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Forum: Military Aviation

1st Dec 2019, 07:58

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Air Cadets grounded?

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Posted By Blackfriar

Tell him to join a gliding club and spend...

Tell him to join a gliding club and spend weekends and summers pushing gliders, driving tractors and operating winches as well as getting flying. He'll probably be solo by 16. Air Cadets seem to be...

Forum: Military Aviation

18th Jan 2018, 21:23

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Air Cadets grounded?

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Posted By Blackfriar

Aluminium

All this talk of how to fix fibreglass and wood. What's wrong with aluminium? I did quite a few flights in the Blanik and it was lovely - aerobatic too. I'm no expert but there seem to have been...

Forum: Military Aviation

31st Dec 2017, 10:04

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Air Cadets grounded?

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Posted By Blackfriar

Timescales

Let's remember while everyone talks about it that two years without gliding in the ATC means that an entire generation passing though has missed out on the opportunity. At 16 you can fly, at 18 you...

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