By Mike McEvoy
It’s nearly fifty years since I met Dick Ward. Joining IPMS in the summer of 1968, I found myself at what I remember as a joint AGM and National Championships, and meeting him among several early members. Dick and I found not only that our aviation enthusiasms were remarkably similar but that we lived fairly close to each other, and thereafter we met at the fairly regular - but not yet Branch - meetings somewhere near Marble Arch; here Bob Jones would enlighten a dozen or so of us on the next month’s Airix releases, and we all cast aspersions on the Blenheim box art. We then started to run across each other at, and frequently on the way to, various air shows – Dick had more cameras than most of us!