Some years ago, I was seriously injured in a road traffic accident. Luckily, I was fairly young and fit and, as far as the doctors were concerned, I made a full and impressively quick recovery from my broken ribs. If these were the only injuries in need of healing, the
If you have become numb to the thrill of air travel, inured to the heavens by being crammed too many times with too many fellow passengers into cramped flying sardine cans, you might be tempted to shed the insulation afforded by a flying cylinder and let the raw atmosphere –
When I was a boy, my older brother helped me to assemble one of those miniature plastic kits of an aeroplane – the ones that left you with scales of dried glue on your finger tips and blobs of paint on your trousers. It was my first attempt at model-making