Robin was following in the traditions of the barnstormers of the inter war years and the remarkable Capt. Percy Phillips and his flying circus - The Cornwall Aviation Company Ltd. Photo: Eager passengers aboard an Avro 504K. Based in St Austell, Phillips toured the UK. 'Not the Red Baron' is available through Amazon Books.

Thank you to those of you who are buying the book through Amazon. Geoff will be giving a couple of talks this autumn where he'll be signing copies and showing Gordon Clarke's film of the triplane rebuild. The first talk will be for the Devon Strut (of which Robin was a member) at their monthly meeting at Kenn near Exeter in the Ley Arms, Thursday 9th October starting at 7:30 pm. And he'll be at Ermington Reading Room in late November - date and time to be finalised.

The completed biography: "Not the Red Baron" is available on Amazon at £9.99 in paperback only from April 2014.