Alex Henshaw’s story started with his adventures in the Golden Age of Flying. As the youngest amateur he won the King’s Cup Air Race and then achieved the record solo flight from London to Cape Town and back in four and a half days with just a compass, a chronometer and a set of maps from the AA.

He served in the war as Chief Production Test Pilot for Vickers Supermarine personally testing more than 3,000 Spitfires and the occasional Lancaster. He finished his flying career marketing aircraft in South Africa where he experienced his last epic flight.

Tony Edwards is a Rolls-Royce apprenticed engineer who has led a number of technology-based companies in the USA, Canada, Denmark and the UK – General Electric (USA), Motorola, Bombardier / Canadair, Lucas Aerospace and Messier-Dowty. He put together the latter as the only European based aerospace equipment company with a global market share of more than 50%. Later, he was seconded to the MoD where he served as Head of DESO (Defence Export Services Organisation) He gained an MBA with Distinction from the Harvard Business School and then joined the faculty as a lecturer. More recently he was a Visiting Professor at the UK Defence Academy.

He has served as a trustee for a number of charities connected to the armed forces and he has been responsible for raising several million pounds for these charities. Uniquely, he was elected President of the SBAC (Society of British Aerospace Companies), President of the Royal Aeronautical Society and Chairman of the Air League. He was presented with The Air League Gold Medal by the Duke of Edinburgh for Services to the Cause of Aviation.