Publications: Downloadable files. There is no author copyright on this material.
A5 booklets: my most significant publications,
Beginning in 2014, I have produced a series of booklets on aviation topics, beginning with the visit to Australia of French aviator Maurice Guillaux in 1914. The booklets generally deal with famous flights of the period and later tribute flights eg centenary celebrations. Most of the books deal with famous aviators of the period notably from memorable flights of the period 2014 onwards and any activities involved with Centenary celebrations of these flights. Almost all the books have been published officially with ISBN numbers;
The A5 booklets can be printed on a colour printer that can do duplex printing, (print on both sides of the page), on A4 landscape paper, with binding on short side. Also available is a content file on single pages.
| Maurice Guillaux: Pioneer French Airman in Australia: Biography and record of Australian activities 1914 | Booklet | Single page file |
| Maurice Guillaux: Pionnier français de l’aviation australienne (translated by M Berti, French Consul in Australia) | Booklet | Single page file |
| Maurice Guillaux: Pioneer French Airman in Australia (final version) | Booklet | Single page file |
| Australia’s First Seaplane: (Guillaux and Lebbeus Hordern’s seaplane, 1914) | Booklet | Single page file |
| 100 Years of Australian Air Mails (record of the 2014 centenary re-enactment flight) | Booklet | Single page file |
| Australia’s Second Air Mail The aviation Career of Basil Watson, 1893-1917 | Booklet | Single page file |
| Australia’s Third Air Mail The aviation career of Graham Carey (also Marduel, Edward Prosser) | Booklet | Single page file |
| Luigi Pellarini’s aeroplanes Aerautos, Airtrucks, Airtruks and others | Booklet | Single page file |
| Wrigley and Murphy Australia’s first transcontinental flight 1920: | Booklet | Single page file |
| 42 Days Across Australia with Parer and Mcintosh Booklet | Single page file | |
| 102 Days Vickers Vimy flight Darwin to Adelaide 1920 | Booklet | Single page file |
| The even more forgotten air race 1919 Smith Flight 50 years celebration | Booklet | Single page file |
| Aircraft of the Powerhouse Museum Collection as at 2015 | Booklet | Single page file |
| First Around Australia Flight Goble and Macintyre, 1924 | Booklet | Single page file |
| Francesco de Pinedo Italian airman in Australia 1925 | Booklet | Single page file |
| Lebbeus Hordern Australian aviation pioneer | Booklet | Single page file |
| First to the Solomons Richard Williams, RAAF, 1926 | Booklet | Single page file |
Other works:
A5 booklets about the Powerhouse Museum
These are for record only.
Major works (aviation)
History of Bankstown Airport: This was prepared in 2007 for a heritage assessment by heritage architect Bruce Dawbin. It was written in collaboration with Chris Matts, librarian at the Australian aviation Museum at Bankstown and draws on his document collection and lived experience. .pdf file
Tom’s Book of the Kamikaze: a comprehensive account of Kamikaze in World War II, drawing on a wide range of rare sources, with an Australian emphasis. Basic content and file for binding
Tom’s Book of air control. between World War I and World War II colonial powers, especially Britain, controlled several areas of the British Empire by attacking recalcitrant subjects from the air. This record brings together information from several rare sources in the hand attempt to summarise the main features of the process.
Major works – non-aviation
John Lockley of Stanmore: Lockley family in Australia, Noel Lockley and Tom Lockley, 1993
Sixty-five Years on: World War II experiences of Les Brown, later a distinguished academic. For 65 years he had been reluctant to tell of his experiences.
‘Like Most Italians’: a case study of the unjust imprisonment of Slavatore Vignolio, an Australian-born man of Italian origin during World War II