Alan Cooper Page under construction please revisit soon 1969 - 1970 Temporary info from Tom...... about Alan Alan got serious about his photography when he was nine and bought a Mamiya Sekor 500 DTL SLR with a fast f1.8 aperture lens while we were in Singapore. A small selection of his photographs showing the many stages of restoring and processing old prints necessary to display these photographs on the web is populating the space below until the main submission arrives. Using some of Alan’s space up for now it’s time to start reminiscing a bit.... That’s what looking at other peoples photos does for you. Three true accounts for you from Tom - now among those featured on the “Other Contributions” page I have a story about a J/T and myself getting chased off the actual armour plated Bedford truck pictured below when we were out on the airfield to service the comms equipment installations. Noticing rubbish had accumulated under one of the airfield junction boxes, we (sensibly) threw stones at the base before starting work on it. An enraged snake - a Silver Crate - shot out and chased us all the way back to the armoured Bedford which we scrambled up and dived into the sand bagged back of. The snake disappeared under the rear wheels and then suddenly reappeared over the tailgate .... only feet away. This was the point when we both jumped off in sheer panic and ran like hell the half mile or so back to the aircraft pan - we had no idea that snakes could move that quickly. The control tower must have been pissing themselves watching us. We left it for a couple of hours before we cadged a Land Rover to go out and recover the Bedford. I was not totally stupid and insisted on driving the Land Rover Back. After that episode, I never got into a vehicle again without discreetly checking the footwell and back out first. The armour plated Land Rover below also looks very like the one we drove over the camp Chameleon with while being pursued by a camel spider one bright moonlit night. They used this one for the fence mobile guard duty patrols at night. In the far distance behind the AOC’s inspection photos, there are clearly seen three fire trucks. On a number of occasions I was asked to drive the large eight wheel foam tender with the canon up top on my own and was even given a five minute demo on how to use the foam cannon if needed. Thankfully all planes landed safely.
 

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