After Dinner SpeakersDavid Gunson is a Former Air Traffic Controller and After-Dinner Speaker.
He has remained in constant demand for over 20 years as one of the UK’s most sought after and funniest speakers.
Born in Yorkshire, Gunson started his working life in a Sheffield steel mill and later joined the Royal Air Force, where he flew Shackletons in Coastal Command for twelve years.
David’s love of flying continued into his civilian life where he became an Air Traffic Controller at Birmingham Airport – which is where the fun all started!
David Gunson talked down aircraft for over twenty-three years, and as he used to say “My aim is to stick at it until I get it right!”
Circumstances led him to the After-Dinner Speaking circuit where his smooth approach and impeccable timing, does nothing to allay the fears of would-be airline passengers, leaving them with the nagging doubt that it’s all true.
David has been a winner of the Benedictine After-Dinner Speaker of the Year Award.
What Goes Up, Must Come Down:
Dave’s hilarious presentations and side-splitting stories have been captured on CD, entitled ‘What Goes Up Must Come Down‘.
You can purchase the David Gunson What Goes Up CD via Amazon here: David Gunson Speaker Recording
David Gunson Speaker:
David Gunson’s talk is based on the fact, as with tongue very much in cheek, he takes us behind the scenes in the world of flying, producing laughs and several raised eyebrows.
Often mischievously, as with a wry smile, he informs us that, “We force them down narrow corridors, thereby greatly increasing the risk of collision, while at the same time justifying the job of Air Traffic Controllers to keep them apart.”
Once you have experienced David Gunson in full flow… air travel somehow, is never the same again!
