John Peter Edmund Faulkner

On promotion to Sub Lieutenant, John Faulkner first served on HMS Alamein, a Battle Class destroyer based in Malta.

After conversion to the Supermarine Scimitar, the largest, heaviest and most powerful aircraft to have entered service with the Fleet Air Arm at that point.

During his career with Qantas he flew Australian troops between Sydney and Saigon during the Vietnam War as part of the 'Skippy Squadron' [3] earning the Vietnam Logistic and Support Medal,[citation needed] and was selected for multiple flight segments to fly the Queen and Prince Philip on their official visits to Australia.

During this time he completed the Accident Investigation course at Cranfield, UK and was a member of a steering committee that successfully introduced Cockpit Resource Management to Qantas.

He also managed the introduction of Fleet Performance Monitoring into the Airline and was a popular speaker at conferences such as Safeskies,[4] and the Flight Safety Foundation.

He was regularly called upon to provide expert opinion to the news media on topics such as black box flight data recorders [7][8] In the 2003 Queen's Birthday Honours he was made a Member of the Order of Australia for service to the aviation industry particularly to air safety and as a contributor to tertiary education programs.