Alan Bristow
It is amazing what people say about someone once they are dead. Alan Bristow was an amazing man, created an amazing "empire", but if you read his book he was the only one there. Him, his pilots and his engineers. There were tons of other people, secretaries, storeman, ground handlers, labourers, traffic staff, operations staff without whom his company could never have worked.
Its a shame that they are all lost in a self centered acclamation of one man.
Early days yes he made it, but in the later years without the others he was nobody.
We also supported him through the Aberdeen strike, and were acclaimed he title of "locally employed staff" i.e. natives.
And then to see the pall bearers "pilots", yeh sums it all up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!