Dr. Peter Sowood

Peter joined the RAF in 1976 and, after tours at RAF Coningsby as Unit Medical Officer and at the RAF Aviation Medical Training Centre at North Luffenham as an instructor, he spent the rest of his career at the RAF Institute of Aviation Medicine at Farnborough.  He became an RAF Consultant in Aviation Medicine in 1988 and specialised in research around protection from hot and cold environments, sea survival and under water escape from helicopters.  The second phase of his career was in clinical research for the pharmaceutical industry in various senior roles although he maintained a strong interest in aviation. Now semi-retired Peter regularly flies his Piper Archer III from Denham and has an IR(R) and NR.”