Talk:Reginald Turnill

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Only five test crew were aboard for Concorde's maiden flight inn 1969, but Turnill was aboard for many proving flights and for all three inaugural passenger flights to Bahrein, Washington and New York. His coverage of the start of the jet age resulted in four flights around the world within 10 months. He was the first foreign journalist to visit Japan's fledgling launch site at Kanegashima ,and for more thån 30 years commuted between London, Cape Canaveral, Houston and other US space and aviation centres. He was never based in the US, but covered every human spaceflight in Projects Mercury, Gemini and Apollo, and every Shuttle flight up to STS9. As defence correspondent his coverage included Vietnam, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia,the Lebanon an∂ South Africa.

Corrected update by Reg Turnill, 12 June 2012.