Roy Bird
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| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Active Retiree |
| Location | Ajax, Ontario, Canada |
| Introduction | Retired aerospace executive. For seventeen years involved in flight development of various commercial aircraft, including 6 years on Concorde airliner flight test programme. In 1974, entered the murky world of global Sales and Marketing . Emigrated from England to Canada in 1977. Having traveled world wide for many years, I'm now happy to stay put for a while! |
| Interests | Cycling and anything to do with bicycles, Running, Paddling, Writing -sometimes, Aviation, UFO's, Conspiracy theories. |
| Favorite Movies | Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Gods must be Crazy, The Usual Suspects, The Shipping News, M. Hulot's Holiday, Driving Miss Daisy, Les Diaboliques, The African Queen, The Secret Life of Bees, The Life of Pi. |
| Favorite Music | Mainly classical plus a bit of cool jazz, Celtic music and some show scores such as Les Miserables. |
| Favorite Books | -a Short History of Nearly Everything -Bill Bryson, Henry David Thoreau -Walden, Bruce Lipton -Spontaneous Evolution, The Poisonwood Bible -Barbara Kingsolver, The Grapes of Wrath -John Steinbeck, The Age of Reason -Thomas Paine, . Roughing it in the Bush -Susanna Moodie. |