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Anton Savage: Age is one of the last bastions of discrimination
Society persists with ‘firing’ people who have vast experience, even though there’s plenty of evidence that age is no barrier to usefulness and productivity
In the 1967 Bond movie You Only Live Twice, Sean Connery flies into view in a bizarre quasi-helicopter called an autogiro. The one in the film was designed and flown by an ex-RAF pilot Wing Commander Ken Wallis.
Ken Wallis designed and built autogiros for most of his life. He also set dozens of aviation records in the craft, the most recent in 2002 when he set a new maximum speed world-record at the age ...
