This photograph of mine, taken a good few years ago, shows the Lisbon monument commemorating Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral’s first aerial crossing of the South Atlantic in 1922. I particularly like the pigeon perched at the end of the wing, hitching a lift. I’m reminded of the Gordon Lightfoot lyric: “You can’t jump a jet plane / Like you can a freight train.” Says who?
