Prof P & his Wing-walk

One of the honorary lecturer in the department is tempting the odds by doing the wing-walk.

The email that he wrote to inform us (the dept email list) today was aptly entitled 'Biplane, theoretical & practical'

"Having recently been a co-author of a paper on biplanes in the
mathematical sense (as used by Peter Cameron), I now turn my attention
to an aviational biplane."

Prof P has been a retiree for many years now but you can still see him lurking in his office talkin (i.e. thinking aloud) to himself. He's not senile just animated. Far from short and dorky, he is tall, astute and look extremely fit for a man his age. One of the not many 'unboring' souls in the department. Today a simple question I asked when I met him at the corridor was


"Have you had lunch?"

The answer I got was a full desription of his lunch ordeal which includes some theatrical action and some sound effect! Wish there are more staff like him around this department.

I wasnt sure what this wing-walk is about. But after 'googlin' on the subject, err..it is certainly not for the faint hearted. Despite its name, you don't do any walk after all, instead the you'd be strapped while standing on a plane that will fly you up up and away into the sky.




Last year he was scaling walls of buildings feat somewhere near london and now this wing-walk thingie. Whataver will he do next.