Hours Flown 1300+ Qualifications PPL  with unlimited level DA Position Yak 2 & Yak 4 Favourite Display Shuttleworth Interests When not making porridge or writing, Nick likes displaying with the Yakovlevs, or flying his Sukhoi 29

Nick Barnard MA (Hons) Cantab, is a publisher and director of a company that produces organic muesli.

Born into a "total aviation" family, Nick has been enjoying flying since the age of five. His father was a test pilot with Rolls-Royce, so he was involved with all aspects of flying at an early age. Nick started flying gliders at Lasham at the age of 13, and at the age of 17 he was lucky enough to be awarded a flying scholarship from the RAF, where he gained his Private Pilots Licence. After three years with the University Air Squadron he was selected to represent Cambridge in the annual flying competition against other universities, and won the de coveted DeHavilland Trophy for his squadron. After leaving university he turned to writing and publishing, before the happy re-introduction to flying Yaks was made by his team mate Jez . Nick has written and published a great number of extremely successful non-fiction books on very diverse subjects, including Tribal Arts, India, Africa and Practical DIY. He has just completed a book on how to fly a plane, which is on the cusp of being released.

He juggles his flying with running his very successful organic food company. He also owns one of the most versatile aerobatic aircraft available today, the world renowned two-seater Russian Sukhoi SU29, which he displays at unlimited level.

Nick is married to the wonderful Camilla (of course the team displayed at the wedding, which was the first four-ship display ever that Nick had not flown). At home it's a quiet life, as Nick and Camilla have two young children: a daughter Emily, aged three, and the most recent addition Max, who is almost two years old and arrived in August 2005. Nick also has a beautiful daughter called Margaret, who is 14 and loves looping and swooping with Nick whenever she can either in the Yak 52 or the SU29.

Nick has been flying with the team since the very beginning in 1999. While he normally flies in position Yak 2, he has now moved to Yak 4, and has flown in more than 400 team displays.

Nick enjoys reading and writing, good wine, flying his SU29, as well as Russian coffee making. He also also just released a book on how to fly a plane. For more information, visit www.howtoflyaplane.co.uk