Sorry to bring this back to life, but I simply had to post this.

The ultimate manifestation of ‘rights’

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Moggy

Doesn’t the population at large have any “right” to be protected from people patently not fit to hold a lethal weapon?

The helicopter for one. Think of all the jobs no other machine can do.

Apparently there are all sorts of conditions attached to setting up a premium rate number though. Nice idea, but I don’t think it’s practical for most people.

Now that was a Life.

Loved that. Don’t miss “Bring on the Empty Horses” too.

Tell the story honestly, “warts and all.” IMHO, far too many aviation writers get too fond of their subject and gloss over the weaknesses and compromises that all aircraft have.

Hmmm. Speaking as someone who used to lie awake listening to Gannets interminably night flying at Culdrose in the 60’s, it didn’t sound as I remember them.

Funny you should say that. Don’t have your experience, but even before I read your post I thought it sounded different to the way I remembered it.

“The Husband’s Story” by Norman Collins. Greatly under-rated novelist IMHO, best known for “London Belongs to Me.” Collins was one of the founding fathers of ITV, and I read once that most of his novels were written in the early hours of the morning as his days were fully taken up with the TV business.