A Brisbane writer, Rick Searle, is near to completing his first draft of what will be the first detailed, comprehensive biography of Taylor to be published.
If anybody has an clues as to sources that may have escaped Rick Searle's notice, please PM me.
One of Taylor's eight published books is 'Frigate Bird', the enthralling account of the first trans oceanic flight from Australia to South America (and return) with the Catalina VH-ASA in 1951. How he managed the refuelling and tricky seas round Easter Island is high drama. This is David Marshall's magnificent painting of that occasion -
