Andy Saunders author : vimarsana.com

Andy Saunders didn t have much time for girlfriends as a young man; historic aviation was (and still is) a huge part of his life.
I grew up very much in the era of Airfix kits, Biggles books and war comics – and it is fair to say that both model aeroplanes and ‘ripping yarns’ influenced my interests as a young lad. Feeding into that were family tales which were triggered by the latest aircraft model. For instance, my mother’s account of seeing scores and scores of B-17s heading out on daylight raids which was set off by seeing my 1/72nd scale model of the aircraft. Or an uncle viewing my Spitfire and Messerschmitt 109 and being thrilled by his tales of dogfights overhead. I was hooked. And the interest in historic aviation, and flying in general, has never left me.