Why Pilotbloke?
It came from my first Lynx flight pilot job around 1996 when I was crewed with the legend that is Windsor Davies, of Daily mail fame. We aviator types all need a nickname and I didn't want to be Ginger! (although it IS WWII classic...) Chewbacca had to go when I shaved off my beard and Jon Barry, my cabinmate and DIVO/OOW3 at the time on HMS Richmond, coined it as he was useless with names . It's simple, it's classy and I kept it, then along came the internet and 12 years later - a blog called Pilotbloke's Things was born.
