I do like to explore the different aspects of aviation and of the wartime experience, it’s not always the glamour boys and heavy metal for me. After all, what I like is the people stories, the stories, the social history, and hearing about their friends and colleagues, and especially hearing how, whatever they were doing ,they coped with and overcame the challenges they have faced. And even when it comes to pilots, their training in Tiger Moths or Cessnas can be just as fascinating to me, and hopefully the audience, as their front line service. So whether they were a pilot or aircrew, or a ground staff engineer or WAAF, I’ll try to cover it. And since I was in a technical ground trade myself (Safety And Surface, RNZAF) I feel a duty to make sure that we groundies who keep an Air Force or any other fleet running get covered. It’s always a nice bonus to have someone who flew combat in Spitfires, Wellingtons, Lancasters, Corsairs or Warhawks, etc, though, but it is never a prerequisite.