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The Corsair Affair – Geoffrey’s voice tapes

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

J M Pett June 25, 2018 Voice clips 4 Comments Read more

Centaurus Acceptance Tests – new voice recordings

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,

J M Pett April 30, 2018 Voice clips 1 Comment Read more

Blind Landings – the audio

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

J M Pett April 10, 2018 Voice clips 3 Comments Read more

Would you like audio clips?

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

J M Pett July 28, 2017 News 6 Comments Read more

Goodreads Giveaway for copies of White Water Landings

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

J M Pett June 1, 2017 Special offers No Comments Read more

Pathe Newsreels on YouTube

Pathe Newsreels on YouTube

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

J M Pett January 17, 2017January 16, 2017 News 2 Comments Read more
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