Sep
23
Wing Commander Dickie Martin
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Dickie was a colleague for a number of years, I nearly bought his house near Cranfield in the late eighties. Whilst showing us around we happened across a car buried beneath a tarpaulin in his garage. “What’s that Dickie” I asked. “That’s a car my mother brought me when I joined the RAF,” he said. [...]
Sep
11
Dark humor
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Well done ‘The Times’ and Peter Brookes for having the courage to inject a little dark humor into the hysterical media ether.
When I saw this cartoon and I fell about. Some time ago whilst on approach to land at an airport that I will not identify, I was instructed by air traffic control to immediately [...]






















