Captain Ketch goes around the world
The Hindu
James Ketchell has been mistaken for James Bond. And just like the famous spy, Ketchell’s tagline is ‘never say never’.
Caught in the midst of a thunderstorm over Canada in the course of circumnavigating the globe in a machine similar to Little Nellie from You Only Live Twice, he landed on a roadstrip and swung the gyrocopter into a truck bay. “The burly truckers, usually impassive, were taken aback,” says Ketchell, his voice ringing with laughter over the phone from Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK, where he was raised.
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