Adventures in Aviation

This book describes the authors many unusual and exciting experiences over forty years as a military and civil pilot. In the 1960s after a tour in fighter/ground attack Hunters in the Far East he was sent on loan to the Sultan of Omans Air Force during the little-known Dhofar War where he flew many operations in ground attack supply dropping and casualty evacuation roles in piston and jet aircraft. The 1970s brought six years as a fast-jet instructor in Gnat Hunter and Hawk aircraft at RAF Valley and two years with the royal Norwegian Air Force on a Northrop F5 squadron. He finished his service on the iconic Harrier. Civil aviation brought a very wide variety of worldwide experiences as a British Aerospace airline training captain examiner test pilot and project manager in the ATP and BAe 146 including to China Bangladesh the Caribbean Indonesia Turkey and New Zealand.