I have long been interested in military aviation, but a particular interest was sparked by my late grandfather's flying log book which Grandad talked to me about as a young boy and which was given to me by my grandmother when Grandad died in 1984. From that I built up a picture of what he had done during the war and I managed to track down several colleagues who flew with him including Rodney Scrase who then asked me to write his story and that became my second book.