Originally Posted by
Boeing Jet
Will we see the same amount of trades available to the younger generation wanting to join the RAF. Or will these just vanish with the onset of space age technology looming up in the near distant future?
We don't now, lots of trades since I served have gone, Carpenters, Painters and Finishers etc, times move on with technology.
In WW1 the RAF/RFC would have been awash with Blacksmiths and Carpenters, today it's not worth training the small numbers you would require, so any work will be tendered out. There might be the odd Farrier left in some of the household regiments though.