Michael J Gething has been an aviation/defence journalist and editor since 1973, when he joined the staff of the Royal Aeronautical Society's publication Aerospace. In October 1976, he moved to DEFENCE magazine where he spent 17 years, eight of them as Editor, before joining Jane's Information Group in December 1993 to edit Jane's Defence Systems Modernisation. In 1997, this evolved into Jane's Defence Upgrades. With the incorporation of JDU in International Defence Review in June 2003, he became IDR's Upgrades Editor and began work on Jane's Electro-Optic Systems. Since the re-organisation of the editorial department, he works through the Air Desk, contributing to the spread of Jane's defence titles as appropriate.
Between 1972 and 1979, Michael produced the aircraft modelling and aviation interest pages for Air Cadet News, newspaper of the Air Training Corps, in which he served as a Flying Officer in the Training Branch of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (1972–1986). He was also the last editor of the Airfix Magazine in 1993. Together with Günter Endres, he has produced three editions of Jane's Aircraft Recognition Guide (the most recent appearing in July 2007), and among his other solo published works are Sky Guardians — the Air Defence of Great Britain, Air Power 2000 and F-15 Eagle.
An Associate Member of the Royal Aeronautical Society and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Journalists, Michael also belongs to Air-Britain and the Air Power Association. He is married with a son (in the RAF) and a daughter and lives in deepest Sussex.
Michael J Gething has been an aviation/defence journalist and editor since 1973, when he joined the staff of the Royal Aeronautical Society's publication Aerospace. In October 1976, he moved to DEFENCE magazine where he spent 17 years, eight of them as Editor, before joining Jane's Information Group in December 1993 to edit Jane's Defence Systems Modernisation. In 1997, this evolved into Jane's Defence Upgrades. With the incorporation of JDU in International Defence Review in June 2003, he became IDR's Upgrades Editor and began work on Jane's Electro-Optic Systems. Since the re-organisation of the editorial department, he works through the Air Desk, contributing to the spread of Jane's defence titles as appropriate.
