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Have you ever seen that Royal Navy advert? The one that says, ‘If you can fix a bike then you can learn to fix a Lynx Mk2 helicopter’? For Chris Lord, the same logic applies, only in reverse.

‘I used to build aircraft engines,’ Lord tells from his workshop in Cardiff. ‘I did my apprenticeship in it, but unfortunately I grew to hate it. Doing the same thing day in, day out – it was driving me

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