A view of the Imperial Airways Africa service from the ground
A new facility from the website software will allow me to add audio clips to these pages. As you may know, Geoffrey dictated his memos onto audio tapes, which were then transcribed into text, from which the book White Water
To celebrate the start of the Empire Flying Boat Service 80 years ago, we are offering two copies of Geoffrey Pett’s memoir in a Goodreads Giveaway during June. After his recruitment and training by Imperial Airways, Geoffrey was sent out
By chance, I heard a snippet on a news programme yesterday, mentioning that Pathe News had uploaded thousands of hours of newsreels onto YouTube. So I wondered what might shed more light on the Imperial Airways flying boat service. Just
Another in the series of pictures from my father’s collection that form part of the White Water Landings story. This month is the eightieth anniversary of the launch of Centaurus, the third Empire flying boat to be brought ‘out of
To celebrate eighty years since the first Empire Flying Boat was launched, we’re hosting a Goodreads Giveaway for White Water Landings. Two copies of the paperback are available as prizes in this raffle, and you just have to be a Goodreads
The Royal Aeronautical Society’s Annual Book Fair takes place on Monday 19th September this year, at the society’s HQ near Hyde Park Corner in London. White Water Landings will be there, taking up a tiny space amongst all the big