| From Refugee to OBE |
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| Sunday, 01 July 2007 | |
Over half a century of flying is brought to book by Jersey Aero Club stalwart For many years now the interests of GA pilots, both visiting and locally based, have been looked after by Charles Strasser who is also a director of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association UK (AOPA UK). Charles has been a member of the Jersey Aero Club, and the Channel Islands Aero Club as it was previously known, for nearly 50 years. He learned to fly at Burnaston, now the site of the Toyota factory, and progressed to holding a CAA PPL with IR and a FAA CPL with IR. He was a JAC committee member for many years and also vicechairman under John Such. He has recently completed his autobiography, ‘From Refugee to OBE’, which took him two years to write and was published on his 80th birthday on 23 April 2007. It is a hardback of 432 pages, plus 32 pages of photographs, and includes chapters on his army service, his 52 years of flying, his St. John Ambulance Air Wing flights with kidneys for transplant (including the AAIB report on his night-time crash in his Seneca delivering a kidney to Lee-on-Solent), his AOPA involvement and successes and the many other facets of his private and business life. The book is available at the special Jersey price of £15 from the Flying Room at the JAC and locally at Waterstone’s bookshops in St. Helier. It can also be ordered on the internet from www.skylog.co.uk for European delivery, from www.kellerpublishing.com for US delivery and from www.amazon.com for delivery to other parts of the world. |
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