Flying Blind: A Memoir of Biplane Flying over Waziristan in the Last Days of British Rule in India

Geoffrey Morley-Mower was born on 5th May 1918 in London, England. During his 31-year service with the Royal Air Force he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Force Cross, serving in India, the Middle East, Gibraltar and Cyprus. He flew Hawker Hurricanes, American Mustangs, subsonic jet aircraft like Meteors and Vampires, and-during the Cold War-he commanded Anti-submarine units equipped with Avro Shackletons and American Neptunes. As a staff officer assigned to duties in the Pentagon he fell in love with the United States, pulled his children from their English boarding schools, and retired from the RAF. Since 1968 he has been a professor in the English Department of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, where he now residesGeoffrey Morley-Mower is the author of 'Flying Blind: A Memoir of Biplane Flying over Waziristan in the Last Days of British Rule in India', published 2000 under ISBN 9781881325406 and ISBN 1881325407.