We are very fortunate to have Ross as a member of the Trusted Contributor team. There's a good chance he has forgotten more than we'll ever know about aviation. The resume below speaks for itself. However, the project which currently occupies much of both Ross's time — and his aviation passion — is his role as Director, Engineering and Airframe Compliance at The People's Mosquito1 project. This is an initiative to construct, from scratch, the first De Havilland Mosquito in more than seventy-four years and have it flying as early as 2027. Ross's involvement in this iconic project is underpinned by a lifetime of involvement in aviation in a wide variety of ways:

• Assistant Keeper Aviation, Leicestershire Museum Collections: this gives Ross responsibility for the Whittle Collection, the Reid and Sigrist Archive, and the British Taylorcraft/Auster Collection, including G-AGOH, the 1945 prototype Auster J/1 Autocrat flying staff transport aircraft.
• Curator, Science and Industry Museum: responsible for the management of the National Air Transport Collection located at Wroughton Airfield.
• Curator, East Midlands Aeropark: responsible for their collection of twenty-nine rare aircraft on external display within the park, with another five aircraft under restoration.
• Assistant Keeper of Aviation and Technology, Snibston Discovery Museum: sadly, this closed in 2015 and was subsequently demolished, which is no way diminishes Ross's contribution during its existence.

• Deputy Co-ordinator, RAF Finningley Air Show, which was the home of the RAF's largest Battle of Britain air show.
• Deputy Co-ordinator, RAF Waddington Air Show after RAF Finningley was closed.
• Flying Services Manager, Society of British Aerospace Companies (now known as the ADS Group), Farnborough International Air Show
• Ross has also managed, co-ordinated, or commentated on the following events: Great Vintage Fly-in Weekend; Great Warbirds Air Display; War Wings; PFA Rally; Percival Fly-in; Christie’s Aviation Sale; Middle Wallop International Air Show; AERO Open Day; Schneider Trophy Air Race (modern version); British Women's Pilots Association Fly-in, and the 10th World Helicopter Championship.

• Committee member of: the National Executive of the British Aircraft Preservation Council; the National Committee of Air Education and Recreation Organisation; and the Technical Committee and General Aviation Committee of the UK Airport Operators Association.
• Member of: the Aero Club of New England;2 The Real Aeroplane Club Breighton Airfield; Derbyshire Aviation Historical Society and De Havilland Aeronautical Technical School Association amongst many others.
• Whilst at RAF Finningley, Liaison Officer to the No. 616 (County of South Yorkshire) Sqn Association.3

• Lifetime Achievement Award recipient from Aviation Heritage UK, the official body for aircraft preservation, aviation museums, and aviation heritage in the UK.
• Lecturer to several branches of the Royal Aeronautical Society, as well as other aeronautical bodies.
• Author of myriad articles on various aviation topics, record presentations for the Commemorative Air Force, and he's also been known to take the odd photograph or two.
• Author and principal contributor to his own aviation website Short Finals. 4

You would do well to follow Ross on Bluesky and review his posts5 both for their visual content but also for their detailed captions. We are always amazed at the amount of detail he manages to shoehorn into Bluesky's 300-character limit.