- Hardcover: 136 pages
- Publisher: Book Guild Ltd (29 April 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1846244080
- ISBN-13: 978-1846244087
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 13.8 x 1.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,039,579 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Cedric Masterman was a brave and charismatic RAF pilot. He saw action in an unusually wide variety of combat zones and flew a great range of different aircraft types before, during and after World War Two. Later in life - and in poignant contrast to his inspirational flying career - he became lost in the downward spiral of Alzheimer's disease.
Drawing on his father's own wartime records - log books, diaries and personal effects - Cedric s son Christopher has written a moving account of a remarkable life. The story follows his father's flying career from aircraft to aircraft, all of which are described (and illustrated) with a fine degree of technical detail. Running in parallel with this, and in sad contrast to it, is the description of his father's later sufferings from Alzheimer's and the strategies his family is forced to adopt to deal with his increasingly eccentric behaviour.
An Average Pilot? is also the story of a son s personal struggle to come to terms with his father s decline, finding in the older man s greater dependency a warmth and closeness that had not been there before.
Drawing on his father's own wartime records - log books, diaries and personal effects - Cedric s son Christopher has written a moving account of a remarkable life. The story follows his father's flying career from aircraft to aircraft, all of which are described (and illustrated) with a fine degree of technical detail. Running in parallel with this, and in sad contrast to it, is the description of his father's later sufferings from Alzheimer's and the strategies his family is forced to adopt to deal with his increasingly eccentric behaviour.
An Average Pilot? is also the story of a son s personal struggle to come to terms with his father s decline, finding in the older man s greater dependency a warmth and closeness that had not been there before.
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Christopher Masterman was born in south London in 1942. His father, Cedric, was serving abroad with the RAF, and father and son were not to meet until 1945. Christopher also joined the RAF, achieving MSc standard as an Aerospace Engineer and becoming an expert in guided weapons. For six months he was Prince Charles's personal aircraft engineer. After leaving the RAF he spent three years working in space engineering in Austria before moving with his family to Canada to join a major aircraft manufacturing company, becoming a Canadian citizen. By 1992 concern for his father's deteriorating health persuaded him to return to the UK. Christopher now lives in Western Australia with his second wife, two dogs, two goats and a growing collection of classic cars.
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