Arthur Lovell: Aviation Pioneer and navigator by Mike Lovell

$50.00

Author: Mike Lovell

Hardback, 230 pages

Published by LifeReloaded Specialty Publishing, 2024

 

10 in stock

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Arthur Lovell rose from humble origins on a subsistence farm in rural Tasmania to become the Chief Pilot of Australian National Airways.
In 1934 a friend took him to visit Essendon Airport during a visit to the mainland. He fell in love with flying, joined the flying school at the Royal Victorian Aero Club, and gained his pilot’s licence in 1935.
As his career progressed he captained the first ferry flights of all major new aircraft types from the USA to Australia. In 1965 he was awarded the MBE by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to commercial aviation in Australia. After his retirement from everyday flying in 1965 he was appointed Manager Operational Safety, and gained international recognition for his contributions to the development and standardization of safe operating practices through the period of rapid international airline expansion in the 1970s and eighties until his retirement in 1978.

In 2004 a typed manuscript was discovered while sorting through Arthur’s papers. Unbeknown to his family, he had written “The Reminiscences of Capt. Arthur Lovell” that contained six chapters, each one describing his experience with one of the major aircraft types that he flew. These were put into the overall context of the development of civil aviation in Australia and they provide the core content of the book.