In all the way down to Earth, Squadron chief McGlashan displays in truth on his enchanting and numerous RAF profession, one who all started with the rag and tube of Hawker biplanes in 1939 and closed within the jet period of the past due Fifties.

Shot down over the shores of Dunkirk in heated aerial strive against, we keep on with the footsteps of the 19 yr previous alongside the debris-littered sands and past. From the safety of weak convoys to the pioneering days of night-fighting and airborne radar, McGlashan is in the course of the motion.

Flying in aid of the ill-fated touchdown at Dieppe and on clandestine evening operations ahead of D-Day, he's taking an energetic function in the various RAF’s most important operations of global warfare . Interspersed all through are stories of camaraderie and humour. clear of front line, McGlashan used to be seconded to BOAC to fly airliners out of Cairo, tasked to ferry all demeanour of airplane on the war’s finish and serve Cyprus on the top of a truly nasty crusade.

It is a trip of large variety, punctuated by way of a chain of shut calls and inevitable losses. part a century later, retired and residing in Australia, Kenneth McGlashan is drawn again to 1940 with the invention of his crashed typhoon surfacing throughout the sands of Dunkirk. In an emotional pilgrimage, he's reunited with the steed of his formative years and its bullet-ridden cockpit. despite the numerous risks he confronted and regardless of facts on the contrary, McGlashan looked himself as not anything greater than simply one other pilot; a normal guy in awesome occasions.

Of the 3,000 allied airmen who flew within the conflict of england, purely 3 percentage may possibly lay declare to the identify of ‘ace’, Squadron chief Kenneth McGlashan AFC regularly felt nice honor in being counted among the ninety seven percentage.

Zupp’s writing has featured in lots of aviation magazines together with Flypast, Flightpath and Rag and Tube.