My dad is ex-RAF so I was brought up on flying stories. After covering the house in Airfix kits and control line models I joined the Air Cadets. I eventually got my PPL in 1989 but will never forget the first ride in an open cockpit T-61 glider (with my left arm in plaster). When I showed my kids the T-61 that they are rebuilding in Duxford and explained that it was the first aeroplane I had flown in they looked at me like I had flown Camels in WW1!