Almost a Boffin kindle store

To continue to live life to the full at 100 years old is quite amazing In this exhilarating exciting and at times emotional book EE Tubby Vielle takes us through a life which involved several different careers His early childhood memories draw you into a forgotten world The threat of hunger during the Great Depression led him away from university to the RAF and flying 150 types of aircraft not without incident He guides you through an unexpected account of WW11 which includes mysterious happenings between scientists and some to date unpublicised treacherous acts with far reaching implications His optimism purpose and enthusiasm are what he sees as the markers for his long and fulfilling life At age 43 having survived and thoroughly enjoyed 25 years of flying and then being faced with having to serve in desk jobs Tubby Vielle accepted the offer of twice the salary of an Air Marshal to retire from the RAF and become Managing Director of a company set up to develop and commercialise his invention of an airborne anti collision system for aircraft and ships He also wrote two novels which were based on his own flying experiences Both were world wide best sellers and translated into over 20 languages That and the sale of the film rights for the first resulted in Tubby taking up residence in Switzerland writing novels and engaging in other interesting pursuits including becoming involved in trying to recover the Rommel Treasure from the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea and inventing a method of investing which in ten years turned 32000 into over 7000000 Now again resident in UK he still normally gets up at around five o clock and enjoys working 10 hours a day Almost a BoffinAn interesting read of an autobiography of an RAF office 1932 1957 who retired then wrote several books mostly using pseudonyms an inventor and an investor He spent most of WWII in Canada running an RAF Navigation School and technical liaison in DC to coordinate RD between the US and UK. Epub almost a boffin bunny The book had a fair amount of quasi technical material about his time on the RAF s Special Duty List His work on improving aeronautical navigation working with many scientists Boffins to develop reliable navigation instruments and developing side looking radar based on an idea from Louis Alvarez a physicist at MIT Cal Tech Berkeley. Almost a boffin ebook free There was a slightly distracting thread of self congratulatory comments running thru the book but a good read about an interesting life However these comments were mostly earned and he was 100 years old when he wrote it so a little grace is allowable English