With a physics degree from Trinity College Cambridge, Tony Blackman joined the RAF to train as a test pilot. From there he became chief test pilot at Avro testing the three V Bombers, Nimrod and Avro 748 aircraft. His next career was as an avionics specialist with Smiths Industries where he was an aerospace director. Finally he served as technical member on the UK Civil Aviation Authority.
He was a fellow of the American Society of Experimental Test Pilots and the Royal Institute of Navigation, as well as a liveryman of the Honourable Company of Air Pilots.
Tony Blackman spent his whole life in the aircraft industry and all his books, non-fiction and fiction, are aircraft and aerospace related.
