Originally Posted by
oxenos
Cranwell just before I was 18, so on the General List. Chose to leave at 38 having done just over 20 years total.
I guess that there would have been a demand in the civilian world for Cranwell educated Royal Air Force aircrew of your age.
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I never really understood my father preferring to fly single engine military aircraft throughout his career rather than move into civilian aviation. He once said he preferred aircraft with either one or four engines.