SUSAN OTTAWAY spent a total of nineteen years working for Lufthansa, Kuwait Airways and Saudi Arabian Airlines both in passenger services and as a load controller. More recently she has been working in publishing as a freelance editor, mostly editing, proofreading, producing plate layouts and compiling indexes for military history titles. She is the author of four books: Dambuster: a Life of Guy Gibson VC (1994), (with Jackie George) She Who Dared: Covert Operations in Northern Ireland with the SAS (1999), Violette Szabo – The Life That I Have (2002) and Hitler’s Traitors (2003). She lives in Hampshire.    
         
   

   
         
    IAN OTTAWAY (Susan's brother) spent twenty years as a cartographer with the MOD, producing military maps, charts and geographic data. Ten years ago he left to pursue a career as an IT consultant. He has been passionate about aviation from a very early age, flying whenever he can. To date he has flown in approximately thirty-five different aircraft types and is always keen to increase that total! He lives in Berkshire.    
         
         
    Ian "at the controls" of one of the most beautiful airliners ever built, the Vickers VC10. The photo on the left was taken on August 2nd 1967 in a BOAC aircraft at Heathrow and the one on the right was in the Sultan of Oman's former aircraft G-ASIX/A40-AB at Brooklands on November 22nd 2006.    
         
   

   
   

The two authors a few years ago ... well OK .....probably nearly forty years ago!!