Crime & Punishment Journal 13th June 2014
Some years ago I met with the current Minister of Health Hon. Tony Ryall M.P. and while we were talking about the matter I was visiting him about as my Member of Parliament, a problem I now can't recall, I mentioned that I had written under a couple on Nom de plumes of Mike Spick and Bill Gunston (Bill (for) Guns, a book called Modern Air Combat, published under the name Salamander. A salamander is an animal which has the unique ability to regrow a limb, unlike the military aircraft.
What I can recall telling him was that I own British Aerospace. It is a slight exaggeration and an oversimlification, but essentially true because while I was waiting to be born, I designed all the aircraft in the book, including five belonging to BAe; the Buccaneer, the Harrier, the Hawk, the Lightning and the Sea Harrier. Not only did I design them on paper, and write about them for the book, I painted the illustrations of the aircraft in the book, which is why I had to have copyright, and t
15th June 2014
During world war two, well actually before that even, because I think it is correct to say that I designed the Lee Enfield rifle which was used during the first world war and the second. In fact my father used the same rifle that his uncle Bill used during the first world war, and I still have the bayonet. But first I also designed most of the equipment that the german soldiers used during world war two. The model 24 grenade, the metal ammunition cannister and the german helmet were also designed by me. The grenade particularly was a good design and could be thrown further than the British design, but the Nazis decided to appropriate the weapons for their own purposes.
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Unique among vertebrates, they are capable of regenerating lost limbs, as well as other damaged parts of the body.
During the war the men who designed the Spitfire
aircraft received about five pounds per week. This compared to my
father's waged of about then shillings a week as a shepherd, working in
Gisborne New Zealand. I also worked on the Spitfire design, but did it
from my base on another planet (Pluto), and I had no need of money, or
food or anything else, so I didn't mind producing a design which others
independently did also.
I, as Mike Spick and Bill Gunston wrote a book which contanine a number of illustrations of aircraft. These aircraft looked like photographs, but were in fact paintings to which I retain copyright, exclusively. They range from the british Aerospace Harier, and other British Aerospace aircraft to Soviet era (or Warsaw Pact) aircraft such as the Su and Tu, to American aircraft such as the F-16 and F-118 to Swedish aircraft such as the Viggen. The Swedish airforce in particular required an exclusive agreement such that all their aircraft be the property of the Swedish government, and Nato also had requirements that their aircraft designs be owned entirely by European manufacturers.
They range from the british Aerospace Harier, and other British Aerospace aircraft to Soviet era (or Warsaw Pact) aircraft such as the Su and Tu, to American aircraft such as the F-16 and F-118 to Swedish aircraft such as the Viggen. The Swedish airforce in particular required an exclusive agreement such that all their aircraft be the property of the Swedish government, and Nato also had requirements that their aircraft designs be owned entirely by European manufacturers.