Jackson, Archibald Stewart 1922-2003

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JACKSON, Archibald Stewart 1922-2003


OBITUARY NOTICE—See index for CA sketch: Born January 13, 1922, in Valparaiso, Chile (some sources cite in China); died January 15, 2003, in Alvecote, Warwick, England. Airline pilot, librarian, educator, and author. Jackson was a Royal Air Force pilot during World War II. Afterward he worked as a commercial pilot for British Airways, first from South America and later from Heathrow Airport in England. He also participated in the Berlin Air Lift in 1948. At the mandatory retirement age of fifty-five, Jackson enrolled at St. Benet's Hall, Oxford, to begin a new career. After earning a degree in history, he remained at St. Benet's as a librarian and tutor. Jackson wrote a children's book, Both Feet in the Air: An Airline Pilot's Story, and several other titles, including Civil Aviation: Flight Crews and the biography Pathfinder Bennett: Airman Extraordinary.

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Times (London, England), February 27, 2003, p. 40.

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