W. Tommy Thomson grew up in Scotland during the depression, joined the Fleet Air Arm at the beginning of WWII and,flew Swordfish aircraft protecting convoys and attacking U-boats. After the war he spent 2 years in Antarctica flying survey aircraft, and on returning to UK joined the teaching profession working as a teacher and school inspector in UK, Malaya and the far east. This is the inspirational story of a man always driven to try something new.