Update: first readers’ draft (manuscript 4.3) completed April 24, 2021 At 2.15 pm. on Saturday April 24, 2021, the book was completed. Just over a decade’s work (started research in February 2011). Here’s a picture of the various manuscripts, including the final (‘first readers’ MS): In pride of place on the stool at the back …
An outline of George’s life story Many of the stranger features of George’s life (seen here sitting at his mother’s feet, front left) can be traced back to his being brought up in a very strict evangelical Christian family, and this eventually led to his becoming distanced, if not estranged, from his parents. Like his …
I have now been toiling away on my huge project of a biography of my great uncle, George Stainforth, aviator extraordinary, since the beginning of 2011. Meanwhile, since May 2014, my twin brother John has been working on a one-fifth scale radio-controlled model of the Supekrmarine S6B, in which George broke the world speed record in …
