MPX5088202: East meets West under a traditional oiled paper umbrella. Willow (right) wears a glowing red silk kimono with a brilliant splash of embroidery on the back, price .50. NinaÍs kimono is Pacific blue patterned with flowers, price .50. Umbrella, .50. All are available from Mitsukiku, 73a Lower Sloane Street, London, S.W.1, and 18 Brighton Square, Brighton. Postage and packing 20p extra for kimonos, 30p for parasol. January 1973 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5088854: Pedal Power Takes a Nosedive. It was great while it lasted. But the flight of Britain's latest man-powered aircraft ended rather abruptly The plane, grandly named Jupiter, came down to earth with a crash after being caught by a gust of wind at the Royal Air Force station at Banson, Oxfordshire. But for the pilot, 28- year-old Flight Lieutenant John Potter, it had been more than a mere flight of fancy. They bicycle-driven plane, which has an 80-ft wingspan, had stayed aloft for 44 seconds and flown a creditable 500-yards, spurred on by his energetic pedalling. The balsa wood and foil cockpit canopy is fastened in position around pilot John Potter before Jupiter's take-off. March 1972 / Bridgeman Images