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Wing Commander Bunny Currant, DFC*, who flew R4118 in the Battle, has died. Full obituary in the Telegraph

“The remains of a Hurricane that he flew during his time on No 605 were found in India some 50 years later and restored to flying condition. It will fly in salute at his memorial service.”

Edited to add his DFC and Bar

(damn typo police )

Sorry – slow morning 😀 .

Once did three static line jumps out of a Chinook before breakfast on one of the Salisbury Plain DZs – and got paid for it..

MC130E – did a night jump from it …

Believing your own publicity is one of the later stages of commercial madness. MH may also have been playing too long on FS for his own good – all those hours in front of the PC have been translated into real hours in his all too vivid imagination, so he now thinks he was actually flying fare-paying SLF all that time.

The write-ups in the Telegraph etc. confirm what he already hoped, that he is a truly successfull business person whose bag of commercial fairy dust is full to bursting. He will in time realise that the airline business is too small for him, and will launch Alpha One car hire, Alpha One Mobile, Alpha One Bank, Alpha One cruises and perhaps even Alpha One ladies underwear.

Soon he’ll be on the panel of a reality TV show about business start-ups, and then we will know that he has finally disappeared up his own fundament.

Martin wrote:

“The geocities web site was required as the FTP for the old site failed under a great deal of pressure.”

That my dear friend is a load of cr_p – FTP won’t “fail under pressure” as FTP is the technology used to move files to/from servers, and has nothing to do with dealing with high traffic loads on web sites. Your web team are bullsh!tting you, and making you look far less than the pro you want to be.

Suggest you have a word with Community.co.uk, in Kidlington, who own Ticketing Solutions.