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    A Pioneering Spirit

    Aug 15, 2021 3 minutes

    Jim Hazelton must have been the only pilot in the world who loved headwinds. Whilst the rest of us curse them for killing our groundspeed, to Jim it just meant he got to spend more time in the air. For him, there was no better place than the cockpit of an aeroplane.

    That is just one of a million anecdotes about this icon of Australian aviation that are revealed in a new book Jim Hazelton: Born to.

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