User:Tony in Devon

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Interests Poetry (accessible), photography (digital), publishing (magazines espec), aviation.

Qualifications Teacher's certificate; also BA degree. Some time member Institute of Public Relations, British Institute of Management, Institute of Information Scientists. Have held UK and USA private pilot licences.

Posts held have included several in PR and higher education: Open University, Bristol Polytechnic, Committee of Directors of Polytechnics, Schools Council, Wiltshire County Council. Senior Lecturer: created first UK dedicated PR undergraduate course. And was once a very junior, underpaid, political party regional organiser.

Current occupation Freelance - mainly Copy Editor/writer, layabout, amateur poet.

Home Devon, UK. At various times: central London, Nottingham, Bristol, Buckinghamshire, Wiltshire.

Published aviation articles include 100 Top Pilots; Lindbergh's panel; Charlie's Engine (in the Wright brothers' Flyer); a six part Aviation Glossary; Twenty Days to a PPL (pilot's course in Texas); From Love Field to London; The IMC Rating; Helicopters - my first forty minutes, a Tour of France, humour. Monthly series about websites, also analysis of aviation accidents, based on official reports; reviews of books and DVDs.