I believe you know who he is: KIRK!

What,for an elephant?!?!?! And what kind of way is that to talk to anyone,you ……! :p :p That avatar must be a typical pose,mouth open ,brain shut down 😀 😀

And I do believe bunny girls wear bow ties(I said female attire)(desperately trying to cover up his mistake!) 😮 😮

There must be a good story to tell about a certain female attire tied to the left cockpit post in the last photo. 🙂 😉

It’s a bow tie, you moron 🙂

There must be a good story to tell about a certain female attire tied to the left cockpit post in the last photo. 🙂 😉

If this is the same chap, I can remember him arriving at Perranporth in an Auster, some 35 years ago, (before GA returned to that amazingly time-locked WW2 airfield and the Cornish Gliding (& Flying) Club flew on there in splendid isolation. Nothing unusual in that, occasional visitors from ‘up country’ and Lands End provided a bit of GA interest for us young shaver pilots. This Auster was different – it lacked fabric over the entire rear of the airframe from the cockpit back to the rudder post. I think he called it a ‘Bleriot-Auster.’ Our CFI at the time offered a warm welcome in the best tradition of all aviators to one another, but regretted the Auster’s attire was not entirely suitable for the establishment or the occasion. I imagine he was asked to return when the Auster was properly dressed.

If this was not one and the same flying vet – I offer my profuse apologies (anno domini).

I doffs me cap to him; amazing.

SoG

Like you say Andy, he’s well on a way to being a flying legend.

Who’s going to dare try and make him sit still long enough to write a biography when he gets home!

It’ll make one heck of a story!! And the Liberty Girl flight would only be a part of it!

Shame on me, I had never heard of the man! But having gone through some of his website and stories, I’m in awe 🙂 Now my morning routine will include a “where the hell is Maurice today?” check.

Extract from the forum, posted by Maurice himself, responding to a previous post:

“Hi there to you both, recovering well good good good……the more you fly , the more you want to fly! As for GPS tuition, Colin how could I forget it!!!!!!””!!!…….after you set my waypoint to land at Phuket from Rangoon to be just 30 miles short of the airstrip and me with no maps meant I had to land in the jungle, ask for directions in sign language with not a word of their native tongue! Then I had to persuade them to help me cut down some trees so I could get out! “

How about that?!

Steph

Kirk finished his 9 hrs of flying over water, landed in Korea successfully in rainy days all the way… DAMN! SOLUTE!

But the risks which he has taken, and is still taking, are real enough and my concern is that he will push his luck too far. I hope he gets back OK, and then ‘retires’ from these epic flights with honour.
He inspires, amuses and horrifies in about equal measure, but you have to admire him.

Amen to all of that.

Moggy

Aviation used to be full of ‘characters’, but they have been gradually regulated out of the sky. Or else they have killed themselves, or more prosaically, just got old and packed it in.

We are in an era when the notion of taking a calculated risk, and being in complete control of your own destiny is viewed with great suspicion, where a blame/compensation culture erodes the instinct for any personal endeavour.

Captain K is a showman and an effective self-publicist, and I suspect is far less reckless than the ‘barmy barnstorming Biggles’ persona which he likes to project. Quite simply, he could not have got as far as he has without being pretty switched-on, albeit with a very ‘different’ and elemental style of aviating. But the risks which he has taken, and is still taking, are real enough and my concern is that he will push his luck too far. I hope he gets back OK, and then ‘retires’ from these epic flights with honour.
He inspires, amuses and horrifies in about equal measure, but you have to admire him.

This is one amazing man. Once met, never forgotten.