Old School Flying
I’ll keep this brief but last year for my 40th birthday present I got a voucher to fly in an old aircraft from the Imperial War Museum at Duxford. For one reason or another it took a year to redeem the voucher so on my 41st birthday I managed to do the flight.
The plane was a 1930s Dragon Rapide. It was tiny for a passenger aircraft, only seating eight people and the pilot. The sound it made comes straight from a 1930s film. It was a good ride and given the age of the aircraft felt very secure and safe.
Here’s an in-flight video I took. We flew over Cambridge, Ely and Newmarket race course:
Links for June 28th through July 1st
Some links for you:
- Study into new contemporary art museum linking Arcadian with Digbeth | Birmingham Post – News – West Midlands News – Note that 'film centre' gets a mention but no funding to investigate the potential to develop one. Contemporary art really does have the cultural high ground in the city at the moment. That's great but it reinforces the idea that cinema is something that's only worth funding at the production end, not the distribution/exhibition end.
- My Tiny Plot » Blog Archive » A Little Piece of Gardening History – Lovely piece on finding an old seed catalogue and the history it revealed.