MF editorial team
Geoff Hill
MF Editor Geoff Hill is a critically acclaimed author and journalist who’s won multiple national and international awards for feature and travel writing.
His 19 books include humour, travel, self-help and accounts of epic motorbike journeys Way to Go, The Road to Gobblers Knob, Oz and In Clancy’s Boots, recreating the journey of Carl Stearns Clancy, the first to take a motorbike around the world 100 years ago.
His novels are Angel Street, Smith and The Butler’s Son, the best of his collected travel stories are in Where was I again? and his book on learning to fly microlights is This way up.
Sharon Cox
Sharon Cox took on the role of Deputy Editor of MF following Norman Burr’s retirement in January 2025.
Sharon is an active member of Cheshire Flyers, where she’s produced the club ezine since she was a student flexwing pilot in 2015.
She flies a Eurostar nowadays, as much as a busy life allows.
Sharon is also member of the British Women Pilots’ Association, and received a ‘Special Recognition Award’ for her continuing encouragement to get more women into general aviation as well as flying the flag for microlighting within that community.
In her professional life, she founded and remains a director of a freight transport economics consultancy.
Dave Calderwood
Our International Editor has a vast amount of journalistic experience, including Motor Cycle News, Bike mag, Performance Car, BBC Top Gear online, and most of the aviation press. Dave is currently freelance News Editor of Flyer. He learnt to fly in a flexwing, and is still waiting for the Learjet the editor promised him when he got the job, but in the meantime is on the lookout for a nice Thruster to get back to simple flying.
Brendan Digney
Brendan Digney is MF's reporter covering Scotland and Northern Ireland, where he flies a Eurostar out of Kernan airfield. He's a BMAA Silver Wings holder, working on gold, and a keen photographer who's had several MF covers and was second in the magazine's 2022 annual photo competition.
In his professional life, he's an engineer and technologist, which he put to good use in upgrading his Eurostar and writing about the process in MF, and is very keen on promoting STEM opportunities, particularly to get young people into aviation.
Cath Spence
Reporter Cath Spence, MF’s flying vicar, flies out of Blackbushe in southern England in a C42, a Jabiru four-seater, a Cessna, a PA28 or a Slingsby Firefly (so far).
Having got into flying by accident, she and hubby Cameron learned together six years ago and have flown in France, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Eire, New Zealand and Malta.
She’s mad about all things Wings, led the team of volunteers setting up the new scheme, and is currently trying to get enough time to complete her Diamond Wings.
When her feet touch the ground, she heads Oxford University’s student incubator, generating new businesses with the wild ideas that the students dream up. She’s happiest with a soldering iron in her hand, and likes to fix the odd aircraft in her spare time. She tells us they mostly work afterwards.
Steve Uzochukwu
Technical contributor Steve came to microlighting after a long time in hang gliding and paragliding, which he is still involved with. His day job is as a broadcast engineer, which he’s been doing since leaving Queen Mary College in the mid-1980s with a degree in avionics.
He flies a Skyranger and helps the Scouts with air experience flights on their Quik GTR, as well as having a flexwing SSDR project in the pipeline.
Before writing for MF, he contributed to the BHPA magazine Skywings and Cross Country, the international free flying magazine. It was via Skywings and the BHPA that he received a Certificate of Merit from the Royal Aero Club for technical writing. He is still an occasional contributor to both magazines.
