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Jerry and Gayle Robertson run BOLT System, a Nashville, Tennessee-based provider of cloud-based fleet management software. When developing the fleet management system for trucking firms, they applied lessons learned when they worked as executives in the high tech industry. They also researched the industry and talked to shippers, fleet operators and drivers, and took on one other task that proved effective as it was unusual and complex. They started – and ran – a trucking company to fully test the system. Jerry even got a CDL and drove trucks.
rapid vertical convection giving rise to wisps of cloud scudding about at very low altitude below the main cloud-base.
LLNL's fall 2022 hackathon featured an Amazon Web Services DeepRacer machine learning competition, in which participants used a cloud-based racing simulator to train an autonomous race car with reinforcement learning algorithms.
One of the most majestic sights in the Highlands. A golden eagle hunting right at the foot of the cloud base, occasionally drifting higher out of sight only to re-emerge a few seconds later. Cairngorms National Park, Scottish Highlands
303_GHP_SoireePortraits_2019.jpg -- Greater Houston Partnership “Emerald City” Soiree 2019 with photography sponsored by Conoco Phillips at Hotel ZaZa August 24, 2019. (Photo by Richard Carson)
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Dartmouth Royal Regatta air display. The RAF Aerobatic Display Team were confined to low-altitude formation flying by a low cloud base and I took several still shots of them and made this short video from some of them.
265_GHP_SoireeCandids_2019.JPG -- Greater Houston Partnership “Emerald City” Soiree 2019 with photography sponsored by Conoco Phillips at Hotel ZaZa August 24, 2019. (Photo by Richard Carson)
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051_GHP_AnnualMeet_28Jan22 — Greater Houston Partnership 2022 annual meeting with 2022 Chair Thad Hill outlining the organization's priorities for the year ahead while outgoing Chair Amy Chronis provides a look back at the accomplishments of 2021 at the Hilton Americas January 28, 2022. (Photo by Richard Carson)
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493_GHP_SoireeCandids_2019.JPG -- Greater Houston Partnership “Emerald City” Soiree 2019 with photography sponsored by Conoco Phillips at Hotel ZaZa August 24, 2019. (Photo by Richard Carson)
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Lily Liu, Founder and CEO of PublicStuff, LLC launches their product at DEMO Fall 2010. Their product, PublicStuff, is an online and mobile system that enables agencies (municipalities, universities, facility / operations, et.) to deliver better services and improve communications.
Enterprise Technologies key component is efficiency. Companies seek to exploit cloud based infrastructure and related technologies to lower costs. With that, CIO's are looking to bring simple ways for employees to work from anywhere at anytime.
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044_CFBC_Easter2017.JPG-- Champion's Forest Baptist Church Easter Services April 16, 2017. (photo by Richard Carson)
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The whole morning, from Dartmouth, had been shrouded in cloud to varying degrees. It was only after passing Start Point that conditions radically improved. Here, I looked back at Start Point, the base of the lighthouse just visible. The foghorn was sounding the whole time.
Tentacle is a cloud based telemarketing software to easily manage all your outbound calling. Live call reports, call recordings, lead management and follow up for closure. Sign up today for a free trial!
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Rendezvous with Houston Methodist biennial gala at the Hilton Americas-Houston. Chaired by Cam and Rod Canion and Elizabeth and Peter Wareing, honoring the John S. Dunn Foundation, Occidental Petroleum Corporation (OXY), Sanford I. Weill and Emily Attwell Crosswell. Celebrating Houston Methodist’s 96-year commitment to leading medicine in research, education and patient care. (photo by Richard Carson)
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Shervin Talieh, CEO and Farsheed Atef, CTO of Vonata introduces Connect at DEMO Fall 2010. Connect is a solution that addresses the typical frustration callers experience when trying to reach a business by phone.
Enterprise Technologies key component is efficiency. Companies seek to exploit cloud based infrastructure and related technologies to lower costs. With that, CIO's are looking to bring simple ways for employees to work from anywhere at anytime.
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JavaScript is the local puppet master, in communication with a netherworld of cloud based servers. HTTP and JSON keep the AJAX alive as the Client pushes a shopping cart or whatever. Old myths lay just beneath the surface. The dragon, atop a treasure trove, is Python wrapping SQL engines, full of juicy secrets, authentication required.
371_GHP_SenateCruz_23aug19.JPG -- Greater Houston Partnership State of the Senate address and luncheon with Senator Ted Cruz at the Hilton Americas April 23, 2019. (Photo by Richard Carson)
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308_GHP_UpSkillWorks_25jun19.jpg -- Greater Houston Partnership's UpSkill Houston initiative at the second annual UpSkill Works conference held at the Omni Hotel June 25, 2019. (Photo by Richard Carson)
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151_SoireeWall_11Nov21 - Greater Houston Partnership Soirée annual gala celebrating Houston as a truly global city at Hotel ZaZa chaired by Margaret and Thad Hill November 11, 2021. (Photo by Richard Carson)
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106_GHP_GlobalEnergyReception_8may19.jpg -- Greater Houston Partnership Global Houston Energy Reception at Partnership Tower May 8, 2019. (Photo by Donna Carson)
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322_GHP_PetroChem_3Mar20 - Greater Houston Partnership State of Houston’s Petrochemical Industry with Bob Patel, CEO, LyondellBasell Industries; Ojas Wadivkar, Accenture; Bob Harvey, President and CEO, Greater Houston Partnership at the Hilton Americas March 3, 2020. (Photo by Richard Carson)
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179_SoireeWall_11Nov21 - Greater Houston Partnership Soirée annual gala celebrating Houston as a truly global city at Hotel ZaZa chaired by Margaret and Thad Hill November 11, 2021. (Photo by Richard Carson)
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London Heathrow airport 30 July1991.First flight 26/07/1978.On Friday 26/11/1993 at Buenos Aires/Ezeiza-Ministro Pistarini Airport, BA (EZE) (Argentina),the aircraft approached Ezeiza runway 35 in poor weather (800 feet cloud base, rain showers and a crosswind component). The plane touched down and began to aquaplane. The DC-10 could not be stopped on the 2800m long runway and overran onto soft ground by 180m. The nosegear leg collapsed rearward, causing engines no. 1 and 3 to strike the ground.The aircraft was written off....no fatalities.
LLNL's fall 2022 hackathon featured an Amazon Web Services DeepRacer machine learning competition, in which participants used a cloud-based racing simulator to train an autonomous race car with reinforcement learning algorithms.
Cloud base on the border of SE Wyoming & Nebraska. The storm died shortly afterwords - just not enough good air...
Cars and other metal debris piled high at a roadside scrapyard under the full moon. Ambient light from Barstow in the distance lights up the cloud base.
Gordon Nuttall, CEO and Founder of Rocky Mountain Ventures Company launches their new product; Capture-ID mobile scanner. These mobile optical scanners are affordable, accurate and quick.
Enterprise Technologies key component is efficiency. Companies seek to exploit cloud based infrastructure and related technologies to lower costs. With that, CIO's are looking to bring simple ways for employees to work from anywhere at anytime.
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Connect from Vonata
eM Client 2.7 from eM Client Inc.
FN Connect Secure from Federated Networks
Integrate from Integrate.com LLC
Profitably from Profitably
PublicStuff from PublicStuff LLC
Zingaya from Zingaya
Capture ID Mobile Scanner from Rocky Mountain Ventures Company
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The entire day was blessed with poor weather, the cloud base was only a few hundred feet and the visibility was rarely ever more than 1500 m
Great forest and loch walk today (keeping low because of rain and low cloud base) around Loch Ard.. 7.68 miles so was not too 'ard'!
Cappuccinos and pastries after down at Callander.. 😁
A photo that just about sums up the weather for the last week in Macau. Cloud base so low the tower has been decapitated.
I recently received a request to make a pair of cloud shoes for the owner of an Enchanted Doll. I was surprised to learn how tiny ED's feet are. Needless to say, I had to create a new cloud base and calculate the shrinkage rate of porcelain. Through trial and error I think I got the right size. I won't know for certain until I ship them out and they are placed on those tiny, regal feet. I included a comparison between my doll's feet and ED's feet, the difference is remarkable.
132_GHP_SoireePortraits_2019.jpg -- Greater Houston Partnership “Emerald City” Soiree 2019 with photography sponsored by Conoco Phillips at Hotel ZaZa August 24, 2019. (Photo by Richard Carson)
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The sun appears behind a thick line of storm clouds just a few minutes after sunrise. There are some droplets of water tinted red between the cloud base and the water.
Taken at Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Rendezvous with Houston Methodist biennial gala at the Hilton Americas-Houston. Chaired by Cam and Rod Canion and Elizabeth and Peter Wareing, honoring the John S. Dunn Foundation, Occidental Petroleum Corporation (OXY), Sanford I. Weill and Emily Attwell Crosswell. Celebrating Houston Methodist’s 96-year commitment to leading medicine in research, education and patient care. (photo by Richard Carson)
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045_CFBC_Easter2017.JPG-- Champion's Forest Baptist Church Easter Services April 16, 2017. (photo by Richard Carson)
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Whilst visiting a Carboot sale on Wetherby Racecourse my good friend Chris grabbed a couple of shots of this old-timer still earning its keep transporting racing pigeons. They were waiting for better weather or atleast the cloud to lift before letting the pigeons go......
Apparently homing pigeons....... get lost !! if the cloud base is too low
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BOLT System offers an app that runs on a standard Android-based smart phone or smart tablet and provides instant communication with the BOLT System. Drivers can view load pickup and delivery information. They can also use time stamps to record delay time before and after physical freight movement to and from the trailer.
199_GHP_SoireePortraits_2019.jpg -- Greater Houston Partnership “Emerald City” Soiree 2019 with photography sponsored by Conoco Phillips at Hotel ZaZa August 24, 2019. (Photo by Richard Carson)
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553_GHP_GolfClassic2017.JPG---Candid, Action and Awards photos Greater Houston Partnership Golf Classic 2017 at Carlton Woods Arnold Palmer course October 23, 2017. (photo by Richard Carson)
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My grandad has gone to considerable effort to type up an account of his WWII experience. I'm extremely grateful to have this account and so proud of him that I wanted to share (with his permission, of course).
WW 2 A Teenager At The Outbreak, 3rd September 1939
Irvine Brook lived at Dunford Road Holmfirth. Left Nab School 1937, aged 14 and started work as an apprentice at the then electricity works at Crown Bottom (now car park).
Was at home 3rd September 1939 when war was declared. Well remember my Mother saying “O-God”. I was aged 16.
Joined the ATC with many others. The H/Q were at the top of Bridge Lane Holmfirth.
The ATC.(Air training Cadets), Fire watching at the electricity works. ARP(Air Raid Precautions). Duties, Saturday night dancing at the Con. Club (now Bridge Hotel) occupied most of my leisure time.
1941, Many of my mates were being “ called up ”. Most went in the Army,1 or 2 Navy, a few RAF . I didn’t want to be sent in the Army and I didn’t want the Navy. I wanted to be a ”Glamour Boy Fighter Pilot” in the RAF shooting down German Bomber Planes!!!. So I volunteered for RAF aircrew.
After a medical test and a bit of a general test I was in, but told to wait for “call up.” It seemed ages waiting, but in June 1942 I was told to report to Air Crew Recruiting Centre London.. Life in the RAF was starting for me.
First 3 months square bashing drilling and being shouted at. We even marched to our meals, at the London Zoo!! I also remember marching to Lords cricket ground for lectures etc. in the hallowed pavilion. On a recent visit to Lords I noticed a plaque had been on the pavilion wall commemorating all the aircrew that had passed through the famous cricket field.
14th August1942. Sent to Initial Training Wing at St. Andrews Scotland for 3 months. More square bashing, PT, but most of the day was in the University Buildings learning about Air Navigation, meteorology, signals, Morse code and theory of flight and aircraft recognition. Now I thought this was getting a bit nearer something to do with flying! We were billeted in that famous hotel on the front-I forget the name. We also played putting on the famous golf course, in our RAF footwear. Sacrilege!! But there was a war on. Passed the exams and tests, promoted to Leading Air Craftsman!! Given a white flash to wear in my cap to signify u/t aircrew - now I was getting somewhere!
21st November1942. Posted to Perth Scotland for flying experience in a Tiger Moth. This was to see if you went green, sick, or passed out I suppose. BUT it was flying! My first ever. Not a Spitfire, but a start.10 hrs. flying in total, all with instructor of course. Came out ok, but my report said I tended to fly with my mouth open! Tiger Moths were an open cockpit and it was damned cold anyway. Stayed 2 weeks at Perth, then went home on a bit of leave.
14th Feb.1943. Posted to Heaton Park, Manchester. Waiting to go overseas for air crew training under the Empire AIR Training Scheme. It was here where one was told if you were selected for training as Pilot, Navigator W/Opp,Bomb aimer or Air Gunner. Of course all wanted Pilot Training! I got my wish- PILOT training, not Fighters, but Bombers!! Time dragged at Heaton Park waiting for the posting to overseas It was not known at the time where to. It could have been Canada, Bahamas, Rhodesia as all were members of the Empire Air Training Scheme. It turned out to be Canada for me. What a thrill!. Like thousands of other men during the war, I had never been for from home, and certainly not abroad.
Heaton Park, Manchester was near home so I managed to get home pretty often for the odd day or week-end. My Parents were always glad to see me. I was always glad for some home cooked food even with food rationed as it was. I also had a girl friend who lived at Wooldale. She was mad on dancing at the Con. Club. I went, but I was a shy lad with girls I think! I thought wait ’til .I get my Wings!! I walked her home to Wooldale in the blackout when the dance had finished and then had to walk all the way back home! Sometimes I stayed the night when it was raining. I’m sorry to say the girl died a year or so later.
21st May 1943 Movement at last. Boarded the liner QE1 for Canada, along with 3000 other airmen! Took 7 days to get there. The ship zig-zagged all over the Atlantic to avoid u-boats. This and it’s speed got us there safely. Airmen were sleeping all over the place, on decks, down corridors, dining rooms (sorry – mess decks!). My memory of this trip was of the freshly baked pure white bread baked on board. Sheer luxury to what we endured back home.
29th May 1943 Travelled by train from East coast Canada to Elementary Flying Training School in Manitoba where we were taught to fly Tiger Moth aircraft. Manitoba is all prairies, flat as a penny, hot in summer very cold in winter. Roads travel North & south only, easy to navigate by and map read.
I was based here for nearly 2 months, flying for 30 minutes or so each time, usually with the same instructor who I got on quite well with. I was taught how to swing the propeller for starting the engine-taking off – (grass runway)- and all the other basic manoeuvres involved in flying the aircraft I loved the aerobatics, the spins, the loops, and above all the low flying.
After 20 hours with instructor, I was considered ok to go solo. At last, I was alone in the aircraft taxiing out for takeoff. I can’t remember my feelings as I left the ground, climbed up to height, came back round and made what must have been a pretty good landing. MY VERY FIRST SOLO!!.
24th July 1943 After a total of 75 hours flying in Tiger Moths, with and without Instructor, I was posted to Service Flying Training School in Eastern Manitoba. This was a much larger airfield than!! previous, had a concrete runway, landing lights for night flying and lined up on the tarmac numerous Avro-Anson twin engine aircraft.the next type of aircraft I was to learn to fly – AND CRASH!!
This course was the one that decided if you were going to be a Pilot or not. If successful, you graduated at the end and received those coveted wings to wear on your tunic. If not, you were trained as Air gunner!.
I did OK , except when sent on my first solo flight, I ran out of petrol!! Both engines stopped of course and down I glided making a near perfect Belly Landing in a ploughed field! I had forgotten to put the wheels down anyway! If I had put the wheels down the aircraft would probably have somersaulted and caught fire with me in it. I was OK but scared. I didn’t really run out of petrol because there was another tank in the aircraft containing 80 gall. but because of lack of experience I failed to change over the engines to this full tank. My recollection of this incident was the eerie silence on crashing in the middle of the huge prairie field except for the warning horn sounding to indicate the undercarriage was not lowered! Also as I stepped out of the aircraft the ground was only a few inches down instead of the usual 3or4 feet when the wheels are down. Also the propellers were a funny shape. My crash was seen from the Control Tower (we had no radio) as a truck came to pick me up and took me back to the airfield.
I was hauled up in front of the Chief Flying Instructor, daren’t print his remarks. I was kicked off the flying course, grounded for a month and put on a charge for damaging H. M. aircraft to the sum of four thousand dollars! I was devastated. Was this the end of my ambition to be a Pilot? I was posted to the Cook House, peeling spuds and washing up! If they had taught me how to cook I might have been able to cook a meal some 60 or so years later!!
It was hard to watch my Colleagues on the course continuing their daily flying training and harder still when they graduated and received their Wings. On the Graduation Honour Card where all the successful pilots were named, I was listed under the heading” Absent Friends”. My Log Book was endorsed CARELESSNESS!! Really, my Instructor was partly to blame for sending me up on my first solo on twin engine aircraft on a near empty tank. So I like to think anyway!
Part way through my grounding after washing thousands of dishes and peeling millions of spuds (that’s why I am so good at that job!.) I was told to report to the Station Adjutant. It was good news. I was to be re-drafted on the next course and my charge rescinded.Hurrah! Back to flying. Much wiser on the function of the. Aircraft fuel gauges, fuel tanks and flow valve.
Eventually I completed the course and received my “Wings”. I was a qualified Pilot!! Little did I know what was to come!! Oh! and I was promoted to Sergeant with extra pay .
Next and final stage of Training was to an Operational Training Airfield on the West Coast of Canada where I was crewed up with my Navigator and Wireless Operator. My Navigator was from London, W/Op Canadian. All of us newly trained. From then on we flew as a crew. It was going to be Hampden Bombers we were to fly but as was the war situation at the time our training was on the Dakota twin-engine transport aircraft. This was the type of aircraft I flew throughout the war.
29 April 1944 Left Canada for UK travelling in troopship “Ill De France”.
I thought Canada great. The people, the Country, the hospitality, the food, although the beer could have been better. The girls were all right too!
Back home for 2 weeks leave. Wonderful seeing family and friends again. What a difference was wartime Britain to Canada.
16th May 1944 Overseas again. This time by flying boat to India and the borders of Burma. There were 6 crews on board as passengers, all newly trained on Dakotas.
31st May 1944. Our first operational Squadron! Where flying was for real and the purpose of all the training we had received. We transported troops, guns, ammunition, supplies and food to the Army in Burma, sometimes making 3 trips a day. Many trips involved flying at very low level and dropping supplies by parachute to troops in the jungles of Burma, this being the only way they could get supplies. On these occasions, I had the best job up front flying the aircraft. Over the drop zone my crew would drag the supplies down the aircraft’s fuselage ready for pushing out of the open door. As I flew the aircraft very low over the zone, at the right moment, I would press a switch, which signalled my crew to push the cargo out of the open door. Round & round we went until all supplies gone out through the open door. Back to base we flew for another load to fly to somewhere in Burma where our Army was fighting back the Japanese. After landing (sometimes on strips of flattened rice fields) and unloading the supplies, there would be injured and wounded soldiers to bring back to India for hospital treatment.
Our Squadron was based on the India Burmese border flying into and out of Burma as required. As the Army pushed the Japanese South and out of Burma our Sqd. Bases moved further South to be able to supply them easier.
I never saw an enemy aircraft in the whole of my RAF career and never fired a gun! Did I at one time want to be a fighter pilot? The enemy of Dakotas and crews in India and Burma was the WEATHER. Monsoon rain, anvil headed cumulus clouds that rose to 30000ft or more and if you flew into one the up-current or down current would lift the aircraft hundreds of feet like a feather or drop you down like a stone. Very, very dangerous and their build up so sudden. It was in these conditions that we flew underneath the cloud base sometimes just above ground level and above the treetops of the jungle. We had to fly low in bad weather to be able to map read anyway.
So, my life for the next 15 months was flying my beloved Dakota here there and everywhere. On the ground there were good times and bad times and always looking forward to the day your boat came in for home. Airmail letters from home were so welcome and treasured. News on the other war fronts was getting better too.
It was in one of these Air letters that I received the sad news of my Mother’s death on the 5th Jan. 1945 aged 47.I was somewhere in Burma , no chance of getting home. My Father and Sisters kept me well informed of events that followed.
The operational tour of Transport Command Aircrew was 700 flying hours after which I was posted out of the war zone.
The war with Japan ended on 15th August 1945. How we celebrated with the awful Indian brewed beer!!
I well remember my final flight of my Operational Tour. It was flying from our base in Burma to Bangkok in Thailand. We flew in 30 Ghurkha troops to take part in the reoccupation of the Country. On landing the defeated Japanese soldiers were milling around. Immediately the Ghurkha troops stepped out of the aircraft and saw the Japanese they dashed for cover with rifles at the ready. Such was their hatred towards them. I wanted something to remind me of this trip. A Japanese sword would do fine! But not to be. I swapped the shirt I was wearing, for a blanket, with one of the Japanese soldiers. Best I could do!
Ready for the return flight back to Base. Approaching the Dakota in an orderly marching group came 30 ex prisoners of war. Clothes in tatters, footwear in bits, bodies very thin, and showing all the signs of their last 5 or 6 years ordeal. But all now smiling. Freedom for them at last.
The flight back to base was horrendous the monsoon weather was atrocious with Cu, Nimbus cloud, severe lighting and hail all around. Impossible to go round, so tried to go above. In no way was I going to turn back to Bangkok with those POWs even though my crew thought I should. The Dakota was never a pressurised aircraft and carried no oxygen equipment, so the maximum height we would normally fly was about 10k ft.
On this momentous flight however, I took the aircraft (with a bit of coaxing from the engines) up to 19000ft to get over the top of the dangerous cloud. I and my crew on the flight deck were frozen stiff even with full heat on. and were feeling the effect of the rarefied air. Me with no shirt and a Japanese blanket that I daren’t wear not knowing where it had been!. How my passengers in their poor state of health and in that cold and near airless fuselage survived, I do not know. But I could not turn back.
After 4or5 minutes at that height we were over the worst and I could take the Dakota down to normal level. My navigator and W/Op went back to see how the ex-prisoners were coping and found them trembling and shivering, but alive. Landed safely at base in Burma. The ex-POWs overjoyed at being back on friendly ground and with friendly caring people.
9th September 1945 Went on 2 weeks leave to Hill Station in India. Very pleasant. Thought I might be sent home, but no.
19 September 1945 Posted to a newly formed internal airline Squadron based at India’s Capital City ,Delhi.
These flights involved taking high-ranking Officers to various Cities all over India and Ceylon. At times it meant being away from Base for over a week.
5th April 1946 Awarded Distinguished Flying Medal. Now promoted to Warrant Officer with another pay increase!
14th June 1946 At last notified of going home! I did hope I might be able to fly a Dakota back to England. But it wasn’t to be. Instead I bordered a crappy old troopship in Bombay on the 28th June to sail back to the UK. It didn’t matter though, I was going home. It took 23 days to sail home. Imagine my delight at seeing the English coast and docking at Clydside after years away.
My next base was at a de-mob centre somewhere down South. Kitted out with civvy suit, shirts shoes, etc., receiving pay due and some in advance. My RAF uniform finished with. Was I sorry? – YES.
3rd September 1946 REALEASED FROM RAF after just over 4 years in service and having flown 1760hrs in RAF aircrew
NOW BACK IN CIVVY STREET
For various reasons, some men (and women) do not wish to speak of their time in the Forces .I can well understand and respect those wishes.
For myself, I look back to my teenage years and beyond in the RAF. I would never in all those years have met the men I did, the places I visited and lived in, to fly in an aircraft let alone be in control of one, the events I experienced and above all giving me the confidence in years to come. It also made me realise the value of home and family that I was away from for those many years.
Do I hate wars? --- Yes
Do I regret my Service in the RAF? ----NO
375_GHP_SoireeCandids_2019.JPG -- Greater Houston Partnership “Emerald City” Soiree 2019 with photography sponsored by Conoco Phillips at Hotel ZaZa August 24, 2019. (Photo by Richard Carson)
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