Another year has more or less passed, and it’s been just as difficult as when I last wrote. I suppose better things are on the horizon, and hopefully those plans we’re all making for the late summer and autumn won’t
A July update
No news is good news
It’s been a year since I last had anything to say, and I haven’t really got anything to add. It’s been such a difficult year for everyone so far this year I’m just glad you’re here to read this note!
The Corsair Affair – Geoffrey’s voice tapes
Corsair, G-ADVB, became infamous for crashing not once, but twice, in Equatorial Africa. Geoffrey was in Juba, in the middle of things, when the accident happened. Then after the flying boat was salvaged from its watery berth on the edge
Centaurus Acceptance Tests – new voice recordings
Running through ideas for more voice recordings, I thought the description of the acceptance testing would be of interest. The first three Empire Flying Boats Only one flying boat had been through the acceptance testing and flown – Canopus ADHL,
Blind Landings – the audio
Well, it’s taken me nearly a year to get this far. That’s mostly because I couldn’t find the files that I’d recorded from the tape recorder on my old computer. I resorted to re-recording them. Easier said than done. I had
Would you like audio clips?
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