“It all started with a book,” smiled Shona Bowman while showing me around her and partner Laurie Gregoire’s award-winning Cessna Bird Dog. Sitting on the hallowed grass at Old Warden in Bedfordshire, the aeroplane sports all of the classic lines of the US aviation giant’s world-beating type – yet looks uncharacteristically sinister with a warload of rockets under the wings.
What's life without a Bird Dog?
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