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Jon Parker has had an incredible career, progressing through military flying, then airline flying, to now being the founder and CEO of his own company, Flyby Technology. Massively experienced in the aviation world, Jon has a wealth of fascinating stories. He served on the Royal Air Force front line, flying both the Buccaneer and the Tornado, prior to moving over to the instructional world on the Hawk. From there he made the jump to single seat and completed two tours of embarked aircraft carrier operations flying the Royal Navy's Sea Harrier.

Electing to leave the RAF when his children were born, Jon then went into civil aviation, rising to be a senior training captain with Tui Airlines, but suffering a very signficant medical issue during that journey that definitely threatened the end of his flying career.

Recognising that he needed to have an alternative income stream, Jon then founded Flyby Technology, with an initial focus on drone pilot training. He has subsequently diversified that business into drone production and the company is now at the cutting edge of future warfare with the work they are doing on highly capable large, armed drones, of the type that are certainly going to form part of future military capability for the UK's Armed Forces.

We cover all these areas of Jon's career in some depth and this was a really interesting and fun conversation. I hope you enjoy it as well - please do let me know what you think.

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Marianne Withers has had an extremely varied career and her story is a fascinating one. She has made a great success of turning contract consulting roles into full time positions and, subsequently, she has also been extremely successful at starting and running several businesses.

Her support and work for Atombit and subsequent transition away from the company provides some good food for thought for leaders, as do many of the other interesting facets of her career story, including Marianne's unusual role as the "Entrepreneur in Residence" at Portsmouth University.

I really hope you enjoy the episode; please let me have your feedback as ever - I always read it and, where I can, I act on your suggestions too!

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I have always enjoyed the big rides at amusement parks and so it was no real surprise that I loved aerobatics from the moment I was introduced to them whilst flying in a Chipmunk on an air experience flight as an air cadet at school.

Aerobatics, in the military world also have a real purpose. They are designed to help you learn the aircraft's handling limits and so help develop your overall confidence and skill as a pilot. It is a natural extension of that which sees them feature a lot at airshows and in competitive flying, and the airshow environment is where most members of the public are likely to have seen them, both in solo displays and with formation teams such as the Royal Air Force's Red Arrows.

In this episode I talk through my own experience of aerobatics and also attempt to explain a bit more about the manoeuvres themselves as well as the work that goes in to creating a really great sequence, the like of which you will often see at public displays.

I really hope you enjoy this slightly reflective look into my past flying experience and that you find it at least interesting. Please do let me have some feedback as I would love to know if you would like more (or less) of this type of content.

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