Arthur Reed, aviation author and broadcaster, who has died aged 76,
was almost the last of the internationally recognised British air
correspondents who were gradually abolished by the national newspapers
in the 1980s.
He was air correspondent for The Times from
1967-81, and European editor of America’s prestigious Air Transport
World for more than 20 years until suffering a severe stroke five years
ago.
Quiet and unassuming, yet immensely knowledgeable and
capable, he covered the start of the jet age, leading to mass air
travel, and the introduction of Concorde.
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