Hi.
Had to join this forum, coming from Bomber County itself! Used to watch the Lancasters forming up over Grimsby. NS came in 1948, I wanted the RAF but they werent taking any, ended up in the Royal Artillery. After demob, I couldn't settle and joined the RAF. Trained as electrical mech(air) and joined 617 Squadron at Binbrook. It breaks my heart to see whats been done to it, it was a very happy camp. Worked on Lincolns for a year and then we got the beautiful Canberra B2, then the B6 which we took to Malaya on a six month detachment. Back in civvy street, I joined Air Cadets in 1970 and stayed 30 years. Received the Cadet Forces Long Service Medal and Bar and the Commandants Commendation. Still aviation, refurbish cockpits at the Dumfries Aviation Museum, at present working on a Wessex helibird. The museum is on the site of the old RAF Dumfries airfield, we have the old control tower as a museum. Now at 78, slowing down a little, help my wife breeding miniature poodles and do a bit of caravanning.
Aviation is my livelihood and a passion. There's nothing like the smell of avtur in the morning!
I find there is so much aesthetically pleasing about watching the colours of a sunrise and/or sunset glinting off an aircraft landing, or indeed taking off. And I get the best view, to boot!
I know I am very lucky to do what I do, and I couldn't swap it for anything else in the world - despite the day we had today!
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