I echo that. I too have flown with some war heroes and their skill is undiminished with the years. One such was a Major Skinner holding an MC, he was 82 at the time of flying him in 1974, or rather he flying me, and his control of the aircraft, a Tiger Moth, was superb and a joy to behold. I invited him to land and he did it with great skill and panache. I then suggested he took us aloft again and he did that too, with the very same demonstration of a true aviator.
I hardly touched the aeroplane throughout. I received a letter from him a few days later in a hand that was not as steady as it once was and he described that he was sent out to Bloemfontein in 1938 to train RAF pilots on Tiger's and he had not flown one since 1943. Say 30 years. Not bad eh? I still have the picture he sent me - of him wearing his ORIGINAL issued white overalls together with his ORIGINAL helmet. What a guy. RAF training was the best in the world then, and always has been since.