Worthing Birdman Competition 2009

The Annual Birdman of Worthing Competition took place this weekend. On Sunday 23rd August 2009 individuals were seen to jump off Worthing Pier with a variety of flying machines and colourful costumes. The competition has been around in slightly varying formats since 1971 and has become so popular with locals, tourists and those who believe they can fly.
Thousands lined the beach and the pier was packed with spectators who watched in perfect weather as they cheered, jeered, applauded and generally encouraged the contestants.
This annual competition raises thousands of pounds for various charities and has become a firm attraction and guaranteed crowd puller.

Vicky Vaughn and Neeru Kareer in an unusual set of nurses outfits leapt off to raise money for Worthing Church homeless and Chestnut Tree House. These two made quite a splash.

Lee Worsfold and Darren Keeble tried to fly off the pier in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, raising money for St Barnabas Hospice.

John Donnelly was the pilot of “The Tartan Flyer” who was also raising funds for St. Barnabas Hospice and showed how aerodynamic the kilt can be.
He did not fly far but certainly floated well.

Jeremy Ransom and Christopher Oakley were angelic as “Falling Angels” and were also raising money for St Barnabas and Chestnut Tree House

Alan Walker and Ricky Hogan, raising money for Micks Garage Community House, became “The Bar Flys” and despite using their wings could not get too much distance from the pier and were swatted by the sea.

Steven Bond took on the shape of a gigantic puffin and got very wet raising money for The Cardiomyopathy Association.

Elaine Sinclair and Chris Niall became a giant cat and bird and chased each other off the pier, raising funds for Worthing District Animal Hospice, there was much fur and feathers to be seen.

Mathew Royal gave a right royal performance in service uniform as he leapt off with his miniscule aircraft supported by Helium Balloons, raising money for QAHH.

Chris Pugh and Kevin Dewhurst raising funds for the Hospice in The Weald had built a superb replica Lancaster Bomber and took off from the pier only for the pilot to fall through the bottom of the aircraft. One of the crowd commented it had been over 60 years since he last saw a Lancaster afloat on the sea at Worthing!!

Roy Thompson achieved 11.2 metre flight in a craft made by Northbrook College aeronautical students Kirsty Frampton and Adam Scrase. Fundraising was for Sparks Charity.

Major favourites on the day were Roger Garbett and Keith Leslie who are Environmental Health Officers in Gloucestershire and are part of a group called “Health and Safety Gone Mad”.
Their intention is to dispel some of the myths that surround Health and Safety issues.
Their craft was a silver stepladder that had been modified into a fixed wing aircraft and the intrepid pair wearing flying helmets, white boiler suits leapt into space and having found their craft was beginning to stall, bailed out and headed for the sea with an almighty splash. The crowd loved their attempt and their craft was one of the few that managed to land intact.

James Nugent-Harvey and Samuel Wells created a craft, “Hazy days in Nakypoo” with two very strange but inflatable ladies aboard. They jumped and found the girls were very useful as buoyancy aids. The rescue crew had fun hauling all four of them into the boat.

Kevin Hope and Neil Johnson were given first place in the Kingfisher class as they jumped from their biplane dressed as Laurel and Hardy. They were raising funds for the Chestnut Tree House.

Andy Headworth donned a very green crocodile suit to jump and raise money for Leukaemia Research. He lost his head on the way down. He was awarded second place in the Kingfisher class.

Jason Bradbury, star of the Gadget show teamed up with students from University of Southampton Engineering Department and flew a craft designed and built by the students. He was helped with the launch off the platform by his co-presenter Ortis Deley he flew a distance of 64.77 meteres to take third place in the Leonardo Da Vinci class for inventors and self-builds. His landing was hard to say the least. He was very excited at his success and I am sure will be back next year to give it a go!!
Ian Usher is famous for selling his life on eBay and now has 100 things to do in 100 weeks and of course this was one of them. He jumped off the pier astride and enormous ostrich. He looks pretty stern-faced here as he descends and hit the water pretty hard but bobbed up and was dragged onto the rescue boat.
James Wigglesworth had a spinning umbrella powered by an electric drill as a source of lift. He soon let go of the umbrellas as the water approached! James flew as Inspector Gadget and fund-raised for the NSPCC.
Joel Hicks starred as Del Boy,complete with a Trotters Independent Trading Co, 3 wheeler in bright yellow
He fund-raised for Rainbows Children's Hospice. After being rescued all he seemed to have left was the back door of the 3 wheeler!!
Nicola Mansbridge went to commemorate the 40th Moon Landing as Robotwoman and fundraised for the appropriately named Hop, Skip and Jump Charity

The Annual Birdman of Worthing Competition took place this weekend. On Sunday 23rd August 2009 individuals were seen to jump off Worthing Pier with a variety of flying machines and colourful costumes. The competition has been around in slightly varying formats since 1971 and has become so popular with locals, tourists and those who believe they can fly.
Thousands lined the beach and the pier was packed with spectators who watched in perfect weather as they cheered, jeered, applauded and generally encouraged the contestants.
This annual competition raises thousands of pounds for various charities and has become a firm attraction and guaranteed crowd puller.

Vicky Vaughn and Neeru Kareer in an unusual set of nurses outfits leapt off to raise money for Worthing Church homeless and Chestnut Tree House. These two made quite a splash.

Lee Worsfold and Darren Keeble tried to fly off the pier in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, raising money for St Barnabas Hospice.

John Donnelly was the pilot of “The Tartan Flyer” who was also raising funds for St. Barnabas Hospice and showed how aerodynamic the kilt can be.
He did not fly far but certainly floated well.

Jeremy Ransom and Christopher Oakley were angelic as “Falling Angels” and were also raising money for St Barnabas and Chestnut Tree House

Alan Walker and Ricky Hogan, raising money for Micks Garage Community House, became “The Bar Flys” and despite using their wings could not get too much distance from the pier and were swatted by the sea.

Steven Bond took on the shape of a gigantic puffin and got very wet raising money for The Cardiomyopathy Association.

Elaine Sinclair and Chris Niall became a giant cat and bird and chased each other off the pier, raising funds for Worthing District Animal Hospice, there was much fur and feathers to be seen.

Mathew Royal gave a right royal performance in service uniform as he leapt off with his miniscule aircraft supported by Helium Balloons, raising money for QAHH.

Chris Pugh and Kevin Dewhurst raising funds for the Hospice in The Weald had built a superb replica Lancaster Bomber and took off from the pier only for the pilot to fall through the bottom of the aircraft. One of the crowd commented it had been over 60 years since he last saw a Lancaster afloat on the sea at Worthing!!

Roy Thompson achieved 11.2 metre flight in a craft made by Northbrook College aeronautical students Kirsty Frampton and Adam Scrase. Fundraising was for Sparks Charity.

Major favourites on the day were Roger Garbett and Keith Leslie who are Environmental Health Officers in Gloucestershire and are part of a group called “Health and Safety Gone Mad”.
Their intention is to dispel some of the myths that surround Health and Safety issues.
Their craft was a silver stepladder that had been modified into a fixed wing aircraft and the intrepid pair wearing flying helmets, white boiler suits leapt into space and having found their craft was beginning to stall, bailed out and headed for the sea with an almighty splash. The crowd loved their attempt and their craft was one of the few that managed to land intact.

James Nugent-Harvey and Samuel Wells created a craft, “Hazy days in Nakypoo” with two very strange but inflatable ladies aboard. They jumped and found the girls were very useful as buoyancy aids. The rescue crew had fun hauling all four of them into the boat.

Kevin Hope and Neil Johnson were given first place in the Kingfisher class as they jumped from their biplane dressed as Laurel and Hardy. They were raising funds for the Chestnut Tree House.

Andy Headworth donned a very green crocodile suit to jump and raise money for Leukaemia Research. He lost his head on the way down. He was awarded second place in the Kingfisher class.

Jason Bradbury, star of the Gadget show teamed up with students from University of Southampton Engineering Department and flew a craft designed and built by the students. He was helped with the launch off the platform by his co-presenter Ortis Deley he flew a distance of 64.77 meteres to take third place in the Leonardo Da Vinci class for inventors and self-builds. His landing was hard to say the least. He was very excited at his success and I am sure will be back next year to give it a go!!
Ian Usher is famous for selling his life on eBay and now has 100 things to do in 100 weeks and of course this was one of them. He jumped off the pier astride and enormous ostrich. He looks pretty stern-faced here as he descends and hit the water pretty hard but bobbed up and was dragged onto the rescue boat.
James Wigglesworth had a spinning umbrella powered by an electric drill as a source of lift. He soon let go of the umbrellas as the water approached! James flew as Inspector Gadget and fund-raised for the NSPCC.
Joel Hicks starred as Del Boy,complete with a Trotters Independent Trading Co, 3 wheeler in bright yellow
He fund-raised for Rainbows Children's Hospice. After being rescued all he seemed to have left was the back door of the 3 wheeler!!
Nicola Mansbridge went to commemorate the 40th Moon Landing as Robotwoman and fundraised for the appropriately named Hop, Skip and Jump Charity

The Annual Birdman of Worthing Competition took place this weekend. On Sunday 23rd August 2009 individuals were seen to jump off Worthing Pier with a variety of flying machines and colourful costumes. The competition has been around in slightly varying formats since 1971 and has become so popular with locals, tourists and those who believe they can fly.
Thousands lined the beach and the pier was packed with spectators who watched in perfect weather as they cheered, jeered, applauded and generally encouraged the contestants.
This annual competition raises thousands of pounds for various charities and has become a firm attraction and guaranteed crowd puller.

Vicky Vaughn and Neeru Kareer in an unusual set of nurses outfits leapt off to raise money for Worthing Church homeless and Chestnut Tree House. These two made quite a splash.

Lee Worsfold and Darren Keeble tried to fly off the pier in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, raising money for St Barnabas Hospice.

John Donnelly was the pilot of “The Tartan Flyer” who was also raising funds for St. Barnabas Hospice and showed how aerodynamic the kilt can be.
He did not fly far but certainly floated well.

Jeremy Ransom and Christopher Oakley were angelic as “Falling Angels” and were also raising money for St Barnabas and Chestnut Tree House

Alan Walker and Ricky Hogan, raising money for Micks Garage Community House, became “The Bar Flys” and despite using their wings could not get too much distance from the pier and were swatted by the sea.

Steven Bond took on the shape of a gigantic puffin and got very wet raising money for The Cardiomyopathy Association.

Elaine Sinclair and Chris Niall became a giant cat and bird and chased each other off the pier, raising funds for Worthing District Animal Hospice, there was much fur and feathers to be seen.

Mathew Royal gave a right royal performance in service uniform as he leapt off with his miniscule aircraft supported by Helium Balloons, raising money for QAHH.

Chris Pugh and Kevin Dewhurst raising funds for the Hospice in The Weald had built a superb replica Lancaster Bomber and took off from the pier only for the pilot to fall through the bottom of the aircraft. One of the crowd commented it had been over 60 years since he last saw a Lancaster afloat on the sea at Worthing!!

Roy Thompson achieved 11.2 metre flight in a craft made by Northbrook College aeronautical students Kirsty Frampton and Adam Scrase. Fundraising was for Sparks Charity.

Major favourites on the day were Roger Garbett and Keith Leslie who are Environmental Health Officers in Gloucestershire and are part of a group called “Health and Safety Gone Mad”.
Their intention is to dispel some of the myths that surround Health and Safety issues.
Their craft was a silver stepladder that had been modified into a fixed wing aircraft and the intrepid pair wearing flying helmets, white boiler suits leapt into space and having found their craft was beginning to stall, bailed out and headed for the sea with an almighty splash. The crowd loved their attempt and their craft was one of the few that managed to land intact.

James Nugent-Harvey and Samuel Wells created a craft, “Hazy days in Nakypoo” with two very strange but inflatable ladies aboard. They jumped and found the girls were very useful as buoyancy aids. The rescue crew had fun hauling all four of them into the boat.

Kevin Hope and Neil Johnson were given first place in the Kingfisher class as they jumped from their biplane dressed as Laurel and Hardy. They were raising funds for the Chestnut Tree House.

Andy Headworth donned a very green crocodile suit to jump and raise money for Leukaemia Research. He lost his head on the way down. He was awarded second place in the Kingfisher class.

Jason Bradbury, star of the Gadget show teamed up with students from University of Southampton Engineering Department and flew a craft designed and built by the students. He was helped with the launch off the platform by his co-presenter Ortis Deley he flew a distance of 64.77 meteres to take third place in the Leonardo Da Vinci class for inventors and self-builds. His landing was hard to say the least. He was very excited at his success and I am sure will be back next year to give it a go!!
Ian Usher is famous for selling his life on eBay and now has 100 things to do in 100 weeks and of course this was one of them. He jumped off the pier astride and enormous ostrich. He looks pretty stern-faced here as he descends and hit the water pretty hard but bobbed up and was dragged onto the rescue boat.
James Wigglesworth had a spinning umbrella powered by an electric drill as a source of lift. He soon let go of the umbrellas as the water approached! James flew as Inspector Gadget and fund-raised for the NSPCC.
Joel Hicks starred as Del Boy,complete with a Trotters Independent Trading Co, 3 wheeler in bright yellow
He fund-raised for Rainbows Children's Hospice. After being rescued all he seemed to have left was the back door of the 3 wheeler!!
Nicola Mansbridge went to commemorate the 40th Moon Landing as Robotwoman and fundraised for the appropriately named Hop, Skip and Jump Charity

The Annual Birdman of Worthing Competition took place this weekend. On Sunday 23rd August 2009 individuals were seen to jump off Worthing Pier with a variety of flying machines and colourful costumes. The competition has been around in slightly varying formats since 1971 and has become so popular with locals, tourists and those who believe they can fly.
Thousands lined the beach and the pier was packed with spectators who watched in perfect weather as they cheered, jeered, applauded and generally encouraged the contestants.
This annual competition raises thousands of pounds for various charities and has become a firm attraction and guaranteed crowd puller.

Vicky Vaughn and Neeru Kareer in an unusual set of nurses outfits leapt off to raise money for Worthing Church homeless and Chestnut Tree House. These two made quite a splash.

Lee Worsfold and Darren Keeble tried to fly off the pier in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, raising money for St Barnabas Hospice.

John Donnelly was the pilot of “The Tartan Flyer” who was also raising funds for St. Barnabas Hospice and showed how aerodynamic the kilt can be.
He did not fly far but certainly floated well.

Jeremy Ransom and Christopher Oakley were angelic as “Falling Angels” and were also raising money for St Barnabas and Chestnut Tree House

Alan Walker and Ricky Hogan, raising money for Micks Garage Community House, became “The Bar Flys” and despite using their wings could not get too much distance from the pier and were swatted by the sea.

Steven Bond took on the shape of a gigantic puffin and got very wet raising money for The Cardiomyopathy Association.

Elaine Sinclair and Chris Niall became a giant cat and bird and chased each other off the pier, raising funds for Worthing District Animal Hospice, there was much fur and feathers to be seen.

Mathew Royal gave a right royal performance in service uniform as he leapt off with his miniscule aircraft supported by Helium Balloons, raising money for QAHH.

Chris Pugh and Kevin Dewhurst raising funds for the Hospice in The Weald had built a superb replica Lancaster Bomber and took off from the pier only for the pilot to fall through the bottom of the aircraft. One of the crowd commented it had been over 60 years since he last saw a Lancaster afloat on the sea at Worthing!!

Roy Thompson achieved 11.2 metre flight in a craft made by Northbrook College aeronautical students Kirsty Frampton and Adam Scrase. Fundraising was for Sparks Charity.

Major favourites on the day were Roger Garbett and Keith Leslie who are Environmental Health Officers in Gloucestershire and are part of a group called “Health and Safety Gone Mad”.
Their intention is to dispel some of the myths that surround Health and Safety issues.
Their craft was a silver stepladder that had been modified into a fixed wing aircraft and the intrepid pair wearing flying helmets, white boiler suits leapt into space and having found their craft was beginning to stall, bailed out and headed for the sea with an almighty splash. The crowd loved their attempt and their craft was one of the few that managed to land intact.

James Nugent-Harvey and Samuel Wells created a craft, “Hazy days in Nakypoo” with two very strange but inflatable ladies aboard. They jumped and found the girls were very useful as buoyancy aids. The rescue crew had fun hauling all four of them into the boat.

Kevin Hope and Neil Johnson were given first place in the Kingfisher class as they jumped from their biplane dressed as Laurel and Hardy. They were raising funds for the Chestnut Tree House.

Andy Headworth donned a very green crocodile suit to jump and raise money for Leukaemia Research. He lost his head on the way down. He was awarded second place in the Kingfisher class.

Jason Bradbury, star of the Gadget show teamed up with students from University of Southampton Engineering Department and flew a craft designed and built by the students. He was helped with the launch off the platform by his co-presenter Ortis Deley he flew a distance of 64.77 meteres to take third place in the Leonardo Da Vinci class for inventors and self-builds. His landing was hard to say the least. He was very excited at his success and I am sure will be back next year to give it a go!!
Ian Usher is famous for selling his life on eBay and now has 100 things to do in 100 weeks and of course this was one of them. He jumped off the pier astride and enormous ostrich. He looks pretty stern-faced here as he descends and hit the water pretty hard but bobbed up and was dragged onto the rescue boat.
James Wigglesworth had a spinning umbrella powered by an electric drill as a source of lift. He soon let go of the umbrellas as the water approached! James flew as Inspector Gadget and fund-raised for the NSPCC.
Joel Hicks starred as Del Boy,complete with a Trotters Independent Trading Co, 3 wheeler in bright yellow
He fund-raised for Rainbows Children's Hospice. After being rescued all he seemed to have left was the back door of the 3 wheeler!!
Nicola Mansbridge went to commemorate the 40th Moon Landing as Robotwoman and fundraised for the appropriately named Hop, Skip and Jump Charity

The Annual Birdman of Worthing Competition took place this weekend. On Sunday 23rd August 2009 individuals were seen to jump off Worthing Pier with a variety of flying machines and colourful costumes. The competition has been around in slightly varying formats since 1971 and has become so popular with locals, tourists and those who believe they can fly.
Thousands lined the beach and the pier was packed with spectators who watched in perfect weather as they cheered, jeered, applauded and generally encouraged the contestants.
This annual competition raises thousands of pounds for various charities and has become a firm attraction and guaranteed crowd puller.

Vicky Vaughn and Neeru Kareer in an unusual set of nurses outfits leapt off to raise money for Worthing Church homeless and Chestnut Tree House. These two made quite a splash.

Lee Worsfold and Darren Keeble tried to fly off the pier in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, raising money for St Barnabas Hospice.

John Donnelly was the pilot of “The Tartan Flyer” who was also raising funds for St. Barnabas Hospice and showed how aerodynamic the kilt can be.
He did not fly far but certainly floated well.

Jeremy Ransom and Christopher Oakley were angelic as “Falling Angels” and were also raising money for St Barnabas and Chestnut Tree House

Alan Walker and Ricky Hogan, raising money for Micks Garage Community House, became “The Bar Flys” and despite using their wings could not get too much distance from the pier and were swatted by the sea.

Steven Bond took on the shape of a gigantic puffin and got very wet raising money for The Cardiomyopathy Association.

Elaine Sinclair and Chris Niall became a giant cat and bird and chased each other off the pier, raising funds for Worthing District Animal Hospice, there was much fur and feathers to be seen.

Mathew Royal gave a right royal performance in service uniform as he leapt off with his miniscule aircraft supported by Helium Balloons, raising money for QAHH.

Chris Pugh and Kevin Dewhurst raising funds for the Hospice in The Weald had built a superb replica Lancaster Bomber and took off from the pier only for the pilot to fall through the bottom of the aircraft. One of the crowd commented it had been over 60 years since he last saw a Lancaster afloat on the sea at Worthing!!

Roy Thompson achieved 11.2 metre flight in a craft made by Northbrook College aeronautical students Kirsty Frampton and Adam Scrase. Fundraising was for Sparks Charity.

Major favourites on the day were Roger Garbett and Keith Leslie who are Environmental Health Officers in Gloucestershire and are part of a group called “Health and Safety Gone Mad”.
Their intention is to dispel some of the myths that surround Health and Safety issues.
Their craft was a silver stepladder that had been modified into a fixed wing aircraft and the intrepid pair wearing flying helmets, white boiler suits leapt into space and having found their craft was beginning to stall, bailed out and headed for the sea with an almighty splash. The crowd loved their attempt and their craft was one of the few that managed to land intact.

James Nugent-Harvey and Samuel Wells created a craft, “Hazy days in Nakypoo” with two very strange but inflatable ladies aboard. They jumped and found the girls were very useful as buoyancy aids. The rescue crew had fun hauling all four of them into the boat.

Kevin Hope and Neil Johnson were given first place in the Kingfisher class as they jumped from their biplane dressed as Laurel and Hardy. They were raising funds for the Chestnut Tree House.

Andy Headworth donned a very green crocodile suit to jump and raise money for Leukaemia Research. He lost his head on the way down. He was awarded second place in the Kingfisher class.

Jason Bradbury, star of the Gadget show teamed up with students from University of Southampton Engineering Department and flew a craft designed and built by the students. He was helped with the launch off the platform by his co-presenter Ortis Deley he flew a distance of 64.77 meteres to take third place in the Leonardo Da Vinci class for inventors and self-builds. His landing was hard to say the least. He was very excited at his success and I am sure will be back next year to give it a go!!
Ian Usher is famous for selling his life on eBay and now has 100 things to do in 100 weeks and of course this was one of them. He jumped off the pier astride and enormous ostrich. He looks pretty stern-faced here as he descends and hit the water pretty hard but bobbed up and was dragged onto the rescue boat.
James Wigglesworth had a spinning umbrella powered by an electric drill as a source of lift. He soon let go of the umbrellas as the water approached! James flew as Inspector Gadget and fund-raised for the NSPCC.
Joel Hicks starred as Del Boy,complete with a Trotters Independent Trading Co, 3 wheeler in bright yellow
He fund-raised for Rainbows Children's Hospice. After being rescued all he seemed to have left was the back door of the 3 wheeler!!
Nicola Mansbridge went to commemorate the 40th Moon Landing as Robotwoman and fundraised for the appropriately named Hop, Skip and Jump Charity

The Annual Birdman of Worthing Competition took place this weekend. On Sunday 23rd August 2009 individuals were seen to jump off Worthing Pier with a variety of flying machines and colourful costumes. The competition has been around in slightly varying formats since 1971 and has become so popular with locals, tourists and those who believe they can fly.
Thousands lined the beach and the pier was packed with spectators who watched in perfect weather as they cheered, jeered, applauded and generally encouraged the contestants.
This annual competition raises thousands of pounds for various charities and has become a firm attraction and guaranteed crowd puller.

Vicky Vaughn and Neeru Kareer in an unusual set of nurses outfits leapt off to raise money for Worthing Church homeless and Chestnut Tree House. These two made quite a splash.

Lee Worsfold and Darren Keeble tried to fly off the pier in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, raising money for St Barnabas Hospice.

John Donnelly was the pilot of “The Tartan Flyer” who was also raising funds for St. Barnabas Hospice and showed how aerodynamic the kilt can be.
He did not fly far but certainly floated well.

Jeremy Ransom and Christopher Oakley were angelic as “Falling Angels” and were also raising money for St Barnabas and Chestnut Tree House

Alan Walker and Ricky Hogan, raising money for Micks Garage Community House, became “The Bar Flys” and despite using their wings could not get too much distance from the pier and were swatted by the sea.

Steven Bond took on the shape of a gigantic puffin and got very wet raising money for The Cardiomyopathy Association.

Elaine Sinclair and Chris Niall became a giant cat and bird and chased each other off the pier, raising funds for Worthing District Animal Hospice, there was much fur and feathers to be seen.

Mathew Royal gave a right royal performance in service uniform as he leapt off with his miniscule aircraft supported by Helium Balloons, raising money for QAHH.

Chris Pugh and Kevin Dewhurst raising funds for the Hospice in The Weald had built a superb replica Lancaster Bomber and took off from the pier only for the pilot to fall through the bottom of the aircraft. One of the crowd commented it had been over 60 years since he last saw a Lancaster afloat on the sea at Worthing!!

Roy Thompson achieved 11.2 metre flight in a craft made by Northbrook College aeronautical students Kirsty Frampton and Adam Scrase. Fundraising was for Sparks Charity.

Major favourites on the day were Roger Garbett and Keith Leslie who are Environmental Health Officers in Gloucestershire and are part of a group called “Health and Safety Gone Mad”.
Their intention is to dispel some of the myths that surround Health and Safety issues.
Their craft was a silver stepladder that had been modified into a fixed wing aircraft and the intrepid pair wearing flying helmets, white boiler suits leapt into space and having found their craft was beginning to stall, bailed out and headed for the sea with an almighty splash. The crowd loved their attempt and their craft was one of the few that managed to land intact.

James Nugent-Harvey and Samuel Wells created a craft, “Hazy days in Nakypoo” with two very strange but inflatable ladies aboard. They jumped and found the girls were very useful as buoyancy aids. The rescue crew had fun hauling all four of them into the boat.

Kevin Hope and Neil Johnson were given first place in the Kingfisher class as they jumped from their biplane dressed as Laurel and Hardy. They were raising funds for the Chestnut Tree House.

Andy Headworth donned a very green crocodile suit to jump and raise money for Leukaemia Research. He lost his head on the way down. He was awarded second place in the Kingfisher class.

Jason Bradbury, star of the Gadget show teamed up with students from University of Southampton Engineering Department and flew a craft designed and built by the students. He was helped with the launch off the platform by his co-presenter Ortis Deley he flew a distance of 64.77 meteres to take third place in the Leonardo Da Vinci class for inventors and self-builds. His landing was hard to say the least. He was very excited at his success and I am sure will be back next year to give it a go!!
Ian Usher is famous for selling his life on eBay and now has 100 things to do in 100 weeks and of course this was one of them. He jumped off the pier astride and enormous ostrich. He looks pretty stern-faced here as he descends and hit the water pretty hard but bobbed up and was dragged onto the rescue boat.
James Wigglesworth had a spinning umbrella powered by an electric drill as a source of lift. He soon let go of the umbrellas as the water approached! James flew as Inspector Gadget and fund-raised for the NSPCC.
Joel Hicks starred as Del Boy,complete with a Trotters Independent Trading Co, 3 wheeler in bright yellow
He fund-raised for Rainbows Children's Hospice. After being rescued all he seemed to have left was the back door of the 3 wheeler!!
Nicola Mansbridge went to commemorate the 40th Moon Landing as Robotwoman and fundraised for the appropriately named Hop, Skip and Jump Charity

The Annual Birdman of Worthing Competition took place this weekend. On Sunday 23rd August 2009 individuals were seen to jump off Worthing Pier with a variety of flying machines and colourful costumes. The competition has been around in slightly varying formats since 1971 and has become so popular with locals, tourists and those who believe they can fly.
Thousands lined the beach and the pier was packed with spectators who watched in perfect weather as they cheered, jeered, applauded and generally encouraged the contestants.
This annual competition raises thousands of pounds for various charities and has become a firm attraction and guaranteed crowd puller.

Vicky Vaughn and Neeru Kareer in an unusual set of nurses outfits leapt off to raise money for Worthing Church homeless and Chestnut Tree House. These two made quite a splash.

Lee Worsfold and Darren Keeble tried to fly off the pier in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, raising money for St Barnabas Hospice.

John Donnelly was the pilot of “The Tartan Flyer” who was also raising funds for St. Barnabas Hospice and showed how aerodynamic the kilt can be.
He did not fly far but certainly floated well.

Jeremy Ransom and Christopher Oakley were angelic as “Falling Angels” and were also raising money for St Barnabas and Chestnut Tree House

Alan Walker and Ricky Hogan, raising money for Micks Garage Community House, became “The Bar Flys” and despite using their wings could not get too much distance from the pier and were swatted by the sea.

Steven Bond took on the shape of a gigantic puffin and got very wet raising money for The Cardiomyopathy Association.

Elaine Sinclair and Chris Niall became a giant cat and bird and chased each other off the pier, raising funds for Worthing District Animal Hospice, there was much fur and feathers to be seen.

Mathew Royal gave a right royal performance in service uniform as he leapt off with his miniscule aircraft supported by Helium Balloons, raising money for QAHH.

Chris Pugh and Kevin Dewhurst raising funds for the Hospice in The Weald had built a superb replica Lancaster Bomber and took off from the pier only for the pilot to fall through the bottom of the aircraft. One of the crowd commented it had been over 60 years since he last saw a Lancaster afloat on the sea at Worthing!!

Roy Thompson achieved 11.2 metre flight in a craft made by Northbrook College aeronautical students Kirsty Frampton and Adam Scrase. Fundraising was for Sparks Charity.

Major favourites on the day were Roger Garbett and Keith Leslie who are Environmental Health Officers in Gloucestershire and are part of a group called “Health and Safety Gone Mad”.
Their intention is to dispel some of the myths that surround Health and Safety issues.
Their craft was a silver stepladder that had been modified into a fixed wing aircraft and the intrepid pair wearing flying helmets, white boiler suits leapt into space and having found their craft was beginning to stall, bailed out and headed for the sea with an almighty splash. The crowd loved their attempt and their craft was one of the few that managed to land intact.

James Nugent-Harvey and Samuel Wells created a craft, “Hazy days in Nakypoo” with two very strange but inflatable ladies aboard. They jumped and found the girls were very useful as buoyancy aids. The rescue crew had fun hauling all four of them into the boat.

Kevin Hope and Neil Johnson were given first place in the Kingfisher class as they jumped from their biplane dressed as Laurel and Hardy. They were raising funds for the Chestnut Tree House.

Andy Headworth donned a very green crocodile suit to jump and raise money for Leukaemia Research. He lost his head on the way down. He was awarded second place in the Kingfisher class.

Jason Bradbury, star of the Gadget show teamed up with students from University of Southampton Engineering Department and flew a craft designed and built by the students. He was helped with the launch off the platform by his co-presenter Ortis Deley he flew a distance of 64.77 meteres to take third place in the Leonardo Da Vinci class for inventors and self-builds. His landing was hard to say the least. He was very excited at his success and I am sure will be back next year to give it a go!!
Ian Usher is famous for selling his life on eBay and now has 100 things to do in 100 weeks and of course this was one of them. He jumped off the pier astride and enormous ostrich. He looks pretty stern-faced here as he descends and hit the water pretty hard but bobbed up and was dragged onto the rescue boat.
James Wigglesworth had a spinning umbrella powered by an electric drill as a source of lift. He soon let go of the umbrellas as the water approached! James flew as Inspector Gadget and fund-raised for the NSPCC.
Joel Hicks starred as Del Boy,complete with a Trotters Independent Trading Co, 3 wheeler in bright yellow
He fund-raised for Rainbows Children's Hospice. After being rescued all he seemed to have left was the back door of the 3 wheeler!!
Nicola Mansbridge went to commemorate the 40th Moon Landing as Robotwoman and fundraised for the appropriately named Hop, Skip and Jump Charity

The Annual Birdman of Worthing Competition took place this weekend. On Sunday 23rd August 2009 individuals were seen to jump off Worthing Pier with a variety of flying machines and colourful costumes. The competition has been around in slightly varying formats since 1971 and has become so popular with locals, tourists and those who believe they can fly.
Thousands lined the beach and the pier was packed with spectators who watched in perfect weather as they cheered, jeered, applauded and generally encouraged the contestants.
This annual competition raises thousands of pounds for various charities and has become a firm attraction and guaranteed crowd puller.

Vicky Vaughn and Neeru Kareer in an unusual set of nurses outfits leapt off to raise money for Worthing Church homeless and Chestnut Tree House. These two made quite a splash.

Lee Worsfold and Darren Keeble tried to fly off the pier in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, raising money for St Barnabas Hospice.

John Donnelly was the pilot of “The Tartan Flyer” who was also raising funds for St. Barnabas Hospice and showed how aerodynamic the kilt can be.
He did not fly far but certainly floated well.

Jeremy Ransom and Christopher Oakley were angelic as “Falling Angels” and were also raising money for St Barnabas and Chestnut Tree House

Alan Walker and Ricky Hogan, raising money for Micks Garage Community House, became “The Bar Flys” and despite using their wings could not get too much distance from the pier and were swatted by the sea.

Steven Bond took on the shape of a gigantic puffin and got very wet raising money for The Cardiomyopathy Association.

Elaine Sinclair and Chris Niall became a giant cat and bird and chased each other off the pier, raising funds for Worthing District Animal Hospice, there was much fur and feathers to be seen.

Mathew Royal gave a right royal performance in service uniform as he leapt off with his miniscule aircraft supported by Helium Balloons, raising money for QAHH.

Chris Pugh and Kevin Dewhurst raising funds for the Hospice in The Weald had built a superb replica Lancaster Bomber and took off from the pier only for the pilot to fall through the bottom of the aircraft. One of the crowd commented it had been over 60 years since he last saw a Lancaster afloat on the sea at Worthing!!

Roy Thompson achieved 11.2 metre flight in a craft made by Northbrook College aeronautical students Kirsty Frampton and Adam Scrase. Fundraising was for Sparks Charity.

Major favourites on the day were Roger Garbett and Keith Leslie who are Environmental Health Officers in Gloucestershire and are part of a group called “Health and Safety Gone Mad”.
Their intention is to dispel some of the myths that surround Health and Safety issues.
Their craft was a silver stepladder that had been modified into a fixed wing aircraft and the intrepid pair wearing flying helmets, white boiler suits leapt into space and having found their craft was beginning to stall, bailed out and headed for the sea with an almighty splash. The crowd loved their attempt and their craft was one of the few that managed to land intact.

James Nugent-Harvey and Samuel Wells created a craft, “Hazy days in Nakypoo” with two very strange but inflatable ladies aboard. They jumped and found the girls were very useful as buoyancy aids. The rescue crew had fun hauling all four of them into the boat.

Kevin Hope and Neil Johnson were given first place in the Kingfisher class as they jumped from their biplane dressed as Laurel and Hardy. They were raising funds for the Chestnut Tree House.

Andy Headworth donned a very green crocodile suit to jump and raise money for Leukaemia Research. He lost his head on the way down. He was awarded second place in the Kingfisher class.

Jason Bradbury, star of the Gadget show teamed up with students from University of Southampton Engineering Department and flew a craft designed and built by the students. He was helped with the launch off the platform by his co-presenter Ortis Deley he flew a distance of 64.77 meteres to take third place in the Leonardo Da Vinci class for inventors and self-builds. His landing was hard to say the least. He was very excited at his success and I am sure will be back next year to give it a go!!
Ian Usher is famous for selling his life on eBay and now has 100 things to do in 100 weeks and of course this was one of them. He jumped off the pier astride and enormous ostrich. He looks pretty stern-faced here as he descends and hit the water pretty hard but bobbed up and was dragged onto the rescue boat.
James Wigglesworth had a spinning umbrella powered by an electric drill as a source of lift. He soon let go of the umbrellas as the water approached! James flew as Inspector Gadget and fund-raised for the NSPCC.
Joel Hicks starred as Del Boy,complete with a Trotters Independent Trading Co, 3 wheeler in bright yellow
He fund-raised for Rainbows Children's Hospice. After being rescued all he seemed to have left was the back door of the 3 wheeler!!
Nicola Mansbridge went to commemorate the 40th Moon Landing as Robotwoman and fundraised for the appropriately named Hop, Skip and Jump Charity

The Annual Birdman of Worthing Competition took place this weekend. On Sunday 23rd August 2009 individuals were seen to jump off Worthing Pier with a variety of flying machines and colourful costumes. The competition has been around in slightly varying formats since 1971 and has become so popular with locals, tourists and those who believe they can fly.
Thousands lined the beach and the pier was packed with spectators who watched in perfect weather as they cheered, jeered, applauded and generally encouraged the contestants.
This annual competition raises thousands of pounds for various charities and has become a firm attraction and guaranteed crowd puller.

Vicky Vaughn and Neeru Kareer in an unusual set of nurses outfits leapt off to raise money for Worthing Church homeless and Chestnut Tree House. These two made quite a splash.

Lee Worsfold and Darren Keeble tried to fly off the pier in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, raising money for St Barnabas Hospice.

John Donnelly was the pilot of “The Tartan Flyer” who was also raising funds for St. Barnabas Hospice and showed how aerodynamic the kilt can be.
He did not fly far but certainly floated well.

Jeremy Ransom and Christopher Oakley were angelic as “Falling Angels” and were also raising money for St Barnabas and Chestnut Tree House

Alan Walker and Ricky Hogan, raising money for Micks Garage Community House, became “The Bar Flys” and despite using their wings could not get too much distance from the pier and were swatted by the sea.

Steven Bond took on the shape of a gigantic puffin and got very wet raising money for The Cardiomyopathy Association.

Elaine Sinclair and Chris Niall became a giant cat and bird and chased each other off the pier, raising funds for Worthing District Animal Hospice, there was much fur and feathers to be seen.

Mathew Royal gave a right royal performance in service uniform as he leapt off with his miniscule aircraft supported by Helium Balloons, raising money for QAHH.

Chris Pugh and Kevin Dewhurst raising funds for the Hospice in The Weald had built a superb replica Lancaster Bomber and took off from the pier only for the pilot to fall through the bottom of the aircraft. One of the crowd commented it had been over 60 years since he last saw a Lancaster afloat on the sea at Worthing!!

Roy Thompson achieved 11.2 metre flight in a craft made by Northbrook College aeronautical students Kirsty Frampton and Adam Scrase. Fundraising was for Sparks Charity.

Major favourites on the day were Roger Garbett and Keith Leslie who are Environmental Health Officers in Gloucestershire and are part of a group called “Health and Safety Gone Mad”.
Their intention is to dispel some of the myths that surround Health and Safety issues.
Their craft was a silver stepladder that had been modified into a fixed wing aircraft and the intrepid pair wearing flying helmets, white boiler suits leapt into space and having found their craft was beginning to stall, bailed out and headed for the sea with an almighty splash. The crowd loved their attempt and their craft was one of the few that managed to land intact.

James Nugent-Harvey and Samuel Wells created a craft, “Hazy days in Nakypoo” with two very strange but inflatable ladies aboard. They jumped and found the girls were very useful as buoyancy aids. The rescue crew had fun hauling all four of them into the boat.

Kevin Hope and Neil Johnson were given first place in the Kingfisher class as they jumped from their biplane dressed as Laurel and Hardy. They were raising funds for the Chestnut Tree House.

Andy Headworth donned a very green crocodile suit to jump and raise money for Leukaemia Research. He lost his head on the way down. He was awarded second place in the Kingfisher class.

Jason Bradbury, star of the Gadget show teamed up with students from University of Southampton Engineering Department and flew a craft designed and built by the students. He was helped with the launch off the platform by his co-presenter Ortis Deley he flew a distance of 64.77 meteres to take third place in the Leonardo Da Vinci class for inventors and self-builds. His landing was hard to say the least. He was very excited at his success and I am sure will be back next year to give it a go!!
Ian Usher is famous for selling his life on eBay and now has 100 things to do in 100 weeks and of course this was one of them. He jumped off the pier astride and enormous ostrich. He looks pretty stern-faced here as he descends and hit the water pretty hard but bobbed up and was dragged onto the rescue boat.
James Wigglesworth had a spinning umbrella powered by an electric drill as a source of lift. He soon let go of the umbrellas as the water approached! James flew as Inspector Gadget and fund-raised for the NSPCC.
Joel Hicks starred as Del Boy,complete with a Trotters Independent Trading Co, 3 wheeler in bright yellow
He fund-raised for Rainbows Children's Hospice. After being rescued all he seemed to have left was the back door of the 3 wheeler!!
Nicola Mansbridge went to commemorate the 40th Moon Landing as Robotwoman and fundraised for the appropriately named Hop, Skip and Jump Charity

The Annual Birdman of Worthing Competition took place this weekend. On Sunday 23rd August 2009 individuals were seen to jump off Worthing Pier with a variety of flying machines and colourful costumes. The competition has been around in slightly varying formats since 1971 and has become so popular with locals, tourists and those who believe they can fly.
Thousands lined the beach and the pier was packed with spectators who watched in perfect weather as they cheered, jeered, applauded and generally encouraged the contestants.
This annual competition raises thousands of pounds for various charities and has become a firm attraction and guaranteed crowd puller.

Vicky Vaughn and Neeru Kareer in an unusual set of nurses outfits leapt off to raise money for Worthing Church homeless and Chestnut Tree House. These two made quite a splash.

Lee Worsfold and Darren Keeble tried to fly off the pier in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, raising money for St Barnabas Hospice.

John Donnelly was the pilot of “The Tartan Flyer” who was also raising funds for St. Barnabas Hospice and showed how aerodynamic the kilt can be.
He did not fly far but certainly floated well.

Jeremy Ransom and Christopher Oakley were angelic as “Falling Angels” and were also raising money for St Barnabas and Chestnut Tree House

Alan Walker and Ricky Hogan, raising money for Micks Garage Community House, became “The Bar Flys” and despite using their wings could not get too much distance from the pier and were swatted by the sea.

Steven Bond took on the shape of a gigantic puffin and got very wet raising money for The Cardiomyopathy Association.

Elaine Sinclair and Chris Niall became a giant cat and bird and chased each other off the pier, raising funds for Worthing District Animal Hospice, there was much fur and feathers to be seen.

Mathew Royal gave a right royal performance in service uniform as he leapt off with his miniscule aircraft supported by Helium Balloons, raising money for QAHH.

Chris Pugh and Kevin Dewhurst raising funds for the Hospice in The Weald had built a superb replica Lancaster Bomber and took off from the pier only for the pilot to fall through the bottom of the aircraft. One of the crowd commented it had been over 60 years since he last saw a Lancaster afloat on the sea at Worthing!!

Roy Thompson achieved 11.2 metre flight in a craft made by Northbrook College aeronautical students Kirsty Frampton and Adam Scrase. Fundraising was for Sparks Charity.

Major favourites on the day were Roger Garbett and Keith Leslie who are Environmental Health Officers in Gloucestershire and are part of a group called “Health and Safety Gone Mad”.
Their intention is to dispel some of the myths that surround Health and Safety issues.
Their craft was a silver stepladder that had been modified into a fixed wing aircraft and the intrepid pair wearing flying helmets, white boiler suits leapt into space and having found their craft was beginning to stall, bailed out and headed for the sea with an almighty splash. The crowd loved their attempt and their craft was one of the few that managed to land intact.

James Nugent-Harvey and Samuel Wells created a craft, “Hazy days in Nakypoo” with two very strange but inflatable ladies aboard. They jumped and found the girls were very useful as buoyancy aids. The rescue crew had fun hauling all four of them into the boat.

Kevin Hope and Neil Johnson were given first place in the Kingfisher class as they jumped from their biplane dressed as Laurel and Hardy. They were raising funds for the Chestnut Tree House.

Andy Headworth donned a very green crocodile suit to jump and raise money for Leukaemia Research. He lost his head on the way down. He was awarded second place in the Kingfisher class.

Jason Bradbury, star of the Gadget show teamed up with students from University of Southampton Engineering Department and flew a craft designed and built by the students. He was helped with the launch off the platform by his co-presenter Ortis Deley he flew a distance of 64.77 meteres to take third place in the Leonardo Da Vinci class for inventors and self-builds. His landing was hard to say the least. He was very excited at his success and I am sure will be back next year to give it a go!!
Ian Usher is famous for selling his life on eBay and now has 100 things to do in 100 weeks and of course this was one of them. He jumped off the pier astride and enormous ostrich. He looks pretty stern-faced here as he descends and hit the water pretty hard but bobbed up and was dragged onto the rescue boat.
James Wigglesworth had a spinning umbrella powered by an electric drill as a source of lift. He soon let go of the umbrellas as the water approached! James flew as Inspector Gadget and fund-raised for the NSPCC.
Joel Hicks starred as Del Boy,complete with a Trotters Independent Trading Co, 3 wheeler in bright yellow
He fund-raised for Rainbows Children's Hospice. After being rescued all he seemed to have left was the back door of the 3 wheeler!!
Nicola Mansbridge went to commemorate the 40th Moon Landing as Robotwoman and fundraised for the appropriately named Hop, Skip and Jump Charity

The Annual Birdman of Worthing Competition took place this weekend. On Sunday 23rd August 2009 individuals were seen to jump off Worthing Pier with a variety of flying machines and colourful costumes. The competition has been around in slightly varying formats since 1971 and has become so popular with locals, tourists and those who believe they can fly.
Thousands lined the beach and the pier was packed with spectators who watched in perfect weather as they cheered, jeered, applauded and generally encouraged the contestants.
This annual competition raises thousands of pounds for various charities and has become a firm attraction and guaranteed crowd puller.

Vicky Vaughn and Neeru Kareer in an unusual set of nurses outfits leapt off to raise money for Worthing Church homeless and Chestnut Tree House. These two made quite a splash.

Lee Worsfold and Darren Keeble tried to fly off the pier in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, raising money for St Barnabas Hospice.

John Donnelly was the pilot of “The Tartan Flyer” who was also raising funds for St. Barnabas Hospice and showed how aerodynamic the kilt can be.
He did not fly far but certainly floated well.

Jeremy Ransom and Christopher Oakley were angelic as “Falling Angels” and were also raising money for St Barnabas and Chestnut Tree House

Alan Walker and Ricky Hogan, raising money for Micks Garage Community House, became “The Bar Flys” and despite using their wings could not get too much distance from the pier and were swatted by the sea.

Steven Bond took on the shape of a gigantic puffin and got very wet raising money for The Cardiomyopathy Association.

Elaine Sinclair and Chris Niall became a giant cat and bird and chased each other off the pier, raising funds for Worthing District Animal Hospice, there was much fur and feathers to be seen.

Mathew Royal gave a right royal performance in service uniform as he leapt off with his miniscule aircraft supported by Helium Balloons, raising money for QAHH.

Chris Pugh and Kevin Dewhurst raising funds for the Hospice in The Weald had built a superb replica Lancaster Bomber and took off from the pier only for the pilot to fall through the bottom of the aircraft. One of the crowd commented it had been over 60 years since he last saw a Lancaster afloat on the sea at Worthing!!

Roy Thompson achieved 11.2 metre flight in a craft made by Northbrook College aeronautical students Kirsty Frampton and Adam Scrase. Fundraising was for Sparks Charity.

Major favourites on the day were Roger Garbett and Keith Leslie who are Environmental Health Officers in Gloucestershire and are part of a group called “Health and Safety Gone Mad”.
Their intention is to dispel some of the myths that surround Health and Safety issues.
Their craft was a silver stepladder that had been modified into a fixed wing aircraft and the intrepid pair wearing flying helmets, white boiler suits leapt into space and having found their craft was beginning to stall, bailed out and headed for the sea with an almighty splash. The crowd loved their attempt and their craft was one of the few that managed to land intact.

James Nugent-Harvey and Samuel Wells created a craft, “Hazy days in Nakypoo” with two very strange but inflatable ladies aboard. They jumped and found the girls were very useful as buoyancy aids. The rescue crew had fun hauling all four of them into the boat.

Kevin Hope and Neil Johnson were given first place in the Kingfisher class as they jumped from their biplane dressed as Laurel and Hardy. They were raising funds for the Chestnut Tree House.

Andy Headworth donned a very green crocodile suit to jump and raise money for Leukaemia Research. He lost his head on the way down. He was awarded second place in the Kingfisher class.

Jason Bradbury, star of the Gadget show teamed up with students from University of Southampton Engineering Department and flew a craft designed and built by the students. He was helped with the launch off the platform by his co-presenter Ortis Deley he flew a distance of 64.77 meteres to take third place in the Leonardo Da Vinci class for inventors and self-builds. His landing was hard to say the least. He was very excited at his success and I am sure will be back next year to give it a go!!
Ian Usher is famous for selling his life on eBay and now has 100 things to do in 100 weeks and of course this was one of them. He jumped off the pier astride and enormous ostrich. He looks pretty stern-faced here as he descends and hit the water pretty hard but bobbed up and was dragged onto the rescue boat.
James Wigglesworth had a spinning umbrella powered by an electric drill as a source of lift. He soon let go of the umbrellas as the water approached! James flew as Inspector Gadget and fund-raised for the NSPCC.
Joel Hicks starred as Del Boy,complete with a Trotters Independent Trading Co, 3 wheeler in bright yellow
He fund-raised for Rainbows Children's Hospice. After being rescued all he seemed to have left was the back door of the 3 wheeler!!
Nicola Mansbridge went to commemorate the 40th Moon Landing as Robotwoman and fundraised for the appropriately named Hop, Skip and Jump Charity

The Annual Birdman of Worthing Competition took place this weekend. On Sunday 23rd August 2009 individuals were seen to jump off Worthing Pier with a variety of flying machines and colourful costumes. The competition has been around in slightly varying formats since 1971 and has become so popular with locals, tourists and those who believe they can fly.
Thousands lined the beach and the pier was packed with spectators who watched in perfect weather as they cheered, jeered, applauded and generally encouraged the contestants.
This annual competition raises thousands of pounds for various charities and has become a firm attraction and guaranteed crowd puller.

Vicky Vaughn and Neeru Kareer in an unusual set of nurses outfits leapt off to raise money for Worthing Church homeless and Chestnut Tree House. These two made quite a splash.

Lee Worsfold and Darren Keeble tried to fly off the pier in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, raising money for St Barnabas Hospice.

John Donnelly was the pilot of “The Tartan Flyer” who was also raising funds for St. Barnabas Hospice and showed how aerodynamic the kilt can be.
He did not fly far but certainly floated well.

Jeremy Ransom and Christopher Oakley were angelic as “Falling Angels” and were also raising money for St Barnabas and Chestnut Tree House

Alan Walker and Ricky Hogan, raising money for Micks Garage Community House, became “The Bar Flys” and despite using their wings could not get too much distance from the pier and were swatted by the sea.

Steven Bond took on the shape of a gigantic puffin and got very wet raising money for The Cardiomyopathy Association.

Elaine Sinclair and Chris Niall became a giant cat and bird and chased each other off the pier, raising funds for Worthing District Animal Hospice, there was much fur and feathers to be seen.

Mathew Royal gave a right royal performance in service uniform as he leapt off with his miniscule aircraft supported by Helium Balloons, raising money for QAHH.

Chris Pugh and Kevin Dewhurst raising funds for the Hospice in The Weald had built a superb replica Lancaster Bomber and took off from the pier only for the pilot to fall through the bottom of the aircraft. One of the crowd commented it had been over 60 years since he last saw a Lancaster afloat on the sea at Worthing!!

Roy Thompson achieved 11.2 metre flight in a craft made by Northbrook College aeronautical students Kirsty Frampton and Adam Scrase. Fundraising was for Sparks Charity.

Major favourites on the day were Roger Garbett and Keith Leslie who are Environmental Health Officers in Gloucestershire and are part of a group called “Health and Safety Gone Mad”.
Their intention is to dispel some of the myths that surround Health and Safety issues.
Their craft was a silver stepladder that had been modified into a fixed wing aircraft and the intrepid pair wearing flying helmets, white boiler suits leapt into space and having found their craft was beginning to stall, bailed out and headed for the sea with an almighty splash. The crowd loved their attempt and their craft was one of the few that managed to land intact.

James Nugent-Harvey and Samuel Wells created a craft, “Hazy days in Nakypoo” with two very strange but inflatable ladies aboard. They jumped and found the girls were very useful as buoyancy aids. The rescue crew had fun hauling all four of them into the boat.

Kevin Hope and Neil Johnson were given first place in the Kingfisher class as they jumped from their biplane dressed as Laurel and Hardy. They were raising funds for the Chestnut Tree House.

Andy Headworth donned a very green crocodile suit to jump and raise money for Leukaemia Research. He lost his head on the way down. He was awarded second place in the Kingfisher class.

Jason Bradbury, star of the Gadget show teamed up with students from University of Southampton Engineering Department and flew a craft designed and built by the students. He was helped with the launch off the platform by his co-presenter Ortis Deley he flew a distance of 64.77 meteres to take third place in the Leonardo Da Vinci class for inventors and self-builds. His landing was hard to say the least. He was very excited at his success and I am sure will be back next year to give it a go!!
Ian Usher is famous for selling his life on eBay and now has 100 things to do in 100 weeks and of course this was one of them. He jumped off the pier astride and enormous ostrich. He looks pretty stern-faced here as he descends and hit the water pretty hard but bobbed up and was dragged onto the rescue boat.
James Wigglesworth had a spinning umbrella powered by an electric drill as a source of lift. He soon let go of the umbrellas as the water approached! James flew as Inspector Gadget and fund-raised for the NSPCC.
Joel Hicks starred as Del Boy,complete with a Trotters Independent Trading Co, 3 wheeler in bright yellow
He fund-raised for Rainbows Children's Hospice. After being rescued all he seemed to have left was the back door of the 3 wheeler!!
Nicola Mansbridge went to commemorate the 40th Moon Landing as Robotwoman and fundraised for the appropriately named Hop, Skip and Jump Charity

The Annual Birdman of Worthing Competition took place this weekend. On Sunday 23rd August 2009 individuals were seen to jump off Worthing Pier with a variety of flying machines and colourful costumes. The competition has been around in slightly varying formats since 1971 and has become so popular with locals, tourists and those who believe they can fly.
Thousands lined the beach and the pier was packed with spectators who watched in perfect weather as they cheered, jeered, applauded and generally encouraged the contestants.
This annual competition raises thousands of pounds for various charities and has become a firm attraction and guaranteed crowd puller.

Vicky Vaughn and Neeru Kareer in an unusual set of nurses outfits leapt off to raise money for Worthing Church homeless and Chestnut Tree House. These two made quite a splash.

Lee Worsfold and Darren Keeble tried to fly off the pier in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, raising money for St Barnabas Hospice.

John Donnelly was the pilot of “The Tartan Flyer” who was also raising funds for St. Barnabas Hospice and showed how aerodynamic the kilt can be.
He did not fly far but certainly floated well.

Jeremy Ransom and Christopher Oakley were angelic as “Falling Angels” and were also raising money for St Barnabas and Chestnut Tree House

Alan Walker and Ricky Hogan, raising money for Micks Garage Community House, became “The Bar Flys” and despite using their wings could not get too much distance from the pier and were swatted by the sea.

Steven Bond took on the shape of a gigantic puffin and got very wet raising money for The Cardiomyopathy Association.

Elaine Sinclair and Chris Niall became a giant cat and bird and chased each other off the pier, raising funds for Worthing District Animal Hospice, there was much fur and feathers to be seen.

Mathew Royal gave a right royal performance in service uniform as he leapt off with his miniscule aircraft supported by Helium Balloons, raising money for QAHH.

Chris Pugh and Kevin Dewhurst raising funds for the Hospice in The Weald had built a superb replica Lancaster Bomber and took off from the pier only for the pilot to fall through the bottom of the aircraft. One of the crowd commented it had been over 60 years since he last saw a Lancaster afloat on the sea at Worthing!!

Roy Thompson achieved 11.2 metre flight in a craft made by Northbrook College aeronautical students Kirsty Frampton and Adam Scrase. Fundraising was for Sparks Charity.

Major favourites on the day were Roger Garbett and Keith Leslie who are Environmental Health Officers in Gloucestershire and are part of a group called “Health and Safety Gone Mad”.
Their intention is to dispel some of the myths that surround Health and Safety issues.
Their craft was a silver stepladder that had been modified into a fixed wing aircraft and the intrepid pair wearing flying helmets, white boiler suits leapt into space and having found their craft was beginning to stall, bailed out and headed for the sea with an almighty splash. The crowd loved their attempt and their craft was one of the few that managed to land intact.

James Nugent-Harvey and Samuel Wells created a craft, “Hazy days in Nakypoo” with two very strange but inflatable ladies aboard. They jumped and found the girls were very useful as buoyancy aids. The rescue crew had fun hauling all four of them into the boat.

Kevin Hope and Neil Johnson were given first place in the Kingfisher class as they jumped from their biplane dressed as Laurel and Hardy. They were raising funds for the Chestnut Tree House.

Andy Headworth donned a very green crocodile suit to jump and raise money for Leukaemia Research. He lost his head on the way down. He was awarded second place in the Kingfisher class.

Jason Bradbury, star of the Gadget show teamed up with students from University of Southampton Engineering Department and flew a craft designed and built by the students. He was helped with the launch off the platform by his co-presenter Ortis Deley he flew a distance of 64.77 meteres to take third place in the Leonardo Da Vinci class for inventors and self-builds. His landing was hard to say the least. He was very excited at his success and I am sure will be back next year to give it a go!!
Ian Usher is famous for selling his life on eBay and now has 100 things to do in 100 weeks and of course this was one of them. He jumped off the pier astride and enormous ostrich. He looks pretty stern-faced here as he descends and hit the water pretty hard but bobbed up and was dragged onto the rescue boat.
James Wigglesworth had a spinning umbrella powered by an electric drill as a source of lift. He soon let go of the umbrellas as the water approached! James flew as Inspector Gadget and fund-raised for the NSPCC.
Joel Hicks starred as Del Boy,complete with a Trotters Independent Trading Co, 3 wheeler in bright yellow
He fund-raised for Rainbows Children's Hospice. After being rescued all he seemed to have left was the back door of the 3 wheeler!!
Nicola Mansbridge went to commemorate the 40th Moon Landing as Robotwoman and fundraised for the appropriately named Hop, Skip and Jump Charity

The Annual Birdman of Worthing Competition took place this weekend. On Sunday 23rd August 2009 individuals were seen to jump off Worthing Pier with a variety of flying machines and colourful costumes. The competition has been around in slightly varying formats since 1971 and has become so popular with locals, tourists and those who believe they can fly.
Thousands lined the beach and the pier was packed with spectators who watched in perfect weather as they cheered, jeered, applauded and generally encouraged the contestants.
This annual competition raises thousands of pounds for various charities and has become a firm attraction and guaranteed crowd puller.

Vicky Vaughn and Neeru Kareer in an unusual set of nurses outfits leapt off to raise money for Worthing Church homeless and Chestnut Tree House. These two made quite a splash.

Lee Worsfold and Darren Keeble tried to fly off the pier in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, raising money for St Barnabas Hospice.

John Donnelly was the pilot of “The Tartan Flyer” who was also raising funds for St. Barnabas Hospice and showed how aerodynamic the kilt can be.
He did not fly far but certainly floated well.

Jeremy Ransom and Christopher Oakley were angelic as “Falling Angels” and were also raising money for St Barnabas and Chestnut Tree House

Alan Walker and Ricky Hogan, raising money for Micks Garage Community House, became “The Bar Flys” and despite using their wings could not get too much distance from the pier and were swatted by the sea.

Steven Bond took on the shape of a gigantic puffin and got very wet raising money for The Cardiomyopathy Association.

Elaine Sinclair and Chris Niall became a giant cat and bird and chased each other off the pier, raising funds for Worthing District Animal Hospice, there was much fur and feathers to be seen.

Mathew Royal gave a right royal performance in service uniform as he leapt off with his miniscule aircraft supported by Helium Balloons, raising money for QAHH.

Chris Pugh and Kevin Dewhurst raising funds for the Hospice in The Weald had built a superb replica Lancaster Bomber and took off from the pier only for the pilot to fall through the bottom of the aircraft. One of the crowd commented it had been over 60 years since he last saw a Lancaster afloat on the sea at Worthing!!

Roy Thompson achieved 11.2 metre flight in a craft made by Northbrook College aeronautical students Kirsty Frampton and Adam Scrase. Fundraising was for Sparks Charity.

Major favourites on the day were Roger Garbett and Keith Leslie who are Environmental Health Officers in Gloucestershire and are part of a group called “Health and Safety Gone Mad”.
Their intention is to dispel some of the myths that surround Health and Safety issues.
Their craft was a silver stepladder that had been modified into a fixed wing aircraft and the intrepid pair wearing flying helmets, white boiler suits leapt into space and having found their craft was beginning to stall, bailed out and headed for the sea with an almighty splash. The crowd loved their attempt and their craft was one of the few that managed to land intact.

James Nugent-Harvey and Samuel Wells created a craft, “Hazy days in Nakypoo” with two very strange but inflatable ladies aboard. They jumped and found the girls were very useful as buoyancy aids. The rescue crew had fun hauling all four of them into the boat.

Kevin Hope and Neil Johnson were given first place in the Kingfisher class as they jumped from their biplane dressed as Laurel and Hardy. They were raising funds for the Chestnut Tree House.

Andy Headworth donned a very green crocodile suit to jump and raise money for Leukaemia Research. He lost his head on the way down. He was awarded second place in the Kingfisher class.

Jason Bradbury, star of the Gadget show teamed up with students from University of Southampton Engineering Department and flew a craft designed and built by the students. He was helped with the launch off the platform by his co-presenter Ortis Deley he flew a distance of 64.77 meteres to take third place in the Leonardo Da Vinci class for inventors and self-builds. His landing was hard to say the least. He was very excited at his success and I am sure will be back next year to give it a go!!
Ian Usher is famous for selling his life on eBay and now has 100 things to do in 100 weeks and of course this was one of them. He jumped off the pier astride and enormous ostrich. He looks pretty stern-faced here as he descends and hit the water pretty hard but bobbed up and was dragged onto the rescue boat.
James Wigglesworth had a spinning umbrella powered by an electric drill as a source of lift. He soon let go of the umbrellas as the water approached! James flew as Inspector Gadget and fund-raised for the NSPCC.
Joel Hicks starred as Del Boy,complete with a Trotters Independent Trading Co, 3 wheeler in bright yellow
He fund-raised for Rainbows Children's Hospice. After being rescued all he seemed to have left was the back door of the 3 wheeler!!
Nicola Mansbridge went to commemorate the 40th Moon Landing as Robotwoman and fundraised for the appropriately named Hop, Skip and Jump Charity

The Annual Birdman of Worthing Competition took place this weekend. On Sunday 23rd August 2009 individuals were seen to jump off Worthing Pier with a variety of flying machines and colourful costumes. The competition has been around in slightly varying formats since 1971 and has become so popular with locals, tourists and those who believe they can fly.
Thousands lined the beach and the pier was packed with spectators who watched in perfect weather as they cheered, jeered, applauded and generally encouraged the contestants.
This annual competition raises thousands of pounds for various charities and has become a firm attraction and guaranteed crowd puller.

Vicky Vaughn and Neeru Kareer in an unusual set of nurses outfits leapt off to raise money for Worthing Church homeless and Chestnut Tree House. These two made quite a splash.

Lee Worsfold and Darren Keeble tried to fly off the pier in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, raising money for St Barnabas Hospice.

John Donnelly was the pilot of “The Tartan Flyer” who was also raising funds for St. Barnabas Hospice and showed how aerodynamic the kilt can be.
He did not fly far but certainly floated well.

Jeremy Ransom and Christopher Oakley were angelic as “Falling Angels” and were also raising money for St Barnabas and Chestnut Tree House

Alan Walker and Ricky Hogan, raising money for Micks Garage Community House, became “The Bar Flys” and despite using their wings could not get too much distance from the pier and were swatted by the sea.

Steven Bond took on the shape of a gigantic puffin and got very wet raising money for The Cardiomyopathy Association.

Elaine Sinclair and Chris Niall became a giant cat and bird and chased each other off the pier, raising funds for Worthing District Animal Hospice, there was much fur and feathers to be seen.

Mathew Royal gave a right royal performance in service uniform as he leapt off with his miniscule aircraft supported by Helium Balloons, raising money for QAHH.

Chris Pugh and Kevin Dewhurst raising funds for the Hospice in The Weald had built a superb replica Lancaster Bomber and took off from the pier only for the pilot to fall through the bottom of the aircraft. One of the crowd commented it had been over 60 years since he last saw a Lancaster afloat on the sea at Worthing!!

Roy Thompson achieved 11.2 metre flight in a craft made by Northbrook College aeronautical students Kirsty Frampton and Adam Scrase. Fundraising was for Sparks Charity.

Major favourites on the day were Roger Garbett and Keith Leslie who are Environmental Health Officers in Gloucestershire and are part of a group called “Health and Safety Gone Mad”.
Their intention is to dispel some of the myths that surround Health and Safety issues.
Their craft was a silver stepladder that had been modified into a fixed wing aircraft and the intrepid pair wearing flying helmets, white boiler suits leapt into space and having found their craft was beginning to stall, bailed out and headed for the sea with an almighty splash. The crowd loved their attempt and their craft was one of the few that managed to land intact.

James Nugent-Harvey and Samuel Wells created a craft, “Hazy days in Nakypoo” with two very strange but inflatable ladies aboard. They jumped and found the girls were very useful as buoyancy aids. The rescue crew had fun hauling all four of them into the boat.

Kevin Hope and Neil Johnson were given first place in the Kingfisher class as they jumped from their biplane dressed as Laurel and Hardy. They were raising funds for the Chestnut Tree House.

Andy Headworth donned a very green crocodile suit to jump and raise money for Leukaemia Research. He lost his head on the way down. He was awarded second place in the Kingfisher class.

Jason Bradbury, star of the Gadget show teamed up with students from University of Southampton Engineering Department and flew a craft designed and built by the students. He was helped with the launch off the platform by his co-presenter Ortis Deley he flew a distance of 64.77 meteres to take third place in the Leonardo Da Vinci class for inventors and self-builds. His landing was hard to say the least. He was very excited at his success and I am sure will be back next year to give it a go!!
Ian Usher is famous for selling his life on eBay and now has 100 things to do in 100 weeks and of course this was one of them. He jumped off the pier astride and enormous ostrich. He looks pretty stern-faced here as he descends and hit the water pretty hard but bobbed up and was dragged onto the rescue boat.
James Wigglesworth had a spinning umbrella powered by an electric drill as a source of lift. He soon let go of the umbrellas as the water approached! James flew as Inspector Gadget and fund-raised for the NSPCC.
Joel Hicks starred as Del Boy,complete with a Trotters Independent Trading Co, 3 wheeler in bright yellow
He fund-raised for Rainbows Children's Hospice. After being rescued all he seemed to have left was the back door of the 3 wheeler!!
Nicola Mansbridge went to commemorate the 40th Moon Landing as Robotwoman and fundraised for the appropriately named Hop, Skip and Jump Charity

The Annual Birdman of Worthing Competition took place this weekend. On Sunday 23rd August 2009 individuals were seen to jump off Worthing Pier with a variety of flying machines and colourful costumes. The competition has been around in slightly varying formats since 1971 and has become so popular with locals, tourists and those who believe they can fly.
Thousands lined the beach and the pier was packed with spectators who watched in perfect weather as they cheered, jeered, applauded and generally encouraged the contestants.
This annual competition raises thousands of pounds for various charities and has become a firm attraction and guaranteed crowd puller.

Vicky Vaughn and Neeru Kareer in an unusual set of nurses outfits leapt off to raise money for Worthing Church homeless and Chestnut Tree House. These two made quite a splash.

Lee Worsfold and Darren Keeble tried to fly off the pier in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, raising money for St Barnabas Hospice.

John Donnelly was the pilot of “The Tartan Flyer” who was also raising funds for St. Barnabas Hospice and showed how aerodynamic the kilt can be.
He did not fly far but certainly floated well.

Jeremy Ransom and Christopher Oakley were angelic as “Falling Angels” and were also raising money for St Barnabas and Chestnut Tree House

Alan Walker and Ricky Hogan, raising money for Micks Garage Community House, became “The Bar Flys” and despite using their wings could not get too much distance from the pier and were swatted by the sea.

Steven Bond took on the shape of a gigantic puffin and got very wet raising money for The Cardiomyopathy Association.

Elaine Sinclair and Chris Niall became a giant cat and bird and chased each other off the pier, raising funds for Worthing District Animal Hospice, there was much fur and feathers to be seen.

Mathew Royal gave a right royal performance in service uniform as he leapt off with his miniscule aircraft supported by Helium Balloons, raising money for QAHH.

Chris Pugh and Kevin Dewhurst raising funds for the Hospice in The Weald had built a superb replica Lancaster Bomber and took off from the pier only for the pilot to fall through the bottom of the aircraft. One of the crowd commented it had been over 60 years since he last saw a Lancaster afloat on the sea at Worthing!!

Roy Thompson achieved 11.2 metre flight in a craft made by Northbrook College aeronautical students Kirsty Frampton and Adam Scrase. Fundraising was for Sparks Charity.

Major favourites on the day were Roger Garbett and Keith Leslie who are Environmental Health Officers in Gloucestershire and are part of a group called “Health and Safety Gone Mad”.
Their intention is to dispel some of the myths that surround Health and Safety issues.
Their craft was a silver stepladder that had been modified into a fixed wing aircraft and the intrepid pair wearing flying helmets, white boiler suits leapt into space and having found their craft was beginning to stall, bailed out and headed for the sea with an almighty splash. The crowd loved their attempt and their craft was one of the few that managed to land intact.

James Nugent-Harvey and Samuel Wells created a craft, “Hazy days in Nakypoo” with two very strange but inflatable ladies aboard. They jumped and found the girls were very useful as buoyancy aids. The rescue crew had fun hauling all four of them into the boat.

Kevin Hope and Neil Johnson were given first place in the Kingfisher class as they jumped from their biplane dressed as Laurel and Hardy. They were raising funds for the Chestnut Tree House.

Andy Headworth donned a very green crocodile suit to jump and raise money for Leukaemia Research. He lost his head on the way down. He was awarded second place in the Kingfisher class.

Jason Bradbury, star of the Gadget show teamed up with students from University of Southampton Engineering Department and flew a craft designed and built by the students. He was helped with the launch off the platform by his co-presenter Ortis Deley he flew a distance of 64.77 meteres to take third place in the Leonardo Da Vinci class for inventors and self-builds. His landing was hard to say the least. He was very excited at his success and I am sure will be back next year to give it a go!!
Ian Usher is famous for selling his life on eBay and now has 100 things to do in 100 weeks and of course this was one of them. He jumped off the pier astride and enormous ostrich. He looks pretty stern-faced here as he descends and hit the water pretty hard but bobbed up and was dragged onto the rescue boat.
James Wigglesworth had a spinning umbrella powered by an electric drill as a source of lift. He soon let go of the umbrellas as the water approached! James flew as Inspector Gadget and fund-raised for the NSPCC.
Joel Hicks starred as Del Boy,complete with a Trotters Independent Trading Co, 3 wheeler in bright yellow
He fund-raised for Rainbows Children's Hospice. After being rescued all he seemed to have left was the back door of the 3 wheeler!!
Nicola Mansbridge went to commemorate the 40th Moon Landing as Robotwoman and fundraised for the appropriately named Hop, Skip and Jump Charity

The Annual Birdman of Worthing Competition took place this weekend. On Sunday 23rd August 2009 individuals were seen to jump off Worthing Pier with a variety of flying machines and colourful costumes. The competition has been around in slightly varying formats since 1971 and has become so popular with locals, tourists and those who believe they can fly.
Thousands lined the beach and the pier was packed with spectators who watched in perfect weather as they cheered, jeered, applauded and generally encouraged the contestants.
This annual competition raises thousands of pounds for various charities and has become a firm attraction and guaranteed crowd puller.

Vicky Vaughn and Neeru Kareer in an unusual set of nurses outfits leapt off to raise money for Worthing Church homeless and Chestnut Tree House. These two made quite a splash.

Lee Worsfold and Darren Keeble tried to fly off the pier in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, raising money for St Barnabas Hospice.

John Donnelly was the pilot of “The Tartan Flyer” who was also raising funds for St. Barnabas Hospice and showed how aerodynamic the kilt can be.
He did not fly far but certainly floated well.

Jeremy Ransom and Christopher Oakley were angelic as “Falling Angels” and were also raising money for St Barnabas and Chestnut Tree House

Alan Walker and Ricky Hogan, raising money for Micks Garage Community House, became “The Bar Flys” and despite using their wings could not get too much distance from the pier and were swatted by the sea.

Steven Bond took on the shape of a gigantic puffin and got very wet raising money for The Cardiomyopathy Association.

Elaine Sinclair and Chris Niall became a giant cat and bird and chased each other off the pier, raising funds for Worthing District Animal Hospice, there was much fur and feathers to be seen.

Mathew Royal gave a right royal performance in service uniform as he leapt off with his miniscule aircraft supported by Helium Balloons, raising money for QAHH.

Chris Pugh and Kevin Dewhurst raising funds for the Hospice in The Weald had built a superb replica Lancaster Bomber and took off from the pier only for the pilot to fall through the bottom of the aircraft. One of the crowd commented it had been over 60 years since he last saw a Lancaster afloat on the sea at Worthing!!

Roy Thompson achieved 11.2 metre flight in a craft made by Northbrook College aeronautical students Kirsty Frampton and Adam Scrase. Fundraising was for Sparks Charity.

Major favourites on the day were Roger Garbett and Keith Leslie who are Environmental Health Officers in Gloucestershire and are part of a group called “Health and Safety Gone Mad”.
Their intention is to dispel some of the myths that surround Health and Safety issues.
Their craft was a silver stepladder that had been modified into a fixed wing aircraft and the intrepid pair wearing flying helmets, white boiler suits leapt into space and having found their craft was beginning to stall, bailed out and headed for the sea with an almighty splash. The crowd loved their attempt and their craft was one of the few that managed to land intact.

James Nugent-Harvey and Samuel Wells created a craft, “Hazy days in Nakypoo” with two very strange but inflatable ladies aboard. They jumped and found the girls were very useful as buoyancy aids. The rescue crew had fun hauling all four of them into the boat.

Kevin Hope and Neil Johnson were given first place in the Kingfisher class as they jumped from their biplane dressed as Laurel and Hardy. They were raising funds for the Chestnut Tree House.

Andy Headworth donned a very green crocodile suit to jump and raise money for Leukaemia Research. He lost his head on the way down. He was awarded second place in the Kingfisher class.

Jason Bradbury, star of the Gadget show teamed up with students from University of Southampton Engineering Department and flew a craft designed and built by the students. He was helped with the launch off the platform by his co-presenter Ortis Deley he flew a distance of 64.77 meteres to take third place in the Leonardo Da Vinci class for inventors and self-builds. His landing was hard to say the least. He was very excited at his success and I am sure will be back next year to give it a go!!
Ian Usher is famous for selling his life on eBay and now has 100 things to do in 100 weeks and of course this was one of them. He jumped off the pier astride and enormous ostrich. He looks pretty stern-faced here as he descends and hit the water pretty hard but bobbed up and was dragged onto the rescue boat.
James Wigglesworth had a spinning umbrella powered by an electric drill as a source of lift. He soon let go of the umbrellas as the water approached! James flew as Inspector Gadget and fund-raised for the NSPCC.
Joel Hicks starred as Del Boy,complete with a Trotters Independent Trading Co, 3 wheeler in bright yellow
He fund-raised for Rainbows Children's Hospice. After being rescued all he seemed to have left was the back door of the 3 wheeler!!
Nicola Mansbridge went to commemorate the 40th Moon Landing as Robotwoman and fundraised for the appropriately named Hop, Skip and Jump Charity

The Annual Birdman of Worthing Competition took place this weekend. On Sunday 23rd August 2009 individuals were seen to jump off Worthing Pier with a variety of flying machines and colourful costumes. The competition has been around in slightly varying formats since 1971 and has become so popular with locals, tourists and those who believe they can fly.
Thousands lined the beach and the pier was packed with spectators who watched in perfect weather as they cheered, jeered, applauded and generally encouraged the contestants.
This annual competition raises thousands of pounds for various charities and has become a firm attraction and guaranteed crowd puller.

Vicky Vaughn and Neeru Kareer in an unusual set of nurses outfits leapt off to raise money for Worthing Church homeless and Chestnut Tree House. These two made quite a splash.

Lee Worsfold and Darren Keeble tried to fly off the pier in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, raising money for St Barnabas Hospice.

John Donnelly was the pilot of “The Tartan Flyer” who was also raising funds for St. Barnabas Hospice and showed how aerodynamic the kilt can be.
He did not fly far but certainly floated well.

Jeremy Ransom and Christopher Oakley were angelic as “Falling Angels” and were also raising money for St Barnabas and Chestnut Tree House

Alan Walker and Ricky Hogan, raising money for Micks Garage Community House, became “The Bar Flys” and despite using their wings could not get too much distance from the pier and were swatted by the sea.

Steven Bond took on the shape of a gigantic puffin and got very wet raising money for The Cardiomyopathy Association.

Elaine Sinclair and Chris Niall became a giant cat and bird and chased each other off the pier, raising funds for Worthing District Animal Hospice, there was much fur and feathers to be seen.

Mathew Royal gave a right royal performance in service uniform as he leapt off with his miniscule aircraft supported by Helium Balloons, raising money for QAHH.

Chris Pugh and Kevin Dewhurst raising funds for the Hospice in The Weald had built a superb replica Lancaster Bomber and took off from the pier only for the pilot to fall through the bottom of the aircraft. One of the crowd commented it had been over 60 years since he last saw a Lancaster afloat on the sea at Worthing!!

Roy Thompson achieved 11.2 metre flight in a craft made by Northbrook College aeronautical students Kirsty Frampton and Adam Scrase. Fundraising was for Sparks Charity.

Major favourites on the day were Roger Garbett and Keith Leslie who are Environmental Health Officers in Gloucestershire and are part of a group called “Health and Safety Gone Mad”.
Their intention is to dispel some of the myths that surround Health and Safety issues.
Their craft was a silver stepladder that had been modified into a fixed wing aircraft and the intrepid pair wearing flying helmets, white boiler suits leapt into space and having found their craft was beginning to stall, bailed out and headed for the sea with an almighty splash. The crowd loved their attempt and their craft was one of the few that managed to land intact.

James Nugent-Harvey and Samuel Wells created a craft, “Hazy days in Nakypoo” with two very strange but inflatable ladies aboard. They jumped and found the girls were very useful as buoyancy aids. The rescue crew had fun hauling all four of them into the boat.

Kevin Hope and Neil Johnson were given first place in the Kingfisher class as they jumped from their biplane dressed as Laurel and Hardy. They were raising funds for the Chestnut Tree House.

Andy Headworth donned a very green crocodile suit to jump and raise money for Leukaemia Research. He lost his head on the way down. He was awarded second place in the Kingfisher class.

Jason Bradbury, star of the Gadget show teamed up with students from University of Southampton Engineering Department and flew a craft designed and built by the students. He was helped with the launch off the platform by his co-presenter Ortis Deley he flew a distance of 64.77 meteres to take third place in the Leonardo Da Vinci class for inventors and self-builds. His landing was hard to say the least. He was very excited at his success and I am sure will be back next year to give it a go!!
Ian Usher is famous for selling his life on eBay and now has 100 things to do in 100 weeks and of course this was one of them. He jumped off the pier astride and enormous ostrich. He looks pretty stern-faced here as he descends and hit the water pretty hard but bobbed up and was dragged onto the rescue boat.
James Wigglesworth had a spinning umbrella powered by an electric drill as a source of lift. He soon let go of the umbrellas as the water approached! James flew as Inspector Gadget and fund-raised for the NSPCC.
Joel Hicks starred as Del Boy,complete with a Trotters Independent Trading Co, 3 wheeler in bright yellow
He fund-raised for Rainbows Children's Hospice. After being rescued all he seemed to have left was the back door of the 3 wheeler!!
Nicola Mansbridge went to commemorate the 40th Moon Landing as Robotwoman and fundraised for the appropriately named Hop, Skip and Jump Charity

The Annual Birdman of Worthing Competition took place this weekend. On Sunday 23rd August 2009 individuals were seen to jump off Worthing Pier with a variety of flying machines and colourful costumes. The competition has been around in slightly varying formats since 1971 and has become so popular with locals, tourists and those who believe they can fly.
Thousands lined the beach and the pier was packed with spectators who watched in perfect weather as they cheered, jeered, applauded and generally encouraged the contestants.
This annual competition raises thousands of pounds for various charities and has become a firm attraction and guaranteed crowd puller.

Vicky Vaughn and Neeru Kareer in an unusual set of nurses outfits leapt off to raise money for Worthing Church homeless and Chestnut Tree House. These two made quite a splash.

Lee Worsfold and Darren Keeble tried to fly off the pier in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, raising money for St Barnabas Hospice.

John Donnelly was the pilot of “The Tartan Flyer” who was also raising funds for St. Barnabas Hospice and showed how aerodynamic the kilt can be.
He did not fly far but certainly floated well.

Jeremy Ransom and Christopher Oakley were angelic as “Falling Angels” and were also raising money for St Barnabas and Chestnut Tree House

Alan Walker and Ricky Hogan, raising money for Micks Garage Community House, became “The Bar Flys” and despite using their wings could not get too much distance from the pier and were swatted by the sea.

Steven Bond took on the shape of a gigantic puffin and got very wet raising money for The Cardiomyopathy Association.

Elaine Sinclair and Chris Niall became a giant cat and bird and chased each other off the pier, raising funds for Worthing District Animal Hospice, there was much fur and feathers to be seen.

Mathew Royal gave a right royal performance in service uniform as he leapt off with his miniscule aircraft supported by Helium Balloons, raising money for QAHH.

Chris Pugh and Kevin Dewhurst raising funds for the Hospice in The Weald had built a superb replica Lancaster Bomber and took off from the pier only for the pilot to fall through the bottom of the aircraft. One of the crowd commented it had been over 60 years since he last saw a Lancaster afloat on the sea at Worthing!!

Roy Thompson achieved 11.2 metre flight in a craft made by Northbrook College aeronautical students Kirsty Frampton and Adam Scrase. Fundraising was for Sparks Charity.

Major favourites on the day were Roger Garbett and Keith Leslie who are Environmental Health Officers in Gloucestershire and are part of a group called “Health and Safety Gone Mad”.
Their intention is to dispel some of the myths that surround Health and Safety issues.
Their craft was a silver stepladder that had been modified into a fixed wing aircraft and the intrepid pair wearing flying helmets, white boiler suits leapt into space and having found their craft was beginning to stall, bailed out and headed for the sea with an almighty splash. The crowd loved their attempt and their craft was one of the few that managed to land intact.

James Nugent-Harvey and Samuel Wells created a craft, “Hazy days in Nakypoo” with two very strange but inflatable ladies aboard. They jumped and found the girls were very useful as buoyancy aids. The rescue crew had fun hauling all four of them into the boat.

Kevin Hope and Neil Johnson were given first place in the Kingfisher class as they jumped from their biplane dressed as Laurel and Hardy. They were raising funds for the Chestnut Tree House.

Andy Headworth donned a very green crocodile suit to jump and raise money for Leukaemia Research. He lost his head on the way down. He was awarded second place in the Kingfisher class.

Jason Bradbury, star of the Gadget show teamed up with students from University of Southampton Engineering Department and flew a craft designed and built by the students. He was helped with the launch off the platform by his co-presenter Ortis Deley he flew a distance of 64.77 meteres to take third place in the Leonardo Da Vinci class for inventors and self-builds. His landing was hard to say the least. He was very excited at his success and I am sure will be back next year to give it a go!!
Ian Usher is famous for selling his life on eBay and now has 100 things to do in 100 weeks and of course this was one of them. He jumped off the pier astride and enormous ostrich. He looks pretty stern-faced here as he descends and hit the water pretty hard but bobbed up and was dragged onto the rescue boat.
James Wigglesworth had a spinning umbrella powered by an electric drill as a source of lift. He soon let go of the umbrellas as the water approached! James flew as Inspector Gadget and fund-raised for the NSPCC.
Joel Hicks starred as Del Boy,complete with a Trotters Independent Trading Co, 3 wheeler in bright yellow
He fund-raised for Rainbows Children's Hospice. After being rescued all he seemed to have left was the back door of the 3 wheeler!!
Nicola Mansbridge went to commemorate the 40th Moon Landing as Robotwoman and fundraised for the appropriately named Hop, Skip and Jump Charity

The Annual Birdman of Worthing Competition took place this weekend. On Sunday 23rd August 2009 individuals were seen to jump off Worthing Pier with a variety of flying machines and colourful costumes. The competition has been around in slightly varying formats since 1971 and has become so popular with locals, tourists and those who believe they can fly.
Thousands lined the beach and the pier was packed with spectators who watched in perfect weather as they cheered, jeered, applauded and generally encouraged the contestants.
This annual competition raises thousands of pounds for various charities and has become a firm attraction and guaranteed crowd puller.

Vicky Vaughn and Neeru Kareer in an unusual set of nurses outfits leapt off to raise money for Worthing Church homeless and Chestnut Tree House. These two made quite a splash.

Lee Worsfold and Darren Keeble tried to fly off the pier in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, raising money for St Barnabas Hospice.

John Donnelly was the pilot of “The Tartan Flyer” who was also raising funds for St. Barnabas Hospice and showed how aerodynamic the kilt can be.
He did not fly far but certainly floated well.

Jeremy Ransom and Christopher Oakley were angelic as “Falling Angels” and were also raising money for St Barnabas and Chestnut Tree House

Alan Walker and Ricky Hogan, raising money for Micks Garage Community House, became “The Bar Flys” and despite using their wings could not get too much distance from the pier and were swatted by the sea.

Steven Bond took on the shape of a gigantic puffin and got very wet raising money for The Cardiomyopathy Association.

Elaine Sinclair and Chris Niall became a giant cat and bird and chased each other off the pier, raising funds for Worthing District Animal Hospice, there was much fur and feathers to be seen.

Mathew Royal gave a right royal performance in service uniform as he leapt off with his miniscule aircraft supported by Helium Balloons, raising money for QAHH.

Chris Pugh and Kevin Dewhurst raising funds for the Hospice in The Weald had built a superb replica Lancaster Bomber and took off from the pier only for the pilot to fall through the bottom of the aircraft. One of the crowd commented it had been over 60 years since he last saw a Lancaster afloat on the sea at Worthing!!

Roy Thompson achieved 11.2 metre flight in a craft made by Northbrook College aeronautical students Kirsty Frampton and Adam Scrase. Fundraising was for Sparks Charity.

Major favourites on the day were Roger Garbett and Keith Leslie who are Environmental Health Officers in Gloucestershire and are part of a group called “Health and Safety Gone Mad”.
Their intention is to dispel some of the myths that surround Health and Safety issues.
Their craft was a silver stepladder that had been modified into a fixed wing aircraft and the intrepid pair wearing flying helmets, white boiler suits leapt into space and having found their craft was beginning to stall, bailed out and headed for the sea with an almighty splash. The crowd loved their attempt and their craft was one of the few that managed to land intact.

James Nugent-Harvey and Samuel Wells created a craft, “Hazy days in Nakypoo” with two very strange but inflatable ladies aboard. They jumped and found the girls were very useful as buoyancy aids. The rescue crew had fun hauling all four of them into the boat.

Kevin Hope and Neil Johnson were given first place in the Kingfisher class as they jumped from their biplane dressed as Laurel and Hardy. They were raising funds for the Chestnut Tree House.

Andy Headworth donned a very green crocodile suit to jump and raise money for Leukaemia Research. He lost his head on the way down. He was awarded second place in the Kingfisher class.

Jason Bradbury, star of the Gadget show teamed up with students from University of Southampton Engineering Department and flew a craft designed and built by the students. He was helped with the launch off the platform by his co-presenter Ortis Deley he flew a distance of 64.77 meteres to take third place in the Leonardo Da Vinci class for inventors and self-builds. His landing was hard to say the least. He was very excited at his success and I am sure will be back next year to give it a go!!
Ian Usher is famous for selling his life on eBay and now has 100 things to do in 100 weeks and of course this was one of them. He jumped off the pier astride and enormous ostrich. He looks pretty stern-faced here as he descends and hit the water pretty hard but bobbed up and was dragged onto the rescue boat.
James Wigglesworth had a spinning umbrella powered by an electric drill as a source of lift. He soon let go of the umbrellas as the water approached! James flew as Inspector Gadget and fund-raised for the NSPCC.
Joel Hicks starred as Del Boy,complete with a Trotters Independent Trading Co, 3 wheeler in bright yellow
He fund-raised for Rainbows Children's Hospice. After being rescued all he seemed to have left was the back door of the 3 wheeler!!
Nicola Mansbridge went to commemorate the 40th Moon Landing as Robotwoman and fundraised for the appropriately named Hop, Skip and Jump Charity

The Annual Birdman of Worthing Competition took place this weekend. On Sunday 23rd August 2009 individuals were seen to jump off Worthing Pier with a variety of flying machines and colourful costumes. The competition has been around in slightly varying formats since 1971 and has become so popular with locals, tourists and those who believe they can fly.
Thousands lined the beach and the pier was packed with spectators who watched in perfect weather as they cheered, jeered, applauded and generally encouraged the contestants.
This annual competition raises thousands of pounds for various charities and has become a firm attraction and guaranteed crowd puller.

Vicky Vaughn and Neeru Kareer in an unusual set of nurses outfits leapt off to raise money for Worthing Church homeless and Chestnut Tree House. These two made quite a splash.

Lee Worsfold and Darren Keeble tried to fly off the pier in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, raising money for St Barnabas Hospice.

John Donnelly was the pilot of “The Tartan Flyer” who was also raising funds for St. Barnabas Hospice and showed how aerodynamic the kilt can be.
He did not fly far but certainly floated well.

Jeremy Ransom and Christopher Oakley were angelic as “Falling Angels” and were also raising money for St Barnabas and Chestnut Tree House

Alan Walker and Ricky Hogan, raising money for Micks Garage Community House, became “The Bar Flys” and despite using their wings could not get too much distance from the pier and were swatted by the sea.

Steven Bond took on the shape of a gigantic puffin and got very wet raising money for The Cardiomyopathy Association.

Elaine Sinclair and Chris Niall became a giant cat and bird and chased each other off the pier, raising funds for Worthing District Animal Hospice, there was much fur and feathers to be seen.

Mathew Royal gave a right royal performance in service uniform as he leapt off with his miniscule aircraft supported by Helium Balloons, raising money for QAHH.

Chris Pugh and Kevin Dewhurst raising funds for the Hospice in The Weald had built a superb replica Lancaster Bomber and took off from the pier only for the pilot to fall through the bottom of the aircraft. One of the crowd commented it had been over 60 years since he last saw a Lancaster afloat on the sea at Worthing!!

Roy Thompson achieved 11.2 metre flight in a craft made by Northbrook College aeronautical students Kirsty Frampton and Adam Scrase. Fundraising was for Sparks Charity.

Major favourites on the day were Roger Garbett and Keith Leslie who are Environmental Health Officers in Gloucestershire and are part of a group called “Health and Safety Gone Mad”.
Their intention is to dispel some of the myths that surround Health and Safety issues.
Their craft was a silver stepladder that had been modified into a fixed wing aircraft and the intrepid pair wearing flying helmets, white boiler suits leapt into space and having found their craft was beginning to stall, bailed out and headed for the sea with an almighty splash. The crowd loved their attempt and their craft was one of the few that managed to land intact.

James Nugent-Harvey and Samuel Wells created a craft, “Hazy days in Nakypoo” with two very strange but inflatable ladies aboard. They jumped and found the girls were very useful as buoyancy aids. The rescue crew had fun hauling all four of them into the boat.

Kevin Hope and Neil Johnson were given first place in the Kingfisher class as they jumped from their biplane dressed as Laurel and Hardy. They were raising funds for the Chestnut Tree House.

Andy Headworth donned a very green crocodile suit to jump and raise money for Leukaemia Research. He lost his head on the way down. He was awarded second place in the Kingfisher class.

Jason Bradbury, star of the Gadget show teamed up with students from University of Southampton Engineering Department and flew a craft designed and built by the students. He was helped with the launch off the platform by his co-presenter Ortis Deley he flew a distance of 64.77 meteres to take third place in the Leonardo Da Vinci class for inventors and self-builds. His landing was hard to say the least. He was very excited at his success and I am sure will be back next year to give it a go!!
Ian Usher is famous for selling his life on eBay and now has 100 things to do in 100 weeks and of course this was one of them. He jumped off the pier astride and enormous ostrich. He looks pretty stern-faced here as he descends and hit the water pretty hard but bobbed up and was dragged onto the rescue boat.
James Wigglesworth had a spinning umbrella powered by an electric drill as a source of lift. He soon let go of the umbrellas as the water approached! James flew as Inspector Gadget and fund-raised for the NSPCC.
Joel Hicks starred as Del Boy,complete with a Trotters Independent Trading Co, 3 wheeler in bright yellow
He fund-raised for Rainbows Children's Hospice. After being rescued all he seemed to have left was the back door of the 3 wheeler!!
Nicola Mansbridge went to commemorate the 40th Moon Landing as Robotwoman and fundraised for the appropriately named Hop, Skip and Jump Charity

The Annual Birdman of Worthing Competition took place this weekend. On Sunday 23rd August 2009 individuals were seen to jump off Worthing Pier with a variety of flying machines and colourful costumes. The competition has been around in slightly varying formats since 1971 and has become so popular with locals, tourists and those who believe they can fly.
Thousands lined the beach and the pier was packed with spectators who watched in perfect weather as they cheered, jeered, applauded and generally encouraged the contestants.
This annual competition raises thousands of pounds for various charities and has become a firm attraction and guaranteed crowd puller.

Vicky Vaughn and Neeru Kareer in an unusual set of nurses outfits leapt off to raise money for Worthing Church homeless and Chestnut Tree House. These two made quite a splash.

Lee Worsfold and Darren Keeble tried to fly off the pier in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, raising money for St Barnabas Hospice.

John Donnelly was the pilot of “The Tartan Flyer” who was also raising funds for St. Barnabas Hospice and showed how aerodynamic the kilt can be.
He did not fly far but certainly floated well.

Jeremy Ransom and Christopher Oakley were angelic as “Falling Angels” and were also raising money for St Barnabas and Chestnut Tree House

Alan Walker and Ricky Hogan, raising money for Micks Garage Community House, became “The Bar Flys” and despite using their wings could not get too much distance from the pier and were swatted by the sea.

Steven Bond took on the shape of a gigantic puffin and got very wet raising money for The Cardiomyopathy Association.

Elaine Sinclair and Chris Niall became a giant cat and bird and chased each other off the pier, raising funds for Worthing District Animal Hospice, there was much fur and feathers to be seen.

Mathew Royal gave a right royal performance in service uniform as he leapt off with his miniscule aircraft supported by Helium Balloons, raising money for QAHH.

Chris Pugh and Kevin Dewhurst raising funds for the Hospice in The Weald had built a superb replica Lancaster Bomber and took off from the pier only for the pilot to fall through the bottom of the aircraft. One of the crowd commented it had been over 60 years since he last saw a Lancaster afloat on the sea at Worthing!!

Roy Thompson achieved 11.2 metre flight in a craft made by Northbrook College aeronautical students Kirsty Frampton and Adam Scrase. Fundraising was for Sparks Charity.

Major favourites on the day were Roger Garbett and Keith Leslie who are Environmental Health Officers in Gloucestershire and are part of a group called “Health and Safety Gone Mad”.
Their intention is to dispel some of the myths that surround Health and Safety issues.
Their craft was a silver stepladder that had been modified into a fixed wing aircraft and the intrepid pair wearing flying helmets, white boiler suits leapt into space and having found their craft was beginning to stall, bailed out and headed for the sea with an almighty splash. The crowd loved their attempt and their craft was one of the few that managed to land intact.

James Nugent-Harvey and Samuel Wells created a craft, “Hazy days in Nakypoo” with two very strange but inflatable ladies aboard. They jumped and found the girls were very useful as buoyancy aids. The rescue crew had fun hauling all four of them into the boat.

Kevin Hope and Neil Johnson were given first place in the Kingfisher class as they jumped from their biplane dressed as Laurel and Hardy. They were raising funds for the Chestnut Tree House.

Andy Headworth donned a very green crocodile suit to jump and raise money for Leukaemia Research. He lost his head on the way down. He was awarded second place in the Kingfisher class.

Jason Bradbury, star of the Gadget show teamed up with students from University of Southampton Engineering Department and flew a craft designed and built by the students. He was helped with the launch off the platform by his co-presenter Ortis Deley he flew a distance of 64.77 meteres to take third place in the Leonardo Da Vinci class for inventors and self-builds. His landing was hard to say the least. He was very excited at his success and I am sure will be back next year to give it a go!!
Ian Usher is famous for selling his life on eBay and now has 100 things to do in 100 weeks and of course this was one of them. He jumped off the pier astride and enormous ostrich. He looks pretty stern-faced here as he descends and hit the water pretty hard but bobbed up and was dragged onto the rescue boat.
James Wigglesworth had a spinning umbrella powered by an electric drill as a source of lift. He soon let go of the umbrellas as the water approached! James flew as Inspector Gadget and fund-raised for the NSPCC.
Joel Hicks starred as Del Boy,complete with a Trotters Independent Trading Co, 3 wheeler in bright yellow
He fund-raised for Rainbows Children's Hospice. After being rescued all he seemed to have left was the back door of the 3 wheeler!!
Nicola Mansbridge went to commemorate the 40th Moon Landing as Robotwoman and fundraised for the appropriately named Hop, Skip and Jump Charity

The Annual Birdman of Worthing Competition took place this weekend. On Sunday 23rd August 2009 individuals were seen to jump off Worthing Pier with a variety of flying machines and colourful costumes. The competition has been around in slightly varying formats since 1971 and has become so popular with locals, tourists and those who believe they can fly.
Thousands lined the beach and the pier was packed with spectators who watched in perfect weather as they cheered, jeered, applauded and generally encouraged the contestants.
This annual competition raises thousands of pounds for various charities and has become a firm attraction and guaranteed crowd puller.

Vicky Vaughn and Neeru Kareer in an unusual set of nurses outfits leapt off to raise money for Worthing Church homeless and Chestnut Tree House. These two made quite a splash.

Lee Worsfold and Darren Keeble tried to fly off the pier in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, raising money for St Barnabas Hospice.

John Donnelly was the pilot of “The Tartan Flyer” who was also raising funds for St. Barnabas Hospice and showed how aerodynamic the kilt can be.
He did not fly far but certainly floated well.

Jeremy Ransom and Christopher Oakley were angelic as “Falling Angels” and were also raising money for St Barnabas and Chestnut Tree House

Alan Walker and Ricky Hogan, raising money for Micks Garage Community House, became “The Bar Flys” and despite using their wings could not get too much distance from the pier and were swatted by the sea.

Steven Bond took on the shape of a gigantic puffin and got very wet raising money for The Cardiomyopathy Association.

Elaine Sinclair and Chris Niall became a giant cat and bird and chased each other off the pier, raising funds for Worthing District Animal Hospice, there was much fur and feathers to be seen.

Mathew Royal gave a right royal performance in service uniform as he leapt off with his miniscule aircraft supported by Helium Balloons, raising money for QAHH.

Chris Pugh and Kevin Dewhurst raising funds for the Hospice in The Weald had built a superb replica Lancaster Bomber and took off from the pier only for the pilot to fall through the bottom of the aircraft. One of the crowd commented it had been over 60 years since he last saw a Lancaster afloat on the sea at Worthing!!

Roy Thompson achieved 11.2 metre flight in a craft made by Northbrook College aeronautical students Kirsty Frampton and Adam Scrase. Fundraising was for Sparks Charity.

Major favourites on the day were Roger Garbett and Keith Leslie who are Environmental Health Officers in Gloucestershire and are part of a group called “Health and Safety Gone Mad”.
Their intention is to dispel some of the myths that surround Health and Safety issues.
Their craft was a silver stepladder that had been modified into a fixed wing aircraft and the intrepid pair wearing flying helmets, white boiler suits leapt into space and having found their craft was beginning to stall, bailed out and headed for the sea with an almighty splash. The crowd loved their attempt and their craft was one of the few that managed to land intact.

James Nugent-Harvey and Samuel Wells created a craft, “Hazy days in Nakypoo” with two very strange but inflatable ladies aboard. They jumped and found the girls were very useful as buoyancy aids. The rescue crew had fun hauling all four of them into the boat.

Kevin Hope and Neil Johnson were given first place in the Kingfisher class as they jumped from their biplane dressed as Laurel and Hardy. They were raising funds for the Chestnut Tree House.

Andy Headworth donned a very green crocodile suit to jump and raise money for Leukaemia Research. He lost his head on the way down. He was awarded second place in the Kingfisher class.

Jason Bradbury, star of the Gadget show teamed up with students from University of Southampton Engineering Department and flew a craft designed and built by the students. He was helped with the launch off the platform by his co-presenter Ortis Deley he flew a distance of 64.77 meteres to take third place in the Leonardo Da Vinci class for inventors and self-builds. His landing was hard to say the least. He was very excited at his success and I am sure will be back next year to give it a go!!
Ian Usher is famous for selling his life on eBay and now has 100 things to do in 100 weeks and of course this was one of them. He jumped off the pier astride and enormous ostrich. He looks pretty stern-faced here as he descends and hit the water pretty hard but bobbed up and was dragged onto the rescue boat.
James Wigglesworth had a spinning umbrella powered by an electric drill as a source of lift. He soon let go of the umbrellas as the water approached! James flew as Inspector Gadget and fund-raised for the NSPCC.
Joel Hicks starred as Del Boy,complete with a Trotters Independent Trading Co, 3 wheeler in bright yellow
He fund-raised for Rainbows Children's Hospice. After being rescued all he seemed to have left was the back door of the 3 wheeler!!
Nicola Mansbridge went to commemorate the 40th Moon Landing as Robotwoman and fundraised for the appropriately named Hop, Skip and Jump Charity

The Annual Birdman of Worthing Competition took place this weekend. On Sunday 23rd August 2009 individuals were seen to jump off Worthing Pier with a variety of flying machines and colourful costumes. The competition has been around in slightly varying formats since 1971 and has become so popular with locals, tourists and those who believe they can fly.
Thousands lined the beach and the pier was packed with spectators who watched in perfect weather as they cheered, jeered, applauded and generally encouraged the contestants.
This annual competition raises thousands of pounds for various charities and has become a firm attraction and guaranteed crowd puller.

Vicky Vaughn and Neeru Kareer in an unusual set of nurses outfits leapt off to raise money for Worthing Church homeless and Chestnut Tree House. These two made quite a splash.

Lee Worsfold and Darren Keeble tried to fly off the pier in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, raising money for St Barnabas Hospice.

John Donnelly was the pilot of “The Tartan Flyer” who was also raising funds for St. Barnabas Hospice and showed how aerodynamic the kilt can be.
He did not fly far but certainly floated well.

Jeremy Ransom and Christopher Oakley were angelic as “Falling Angels” and were also raising money for St Barnabas and Chestnut Tree House

Alan Walker and Ricky Hogan, raising money for Micks Garage Community House, became “The Bar Flys” and despite using their wings could not get too much distance from the pier and were swatted by the sea.

Steven Bond took on the shape of a gigantic puffin and got very wet raising money for The Cardiomyopathy Association.

Elaine Sinclair and Chris Niall became a giant cat and bird and chased each other off the pier, raising funds for Worthing District Animal Hospice, there was much fur and feathers to be seen.

Mathew Royal gave a right royal performance in service uniform as he leapt off with his miniscule aircraft supported by Helium Balloons, raising money for QAHH.

Chris Pugh and Kevin Dewhurst raising funds for the Hospice in The Weald had built a superb replica Lancaster Bomber and took off from the pier only for the pilot to fall through the bottom of the aircraft. One of the crowd commented it had been over 60 years since he last saw a Lancaster afloat on the sea at Worthing!!

Roy Thompson achieved 11.2 metre flight in a craft made by Northbrook College aeronautical students Kirsty Frampton and Adam Scrase. Fundraising was for Sparks Charity.

Major favourites on the day were Roger Garbett and Keith Leslie who are Environmental Health Officers in Gloucestershire and are part of a group called “Health and Safety Gone Mad”.
Their intention is to dispel some of the myths that surround Health and Safety issues.
Their craft was a silver stepladder that had been modified into a fixed wing aircraft and the intrepid pair wearing flying helmets, white boiler suits leapt into space and having found their craft was beginning to stall, bailed out and headed for the sea with an almighty splash. The crowd loved their attempt and their craft was one of the few that managed to land intact.

James Nugent-Harvey and Samuel Wells created a craft, “Hazy days in Nakypoo” with two very strange but inflatable ladies aboard. They jumped and found the girls were very useful as buoyancy aids. The rescue crew had fun hauling all four of them into the boat.

Kevin Hope and Neil Johnson were given first place in the Kingfisher class as they jumped from their biplane dressed as Laurel and Hardy. They were raising funds for the Chestnut Tree House.

Andy Headworth donned a very green crocodile suit to jump and raise money for Leukaemia Research. He lost his head on the way down. He was awarded second place in the Kingfisher class.

Jason Bradbury, star of the Gadget show teamed up with students from University of Southampton Engineering Department and flew a craft designed and built by the students. He was helped with the launch off the platform by his co-presenter Ortis Deley he flew a distance of 64.77 meteres to take third place in the Leonardo Da Vinci class for inventors and self-builds. His landing was hard to say the least. He was very excited at his success and I am sure will be back next year to give it a go!!
Ian Usher is famous for selling his life on eBay and now has 100 things to do in 100 weeks and of course this was one of them. He jumped off the pier astride and enormous ostrich. He looks pretty stern-faced here as he descends and hit the water pretty hard but bobbed up and was dragged onto the rescue boat.
James Wigglesworth had a spinning umbrella powered by an electric drill as a source of lift. He soon let go of the umbrellas as the water approached! James flew as Inspector Gadget and fund-raised for the NSPCC.
Joel Hicks starred as Del Boy,complete with a Trotters Independent Trading Co, 3 wheeler in bright yellow
He fund-raised for Rainbows Children's Hospice. After being rescued all he seemed to have left was the back door of the 3 wheeler!!
Nicola Mansbridge went to commemorate the 40th Moon Landing as Robotwoman and fundraised for the appropriately named Hop, Skip and Jump Charity

The Annual Birdman of Worthing Competition took place this weekend. On Sunday 23rd August 2009 individuals were seen to jump off Worthing Pier with a variety of flying machines and colourful costumes. The competition has been around in slightly varying formats since 1971 and has become so popular with locals, tourists and those who believe they can fly.
Thousands lined the beach and the pier was packed with spectators who watched in perfect weather as they cheered, jeered, applauded and generally encouraged the contestants.
This annual competition raises thousands of pounds for various charities and has become a firm attraction and guaranteed crowd puller.

Vicky Vaughn and Neeru Kareer in an unusual set of nurses outfits leapt off to raise money for Worthing Church homeless and Chestnut Tree House. These two made quite a splash.

Lee Worsfold and Darren Keeble tried to fly off the pier in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, raising money for St Barnabas Hospice.

John Donnelly was the pilot of “The Tartan Flyer” who was also raising funds for St. Barnabas Hospice and showed how aerodynamic the kilt can be.
He did not fly far but certainly floated well.

Jeremy Ransom and Christopher Oakley were angelic as “Falling Angels” and were also raising money for St Barnabas and Chestnut Tree House

Alan Walker and Ricky Hogan, raising money for Micks Garage Community House, became “The Bar Flys” and despite using their wings could not get too much distance from the pier and were swatted by the sea.

Steven Bond took on the shape of a gigantic puffin and got very wet raising money for The Cardiomyopathy Association.

Elaine Sinclair and Chris Niall became a giant cat and bird and chased each other off the pier, raising funds for Worthing District Animal Hospice, there was much fur and feathers to be seen.

Mathew Royal gave a right royal performance in service uniform as he leapt off with his miniscule aircraft supported by Helium Balloons, raising money for QAHH.

Chris Pugh and Kevin Dewhurst raising funds for the Hospice in The Weald had built a superb replica Lancaster Bomber and took off from the pier only for the pilot to fall through the bottom of the aircraft. One of the crowd commented it had been over 60 years since he last saw a Lancaster afloat on the sea at Worthing!!

Roy Thompson achieved 11.2 metre flight in a craft made by Northbrook College aeronautical students Kirsty Frampton and Adam Scrase. Fundraising was for Sparks Charity.

Major favourites on the day were Roger Garbett and Keith Leslie who are Environmental Health Officers in Gloucestershire and are part of a group called “Health and Safety Gone Mad”.
Their intention is to dispel some of the myths that surround Health and Safety issues.
Their craft was a silver stepladder that had been modified into a fixed wing aircraft and the intrepid pair wearing flying helmets, white boiler suits leapt into space and having found their craft was beginning to stall, bailed out and headed for the sea with an almighty splash. The crowd loved their attempt and their craft was one of the few that managed to land intact.

James Nugent-Harvey and Samuel Wells created a craft, “Hazy days in Nakypoo” with two very strange but inflatable ladies aboard. They jumped and found the girls were very useful as buoyancy aids. The rescue crew had fun hauling all four of them into the boat.

Kevin Hope and Neil Johnson were given first place in the Kingfisher class as they jumped from their biplane dressed as Laurel and Hardy. They were raising funds for the Chestnut Tree House.

Andy Headworth donned a very green crocodile suit to jump and raise money for Leukaemia Research. He lost his head on the way down. He was awarded second place in the Kingfisher class.

Jason Bradbury, star of the Gadget show teamed up with students from University of Southampton Engineering Department and flew a craft designed and built by the students. He was helped with the launch off the platform by his co-presenter Ortis Deley he flew a distance of 64.77 meteres to take third place in the Leonardo Da Vinci class for inventors and self-builds. His landing was hard to say the least. He was very excited at his success and I am sure will be back next year to give it a go!!
Ian Usher is famous for selling his life on eBay and now has 100 things to do in 100 weeks and of course this was one of them. He jumped off the pier astride and enormous ostrich. He looks pretty stern-faced here as he descends and hit the water pretty hard but bobbed up and was dragged onto the rescue boat.
James Wigglesworth had a spinning umbrella powered by an electric drill as a source of lift. He soon let go of the umbrellas as the water approached! James flew as Inspector Gadget and fund-raised for the NSPCC.
Joel Hicks starred as Del Boy,complete with a Trotters Independent Trading Co, 3 wheeler in bright yellow
He fund-raised for Rainbows Children's Hospice. After being rescued all he seemed to have left was the back door of the 3 wheeler!!
Nicola Mansbridge went to commemorate the 40th Moon Landing as Robotwoman and fundraised for the appropriately named Hop, Skip and Jump Charity

The Annual Birdman of Worthing Competition took place this weekend. On Sunday 23rd August 2009 individuals were seen to jump off Worthing Pier with a variety of flying machines and colourful costumes. The competition has been around in slightly varying formats since 1971 and has become so popular with locals, tourists and those who believe they can fly.
Thousands lined the beach and the pier was packed with spectators who watched in perfect weather as they cheered, jeered, applauded and generally encouraged the contestants.
This annual competition raises thousands of pounds for various charities and has become a firm attraction and guaranteed crowd puller.

Vicky Vaughn and Neeru Kareer in an unusual set of nurses outfits leapt off to raise money for Worthing Church homeless and Chestnut Tree House. These two made quite a splash.

Lee Worsfold and Darren Keeble tried to fly off the pier in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, raising money for St Barnabas Hospice.

John Donnelly was the pilot of “The Tartan Flyer” who was also raising funds for St. Barnabas Hospice and showed how aerodynamic the kilt can be.
He did not fly far but certainly floated well.

Jeremy Ransom and Christopher Oakley were angelic as “Falling Angels” and were also raising money for St Barnabas and Chestnut Tree House

Alan Walker and Ricky Hogan, raising money for Micks Garage Community House, became “The Bar Flys” and despite using their wings could not get too much distance from the pier and were swatted by the sea.

Steven Bond took on the shape of a gigantic puffin and got very wet raising money for The Cardiomyopathy Association.

Elaine Sinclair and Chris Niall became a giant cat and bird and chased each other off the pier, raising funds for Worthing District Animal Hospice, there was much fur and feathers to be seen.

Mathew Royal gave a right royal performance in service uniform as he leapt off with his miniscule aircraft supported by Helium Balloons, raising money for QAHH.

Chris Pugh and Kevin Dewhurst raising funds for the Hospice in The Weald had built a superb replica Lancaster Bomber and took off from the pier only for the pilot to fall through the bottom of the aircraft. One of the crowd commented it had been over 60 years since he last saw a Lancaster afloat on the sea at Worthing!!

Roy Thompson achieved 11.2 metre flight in a craft made by Northbrook College aeronautical students Kirsty Frampton and Adam Scrase. Fundraising was for Sparks Charity.

Major favourites on the day were Roger Garbett and Keith Leslie who are Environmental Health Officers in Gloucestershire and are part of a group called “Health and Safety Gone Mad”.
Their intention is to dispel some of the myths that surround Health and Safety issues.
Their craft was a silver stepladder that had been modified into a fixed wing aircraft and the intrepid pair wearing flying helmets, white boiler suits leapt into space and having found their craft was beginning to stall, bailed out and headed for the sea with an almighty splash. The crowd loved their attempt and their craft was one of the few that managed to land intact.

James Nugent-Harvey and Samuel Wells created a craft, “Hazy days in Nakypoo” with two very strange but inflatable ladies aboard. They jumped and found the girls were very useful as buoyancy aids. The rescue crew had fun hauling all four of them into the boat.

Kevin Hope and Neil Johnson were given first place in the Kingfisher class as they jumped from their biplane dressed as Laurel and Hardy. They were raising funds for the Chestnut Tree House.

Andy Headworth donned a very green crocodile suit to jump and raise money for Leukaemia Research. He lost his head on the way down. He was awarded second place in the Kingfisher class.

Jason Bradbury, star of the Gadget show teamed up with students from University of Southampton Engineering Department and flew a craft designed and built by the students. He was helped with the launch off the platform by his co-presenter Ortis Deley he flew a distance of 64.77 meteres to take third place in the Leonardo Da Vinci class for inventors and self-builds. His landing was hard to say the least. He was very excited at his success and I am sure will be back next year to give it a go!!
Ian Usher is famous for selling his life on eBay and now has 100 things to do in 100 weeks and of course this was one of them. He jumped off the pier astride and enormous ostrich. He looks pretty stern-faced here as he descends and hit the water pretty hard but bobbed up and was dragged onto the rescue boat.
James Wigglesworth had a spinning umbrella powered by an electric drill as a source of lift. He soon let go of the umbrellas as the water approached! James flew as Inspector Gadget and fund-raised for the NSPCC.
Joel Hicks starred as Del Boy,complete with a Trotters Independent Trading Co, 3 wheeler in bright yellow
He fund-raised for Rainbows Children's Hospice. After being rescued all he seemed to have left was the back door of the 3 wheeler!!
Nicola Mansbridge went to commemorate the 40th Moon Landing as Robotwoman and fundraised for the appropriately named Hop, Skip and Jump Charity

The Annual Birdman of Worthing Competition took place this weekend. On Sunday 23rd August 2009 individuals were seen to jump off Worthing Pier with a variety of flying machines and colourful costumes. The competition has been around in slightly varying formats since 1971 and has become so popular with locals, tourists and those who believe they can fly.
Thousands lined the beach and the pier was packed with spectators who watched in perfect weather as they cheered, jeered, applauded and generally encouraged the contestants.
This annual competition raises thousands of pounds for various charities and has become a firm attraction and guaranteed crowd puller.

Vicky Vaughn and Neeru Kareer in an unusual set of nurses outfits leapt off to raise money for Worthing Church homeless and Chestnut Tree House. These two made quite a splash.

Lee Worsfold and Darren Keeble tried to fly off the pier in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, raising money for St Barnabas Hospice.

John Donnelly was the pilot of “The Tartan Flyer” who was also raising funds for St. Barnabas Hospice and showed how aerodynamic the kilt can be.
He did not fly far but certainly floated well.

Jeremy Ransom and Christopher Oakley were angelic as “Falling Angels” and were also raising money for St Barnabas and Chestnut Tree House

Alan Walker and Ricky Hogan, raising money for Micks Garage Community House, became “The Bar Flys” and despite using their wings could not get too much distance from the pier and were swatted by the sea.

Steven Bond took on the shape of a gigantic puffin and got very wet raising money for The Cardiomyopathy Association.

Elaine Sinclair and Chris Niall became a giant cat and bird and chased each other off the pier, raising funds for Worthing District Animal Hospice, there was much fur and feathers to be seen.

Mathew Royal gave a right royal performance in service uniform as he leapt off with his miniscule aircraft supported by Helium Balloons, raising money for QAHH.

Chris Pugh and Kevin Dewhurst raising funds for the Hospice in The Weald had built a superb replica Lancaster Bomber and took off from the pier only for the pilot to fall through the bottom of the aircraft. One of the crowd commented it had been over 60 years since he last saw a Lancaster afloat on the sea at Worthing!!

Roy Thompson achieved 11.2 metre flight in a craft made by Northbrook College aeronautical students Kirsty Frampton and Adam Scrase. Fundraising was for Sparks Charity.

Major favourites on the day were Roger Garbett and Keith Leslie who are Environmental Health Officers in Gloucestershire and are part of a group called “Health and Safety Gone Mad”.
Their intention is to dispel some of the myths that surround Health and Safety issues.
Their craft was a silver stepladder that had been modified into a fixed wing aircraft and the intrepid pair wearing flying helmets, white boiler suits leapt into space and having found their craft was beginning to stall, bailed out and headed for the sea with an almighty splash. The crowd loved their attempt and their craft was one of the few that managed to land intact.

James Nugent-Harvey and Samuel Wells created a craft, “Hazy days in Nakypoo” with two very strange but inflatable ladies aboard. They jumped and found the girls were very useful as buoyancy aids. The rescue crew had fun hauling all four of them into the boat.

Kevin Hope and Neil Johnson were given first place in the Kingfisher class as they jumped from their biplane dressed as Laurel and Hardy. They were raising funds for the Chestnut Tree House.

Andy Headworth donned a very green crocodile suit to jump and raise money for Leukaemia Research. He lost his head on the way down. He was awarded second place in the Kingfisher class.

Jason Bradbury, star of the Gadget show teamed up with students from University of Southampton Engineering Department and flew a craft designed and built by the students. He was helped with the launch off the platform by his co-presenter Ortis Deley he flew a distance of 64.77 meteres to take third place in the Leonardo Da Vinci class for inventors and self-builds. His landing was hard to say the least. He was very excited at his success and I am sure will be back next year to give it a go!!
Ian Usher is famous for selling his life on eBay and now has 100 things to do in 100 weeks and of course this was one of them. He jumped off the pier astride and enormous ostrich. He looks pretty stern-faced here as he descends and hit the water pretty hard but bobbed up and was dragged onto the rescue boat.
James Wigglesworth had a spinning umbrella powered by an electric drill as a source of lift. He soon let go of the umbrellas as the water approached! James flew as Inspector Gadget and fund-raised for the NSPCC.
Joel Hicks starred as Del Boy,complete with a Trotters Independent Trading Co, 3 wheeler in bright yellow
He fund-raised for Rainbows Children's Hospice. After being rescued all he seemed to have left was the back door of the 3 wheeler!!
Nicola Mansbridge went to commemorate the 40th Moon Landing as Robotwoman and fundraised for the appropriately named Hop, Skip and Jump Charity

The Annual Birdman of Worthing Competition took place this weekend. On Sunday 23rd August 2009 individuals were seen to jump off Worthing Pier with a variety of flying machines and colourful costumes. The competition has been around in slightly varying formats since 1971 and has become so popular with locals, tourists and those who believe they can fly.
Thousands lined the beach and the pier was packed with spectators who watched in perfect weather as they cheered, jeered, applauded and generally encouraged the contestants.
This annual competition raises thousands of pounds for various charities and has become a firm attraction and guaranteed crowd puller.

Vicky Vaughn and Neeru Kareer in an unusual set of nurses outfits leapt off to raise money for Worthing Church homeless and Chestnut Tree House. These two made quite a splash.

Lee Worsfold and Darren Keeble tried to fly off the pier in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, raising money for St Barnabas Hospice.

John Donnelly was the pilot of “The Tartan Flyer” who was also raising funds for St. Barnabas Hospice and showed how aerodynamic the kilt can be.
He did not fly far but certainly floated well.

Jeremy Ransom and Christopher Oakley were angelic as “Falling Angels” and were also raising money for St Barnabas and Chestnut Tree House

Alan Walker and Ricky Hogan, raising money for Micks Garage Community House, became “The Bar Flys” and despite using their wings could not get too much distance from the pier and were swatted by the sea.

Steven Bond took on the shape of a gigantic puffin and got very wet raising money for The Cardiomyopathy Association.

Elaine Sinclair and Chris Niall became a giant cat and bird and chased each other off the pier, raising funds for Worthing District Animal Hospice, there was much fur and feathers to be seen.

Mathew Royal gave a right royal performance in service uniform as he leapt off with his miniscule aircraft supported by Helium Balloons, raising money for QAHH.

Chris Pugh and Kevin Dewhurst raising funds for the Hospice in The Weald had built a superb replica Lancaster Bomber and took off from the pier only for the pilot to fall through the bottom of the aircraft. One of the crowd commented it had been over 60 years since he last saw a Lancaster afloat on the sea at Worthing!!

Roy Thompson achieved 11.2 metre flight in a craft made by Northbrook College aeronautical students Kirsty Frampton and Adam Scrase. Fundraising was for Sparks Charity.

Major favourites on the day were Roger Garbett and Keith Leslie who are Environmental Health Officers in Gloucestershire and are part of a group called “Health and Safety Gone Mad”.
Their intention is to dispel some of the myths that surround Health and Safety issues.
Their craft was a silver stepladder that had been modified into a fixed wing aircraft and the intrepid pair wearing flying helmets, white boiler suits leapt into space and having found their craft was beginning to stall, bailed out and headed for the sea with an almighty splash. The crowd loved their attempt and their craft was one of the few that managed to land intact.

James Nugent-Harvey and Samuel Wells created a craft, “Hazy days in Nakypoo” with two very strange but inflatable ladies aboard. They jumped and found the girls were very useful as buoyancy aids. The rescue crew had fun hauling all four of them into the boat.

Kevin Hope and Neil Johnson were given first place in the Kingfisher class as they jumped from their biplane dressed as Laurel and Hardy. They were raising funds for the Chestnut Tree House.

Andy Headworth donned a very green crocodile suit to jump and raise money for Leukaemia Research. He lost his head on the way down. He was awarded second place in the Kingfisher class.

Jason Bradbury, star of the Gadget show teamed up with students from University of Southampton Engineering Department and flew a craft designed and built by the students. He was helped with the launch off the platform by his co-presenter Ortis Deley he flew a distance of 64.77 meteres to take third place in the Leonardo Da Vinci class for inventors and self-builds. His landing was hard to say the least. He was very excited at his success and I am sure will be back next year to give it a go!!
Ian Usher is famous for selling his life on eBay and now has 100 things to do in 100 weeks and of course this was one of them. He jumped off the pier astride and enormous ostrich. He looks pretty stern-faced here as he descends and hit the water pretty hard but bobbed up and was dragged onto the rescue boat.
James Wigglesworth had a spinning umbrella powered by an electric drill as a source of lift. He soon let go of the umbrellas as the water approached! James flew as Inspector Gadget and fund-raised for the NSPCC.
Joel Hicks starred as Del Boy,complete with a Trotters Independent Trading Co, 3 wheeler in bright yellow
He fund-raised for Rainbows Children's Hospice. After being rescued all he seemed to have left was the back door of the 3 wheeler!!
Nicola Mansbridge went to commemorate the 40th Moon Landing as Robotwoman and fundraised for the appropriately named Hop, Skip and Jump Charity