Tasman Beattie

Tasman Beattie was the pseudonym of Terrence Claude Alistair Beattie, airman and author of eight books. One was a novel based on the life of Charles Kingsford Smith, upon which a mini-series called A Thousand Skies (1985) was based. Terry had been a radio op for Skyways of London on the Yorks. He moved to Western Australia in 1964, then found work two years later in Melbourne with Brain and Brown, the air freight company. After that he had a job crewing DC4s in Botswana. He moved back to Australia, dying of cancer on the gold Coast in 1988. He was survived by his wife Judith, a former air hostess. They had no issue. Hoping that this will be read by someone who knew Terry, and can add something to the potted biography.