He's not the only one still about. I was talking in the last few days to the prime mover behind the FAAOA gliding scholarships. He started telling me of his FAA career, and as he spoke I worked out that he had to be eighty-six, at least. He was awarded wings in about 1940 or '41 aged 21, and was a squadron CO by the end of the war, by which time he can only have been 24/25.
Amazing - and we need to learn all we can from them, fast, as they won't be around in ten years or so.
