Cadets – Cambridge Gliding Centre

RAF Air Cadets on Cambridge Gliding Club’s Flight Simulator

by SimonLearning 23 February 202428 April 2024Comments are Disabled

Ten No 1 Sector RAF Air cadets visited Cambridge Gliding Club at Gransden Lodge Airfield the last year on the Evening of 12th Sep. They took part in STEM activities around how lift works on an aircraft wing, looked at the gliders in the hangar, listened to instructors talk about civilian gliding and best of …

Bluebell – Slingsby T21Bluebell –

by SimonFleet 5 February 202428 April 2024Comments are Disabled

How I became a pilot – Jon Linger

by SimonLearning 2 February 20246 April 2024Comments are Disabled

I originally learnt to fly as an Air Cadet aged 17 in a Slingsby Sedbergh TX Mk.1. This was at RAF Debden now carver barracks. I did 3 solos and got my A&B BGA licence. Excluding a week’s long course with Herefordshire gliding club at Shobden airfield and a bit of flying in RAF chipmunks …