Squadron Leader Robin John McNair, DFC and Bar (21 May 1918 – 18 May 1996) was a prominent Royal Air Force fighter pilot during the Second World War.

249 Squadron adopted the motto Nocturni Obambulamus (We Stalk by Night) and was charged with the air defence of North-West England.

The dangers and complications of this attack were such that it received national press coverage; and was held up as an exceptional success by Douglas Bader in his book: Fight for the sky[2] which provided a detailed description.

"The battlefield at Falaise was unquestionably one of the greatest 'killing fields' of any of the war areas", Eisenhower noted in his memoirs: "Forty-eight hours after the closing of the gap I was conducted through it on foot, to encounter scenes that could be described only by Dante".

[4] From 1951–56 he was deputy to Lord Amherst, director of BEA's Associated Companies, and helped to establish smooth relations between the airline's foreign subsidiaries.

He worked closely in Cyprus after its independence with the most senior political and commercial personages in the country including Archbishop (later President) Makarios; and with Aristotle Onassis on the complex negotiations that led to a BA/Olympic Airways consortium for the hire of aircraft and exploitation of European and Mediterranean routes.

[4] In 1990 Bishop Cormac Murphy-O'Connor (later Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster) said of McNair: "His life and career exemplified what was best in English and Catholic tradition.

[7] A devoutly religious man, during his war years he would always insist that Mass be held for dead crew members any time an enemy plane had been brought down.

He was buried at Church Norton close to the seaside at Selsey, West Sussex, where he had been commanding officer and had flown several missions over the English Channel before D-Day in his Typhoon.

He was a patron and supporter of SPUC, whose Robin McNair Prize, set up in his memory and presented annually, is open to children between the ages of 14 and 18 writing an essay about issues affecting the sanctity of life.