Guild Webinar – Hate From On-high: Air-delivered Weapons: a Bluffer’s Guide – Mid July (date to be confirmed)
July 14th, 2025
Jonathan Davy is a semi-retired pilot with 40 years’ experience of military and civilian flying. He served for 26 years in the RAF, undertaking roles as varied as annoying the Army on C-130 Hercules transports, nurturing proto-Top Guns on Tucano and Hawk trainers, and turning kerosene into noise and stress on the Jaguar and Typhoon. Deciding 9g hurt too much in his mid-forties, he swapped his g-suit for a high-speed armchair in Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747s and 787s for a decade. When that became too boring and life-shortening, he gave the keys back to Richard Branson and is now discovering an instructor on the mighty Cessna 152.
He has always been a ‘war bore’; a week in ‘tactical conditions’ (for the RAF) on the Catterick training
area in 1988 sparked an ongoing interest in the realities of trench warfare. He has been visiting
the Western Front since 1991, started taking friends and family to the battlefields in 2011 and
joined the Guild in 2019. He is currently working through the Accreditation process as a very
under-employed sole trader.