Alison Smith is a curator at Tate Britain. She lives in London, England.
Captain Keith Godfrey has over 20,000 flying hours and was, until his retirement from British Airways, a CAA examiner for flight tests and training. Captain Godfrey has been featured on national television and radio, and is frequently contacted for comment as an industry expert on aviation travel. Articles about his work with nervous air travellers have been featured in UK publications as varied as The Times, The Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail, the Readers Digest, Harpers and Queens, the Evening Standard, the London Metro and many well known magazines. Numerous articles about the book and website have been published in travel trade magazines. In November 2002 he published his book Flying without Fear which became Amazon’s best seller in its category within a few weeks and has helped thousands to go flying.