Adrian Bleese

Adrian Bleese was born and raised in the northwest of England before joining the Royal Air Force to fly on search-and-rescue and submarine-hunting missions. On leaving the RAF, he spent twelve years flying on police helicopters for Suffolk Constabulary, attending almost 3,000 police tasks even though he was neither a policeman nor a pilot. He was one of only a handful of civilian air observers working anywhere in the world.

He has lived in East Anglia for more than twenty-five years and is a keen private pilot.