The weird thing is that I am referred to as both an engineer and a technician!
As a member of a front line squadron I'm an aircraft technician supervisor but in the past I have built and in some practices designed repair plates for Tornado aircraft. Whilst my trade calls me a Aircraft Technician Mechanical (A Tech (M)), my job description calls me an aircraft engineer working for IX(B) Squadron Engineering Flight! Confusing or what!!!
The only difference I have from other techies is my B Tech Eng in Aeronautical Engineering and Aircraft Maintenance but they still have the same trade name and get called engineers!
I'm 33 going on 34 and been modelling for 14 years with model boats, and since I was 10 with Airfix type model kits. For a while I was the youngest member of my club but we are starting to attract younger members again- what made the change?
We supported Wicksteed at War and got involved with the event, and whilst the weather may have helped, we had some amazing weekends over the last two years picking up four new members in one day, some of them had kids with them who couldn't keep their eyes off the big model battleships. One of our older members, Tony, even allowed the kids to have a go with his little destroyers which thrilled them. To get younger generations of modellers interested we have to go to events that they go to so they actually see what model boats have to offer.