I grew up obsessed with space travel, and also liked the whole engineering business, and after my A-levels went to do a degree in aeronautics and astronautics. En-route, got sponsorship from the MoD.
During my training and degree, I spent some time in aircraft design, got a few trips in various things, managed to wrangle a short placement in a flight test department, and also got into the University Air Squadron.
I never lost the interest in Engineering, but decided that what I really liked was sexy manned flight vehicles, it just happened that the first sort I really noticed were spacecraft.
I decided that the best way to really engage with sexy flight vehicles was to pursue both flying and engineering. Over the 24 or so years since I started, I've just got steadily more obsessed with, and qualified in both. Both flying and engineering I do both as my job and my hobby.
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