My father, Ken Souter, who has died aged 104, was a second world war fighter pilot who later moved into civilian aviation. He also spent a year as the lead pilot for the 1955 film The Dam Busters, responsible for delivering its dramatic low-level flying sequences over water.
Ken was originally destined for art school, but as soon as war looked likely he enlisted with the RAF in August 1939. After training in Tiger Moths and Harvards he was let loose in a Hawker Hurricane, and joined 73 Squadron on operations.
