Birding Bond

Agent_99

QBranch wrote: »

Hi- or should I say, tweet tweet! I've been meaning to make a contribution to this brilliant thread. I'd like to add some *further* references I didn't see mentioned on the list. Apologies if some have been - I checked through the many pages first.

Wow. Is it time for me to make an 'eagle eyes' joke? I think maybe it is.

RichardTheBruce

Those items are golden, @QBranch, I especially like the mining of Doctor Bird, Griffin, two-headed Eagle, and the Birds of the West Indies cover Hummingbirds and Parrots.

I already planned to update some of the earlier items to be more complete and absorb @j_w_pepper's Rossignol skis and the Swan matches (I now possess some of those myself) from other board discussion. Delayed somewhat by the accidental launching of the It's Grεεκ To Me thread and that taking on a life of its own. Still my plan, to update and give credit for the ID. And I'd like to launch a proper Parrot entry, different from the Macaws.


So thanks for your tweets @QBranch, great content to add here, appreciated. You're an expert in the field.

RichardTheBruce

Also want to give detail to Charles Mingus as introduced by @QBranch.

Quantum of Solace, Marc Forster, 2008.

The Charles Mingus CD seen in QOS (Fields' death scene) has a track titled "Gunslinging Bird".

From the original album:

Gunslinging Birds, Mingus Big Band, 1995.

Track 1: "Gunslinging Bird"

Charles Mingus on "Gunslinging Bird": “The subtitle was 'If Charlie Parker was a gunslinger, there’d be a whole lot of dead copycats.' I was just feeling crazy and thought that if Bird was a gunslinger instead of a musician in those early days, there’d have been a lot of guys getting killed.”

Track 2: "Reincarnation of a Lovebird"

No Bond connection, but worthy of note.

Mingus Ah Um, Charles Mingus, 1959.

Track 6: "Bird Calls"

Charles Mingus on "Bird Calls": “It wasn’t supposed to sound like Charlie Parker. It was supposed to sound like birds– the first part.”

QBranch

RichardTheBruce wrote: »

So thanks for your tweets @QBranch, great content to add here, appreciated.

My pleasure. I remember saying months ago that I'd be posting my findings here "soon", but life got in the way!

RichardTheBruce

Nazca Lines / ˈnäz·kə līnz / noun
1. geometric line clearings in the Peruvian desert

Nazca Lines: geoglyphs found in the Nazca Desert, southern Peru. Created by removing surface material to reveal a light colored layer below. The resulting line figures number in the hundreds, and date to 500 B.C. Stable climate and lack of wind preserve the lines, while some recent weather revealed additional lines.

Speculation on their purpose includes marking important days (by alignment of the sun), religious intent, honorific reasons. (Proposals of intervention of ancient astronauts by Erich von Däniken are debunked today.) About 70 represent animal life including birds. Also geometric shapes, flora.

Various


The Hummingbird

The Condor

The Heron

The Pelican

More recently uncovered lines, after windstorms.

RichardTheBruce

TripAces wrote: »

SeanCraig wrote: »

I did not see Craig‘s tattoo until now. Lookin‘ fit ... very good.

Here's an interesting tidbit: the bird tattoo on DC's shoulder is the Nazca bird, one of the enormous sand carvings in the Peruvian desert:

Years after getting that tattoo, DC found himself filming QoS in the Chilean desert, just a few hundred miles south of where that bird is located.

The tattoo.

Craig and two lovely birds.


The tattoo itself seems to be a stylized Condor line image.

Black Andean Condor

RichardTheBruce

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By extension, Bond novelist Anthony Horowitz used the Nazca lines in one of his other books.



Nazca flights are available

RichardTheBruce

Good timing for the Condor.

Condor / Cathartidae / ˈkän·dôr / noun
1. two varieties of New World vultures

Quechua (kuntur).

Condor (Cathartidae): New World vultures and the largest land-based birds in the Western Hemisphere. As vultures, heads bare of feathers. Eaters of dead and decomposing things, carrion--feast like there's no tomorrow you could say. Capable of soaring flight on thermal wind currents.

Species: Andean condor (Vultur gryphus), California condor (Gymnogyps californianus).

Andean condor

California condor

Puppet condor head feeds young in captivity

RichardTheBruce

Isle of Condors, Yaroslav Horak, Jim Lawrence, 1972.
https://mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/ioc.php3

https://popoptiq.com/isle-of-condors/

Danish, 1974.

CommanderRoss

Focke Wulf FW200 Condor:



German long-range bomber.

Antonov 124 Condor



Curtiss B2 Condor



And another Curtiss, T32



Schweizer Twin Condor

Agent_99

You guys knew this was coming:



And here's another very British hero (pic not mine but I do have this one somewhere):



Finally, enjoy a Condor moment (and some bonus birds):

CommanderRoss

hahaha epic! i want one of those submarines!

Not sure I read that biggles.. It's been ages!

RichardTheBruce

Good with the aircraft, @CommanderRoss. There's also the (German leisure) airline.

Back at you @Agent_99, some cycles of note here.

Condor 4hp motorcycle V-Twin M.A.G. engine, 1919

Condor A350 Swiss-made military motorcycle, Ducati engine, 1960s and 70s.

Appropriately recognized in ornithology.

With the "Condor Moment" ad, I also notice the use of the Condor (vultures, remember)
to sell tobacco products took an ironic turn.

Lastly, here's some educational material.

Contrary Condor, Walt Disney, 1944.

Agent_99

RichardTheBruce wrote: »

Back at you @Agent_99, some cycles of note here.

I'd not heard of these! That first poster in particular is gorgeous.

j_w_pepper

And then there was
the Condor Legion.

RichardTheBruce

Yes some sad history with the Condor Legion and Nazi Germany and its assistance to Spanish General Franco, as with the attack (literally a bombing practice on civilians in Guernica) represented by Pablo Picasso.



https://pablopicasso.org/guernica.jsp

https://artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-guernica-picassos-influential-painting


Picasso held no grudge against the Condor and Vulture, he used them in other works.

CommanderRoss

Seems like the Germans have a liking to the Condor.

QBranch

Speaking of Germany - some further crane references here:

Lufthansa logo - seen in DAF; and perhaps Bond flew with the airline in TND, although it's not implied onscreen.



https://jamesbondlocations.blogspot.com/2012/01/lufthansa-to-la.html

http://www.bondcollectibles.com/catalogue/products.php?product=5163

RichardTheBruce

Among many updates for eagle, crane, etc. I'll also catch up with the Griffin.

RichardTheBruce

Not a true bird ID, but as a sliver of minutia close enough.

Loon / lo͞on / noun
1. a diving waterbird
2. a fool
3. a crazed fool

English (loom, later loon). Old English (lumme, as in clumsy or lummox). Middle English (lowen). Old Norse (lūinn as worn, tired; lómr as lament). Scandinavian (lomr). Also consider lunar, lunacy.

Loon (Gavia): seclusive freshwater diving birds eating fish and small aquatic animals. Clumsy on land and suited to water--rarely on land unless nesting (or injured). Capable of long migratory flight. Their call is described as haunting, from tremelo to yodel to other variations. Found in North America, Eurasia.

Species: Red-throated loon or Red-throated diver (Gavia stellate), Black-throated loon or Arctic loon or Black-throated diver (Gavia arctica), Pacific loon or Pacific diver (Gavia pacifica), Common loon orGreat northern diver (Gavia immer), Yellow-billed loon or White-billed diver (Gavia adamsii).

Red-throated loon or Red-throated diver

Black-throated loon or Arctic loon or Black-throated diver

Pacific loon or Pacific diver

[

Common loon or Great northern diver

Yellow-billed loon or White-billed diver

RichardTheBruce

Goldfinger, Ian Fleming, 1959.
Chapter Twenty – Journey into Holocaust

…

Now it was a race - a race between Goldfinger's calm, unhurried, efficient machine and the tiny gunpowder trail Bond had lit. What was going on outside? During every hour of the next three days Bond's imagination followed what might be happening - Leiter telling his chief, the conference, the quick flight down to Washington, the FBI and Hoover, the Army, the President. Leiter insisting that Bond's conditions be adhered to, that no suspicious moves be made, no inquiries started, that no one moved an inch except according to some master plan that would operate on the day and get the whole gang into the bag so that not one of them escaped.

Would they accept Bond's conditions or would they not dare take the chance? Had they talked across the Atlantic with M? Had M insisted that Bond should be somehow pulled out? No, M would see the point. He would agree that Bond's life must be disregarded. That nothing must jeopardize the big clean-up. They would have to get the two 'Japanese', of course, somehow beat out of them the code message Gold-finger would be waiting for on D-1.

Was that how it was going, or was it all a shambles? Leiter away on another assignment. 'Who is this 007? What does it stand for? Some crazy loon. Hi, Smith, check on this, could you? Get down to the warehouse and take a look. Sorry, mister, no five grand for you. Here's car fare back to La Guardia. Afraid you've been hoaxed.'

Or, worse still, had none of these things happened? Was the plane still standing in a corner of the field, unserviced?

Night and day, the torment of thoughts went through Bond's head while the work got cleared and the hours ticked by and the deadly machine whirred quietly on. D-1 came and flashed by in a last fever of activity. Then, in the evening, came the note from Goldfinger.

First phase of operation successful. Entrain as planned at midnight. Bring copies of all maps, schedules, operation orders. G.

[

CommanderRoss

Like the Republic-Ford JB-2? I never knew that existed!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic-Ford_JB-2

And a gadget for use on your next holiday. Pitty Bond hasn't used one of these yet:
https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/loon-copter-swims-flies-and-floats/

RichardTheBruce

More minutia.

Robin / ˈrä·bən / noun
1. a small songbird with a reddish breast (a.k.a. robin red-breast)

Old French (Robin, nickname for Robert). Middle English (robynet, robynett).

Robin: a name applied to species in multiple families. Songbirds, passerines (perching), eaters of insects. European robin, once considered a thrush, today is an Old World flycatcher (Muscicapidae family). The American robin is a true thrush (in the Turdidae family). There are also the Japanese robin and Ryuku robin (Okinawa). Siberian blue robin. Australasian robins (in the Petroicidae family) number 45, and their ties to the rest are undetermined.

Species: European robin (Erithacus rubecula), American robin (Turdus migratorius), Japanese robin (Larvivora akahige), Ryuku robin (Larvivora komadori), Siberian blue robin (Larvivora cyane), Southern scrub robin (Drymodes brunneopygia), Greater ground robin (Amalocichla sclateriana), Lesser ground robin (Amalocichla incerta), Southern scrub robin (Drymodes brunneopygia), Northern scrub robin (Drymodes superciliaris), Papuan scrub robin (Drymodes beccarii), Grey-headed robin (Heteromyias cinereifrons), Eastern yellow robin (Eopsaltria australis), Grey-headed robin (Heteromyias cinereifrons), Ashy robin (Heteromyias albispecularis), Black-chinned robin (Poecilodryas brachyura), Black-sided robin (Poecilodryas hypoleuca), Buff-sided robin (Poecilodryas cerviniventris), White-browed robin (Poecilodryas superciliosa), Black-throated robin (Poecilodryas albonotata), Banded yellow robin (Poecilodryas placens), Pale-yellow robin (Tregellasia capito), White-faced robin (Tregellasia leucops), Eastern yellow robin (Eopsaltria australis), Western yellow robin (Eopsaltria griseogularis), White-breasted robin (Eopsaltria georgiana), Mangrove robin (Peneoenanthe pulverulenta, White-rumped robin (Peneothello bimaculata), Smoky robin (Peneothello cryptoleuca), Slaty robin (Peneothello cyanus), White-winged robin (Peneothello sigillata), Hooded robin (Melanodryas cucullata), Dusky robin (Melanodryas vittata), New Zealand North Island robin (Petroica longipes), Pink robin (Petroica rodinogaster), Green-backed robin (Pachycephalopsis hattamensis), White-eyed robin (Pachycephalopsis poliosoma), Garnet robin ( Eugerygone rubra, Snow Mountains robin (Petroica archboldi), South Island robin (Petroica australis), Mountain robin (Petroica bivittata), Scarlet robin (Petroica boodang), Red-capped robin (Petroica goodenovii), North Island robin (Petroica longipes), Tomtit (Petroica macrocephala), Chatham tomtit (Petroica macrocephala chathamensis), Pacific robin (Petroica pusilla), Norfolk robin (Petroica multicolor), Flame robin (Petroica phoenicea), Pink robin (Petroica rodinogaster), Rose robin (Petroica rosea), Black robin (Petroica traversi), Jacky winter (Microeca fascinans), Lemon-bellied flyrobin (Microeca flavigaster), Yellow-bellied flyrobin (Microeca flaviventris), Olive flyrobin (Microeca flavovirescens), Yellow-legged flyrobin (Microeca griseoceps), Golden-bellied flyrobin (Microeca hemixantha), Canary flyrobin (Microeca papuana), Torrent flyrobin (Monachella muelleriana).

European robin

American robin

Rufous-collared robin

Rufous-backed robin

Japanese robin

Ryuku robin

Siberian blue robin

Flame robin

RichardTheBruce

For Your Eyes Only, Ian Fleming, 1960.
"For Your Eyes Only"

...
The arrow-tip gestured threateningly. "Stop that right hand or I'll put this through your shoulder. Are you one of the guards?"

"No. Are you?"

"Don't be a fool. What are you doing here?" The tension in the voice had slackened, but it was still hard, suspicious. There was a trace of accent — what was it, Scots? Welsh?

It was time to get to level terms. There was something particularly deadly about the blue arrow-tip. Bond said easily: "Put away your bow and arrow, Robina. Then I'll tell you."

"You swear not to go for your gun?"

"All right. But for God's sake let's get out of the middle of this field." Without waiting, Bond rose on hands and knees and started to crawl again. Now he must get the initiative and hold it. Whoever this damned girl was, she would have to be disposed of quickly and discreetly before the shooting match began. God, as if there wasn't enough to think of already!

Bond reached the trunk of the tree. He got carefully to his feet and took a quick look through the blazing leaves. Most of the blinds had gone up. Two slow-moving coloured maids were laying a large breakfast table on the patio. He had been right. The field of vision over the tops of the trees that now fell sharply to the lake was perfect. Bond unslung his rifle and knapsack and sat down with his back against the trunk of the tree. The girl came out of the edge of the grass and stood up under the maple. She kept her distance. The arrow was still held in the bow but the bow was unpulled. They looked warily at each other.

The girl looked like a beautiful unkempt dryad in ragged shirt and trousers. The shirt and trousers were olive green, crumpled and splashed with mud and stains and torn in places, and she had bound her pale blonde hair with golden-rod to conceal its brightness for her crawl through the meadow. The beauty of her face was wild and rather animal, with a wide sensuous mouth, high cheekbones and silvery grey, disdainful eyes. There was the blood of scratches on her forearms and down one cheek, and a bruise had puffed and slightly blackened the same cheekbone. The metal feathers of a quiver full of arrows showed above her left shoulder. Apart from the bow, she carried nothing but a hunting knife at her belt and, at her other hip, a small brown canvas bag that presumably carried her food. She looked like a beautiful, dangerous customer who knew wild country and forests and was not afraid of them. She would walk alone through life and have little use for civilisation.

Bond thought she was wonderful. He smiled at her. He said softly, reassuringly: "I suppose you're Robina Hood. My name's James Bond." He reached for his flask and unscrewed the top and held it out. "Sit down and have a drink of this — firewater and coffee. And I've got some biltong. Or do you live on dew and berries?"

RichardTheBruce

Birds of the West Indies, James Bond, 1961. (1946)

THRUSHES: Turdidae

THRUSHES are a cosmopolitan family, and are well represented in the New World. Many of the species have beautiful songs. The food of the West Indian thrushes consists mainly of berries and insects.

Of the four genera native to the region, two (Mimochichla and Chichlherminia) are endemic. Solitaires (Myadestes) also inhabit North, Central and South America, while typical thrushes of the genus Turdus are found in many parts of the world.

AMERICAN ROBIN Turdus migratorius
Description: 9.5". An abundant North American thrush, chiefly greyish above and rufous on the underparts; white throat streaked with black.
Range: North America. Winters south to southern Mexico, the Bahamas ((e.g. Bimini and Eleuthera) and western Cube (Oct. 30-April).

For Your Eyes Only, John Glen, 1981.
Girl in Flower Shop, Robbin Young.

Girl: May I help you?

Bond: Yes, give me a dozen lilies, will you? I'll pick them up later.

...

Bond: Send them to the funeral, will you?

RichardTheBruce

Be a James Bond Girl
the007dossier.com/007dossier/post/2013/04/21/Be-a-James-Bond-Girl
21. April 2013 08:35 by m

In 1979. Playboy and United Artists joined forces to sponsor a James Bond Girl contest (see poster below). The winner, (Robbin Young), earned a role in the next 007 adventure, For Your Eyes Only.

PLAYBOY Magazine and United Artists Announce a Fabulous Contest!

THE GRAND PRIZE:
An Appearance in the Next James Bond Motion Picture! For the 3 Finalists: A trip to Hollywood & a major screen test

Maybe you know her. Or maybe you are her. That special kind of girl who will appear in the upcoming James Bond film. For Your Eyes Only.

Check out the major pictorial feature on the Girls of James Bond in this issue. If you, or someone you know, has what it takes to be part of James's next film adventure. here's all you do: Send in two photos of yourself—one face shot, one full-figure swimsuit shot, color or black and white, along with the official entry form below. And in 50 words or less, tell us why you belong in the next Bond film as described in the contest rules.

Three finalists will be selected for expense-paid trips to Hollywood. Each will be given a screen test to be evaluated by producer Albert R. Broccoli, director Lewis Gilbert, star Roger Moore, and Hugh M. Hefner. If yours is the screen test they select, you'll appear in the next United Artists’ James Bond production!

Entries must be received no later than August 31, 1979.

Official Rules-Here's How to Enter

1. On an Official Entry Form or plain piece of paper hand print or type you name, address telephone number and age. On a separate piece of paper no larger than 8" x 11" one side only tell us in fifty (50) words or less why you belong in a James Bond movie (Hand print or type)

2. Attach your entry securely to two (2) photographs of yourself one full face and one full figure in a bathing suit or equivalent. All photographs submitted may be in color or black & white no larger than 8" x 10" Do not submit slides, transparencies or negatives. Be sure to hand print your name and address on the back of each of the two (2) photographs submitted.

3. Mail your eniry to BE A JAMES BOND GlRL CONTEST, PO BOX 0249 BLAIR NEBRASKA 60009. Entries must be received by August 31, 1979.

4 Entries will be judged under the supervision of the D. L. BLAIR CORPORATION an independent judging organization whose decisions are final. Twenty (20) contenders ar to be selected. Entries will be judged based upon the following criteria: the appropriateness of entrants face as shown by photo entry to female character in James Bond movies as evidenced by similar characters in current and past James Bond films - 45%; overall full figure appropriateness as shown by photo entry to female character in James Bond movies as evidenced by similar characters in current and past James Bond films-45%. Originality, creativity and appropriateness of the fifty (50) word or less statement -10%.

5 The twenty (20) contenders selected based upon tne above criteria, will he required to submit to a prearranged tape recorded telephone interview. Tape recorded responses will be judged under the supervision of the D. L. BLAIR CORPORATION (used upon the following
criteria: appropriateness of responses to Questions asked 25%; clarity and voice modulation - 50%; style and humor where appropriate-25%

6. Ten (10) semi-finalists will be selected from among the twenty (20) contenders based upon a cumulative point score of the criteria listed in Rule #4 (80%) and Rule #5 (20%). Semi-finalists must agree to travel to Chicago to be videotape screen tested. Each videotape screen test will be judged based upon appropriateness of face and figure to female character in James Bond movies - 40% and ability to follow written script and direction in a given role-60%, under the supervision of D L BLAIR.

7. Three (3) finalists will be selected based upon the judgmg criteria established in the above rules. The 3 finalists selected must agree to travel to Hollywood and be screen tested for an appearance in the next James Bond film. The three (3) screen tests will be judged by producer Albert R Broccoli, director Lewis Gilbert, star Roger Moore, and Hugh M Hefner based upon speaking ability movement, facial expression and appropriateness for an appearance in a James Bend movie. The one (1) Grand Prize winner selected will appear in the next James Bend movie. The Grand Prize winner's travel expenses will be paid, and the Grand Prize wmner will also be paid the prevailing minimum Screen Actors Guild union rate. The exact value of the Grand Prize will depend upon the winner's place of residency and the number of days necessary, to complete the appearance.

8 This contest is open to females 18 years of age or older at time of entry residing in the United States or Canada except employees of Playboy Enterprises, Inc. United Artists, their affiliated companies, advertising agencies, the D. L. Blair Corporation and the families of each. All federal Provincial Municipal State and local laws and regulations apply. Taxes on the prize are the responsibility of the winner.

No substitution of prize is permitted. A duplicate prize will be awarded in case of a tie. For the name of the winner, available after all fudging has been completed, send a SEPARATE self addressed, stamped envelope to BE A JAMES BOND GlRL WINNER, PO BOX 6283 BLAIR NEBRASKA 68009

9. All entries become the exclusive property of Playboy Enterprises, Inc. and United Artists. ENTRIES AND PHOTOGRAPHS WILL NOT BE RETURNED

OFFICIAL ENTRY FORM
BE A JAMES BOND GIRL CONTEST
P.O. Box 9249
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Gentlemen, I wish to enter the BE A JAMES BOND GIRL CONTEST and hereby confirm that I have read and agree to its rules and regulations.

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Ms. Young parlayed that into a few minor film roles and a modeling career.

https://imdb.com/name/nm0949999/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

She's also been in the news of late. Spy-related, even.

Weird News
Former Bond Girl Caught Up In Real Life Russian Spy Drama

Weird News
Former Bond Girl Caught Up In Real Life Russian Spy Drama
mandatory.com/fun/1456211-former-bond-girl-caught-up-in-real-life-russian-spy-drama
by Chris Levy Aug 6th, 2018


Photo: 20th Century Fox Home Video

When former Bond Girl and Playboy Playmate Robbin Young took to Twitter to engage with Guccifer 2.0, she believed she was speaking to a Romanian man, but now the United States government announced that she was actually conversing with a team of 12 Russian hackers. Young, who posed for Playboy International a dozen times and was featured in Roger Moore’s final outing as James Bond in 1981’s For Your Eyes Only, first contacted Guccifer 2.0 in August 2016 during the run-up to the presidential election and after the account posted Democratic National Committee (DNC) e-mails obtained via hacking. What began as a simple political discussion quickly escalated into tawdry Twitter sex and what she believed to be a true international love affair.

After the United States government issued indictments against 12 Russian spies it claimed operated the Guccifer 2.0 account (which has since been suspended by Twitter), Young was left confused and in a state of disbelief. She recently spoke with The Sun, a British tabloid, where she provided some revealing quotes about the bizarre encounter.

SPY WHO SEXTED ME

SPY WHO SEXTED ME
Playboy model and Bond girl Robbin Young
had steamy online affair with ‘Russian spy’ Guccifer 2.0
accused of meddling with US election
https://thesun.co.uk/news/6803927/playboy-model-and-bond-girl-robbin-young-had-steamy-online-affair-with-russian-spy-guccifer-2-0-accused-of-meddling-with-us-election/

“If this is all true it’s like I’ve had Twitter sex with 12 Russian hackers,” she said.

The 63-year-old Las Vegas resident revealed she engaged in Twitter sex with the Russian spies in the form of dirty messages, nude photos, and even erotic poetry, all the while believing it was a Romanian man with whom she had fallen in love. The spies operating the Guccifer 2.0 played along, describing her as the “ideal woman” and engaging in flirtation, compliments, and sexual dialogue.

“When Guccifer began messaging me it didn’t take me long to fall for him,” Young told The Sun. “It seems crazy that I could fall in love with someone online so quickly but I felt we had a powerful connection.”

Their conversations lasted under a month, yet it seems the Russian spies operating the Twitter account hacked her heart as easily as they hacked the DNC e-mail servers.

Young’s interactions with the Guccifer 2.0 account came to the attention of the FBI as early as 2017 and she was interviewed for four hours. However, despite the breaking news of the indictments of those responsible for operating the account, she is not entirely convinced her e-affair was fake. She still believes she had a real connection with one individual and speculates that Guccifer 2.0 stopped contacting her either to protect her or because “he” believed her Twitter account had been compromised.

“If I were to say anything to him it would be, ‘No matter where you are in the world, no matter who you are, I want you to be safe and you will always have my heart,'” she told The Sun. “I know I will probably never hear from him again but I will never forget him.”

CommanderRoss

Robin Aircraft company, a small sports planes manufacturer from France, building amongst others the DR401



A lovely aircraft I've seen the tail of many times when the gliding club I used to be a member of used it as towplane. A very distinctive (and beautiful) sight.

Also, Curtiss used to build Robin's:



And then there's Robin Olds, a WWII and Vietnam War fighter ace

RichardTheBruce

Agent_99

I spotted some birds at the Shuttleworth Collection today!

Hawker Cygnet:


English Electric Wren:


Sopwith Dove:


Comper Swift:


Miles Hawk:


And this rare bird:

RichardTheBruce

What a treat, @Agent_99!

Wing Commander and aviator Mr. Ken Wallis' important contribution to Bond history.






And I want to add "Little Nellie" was named for Nellie Wallace, singer-songwriter, dancer and comedienne.

So named for a bird, you could say.

"Let's Have a Tiddley at the Milk Bar" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cetx8HddRKs