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Posted Tuesday, April 8, 2014 @ 01:36 PM  

Ron and his brother Jim worked at Sportavia and other great aviation related jobs.

The joint memoir was published in January
and is available on amazon.com (and .co.uk and .ca) - Two Up Ron and Jim Smith.

http://www.amazon.com/Two-Up-Ron-Smith/dp/1908135387

Two Up
Two Up is a light-hearted aviation memoir written by identical twin brothers Ron and Jim Smith. Ron and Jim are both pilots and aeronautical engineers and have been aviation enthusiasts since their schooldays.

The book is a series of 23 illustrated anecdotes, many of which describe experiences that would today be difficult to repeat, such as picking mushrooms in the middle of Heathrow. It covers aviation experiences from:
crewing balloons
winning the Dawn to Dusk Trophy
gliding
seaplane operations
touring US airshows in a mixed formation of four Mitchells and six Mustangs, and
visiting the Russian and Polish helicopter industry in 1992, just after the Berlin Wall came down, etc.

There is even a tale ‘I Can Manage the Signature’ that could only ever have happened to a pair of identical twins.

Jim has worked for the UK MoD, including a period in the British Embassy in Washington, DC and is currently in a senior management position in the Australian Defence Science and Technology Organisation. Ron has worked at Westland Helicopters (where he was Head of Future Projects) and British Aerospace / BAE Systems. He has chaired the Royal Aeronautical Society Rotorcraft Committee and is a current member of the RAeS Historical Group Committee. Both twins are Fellows of the Royal Aeronautical Society.

Ron has previously written a number of aviation books, including the British Built Aircraft Series.

Two Up
ISBN 978-1908135384 
Publication date 16 January 2014
Contact: Penny@uppublications.ltd.uk


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