Summer 1980, puddling round the Dunkeswell circuit. Local to south coast. Henstridge, Odell in the back, Bird with Bill and Frank. 1989 Pre-flight at Sleap. View gallery instead
March 1991. London to Moscow, three days dodging the KGB then train from Yaroslavlskii station to Beijing. Back on the train four days later to Kowloon, Hong Kong. Total train time: 8 days View gallery instead
26-27th January 1991. Theresa and Bird's 'Open Water' certification week-end at Fly Islands. Busama(1). Carman's Passage(2).Gillians(1). View gallery instead
23rd August 1991. The Beacon(1) @ Salamaua. The first Barbarian handed over with Barbarian II becoming the Niugini Diving dive boat. View gallery instead
Fancy dress PNG style. Brilliant display of how the locals dress up for ... View gallery instead
..definitely not for girls. Half a dozen stubbies then out from Lae Yacht by 21:30. Feeding the fish by 21:40. On the dive site by 03:30. Bit of sleep then blowing bubbles at first light. View gallery instead
Airbourne in the Rans. General air-to-ground images with some good ones of Birmingham Midshires and Highcroft. View gallery instead
Following in the wake of Harrison Ford (didn't know it at the time). Out from Maestermyn to Llangollen then back to go up the Montgomery. Wonderful. View gallery instead
13-14th June 2004 - Weekend to France: only a tad marred by the rear center of gravity (due to all the crap Paul insisted on taking) which created a very interesting departure from Headcorn! View gallery instead
August 2005. Airbourne in the AX2000. Cracking flight from Otherton to Shobdon and return via Swynnerton. Couple of flights later it bit me in the bum! View gallery instead
Otherton fly-out to the Isle of Man to the watch the TT races. About 4 a/c in total. I flew out with John whilst Simon went over-land in Phil's Red van View gallery instead
Circuits at Otherton. Runway 07 View gallery instead
Highlight of the show being the low-level fly pass of Avro Vulcan XH558 View gallery instead
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Odell and James do a bit of aviating. View gallery instead
The endeavour was to fly our microlights, starting and finishing at Sandtoft and land as near as we could to the three capitals, London, Cardiff and Edinburgh - in one day. View gallery instead