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Fionnuala Boyd and Les Evans work inter-dependently as an artistic partnership, at times drawing on the same leaves of paper to realise a shared vision. Photography is central to their practice. In the studio, when away from the subject, they based their drawings on photographs, and today photography is their main medium. Boyd & Evans travelled to RAF stations at Lyneham and Shawbury for their Imperial War Museum and Ministry of Defence commission to represent the work of women in the RAF. They saw loadmasters overseeing Hercules cargoes, air traffic controllers, and technicians servicing aircraft. However, they were disappointed not to see women ‘on exercises and jumping out of planes’, assuming MOD censorship was the reason. Today, after considerable advancement of women's recruitment and promotion, we engage with a broader, more varied understanding of female personnel and their work.