DAVE GLEDHILL is an aviation enthusiast and aviator. Already holding a private pilot’s license at the age of seventeen, he was commissioned in the RAF in 1974, and after training as an air navigator, converted to the F4 Phantom in the air defense role. After tours in the UK and Germany, he went on to be a radar tactics instructor on the Operational Conversion Unit. After transferring to the new Tornado F2 as one of the first instructors, he eventually became the Executive Officer on the OCU. His flying career finished in the Falkland Islands where he commanded No. 1435 Flight flying the Tornado F3. Gledhill’s first book for Fonthill Media was the critically acclaimed The Phantom in Focus: A Navigator’s Eye on Britain’s Cold War Warrior.
