Challenges you wouldn't have in a normal aeroplane

You'd be flying four or five feet away from the plane next to you

Pilots used their trips to Germany to stock up on duty free

You need to come out of a barrel roll the right way up

"Bleedin' Hun! Hang 'em!"

You realised that people were fighting for you, and I think I wanted to be part of that.

That's when the adventurous part of my life started

In the forces we were always happy to be doing our job

After 36 years it has been so much more than I envisaged

If you don't do it right, you won't get the results

It's the connection with other people that I love best

I'd have been quite happy to go in at less than 100 ft