Category Back Stories
Fear of Flying – Part 1 of 3 (Dread)
Fear of Flying – Part 1 of 3 (Dread) – Version 5 – July 2017 About 25% of the travelling public have a fear of flying. One quarter of this group are so afraid of flying that they completely avoid air travel, and their condition qualifies as a phobia. (National Institute of Mental Health) […]
Backstory – Annual General Meeting of the Australian Women Pilots’ Association (AWPA)
Coral and I had the pleasure to attend the Annual General Meeting of the Australian Women Pilots’ Association (AWPA) in Hervey Bay last week end. In this fast and competitive world, it’s getting harder to find the time for aviators to meet, network, help and mentor the youger entrants in this field. So it […]
QF32 Shortlisted – Australian Book Industry Awards 2013!
We are honoured that QF32 has been placed in the Short List of six for the Australian Book Industry Awards “General Non-fiction Book of the Year 2013”! The shortlisted entries were chosen by expert panels and an academy of booksellers and publishers who voted online. The winners will be announced at the Australian Book Industry Awards as part of this […]
Giving Back – Canberra Grammar “Code Cadets”
See: Code Cadets web page “Giving Back” I was honoured to be asked to present the QF32 story to the boys and parents at Canberra Grammar, Canberra, Australia in 2012. I fronted 700 soporific boys immediately after their lunch time break – which is the acid test for any teacher. It’s hard to compress a […]
QF32 WINS THE INDIE AWARD 2013 FOR NON FICTION
Other QF32 Awards <Editor: Our congratulations to M.L. Stedman, Toni Jordan, Rich and Margo Lanagan> Press Release: Sydney, Australia, Monday, 25 March 2013: Tonight at Berkelouw Bookstore, Paddington, the independent booksellers of Australia announced The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman as their favourite Australian book from last year and the winner of The Indie Book of the […]
Back Story QF32 – Passenger Story – Johanna Friis
Being on board the A380 that day was an amazing experience in so many ways. I have always been fascinated with aircraft and I was excited to see what the biggest jet on the planet was like. Once we had taken off for the first leg of the flight from London to Sydney, I realised […]
Back Story – QF32 page 355 – Peter Ford
Peter Ford is a life long friend. I’ve known Peter since his days as a reporter for an Australian news channel, through to his time as one of the first CNN anchors when Ted Turner cruised the corridors. Peter’s specialty was then everything that it is now – high tech including the Iraq War Mark […]
Clouds
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 […]
Back Story – QF32 page 290 – Coral
Coral’s QF32 Many readers have picked up a glaring omission from my QF32 story. It’s the story that should have been told by my wonderful wife Coral. Dad describes Coral as “formidable”, and I can understand that. To me she is the most beautiful girl on the planet. She is not just the “wind beneath my […]
QF32 Back Story – Cold Weather Operations and Christmas
Everyone has different thoughts over Christmas. I am currently sitting in cold London contemplating winter. The shortest day, or Winter solstice occurs in the Northern Hemisphere on about 21 December. This is the day of the maximum Earth’s cooling rate, though the actual Earth’s temperature lags the “lapse rate” by about one month – […]
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