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Hello and welcome to another episode of the World War II podcast I'm Angus Wallace.

Last year I considered an episode of the show looking at Panam

one of the pioneers of intercontinental flight.

I thought it might be interesting to explore where industry intersected with the military.

In the end I decided against it, as I felt the link to the Second World War was getting a bit tenuous when I read my notes back.

But at the end of last year, aviation historian Matthew Chapman sent me over his MA thesis which is titled

The Evolution of Professional Aviation Culture in Canada 193945. In it he outlines

the development of the British Commonwealth Air Training Program in Canada,

but the thesis goes on to discuss how veteran pilots would dominate post-war commercial airlines.

If you're an air passenger in the 50s, 60s, 70s and

into the 80s, there's a good chance your pilot was a World War II veteran. Take Concord, the most famous passenger plane. The first man to fly, Brian Troupshaw.

He was in bomber command and flew Lancaster's and then transports during the war.

And if that is not interesting enough the retirement of these

veteran pilots led to a re-evaluation of the relationships between the air crew the The effects of which, as my wife has pointed out, were so

fundamental that they have been introduced in the health service here in the UK. But before we get to looking at the World War II and the

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