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For light relief - here are some of the more unusual and/or spectacular pictures associated with my Web Site.

1.   Flying          

Flying as a navigator on Canberras and Vulcans:  - and flying as pilot in the aircraft I built myself.
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Flying from the Imperial War Museum, Duxford:
    Owned and flew ex-RAF Bulldog, 2003-07        Currently fly and maintain a Long-EZ

2.   Mountaineering

Climbing to the summits of some of the world's most spectacular mountains ........ Matterhorn (14,782ft) .....Kinabalu (13,455ft) ........Mount Kenya - Batian (17,058ft) ........ and, Suilven (2,398ft).

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3.    Parachuting

Free fall parachuting ...... making an exit from an aircraft over Singapore .......... and making a training jump with members of the Falcons RAF Display Team.

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4.    Travel

Travel ..... Uzbekistan ....... Pyrenees ......Carcassonne ..... UAE ........ over 50 different countries......

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One particular venture - my wife and I drove overland from Singapore to England over a six week period in the winter of 1968.    Below the map are just a few of the photos of what was quite an epic journey.

Map of drive from Singapore from England - through Sri Lanka (Ceylon) - India - Nepal - India - Pakistan - Afghanistan - Iran - Turkey - Greece - Yugoslavia - Italy - Switzerland - France - to England

Katmandu ...... the Taj Mahal at Agra ...... through flooded roads between Kabul and Kandahar in Afghanistan ..... and fitting show chains in eastern Iran.

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Years later - in 2008, an online article was produced by PontiacRegistry.com, the Pontiac club in the United States of America.    This is the cover piece:

Organisation of Personal Background pages with hyperlinks

 

 

 

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