The B Word
what happened to the 'Honorable Company of Pilots incorporating Air Navigators' - espcially as Stu Peach is one!
Our full title is 'The Honourable Company of Air Pilots
incorporating Air Navigators'.
It's quite long so will inevitably be shortened to 'Air Pilots'.
thing
Surprised to see a fishmonger there. Is he a pilot?
No, not a pilot, nor even a fishmonger in the usual sense. He's a television director.
There were also (for example) a Draper, a Merchant Taylor, a Skinner, a Clothworker, a Pewterer, a Barber-Surgeon, a Tallow Chandler, a Butcher, a Cordwainer, a Bowyer and a Fletcher.
They are all City of London Livery Companies. Some, such as the Honourable Company of Air Pilots, are linked to a craft or trade; others no longer have such a link, sometimes because the craft/trade no longer exists. All livery companies are involved in charitable work; some are purely charitable foundations.
teeteringhead
What a splendid evening it was! And the "post party party" in the Cowdray Room was a good one too!
A splendid evening indeed.
Our Patron, the Duke of Edinburgh, clearly thought so too - as can be seen in the photographs.
I'm sorry we didn't meet at either the party or the "post party party".
Or perhaps we did and you didn't reveal your PPRuNe ID?
Tudor Owen
(Master of The Honourable Company of Air Pilots
incorporating Air Navigators.)