From Rags to Rivets, The Trevor Bland Story By Ron Pemberton.

Published by Old Sausage Publishers 2010, first edition.

Softback, good condition; no inscriptions; inside covers and end-papers are quite foxed; light foxing to edges.

104 pages, illustrated.

All young people dream but few thrust forward and turn their dreams into reality. From the age of four Trevor Thomas Bland never thought of anything else but flying. He read all the books he could find on aviation and throughout his youthful years he never lost sight of his goal. One dream is big enough to accomplish but two in a lifetime is a grand achievement. Trevor had three distinct careers in aviation, from his early days in the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) flying Vampires and then Venoms in Singapore in the late 1950s, to moving to the RAF and flying the joy of his life, the Hawker Hunter with the RAF's Blue Diamonds aerobatic flight. He then re-joined the RNZAF and flew B(I)12 Canberras and then A-4K Skyhawks, finishing his air force career. He then flew civilian Douglas DC-8s followed by Boeing 747 'jumbos' and it was during this time that he started one of New Zealand's iconic aviation preservation societies, the New Zealand Warbirds Association.

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