In an age of preoccupation with the superficial, to discover a man of real quality and courage can be exciting and humbling.
Such a man is my 76 year old friend, Joe Pilkington. Let me tell you a bit about him.
Joe was born in Norden, near Rochdale in 1923. He left school at 14 and became an apprentice painter and decorator. But from an early age he was fascinated with flying.
