It’s an old adventure now, but I did love working in North Norway as JEngO 41(F) Squadron, which operated Jaguars in the tactical recce and close air support roles. Fortunately, the Russians weren’t coming after all.
Read MoreJump 25: cracked 20 minutes of freefall
Dive exit, mantis turns and a good circuit to land: perfect. Clouds beautiful on the way past. Fixed landing accuraccy by flying a smaller pattern: 800ft, 500ft, 300ft instead of 1000,500,250.
Read MoreSomething to ban before ketchup sachets.
As everyone knows, ketchup sachets are wrong; indeed sachets of anything are wrong. A friend commented: When I’m Prime Minister, the first thing I’m banning is ketchup sachets. I have rediscovered something even more banworthy: “resurfacing” the road by spreading tar and gravel then asking people to drive at 10 […]
Read MoreLunch with Beth by K1200S
With the wind rising and a number of tandem students waiting, I came off the manifest and took Beth out for lunch by K1200S. We went to a charming pub near Woodborough. I forget the name, but the location and food were good. It’s here. Returned via Pewsey, Hungerford, Wantage, […]
Read MoreAt last: a skydive
Lovely scattered cumulus today – about 3/8 – looks beautiful from above and beside 😀 Exit at 10,000 feet in a front loop, held for 5 sec. Emerged on my back, watching plane fly off (it’s still surprisingly close after 5 sec!). Stable practice touch on heading through 9000 feet. […]
Read MoreTunnel plan
Stability and turns Stable on heading Turns 4×90 L&R Height control Stable in pull position Turns L&R in pull position Mantis position and turns on legs Stable on heading in mantis position Turns 4×90 L&R on arms Turns 4×90 L&R on legs Turns 4×90 L&R on both Height control On […]
Read MoreBodyflight
Just booked 15 min each for me and Beth at Bodyflight during our week at home. Should be fun. Beth gets an intro to body flying; I’ll work on formation skills and try flying on my back before attempting sit flying. Should be a good boost to an otherwise thin […]
Read MoreComing up
Skydiving, if ever the weather improves A trip home to Cornwall (with a local skydive?) Northolt Summer Ball Week off: skydiving, motorcycling and a spa day :-/ Fast cat sailing at Wildwind, Greece
Read MorePurple Ball
Went to the Defence Academy’s Purple Ball tonight with about 1200 others. Dinner began with trapeze artists and the band of the Royal Marines. Poor weather put off the flying display and the Red Devils. The opera singers during dinner were fabulous and the post-dinner band was pretty good. The […]
Read MoreComic Life
I just discovered that the Mac comes with a program called Comic Life that makes it really easy to assemble photos into comics and publish them on your .Mac homepage: http://homepage.mac.com/stevenjbaker/comiclife/
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