John Faulkner

John Faulkner was born in Reading in 1953 and has lived on the Isle of Wight since the age of four. He was educated at Sandown Grammar School before taking up a technical apprenticeship with the British Hovercraft Corporation and qualifying with an HNC in Mechanical Engineering. Much of his early career was taken up with hydrodynamic testing in the company's test tanks. Today his principal employment is certification testing of flight-critical aircraft structures. His interests include...See more

John Faulkner was born in Reading in 1953 and has lived on the Isle of Wight since the age of four. He was educated at Sandown Grammar School before taking up a technical apprenticeship with the British Hovercraft Corporation and qualifying with an HNC in Mechanical Engineering. Much of his early career was taken up with hydrodynamic testing in the company's test tanks. Today his principal employment is certification testing of flight-critical aircraft structures. His interests include photography and cycling. A cycle ride from Land's End to John O'Groats in 1998, mostly on A and B roads, convinced him that the roads of the Isle of Wight are not as quiet as is often claimed. Perhaps surprisingly, given the subject of this book, he is a proponent of sustainable transport and he hasn't taken his own car on a ferry for many years! See less