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Good day out at the de Havilland Aircraft
Museum in London Colney on Saturday; unveiling of the new Navy
exhibition by Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown, veteran combat and test
pilot, credited with the first landing of a twin-engined aircraft and
a jet aircraft on a carrier. The Museum is worth a visit - if you can
find it - and the Captain (now 95!) was on good form. Bought a signed
poster by top aviation painter Philip West, so that will go on the wall
for my birthday on the 28th...
RIP Felix Dennis, possibly the last of the
great self-made publishers:
RIP Francis Matthews, the voice of Captain
Scarlet and a true gentlemen who I was once honoured to interview;
and
RIP Bunny Yeager, model, beauty queen, arguably the inventor of pinup
photography, and the discoverer of Bettie Page.
