Today the Sydney Morning Herald released the lists of the best selling (paper) books in Australia for the 2012 calendar year. QF 32 has been available for just 5 months and was rated: (Sydney Morning Herald 5-6 Jan 2012 p6) 6th Best Selling Non-Fiction book in Australia for 2012, and 7th Australian Best Seller book for [...]
Only those who fly fully appreciate the wonders that exist out the front of the cockpit. Our passion is fueled by the experiences of seeing and feeling many things, including the extraordinary cloud types that comprise our living atmosphere. My memories of clouds include the theory in the RAAF’s class rooms, tempered and case hardened by experiences in [...]
Coral’s QF32 Many readers have picked up a glaring omission from my QF32 story. It’s the story to be told by my wonderful wife Coral. I had put Coral’s side of the QF32 story into the draft, but the editors pulled the text to keep the reader “in the moment” and to trim the book’s already [...]
I have been researching Rolls-Royce engines for decades. I have studied the engine’s “workshop manuals”. I visited the Rolls-Royce production and engineering facilities in Derby, UK just two weeks before my QF32 event. Yesterday I toured the Sin$700 m Rolls-Royce Seletar Campus in Singapore. This is the first production facility for [...]
