'It was fantastic because I loved aeroplanes as much as photographs,' he says, 'but there came a point where I knew that if I stayed in engineering, I would surely die.
from Both Ends Against the Middle, published in Collected Poems, Vol 2 (Oxford University Press) As a boy I loved aeroplanes and bought up such copies of aircraft magazines as I could find, but when I first flew, I was terrified and still don't like the experience.
On the aeroplane I had stared at Mel Smith and Rowan Atkinson, whom I recognised, and a shorter, scruffier man in an anorak whom I didn't.
Only my brother Sean, who was 20 months older than me, suspected something more than just a holiday was afoot, and he screamed as he was dragged on to the aeroplane: "I don't wanna go to England; I wanna stay home and play Little League baseball".
AS ONE of those who turn right on entering an aeroplane, I've never got too excited about in-flight catering.
"I took an aeroplane into a country that welcomed me.
Maybe you want me to get up and start running around this bar pretending I'm an aeroplane before putting my shirt over my head and kissing you like a girl, do you?" "No.
Not so sweet tweet Any prominent Scot who opposes breaking up the UK can expect to be attacked – but this tweet from the blogger known as Wings over Scotland, about the country's only Labour MP, Ian Murray, is choice, even by the standards of Scottish polemics: "I hope an aeroplane delivering dirty needles to an incinerator crashes on to Ian Murray tonight".
Gardner considered himself "the worst commando in the world" and, despite being "a small-arms expert ... [who] also knew a lot about explosives", he admitted that "I bent an aeroplane I was learning to fly".
