John H. Livingston the age of 76. Livingston was inducted into the Iowa aviation Hall of Fame in 1995. His Waco taperwing has been donated to the EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin where it has been restored. John Livingston is considered to be the inspiration and namesake for the book and film "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" by author and pilot Richard Bach. Livingston-Betsworth Field, as well as the fixed-based operator at the Waterloo, Iowa municipal airport, are named in his honor. John H. Livingston John H. Livingston (1897–1974) was an American aviator and air race pilot of the 1920s and 1930s. Livingston placed
Eric Monkman and Bobby Seagull the book "Jonathan Livingston Seagull"". Eric Monkman and Bobby Seagull Eric Monkman (born c. 1988) and Bobby Seagull are academics and television personalities based in the United Kingdom. They came to fame as a result of appearances on the 2016–17 season of the BBC Two quiz show "University Challenge". Monkman was captain of the Wolfson College, Cambridge team, and Seagull was captain of the Emmanuel College, Cambridge team. They met in the semi-final where Wolfson won, but were beaten by Balliol College, Oxford in the final. They presented the BBC Radio 4 programme "Monkman and Seagull’s Polymathic Adventure", and wrote