Recorded interview with Air Commodore Nigel Wood, 5 May 2021

Interview with Nigel Wood, who served as a Lightning pilot, as a test pilot and trained for a flight in the Space Shuttle before its cancellation following the Challenger disaster.

Nigel Wood flew Lightning aircraft with 92 Squadron in Germany. He trained at the French test pilot school at Istres and worked as a test pilot in the UK and at Edwards Air Force Base in the United States. He trained to fly in the Space Shuttle as a payload specialist for the launch of a Skynet 4 satellite, but the flight was cancelled due to the Challenger Shuttle disaster.