All young people dream but few thrust forward and turn their dreams into reality. From the age of four Trevor Thomas Bland never thought of anything else but flying. He read all the books he could find on aviation and throughout his youthful years he never lost sight of his goal. One dream is big enough to accomplish but tow in a lifetime is a grand achievement. Trevor had three distinct careers in aviation, from his early days in the RNZAF flying Vampires and then Venoms in Singapore in the late 1950s, to moving to the RAF and flying the joy of his life, the Hawker Hunter with the RAF's Blue Diamonds aerobatic flight. he then re-joined the RNZAF and flew B12 Canberras and then A-4k Skyhawks, finishing his air force career. He went onto fly civilian Douglas DC8s followed by Boeing 747 and it was during this time that he started one of New Zealand's iconic aviation perservation societies, the NZ Warbirds Association.