Macarthur Job (10 April 1926 in

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writer and

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consultant. He published nine books on aviation safety. He was formerly a Flying Doctor pilot, and held a pilot licence until his death. Job was a Senior Inspector with the Air Safety Investigation Branch of the Australian

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, and for 14 years was editor of the Department’s Aviation Safety Digest. The magazine won the US Flight Safety Foundation's Publication of the Year award. In 1980 he was appointed editor of the Australian aviation industry journal ''Aircraft'', published by The Herald and Weekly Times Limited. A year later, as a member of the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators, he was granted the Freedom of the City of London. In 1984, he became a working Director of the Missionary Aviation Fellowship (MAF) - a professional, non-profit organisation which operates more than 40 aircraft in community development work in Papua New Guinea and outback Australia. In 1989 he began working as an independent aviation writer, specialising in air safety. At the

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in 1997, Job was presented with the Aviation Safety Foundation’s award for ‘Aviation Safety Excellence’ and the AOPA’s Adams Trophy. In the Queen's Birthday Honours for 2003, he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for ‘services to the promotion and advancement of aviation safety’.It's an Honour citation
/ref> He contributed to '' Australian Aviation'', '' Aero Australia'', and the Civil Aviation Safety Authority’s ''Flight Safety Australia'' magazines. He has also written for the British ''Aeroplane'', the U.S '' Flying'' and ''Airways'' magazines, for ''

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'' and flew as a staff pilot with the Scout Air Activity Centre in Victoria.

Books

*''Air Crash'' (Aerospace Publications, 1991: ) *''Air Crash: Volume 2'' (Aerospace Publications, 1992: ) *''Air Disaster: Volume 1'' (Aerospace Publications, 22 February 1995: ) *''Air Disaster: Volume 2'' (Aerospace Publications, 6 August 1996: ) *''Air Disaster: Volume 3'' (Aerospace Publications, 30 April 1999: ) *''Air Disaster: Volume 4: the Propeller Era'' (Aerospace Publications, 13 September 2001: ) *''Disaster in the Dandenongs'' (Sierra Publishing, 25 October 2008: ) *''Into Oblivion '' (Sierra Publishing, 20 June 2010: ) (''Air Disaster'', Volumes 1-3 illustrated by Matthew Tesch. ''Air Disaster'' Volume 4 illustrated by Juanita Franzi. Cover paintings for ''Disaster in the Dandenongs'' and ''Into Oblivion'' by Norman Clifford.)

References

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