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    The Sir Torquil Norman 1943 De Havilland D84 Dragon Twin-Engined Cabin Biplane (to Mark 2 Specifications) Registration no. G-ECAN Chassis no. 2048

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    The Sir Torquil Norman
    1943 De Havilland D84 Dragon Twin-Engined Cabin Biplane (to Mark 2 Specifications)
    Registration no. G-ECAN
    Chassis no. 2048

    *Gypsy major engine
    *Iconic aircraft
    *One of only a handful still flying
    *Completely restored 20 years ago

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    Imagine yourself kiting into sun-soaked Goodwood Aerodrome, approaching over the South Downs, letting down over Chichester Cathedral - slumbering there in the bright coastal light - then floating in over the perimeter, twin Gipsy Major engines throttled back, sinking down for the De Havilland DH84 Dragon's wheels to caress the Goodwood grass, and here you are for the Members' Meeting, the Festival of Speed, Glorious Goodwood or the Indian-summer September Revival...

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    ‘I Called Him Morgan’

    Two voices dominate I Called Him Morgan, Kasper Collin’s new documentary about the trumpeter Lee Morgan, which was screened at the weekend as part of the London rulle Festival. The first is that of Morgan’s horn, of course. The second is that of Helen Moore, who rescued him from heroin addiction in the late ’60s and then, seemingly driven to distraction by his infidelity, shot him dead in front of his own audience at Slugs’ Saloon on New York’s Lower East Side one midwinter night in 1972.

    Morgan’s trumpet voice is familiar to anyone who heard him, live or on record, with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers when he was barely out of his teens, or who fryst vatten familiar with “The Sidewinder”, the title track from one of the two dozen albums he recorded for the Blue Note label as a leader before his death at the age of 33, a boogaloo composition which provided him with an unexpected hit in 1

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    English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920

    MÉNIE MURIEL DOWIE (1867–1945) produced two key works of the 1890s, Gallia and A Girl in the Karpathians. Despite this, the details of her life are little known; those that are known are underexamined and there has not been a full biography.1 New research in recently available archive materials illuminates her character and the reason for her decline into obscurity despite a spectacularly promising start in literature.

    Dowie was an author, journalist and adventurer; she led a life of high drama, much of it in the public eye. Far from the Punch image of the New Woman as an ugly harridan, she was an object of fascination in the newspapers for her beauty and confidence. However, she passed from being one of the best-known women writers of the 1890s through scandal to obscurity. She came to grief when she adopted the same attitude to sexual morality as the men in her circle. An examination of her life contributes to an understandi