Issue 329: Boom Times

Today’s RAAF is the result of effective leadership and vision

So what’s next?” With the enthusiasm of a 10-year-old Geoff Brown leaps up out of his chair and motions me to his desk. “I’ll show you,” he says, opening up an email on his computer. “There she is. ” “She” is the now former Chief of Air Force’s new sports glider being built on order in South Africa.

“That arrives here in late August or September, so that’ll keep me busy for a little while,” Brown says in one of his last interviews – see elsewhere this issue – as CAF before handing over the reins to Air Marshal Leo Davies on July 3.