
- January 17th 2022: Added a photo of Virginia with her new cat in Virginia and Louise
- January 3rd 2022: New page Water tower art containing photos moved from On the hill part 1: South and central, plus four new photos
- January 2nd 2022: New page Bartini’s space ship: Modelsvit 1/72nd scale Bartini Beriev VVA-14 (BBA-14)
- December 29th 2021: Comment by Paul Botterill, First Lieutenant of HMS Brave Borderer, which accompanied the racers in Round-Britain powerboat race 1969
- December 28th 2021: New photo of dolls viewed through mirrors in Café on the Rue de Remarques part 3
- December 25th 2021: New page The odd angry howitzer shell, myreview of Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan, 2019, Australian Vietnam war film
- December 19th 2021:
- Added another screenshot to Magnificent flying machines — review of the 1965 movie Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines, and added new section Availability of scale models
- Added an explanation of why some of the Australian soldiers wear US Air Force Air Defense Command orange flight suits when off duty in The odd angry soldier — review of The Odd Angry Shot (1979) Australian Vietnam war film
- December 18th 2021, one new photo in each of the following pages:
- Miscellaneous photos 2
- Christchurch: Convent Walk, priory and grounds
- Miscellaneous photos, home 3
- December 11th 2021: Added an image that includes BMX racing in 1974 to BMX and mountain bikes in Off-road bikes
- December 10th 2021: Added three new photos to Night flight to Venus, my Comet Miniatures 1/200th scale Fireball XL5. One is at the top and two in a new sub-section Repaint in December 2021.
- December 5th 2021: Added two screenshots and a few more words to The odd angry soldier — review of The Odd Angry Shot (1979) Australian Vietnam war film
- November 27th 2021: New page Magnificent flying machines — review of the 1965 movie Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines
- November 24th 2021: New page The odd angry soldier — review of The Odd Angry Shot (1979) Australian Vietnam war film
- October 20th 2021: Added one new photo to Christchurch: High Street and Castle Street
- October 17th 2021:
- New page: Escort to Le Bourget: Eduard 1/48th scale Supermarine Spitfire Mk 1a
- Three photos added to Hang gliding 2021
- October 15th 2021:
- New page Hang gliding 2021
- Added a new photo to Christchurch: Convent Walk, priory and grounds
- October 7th 2021: I altered my painting of Mike Markowski’s Eagle III hang glider of 1974 — see Painting the Eagle III, and I added a new photo of Annabelle and Cynthia to Café on the Rue de Remarques part 3.
- October 3rd 2021: New page: Flight (John Steinbeck story)
- October 2nd 2021: New page: Gunslinger helo, Aurora 1/72nd scale Lockheed AH-56 Cheyenne
- September 21st 2021: New page: Gunship, Spectre of Death, Italeri 1/72nd scale Lockheed AC-130
- September 3rd 2021: Added three new photos to Defying Newton 2, powered ultralight operations at Newton Peveril in Dorset, England
- August 25th 2021: Added two new photos to Christchurch: Bargates
- August 24th 2021: Added one new photo to each of Christchurch: Bargates and Christchurch: High Street and Castle Street
- August 2nd 2021: Added a photo of punk lady Grace (a real girl) to Christchurch: High Street and Castle Street
- July 31st 2021: Split Christchurch: Bargates, High Street, and Castle Street into Christchurch: Bargates and Christchurch: High Street and Castle Street, adding two new photos to the latter
- July 25th 2021: Added a new photo of a mural on the side of the cylindrical water tower to Central in On the hill part 1: South and central
- July 24th 2021:
- Added a photo of the Bournemouth-based choir Sound of Soul to Christchurch: Bargates, High Street, and Castle Street. That page is part of a virtual journey, so the photo is about in the middle of the page (scrolling down).
- Added a photo of Meotzi (life-size doll) with her big bunny
- Added a photo of Roly the sailmaker in a UH-1 ‘Huey’ Vietnam war era helicopter under Philosopher’s hang glider in Hang gliding 2000 to 2003
- Added several old photos from the Red House Museum print collection to Christchurch: Bargates, High Street, and Castle Street
- Added two old photos from the Red House Museum print collection under Scenery in Miscellaneous photos
- Added an old photo from the Red House Museum print collection under Eye in the sky in On the hill part 2: North, east, and west
- Added a 1986 photo of my late brother under the new section title Ed in About the author part 2
- Added three photos taken in 1982 under Parachuting in Miscellaneous photos