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London Cadets Take To The Skies To Celebrate Cadet150
22nd June 2010
FIFTY LONDON CADETS celebrated 150 years of the Cadet Force Movement at a special gliding day held at Kenley Airfield on Friday 18th June. The cadets from the Army Cadet Force, Sea Cadet Corps, Air Training Corps and the Combined Cadet Force, some of whom are in the middle of their examinations, took a well-earned break from their revision to take to the skies above South London. For the majority of the cadets this was their first opportunity to go gliding.
Squadron Leader Keith Chandler, Officer Commanding of 161 Volunteer Gliding School (VGS) said “It’s been our honour today to provide 150 flights for fifty cadets for the ongoing Cadet150 celebrations. It’s been a positive day for these cadets especially the air and sea cadets who don’t normally get this experience. We’ve been teaching them part of the basic gliding training syllabus and its something they’ll probably never get the opportunity to do again”.
For Leading Cadet Darren Cook, 17, from Greenwich, Deptford and Rotherhithe Sea Cadet Corps, it was his first gliding experience. He said “It’s been a fantastic day and a lot of fun. It was quite nervewracking at the safety briefing when I saw the video of the glider getting airbone and when I saw how steep it was going to be I was a bit daunted. My instructor knew how nervous I was. He had a very calming voice and was very patient while he explained everything to me, talking me through everything he was doing. You go up to about 1,000 feet and you can really feel the G-force and then when you’re released it’s just so peaceful and graceful – the views are incredible. I loved it!”
Volunteers from Kenley’s Volunteer Gliding School, one of 26 such schools around the country run by the Royal Air Force, hosted the event and provided briefing and tuition to each of the cadets, giving them three flights each. Once they’d proved themselves capable, the cadets were given the controls on the third flight, if they wanted to.