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Subject: [OM] Re: OT, painting of Concorde
From: "Gareth.J.Martin" <g.j.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 07:46:51 +0000
Great site. I can remember having the pleasure of watching some practice 
bombing at Faraid Head while on a geology field trip there. It was very 
impressive if not completely accurate! I would imagine seeing live 
bombing on Cape Wrath would have been even more impressive (from afar 
that is). I wish I'd taken my camera.

All the best,
Gareth.

Chris Barker wrote:
> This is OT, I know.
> 
> I have been searching for news of a pilot, a black man, whom I knew in 
> the RAF around 25 years ago and whom I should like to find out about.  
> We went to the same school, a Catholic public school (private school to 
> the uninitiated ;-)) run by the Benedictines called Downside.
> 
> Well, in my travels I came across Mike Rondot's website.  Mike is an 
> aviation artist and I have one of his prints (a Tornado on a night 
> takeoff in the first Gulf War; it's excellent.  Well he now has a 
> painting called "Concorde Farewell" available for sale.  Mike has flown 
> huge numbers of hours in Canberra and Jaguar (I knew him briefly when 
> he was on one of the squadrons at RAF Bruggen during the Cold War.
> 
> http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/andrewbrooks1/rondot.htm
> 
> One of the most evocative pictures, for me, is the one of the pair of 
> Jaguars on their way to Cape Wrath.  That area of Scotland, the 
> northern part nicknamed "Moon Country" is utterly gorgeous for low 
> flying, with sparse populations and rugged terrain.  I converted to the 
> Jaguar in winter, so the light was always low and soft while zotting 
> around (technical term!) this wonderful area.  Garvie (Garvaigh?) 
> Island was pretty well the only place where we were allowed to drop 
> full-size HE bombs, guided or not.   Well, this picture reminds me of 
> the wonderful time I had in charge of a war machine in my younger days.
> 
> Chris
> 
> <|_:-)_|>
> C M I Barker
> Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
> +44 (0)7092 251126
> http://www.threeshoes.co.uk
> http://homepage.mac.com/zuiko
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