Our Team

We are a family run business with father and son duo as Chief and Deputy Chief Pilot; whilst Maggie & Maeve work behind the scenes on our bookings, charity days, marketing and accounts.

The rest of our team are all aviation enthusiasts and highly qualified pilots; many of whom have known our family for over 20 years. Wing Walk with us and we promise to make you feel safe, with a viewing spot for your family and friends directly in front of the aeroplane and most importantly the flight of your life!

 Michael Pickin - Deputy Chief Pilot

Michael started flying at a very young age being inspired by his father. Winning his first aerobatic competition at just fourteen years old, he went on to become the youngest person ever to be awarded a CAA Display Authorisation for display flying.

At the age of twenty three he became the youngest ever British Advanced National Aerobatic Champion. Michael is still a very active display pilot and has performed all over the world as a solo display pilot and as part of a formation aerobatic team.

Michael is equally passionate about vintage aircraft and flying warbirds, ever since completing his Private Pilots Licence in a Bucker Jungmann and now flies experience flights in the Spitfire. Michael has flown over fifty different aircraft types ranging from gliders to airliners and is an active Commercial Pilot on the Boeing 737. 

Dave Evans - Pilot, Safety Officer & Ground Crew

An all-round aviation fan almost since he was born, Dave started flying in an Auster aged 14 and soon joined the Air Training Corps (ATC), where he learnt to fly gliders at RAF Manston in 1982. Leaving school, he funded his own Private Pilot’s Licence by working in a pub.

 In 1984, he joined the famous Tiger Club at Redhill where he learnt the art of flying vintage aeroplanes, aerobatics and formation flying.  Then, in 1994, he became an air display pilot and joined the Tiger Club’s Turbulent Formation Team. Dave was also one of only a handful of pilots in the UK approved to fly wingwalking displays with a girl on the wing of a vintage Tiger Moth.

1999 saw him become a Commercial pilot and leaving his job as a London Fireman, joining a different sort of airline; The AeroSuperbatics Stearman Wing Walking Team. Together with the Mitsubishi truck top landing act, this took up the summer months flying air displays around the UK & Europe.

In 2001, Dave joined the Hardwick Warbirds team in Norfolk, initially on the T6 Harvard and Boeing Stearman before the dream opportunity came to fly the P-51 Mustang in 2008. Four years of fun flying in the P-51 followed, both as a solo and pairs display act.

As well as flying for the WingWalk Company, Dave is also a freelance Commercial Pilot, a Flying Instructor, Parachute Pilot, and examiner with over 6000hrs on 100+ different types of aircraft, ranging from ultralights to fast jets.

Callum Collins - Pilot & Ground Crew

Callum entered into aviation joining the Headcorn Parachute Centre making his first jump at 16 years of age, then very soon after obtained his Private Pilots Licence learning on the Cessna 152 in 2011.

He worked within Airline Operations at TUI Airways and also the Aircraft Registrations Department at the Civil Aviation Authority before training as a Commercial Pilot in 2016. This involved 18 months of training and fourteen written exams.

Now based at Luton Airport, Callum is employed as a first officer flying the Airbus A320 and A321 for a major UK low cost carrier to destinations in and around Europe.

On his days off, Callum ferries light aircraft to various bases for maintenance and loves getting his hands on anything that flies, especially our Boeing Stearman when we visit different airports during the summer.

Ollie Babbage - Deputy Chief Pilot & Ground Crew

Ollie’s first solo came aged 22 whilst he was studying Aviation Engineering at Brunel University. From here his love for anything aviation led him into work as ground crew for several years allowing him access to fly various types of aircraft around the UK and Europe.

Ollie learnt to fly at Headcorn aerodrome, in Kent and started to build hours whilst studying for his Commercial Pilots Licence and working as Pilots Assistant for The Wing Walk Company where he managed to regularly get his hands on the controls of our Boeing Stearman.  

His day job now is as a First Officer flying another type of Boeing, the 737-800 based at Stansted and traveling to destinations around Europe and North Africa.

His passion for sport aviation takes him to Headcorn on most days off where he is learning to fly aerobatics in a Russian Yak 52.

Jeremy Britcher - Pilot & Ground Crew

Jez gained his licence in 2005, and went on to fly 757s and 767s commercially. He has also flown the Tiger Moth, P40 Prentice, DH Devon, Jackeroo, and Harvard before progressing to the Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar in 2018, flying two-seat and Single-seater Spitfires. In April 2021 Jez reached the milestone of 500 flying hours on the Spitfire.

Jez is a highly experienced pilot and joined The Wing Walk Company in 2022 , he was part of our first wing walk formation airshow display at Headcorn Aerodrome in June 2022 for the Battle of Britain Airshow.

Elliot Styles - Ground Crew

Elliot has always been passionate about aviation from a young age. He started out his career in aviation working as part of a small team to develop a brand new company offering WW2 flight experiences. 

During his time working and building up his experience at Headcorn Aerodrome he gained his Private Pilots Licence in 2018. Shortly after gaining his PPL he went on to complete his Airline Transportation Pilot Licence (ATPL) exams and enrolled at Stapleford Flight Centre to complete his training to become a Commercial Pilot. 

Elliot has since gone on to gain his Flight Instructor Rating and is now teaching students how to fly from Headcorn Aerodrome. He loves nothing more than to share just how incredible aviation and flying can be with anyone new yet to experience it.