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Derek Wood (author)
Derek Wood (1930 – 2 May 2003) was the author of ''Jane's World Aircraft Recognition Handbook''. ISBN 0-7106-0343-6. Wood was the editor of "Jane's" the publishers of a wide range of military handbooks and weekly defence newsletters until he retired in 1993. For more than 30 years Derek was the doyen of aviation specialists in Fleet Street and enjoyed a reputation for unimpeachable integrity. He was renowned, not only for his expertise and keen intellect, but also for his steadfast refusal to compromise moral stands in a notoriously competitive field.
==Royal Observer Corps==
A lifelong and keen aircraft spotter Derek was a sparetime volunteer member of the Royal Observer Corps for nearly fifty years and wrote the history of the Corps in his 1975 book ''"Attack Warning Red : The Royal Observer Corps and the Defence of Britain, 1925 to 1975"'', later updated in 1992 when the Corps was stood down. Derek joined the Royal Observer Corps in 1947 and served on posts near Chichester, London, and at Cuckfield (north of Brighton) after moving there in the 1960s. As a journalist and aerospace expert he did his utmost to further the Corps' standing in both military and civil areas.
In the late 50's the aircraft reporting role was being phased out and the ROC became the field force of the UKWMO run by the Home Office. In the sixties the Home Office was quietly planning to sever the Corps' link with the RAF, take it out of uniform, and completely integrate it within UKWMO. Derek got wind of this and, as aviation Correspondent of the Sunday Telegraph, wrote an article warning that if such a plan was implemented it was likely that at least 80% of Corps would resign. The Home Office was furious and demanded that the Commandant, Air Commodore Gresswell, remove Derek from the Corps immediately. Fortunately he refused to do it. The plan was dropped and Derek went on to serve the Corps for many more years and in many other ways. Besides running the Post at Cuckfield as C/Obs, he was much in demand on the lecture circuit and gave talks to the RAF Staff College at Bracknell, the Royal Aeronautical Society and the Society of British Aerospace Companies, as well as ROC Groups and Cluster meetings, all over the country.
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