Jamie Hull

It teaches you a lot about character.

In a nutshell, when I look at my early life, that was exactly what it was.

It was, it felt like I had so much fight in me, not just those army years, but even if I turn the clock back as a kid, I had a strong fight as a kid because my, it's no sob story this, and I've said this many times in various conversations, but youth got cut short because my parents separated about the age of 12 I was.

And so my mum actually moved away at the time, but I chose to live with my father for that period because I was closer to school and it was just going to be easier and didn't want that change.

The downside was my youth was cut relatively short and I had to largely kind of get on with it, pull my socks up and...

And, you know, there I was kind of getting home from school and having to do domestic work, you know, hoovering, dusting and cleaning the house and kind of making dinner and helping prepare some meal time for my younger brother.

My younger brother was always with me.

He was 10.

So, of course, from a young age, I had more fight than sort of fun, if you know what I mean.

Everything about me in all of my work days was about hard graft, perseverance and sort of pedal to the metal.

And I did have a big ambition, like you said, and that came from an early age perspective.

at a very young age, actually.

My late grandfather trained as a pilot towards the end of the Second World War.

And as a kid, I'm talking like five, six years of age, I distinctly remember my grandfather literally sitting me on his knee

And he would talk to me about all things kind of space, you know, space exploration, because by then he was like a raving spotter.

And the reason was his day job.

He was an engineer for the former English Electric and also British Aerospace Engineering, which it became.

And that really inspired me as a kid.

And so one day I'm like, I'm going to learn to fly.

You know, no matter what it takes, I'm going to learn to fly, even if I've got to put my money where my mouth was and do that myself.