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Notes on Contributors<br />

<strong>Air</strong> Vice-Marshal Peter Dye served for 36 years in the Royal <strong>Air</strong> Force.<br />

Commissioned in 1972, he served in a variety of engineering related<br />

appointments as well as training and personnel policy. He joined the<br />

Royal <strong>Air</strong> Force Museum in 2008, as Deputy Director General and Director<br />

Collections. Awarded a Portal Fellowship in 2007, he is currently researching<br />

the Royal Flying Corp’s Logistic Organisation on the Western Front. He has<br />

written numerous articles over recent years for <strong>Air</strong> <strong>Power</strong> Review, largely<br />

relating to logistics.<br />

Colonel John J. Abbatiello, USAF, completed his PhD in War <strong>Studies</strong> at<br />

King’s College London in 2004. He is the author of Anti-Submarine Warfare in<br />

World War I: British Naval Aviation and the Defeat of the U-Boats (Routledge,<br />

2006), and he specializes in airpower, naval, and Great War history. Abbatiello<br />

is a command pilot with over 3,500 flying hours; he flew EC/KC-135, T-37 and<br />

E-8C JSTARS aircraft during his 22-year career. He currently serves as Deputy<br />

Head, Department of History, USAF Academy, Colorado.<br />

Squadron Leader Brian Armstrong retired from the RAF in 1997 following<br />

an 18-year career navigating Victor tankers and Tornado in the strike, attack<br />

and reconnaissance roles. He joined AgustaWestland Helicopters in 1998 and<br />

is currently researching the RAF’s attempts to ascertain the progress made in<br />

aerial warfare during the Spanish Civil War 1936-39 for his doctoral thesis.<br />

Group Captain Christopher Finn was an RAF navigator and weapons<br />

specialist with over 3,200 flying hours, mostly on the Buccaneer, and was twice<br />

awarded a Queen’s Commendation for Valuable Service in the <strong>Air</strong>. He was<br />

the UK laser-guided weapons specialist in AHQ Riyadh during the 1991 Gulf<br />

War and subsequently commanded the Navigator & <strong>Air</strong>man <strong>Air</strong>crew School.<br />

A graduate of the MPhil in International Relations course at Cambridge<br />

University, he became Director Defence <strong>Studies</strong> (RAF) in June 2002. Upon<br />

retirement from the RAF, in October 2005, he became the Senior <strong>Air</strong> <strong>Power</strong><br />

Lecturer (Operations) in the King’s College London Department at the Royal<br />

<strong>Air</strong> Force College Cranwell.

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