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TEETH GRITTED in antic:pation of pain, these local youths form a human chain so that skateboard instructor Rick Tetz can jump over them. The stunt was part of a skateboarding and kite flying summer program cun by Eagle Harbour Community Centre. Tetz emphasized the safe and courteous use of skateboards, various techoiques covering beginner to expert use, and what to look for when buying a skateboard. Tetz’s jump, above, was successful.

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CHARLES BOWMAN’S revolutionary nautical con- cept will literally take flight at this yeo<’s Nanaimo to Vancouver Bathtub Race.

When the West Vancouver ar- chitect-inventor learned that the race was an open competition, he saw the chance to realize a lifelong dream: to enter a_ space-age bathtub with a secret stabilizer — water-wings.

On July 20, Bowman will be piloting across Georgia Strait 2 vessel that would make Monty Python proud: a flying bathtub.

After a perfectly normal educa- tion, first at West Vancouver High School and at the University of British Columbia’s school of ar- chitecture, Bowman began to ir- dulge his creativity.

First came Canada’s original foam house, which he censtructed in Quesnel.

Apart from invention, Bowman has designed sets at CBC, orga- nized a 25-unit condominium tur- nkey project, played trombone with Arthur Delamont, served on the B.C. Industrial Design Com- mittee and the Vancouver Art Gallery’s board of directors.

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Los Angeles, Bowman returned to Vancouver recently, eager to turn his hand to individual owner avia- tion design, and to plunge his company. Basic Productions Ltd.,

ARCHITECT and Charles Bowman...is ready to fly

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his bathtub in Nanaimo's notorious annual event.

into the proliferation of show planes for show business aviation.

FLYING TUB

The first of Bowman's bizarre ideas to reach fruition is the Flying Tub. The design is being guarded carefully until Sunday's offical

Jaunch. But the News, after diligent in- vestigation, has learned that

Bowman’s racing vessel is a basic bathtub affixed to an ultra-light Bowman-designed aircraft.

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The West Vancouver inventor claims his entry not only meets all Bathtub Race requirements, but ail Department of Transport flight regulations.

“The aim of the entry is to return fun to the increasingiy competitive Bathtub Race,’’ Bowman said. ‘‘This is one of the very few open design competitions around, and my idea is to enter a tub that complies stringently with all the rules, but that gives wings to the old idea."”

Bowman claims inventors are

hamstrung by government and big business regulations that are no longer valid because of new technology, new materials and the ubiquitous computer. ‘Inventors must be free and in- dependent to create and go on to new ideas,’’ Bowman said. ‘*When inventions are owned by big business, the company staff, who do not have the vision of the in- ventor, often have the power to control him.

“Canada has to devise ways to ease its inventors into new in- novative fields that will further the country. | think all governmental rules should be thrown out every five years and the situation reassessed,

‘“‘Who knows I may yet get to design the first-ever flying city, someone has to.’’

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