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See also What’s new in Hang Gliding History, a separate web site to which I moved applicable pages from here in March 2020.
- 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
July 19th 2021: Added a new photo of Lina (life-size doll) and her volcano bunny
July 18th 2021: Added my 1982 drawing of an idea for a canard flex-wing airliner with a ducted fan propeller to Airplane art
July 8th 2021: Four photos of a dead tree before, during, and after being sawn down added to Miscellaneous photos, home 3
July 1st 2021: New funny story relating to my university course final year group project: Raised on robbery
June 1st 2021: New section Read-aloud: An automatic proofreading aid, on the Technical Writing and Programming page
May 29th 2021: Added a new photo (taken from nearly the same position as one in 1961) to Christchurch: Bargates, High Street, and Castle Street
May 28th 2021:
- 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
May 27th 2021: Added a film screenshot of the frozen quay in the winter of 1962-63 in Christchurch: Quay and Church Street
May 25th 2021: Added a description of how our lives were saved in the early 1960s by a lone bus driver — under London in About the author
May 6th 2021: Added another photo of Ed
May 5th 2021: Added three photos to Miscellaneous photos and one to Miscellaneous photos 2
April 29th 2021: Added a photo to Christchurch: Bargates, High Street, and Castle Street and two photos to Christchurch: Quay and Church Street
April 25th 2021: Added a few more words about Ed
April 6th 2021: New page Miscellaneous photos, home 3 containing two photos moved from home 2 and one new photo
April 1st 2021: Added a 1964 photo to About the author
March 29th 2021: Added a selfie taken in 1994 or 95 to About the author
March 28th 2021: Added another old photo of Ed
March 27th 2021: Added a new photo to Miscellaneous photos, home 2, subsequently moved to home 3
March 22nd 2021: New page about by late brother Ed (moving some text from his section in About the Author and with new text added)
March 21st 2021: New page H.P. source: Selected snippets by H.P. Lovecraft, a sub-page of Where is the horse? (Who pays for it all? The fallacy of economics.)
March 17th 2021: Added two new photos to On the hill part 1: South and central
March 14th 2021: Added a new photo to On the hill part 1: South and central
March 12th 2021: Added two images to Righteous stuff — my review of the 1956 Warner Brothers movie Toward the Unknown
March 9th 2021: New page I was a kamikaze — my review of the 1973 book by Ryuji Nagatsuka
March 8th 2021: Added six more photos under East in On the hill part 2: North, east, and west
February 25th 2021:
- Added a 1986 photo of my late brother under the new section title Ed in About the author
- Added three photos taken in 1982 under Parachuting in Miscellaneous photos
February 23rd 2021: Added two more images and links to digitized film on YouTube to Round-Britain powerboat race 1969
February 22nd 2021: New page Round-Britain powerboat race 1969
February 13th 2021: Added detail to About the author part 2 (near the end)
February 12th 2021: Added detail to About the author, but no new photos
January 29th 2021: Added a link to an animated video inspired by the 1968 movie The Battle of Britain under External links in Adolf versus Adolph, my review of that film
January 22nd 2021: Added two photos to Christchurch: Bargates, High Street, and Castle Street
January 12th 2021: Added an annotated aerial photo taken in 1953 to Eye in the sky in On the hill part 2: North, east, and west. It hopefully helps illustrate the geography of the airport, Ramsdown Hill, Backwater junction, and St. Catherine’s Hill.
January 10th 2021: Split On the hill (St. Catherine’s Hill, Christchurch, Dorset, UK) into On the hill part 1: South and central and On the hill part 2: North, east, and west and I added eight photos in a new sub-section Ramsdown Hill in the latter page
January 9th 2021: Added new section Old firing range in On the hill (St. Catherine’s Hill, Christchurch, Dorset, UK) and replaced many of my photos with better ones in New Zealand army engineers on the hill, 1918, which I also restructured
January 7th 2021: Made the Plastic models menu more comprehensive and rewrote the Plastic models — miscellaneous land vehicles page
January 3rd 2021: New page 1/48th scale flight test A-4M Skyhawk
December 25th 2020:
- New page Year of the Gryphon: Painting in acrylic on canvas of the Miles Wings Gryphon mark 1 of 1976
- Added a new photo to Miscellaneous photos, home 2
December 18th 2020: Added satellite images to On the hill (St. Catherine’s Hill, Christchurch, Dorset, UK) and New Zealand army engineers on the hill, 1918
December 14th 2020: New page New Zealand army engineers on the hill, 1918 (St. Catherine’s Hill, Christchurch, Hampshire/Dorset then and now)
December 12th 2020: Added three new photos to Miscellaneous photos, home 2
November 30th 2020: Added some photos taken in the early- and mid-1970s to On the hill
November 29th 2020: Seventeen photos added to On the hill (some replace earlier photos)
November 27th 2020: New page Flight of the Phoenix, my painting of the Bennett Phoenix VI of 1975
November 20th 2020: New page Painting the SST 90
November 15th 2020: Added a new photo to Christchurch: Convent Walk, priory and grounds
November 7th 2020: Added my fourth new painting to Painted history of hang glider design
October 23rd 2020, re-organized the virtual tour of Christchurch, Dorset, UK, adding an extra page and adding some new photos:
October 21st 2020: Added diagrams and text to help describe the pitch control problem I encountered in my tailed flex-wing under Experimental in Three-sixty degree appraisal (hang gliding 1976)
October 15th 2020: Added my third new painting to Painted history of hang glider design along with a sub-page about it: Painting the Eagle III
October 14th 2020: Added some new photos to Miscellaneous photos, Christchurch part 1 and part 2
October 12th 2020: Added three new photos to Cynthia (one replaces an earlier photo)
October 11th 2020: Added two new photos to Miscellaneous photos, home 2
October 7th 2020: New page Desert Spitfire, my second Airfix 1/48th scale Spitfire Mk Vb
October 5th 2020:
- Added a new photo (well, two similar photos) of Rebecca to mark the start of her twentieth year. As far as I know, she is the oldest ‘living’ Realdoll.
- Added two new photos to Miscellaneous photos, Christchurch part 2
September 27th 2020: Added a handful of new photos to Miscellaneous photos, Christchurch part 1 and part 2, some of them replacing earlier photos
September 25th 2020: Added another new painting to Painted history of hang glider design
September 20th 2020: Added a new painting (my first since 1984 or 85!) to Painted history of hang glider design
September 19th 2020: Sea Vixen added to Plastic models contemporary with Vietnam
September 6th 2020:
August 31st 2020: My fifth rear hub on the Nukeproof Scout seized. See New rear wheel and more broken hubs in MTB.
August 29th 2020: Added four new photos to Miscellaneous photos, Christchurch part 1
August 27th 2020: Split Miscellaneous photos, home into Miscellaneous photos, home and Miscellaneous photos, home 2, adding three photos to the latter
August 25th 2020: Added two new photos to Miscellaneous photos, Christchurch part 1
August 19th 2020: New page Vietnam Super Sabre, Esci 1/72nd scale North American F-100
August 17th 2020: Added another photo to War to end all wars part 1 and some external links both to that page and to part 2
August 15th 2020: For the 75th anniversary of VJ Day, I added two new pages in Life-size dolls: War to end all wars part 1 and part 2, each containing mostly photos on other pages, but also some unique photos.
August 13th 2020:
- Added a photo of the pilot of a World War 2 Short Stirling bomber to Hang gliding 2018 part 2
- Added two photos to Viva Protar, my Protar 1/9th scale Montesa Cota 247 trials bike
- Added two new photos to Miscellaneous photos, Christchurch part 1
- Added a new photo to Defying Newton, powered ultralight operations at Newton Peveril in Dorset, England
August 7th 2020: Added a photo of a 1/24th scale model to help illustrate Cruising for a bruising in Hang gliding 1975
July 23rd 2020: Split Selected hang gliding photographs into part 1 and part 2, adding some from June 2020 to the latter
July 22nd 2020: Added new photos to Miscellaneous photos, Christchurch part 1 and part 2, some of them replacing earlier photos
July 19th 2020: Added two photos to Miscellaneous photos, home
July 18th 2020: Two new photos added to Early Corsair: Tamiya 1/48th scale Chance Vought F4U Corsair
July 17th 2020: Four new photos added to Hang gliding 2020
July 13th 2020: New page Early Corsair: Tamiya 1/48th scale Chance Vought F4U Corsair
July 9th 2020: Added two photos to Miscellaneous photos, home
July 1st 2020: Added two photos and associated info to About the author
June 29th 2020: New page Miscellaneous photos, Christchurch part 3; Purewell
June 26th 2020: Added photos from 1996 to Miscellaneous photos, Christchurch part 1 and Miscellaneous photos, Christchurch part 2
June 25th 2020: Added photos, some new and some from 2018 and 2019, to Miscellaneous photos, Christchurch part 1 and Miscellaneous photos, Christchurch part 2
June 22nd 2020: Split Miscellaneous photos, Christchurch into part 1 and part 2, adding new photos to both
June 21st 2020: Three photos added to Miscellaneous photos, Christchurch part 1
June 15th 2020: New page Hang gliding 2020
June 13th 2020: Photo of Sharon from 2016 added to Eleanor and Sharon
June 11th 2020:
June 7th 2020: Four photos added to Miscellaneous photos, Christchurch including one of my new camera (taken with my old camera)
May 30th 2020: More photos added to On the hill, (some replace earlier photos)
May 21st 2020: New page On the hill
May 9th 2020: Added more to UP is where it’s at, 1/24th scale scratch built standard Rogallo hang gliders
May 4th 2020: New page UP is where it’s at, 1/24th scale scratch built standard Rogallo hang gliders. Contains some photos moved from Doing the Samba.
May 3rd 2020: Added a second scratch-built hang glider to the Revell 1/24th scale Volkswagen Samba bus in Doing the Samba. Subsequently moved to new page UP is where it’s at, 1/24th scale scratch built standard Rogallo hang gliders.
May 2nd 2020: New page Miscellaneous photos, home
May 1st 2020: New page Miscellaneous photos 4, Christchurch
April 23rd 2020: Added the first scratch-built hang glider to the Revell 1/24th scale Volkswagen Samba bus in Doing the Samba. Subsequently moved to new page UP is where it’s at, 1/24th scale scratch built standard Rogallo hang gliders.
April 21st 2020: Added roof bars to the Revell 1/24th scale Volkswagen Samba bus in Doing the Samba
April 19th 2020: New page Doing the Samba — Revell 1/24th scale Volkswagen Samba bus with Hasegawa and Masterbox people and scratch-built hang glider
April 3rd 2020: New page Moose Jaw Hawk: Airfix 1/48th scale BAe Hawk 100
March 29th 2020: Copied the hang gliding history pages to a new web site: History of hang gliding. Updates will be announced on its own What’s new page.
March 25th 2020:
- New page Cronk works, about hang glider designer and test pilot Dave Cronk, who was also the first ever world champion (1975)
- Added more to Torrance Beach
March 23rd 2020: New page Revell 1/12th scale 250cc Yamaha MX bike
March 19th 2020: New page Torrance Beach
March 18th 2020: Added a photo (long overdue) of a Sky Sports LARK to Flying squad, a short history of the east coast U.S. hang glider manufacturer Sky Sports
March 17th 2020: New related topics menu Seagull Aircraft of Santa Monica, California. In addition, over the preceding several weeks I added more images to many 1970s pages. See Hang gliding (menu).
March 15th 2020: New page Rogallo wing definitions and diagrams
March 12th 2020: Updated Hang gliding preparation with a new CANP procedure (an online form) — see under Additional things to do the day before you fly on weekdays
March 8th 2020: New page Phantom over Vietnam: John Trotti’s F-4 in 1/48th scale
March 6th 2020: Added a photo of my model Vanguard rocket with a painting of an early hang glider behind it to both Space flight and hang gliding and to Rocket science (about the kit)
March 3rd & 4th, 2020: Added more old photos to Early powered ultralights in Powered flight
February 29th, 2020: Added section Lace hooks in Dangers of hang gliding
February 25th, 2020: Added annotated version of the group photo in Annie Green Springs 1973 briefing photo key
February 23rd, 2020:
February 18th, 2020: Added a picture of the prototype Phoenix 8 of 1976 to For your eyes only in Three-sixty degree appraisal (hang gliding 1976)
February 16th, 2020: New section For your eyes only (it follows The man with the golden gun) in Three-sixty degree appraisal (hang gliding 1976)
February 15th, 2020: After learning of the death of Len Gabriels at age 93 on February 10th, I added a couple of images of his 1983 Orion ultralight sailplane to Skyhook Sailwings.
February 14th, 2020: Added some images to Hang gliding mid 1980s
February 12th, 2020: New sub-section titled Provisional notes on the people in the photo in Annie Green Springs 1973 briefing photo key
February 10th, 2020 (my late mother’s 103rd birthday): New picture under High-performance in Hang gliding 1974 part 2
February 9th, 2020: Moved yesterday’s Thermals close to the ground in wind from Hang gliding 1990 to 1993 to a separate page and I added more to it
February 8th, 2020:
February 7th, 2020:
February 5th & 6th, 2020, added more pictures to the following:
February 4th, 2020, added the following:
February 3rd, 2020, added images to the following:
February 1st, 2020:
January 30th, 2020:
January 27th, 2020, added images and text to the following:
January 25th, 2020, added the following:
January 24th, 2020: New hang gliding history related topics page Telluride, Colorado, linking to several newly uploaded images
January 20th, 2020: New page Document maintainability, a sub-page of Technical Writing and Programming
January 10th, 2020: Added section Hang gliding related topics pages to the Hang gliding menu, but I did not add any new material, although some is better arranged
January 5th, 2020: Added the story of the manufacturer Wills Wing to the following pages:
December 24th, 2019:
- Added newly digitized photos to Hang gliding 1994 and 1995
- Moved the info about Donnita Holland’s own design wing from Hang gliding 1974 part 2 to Hang gliding 1975 part 2. These dates are uncertain, but I make a comparison with the wing tips of the UP Dragonfly, so it goes well there.
December 21st, 2019: New page Miscellaneous photos 3, the 1960s
December 19th, 2019: Added more newly digitized slide transparencies to the following pages:
December 18th, 2019: Added newly digitized slide transparencies to the following pages:
December 17th, 2019: New page Paragliding continued, to which I moved paragliding photos previously included with my hang gliding pages
December 16th, 2019: In pursuance of the separation of church and state, I partly separated out my own photos from those taken by others. That change entailed expanding the Hang gliding main menu so it includes three sections instead of two. Now, you can read the history of hang gliding in general or my involvement in it, separately. (There is necessarily some overlap and duplication.)
December 15th, 2019: Added a photo of Tom Peghiny’s Eagle to Hang gliding 1978 and 1979 part 1
December 14th, 2019: Moved About the author to Miscellaneous
December 11th, 2019:
December 9th, 2019: Added the following items:
December 7th, 2019: Added two images to each of the following pages:
December 2nd, 2019: Added a photo of Dave Meyers in a Seagull 3 to Hang gliding 1973 and before. It is surely one of the clearest color hang gliding photos of the time.
