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GA Stuff

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.
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Trans-Siberian Express

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
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PNG Dive Weekend

26-27th January 1991. Theresa and Bird's 'Open Water' certification week-end at Fly Islands. Busama(1). Carman's Passage(2).Gillians(1).
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Handover of Barbarian I

23rd August 1991. The Beacon(1) @ Salamaua. The first Barbarian handed over with Barbarian II becoming the Niugini Diving dive boat.
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Has Bilas

Fancy dress PNG style. Brilliant display of how the locals dress up for ...
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Boys WeekEnds

..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.
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G-MZBD

Airbourne in the Rans. General air-to-ground images with some good ones of Birmingham Midshires and Highcroft.
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Llangollen

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.
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Otherton - Ameins

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!
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G-MZMX

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!
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Isle Of Man 2006

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
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Stuff you might like to know.

The internet or rather low bandwidth is always a problem for images. Add audio files and it's a double whammy. If bandwidth is an issue you can view just the images by clicking on the gallery link.

I've not used the original or even the Internet Standard MP3 encoding for the music tracks as the files are still rather large to achieve comfortable download times. Instead I have used my own encodings which I've called ENC1 and ENC2 - in most cases I've used ENC1. This generally gives a hugely reduced file size for very little loss in sound quality!! If the origin music track is very long I may use ENC2 but the quality is really pants.

The various encodings are given below with associated file sizes for 'Jump' - Van Halen)

Original
320Kbps.
44100 hz.
16 bit stereo

File size 7,658 kb

IS
128Kbps.
44100 hz.
16 bit stereo

File size 3,845 kb

ENC 1
40Kbps. CBR
24000 hz.
16 bit stereo 35.3:1

File size 1,221 kb

ENC 2
20Kbps. CBR
11025 hz
16 bit stereo 70.6:1

File size 624 kb

Slide Shows

Jessie 1998 - 2004