Ringwayobserver is an aviation historian with special research interests in the history of aviation in Northwest England. He is a Chartered Accountant and is a retired financial director.
He regularly contributes articles on aviation history to specialist magazines and gives frequent illustrated lectures on the subject to interested bodies in England and Wales.
He has written the following books:
- First and Foremost : Fifty years of Manchester's Civic Airports. Manchester International Airport Authority, 1978.
- Manchester Airport. Sutton Publishing, Stroud, 1998. ISBN 0-7509-1954-X.
He has flown in over 180 types of aircraft. These include: a 1927 Swallow open cockpit biplane; a 1929 Ford 5-AT Trimotor; 1934 DH.86 Express; Douglas DC-3/4/6; Lockheed Super Constellation; Airspeed Ambassador; Ilyushin Il-18; B-17 Flying Fortress, N.A. P-51D Mustang and AT-6 Harvard; several types of US gliders; a hot air balloon; Concorde from JFK to Heathrow; also most types of turboprop and jet airliners in current service. His passenger flying time accumulated during over 1500 flights visiting all six continents exceeds 3000 hours.
Regrettably, he is not a pilot, but thinks highly of those who can 'fly them airyplanes' !
Wikipedia Articles created :
Manchester (Wythenshawe) Aerodrome : Trafford Park Aerodrome (Manchester) : National Aircraft Factory No. 2 ; No. 1 Parachute Training School RAF : No. 611 (West Lancashire) Squadron RAF : No. 616 (South Yorkshire) Squadron RAF : No. 663 Squadron RAF : RAF Llandow :