West London Aero Club, White Waltham Airfield, Maidenhead, 10 December 2025
White Waltham is one of the UK’s oldest and best known airfields. It’s forever associated with the Air Transport Auxiliary, with whom Whitney’s close friend, Diana Barnato Walker, served with distinction. My talk to the members of the club will focus on Whitney’s pre-war civil aviation business; his rise through the ranks from Pilot Officer to Air Commodore with 601 and 242 Squadrons and 216 (Air Transport and Ferry) Group; and his his post-war career with BEA, BOAC and Rolls-Royce.
Thanks to Adam on sound and a mighty projector, the 
The Royal Automobile Club’s Pall Mall clubhouse library was the perfect location for the book launch. I spent many weeks there, maybe even months, poring over books and 1930s magazines, and that lovely long room, lined with oak book shelves and with open fires at each end, is quite literally my favourite room in London. 
The inaugural Wild Words Festival took place over the Jubilee Bank Holiday weekend, the brainchild of the irrepressible science writer, 
My friends in the 
Our last night at the end of four weeks of North American book business and pleasure coincided with the the first stopover for the 73 Bugatti drivers participating in the 
It’s interesting to recall this one, and who’s doing what now. In between climbs up the hill to take in the action at the Corkscrew – surely, one of the most amazing corners on a race track anywhere – I spent time in Vendor Alley, signing books at the Wine County Motorsports and Green Mountain Motorbooks stands. 
Online, 
Autobooks-Aerobooks,
In the summer of 2010, my family and I mixed business and pleasure on a four-week sojourn around North America, punctuated with book events. This was the first one, at the Rolls-Royce Owners’ Club’s Annual Meet. It was set up by Sabu Advani. At the time he was Editor-in-Chief of the RROC’s house magazine, The Flying Lady, and I recommend any petrol head to check in regularly with his