Special Reports
Air Cadets get to places others don't get a chance to see and get to do things that other young people simply don't get the chance to do. Cadets from Glashiels have done a wide range of things in recent years including flying on a 6 hour training mission on a Nimrod maritime reconnaisance aircraft out of RAF Kinloss, flying as supernumery Aircrew in the cockpit of a VC10 long range transport from RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire to RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus and back one Saturday, spending a week at the US Air Force Base at Ramstein in Germany, taking control of a Tucano and flying it at 250 feet through the valleys of the Lake District, visiting the Central Flying School Tucano Squadron at RAF Linton-on-Ouse and meeting the Tucano Display team or attending week long camps at RAF Aldergrove , RAF Cosford, RAF Lossiemouth to name but a few.
Special reports are designed to be submitted to the local press and in house publications such as Air Cadet News and the RAF News. They are also designed to record the activities of our cadets.
A Couple of years ago a teacher at a local school basically accused one of our Cadets of not telling the truth when he told her that he had had three flights in a Tutor while on a weeks camp at RAF Kinloss. When the article and pictures relating to the cadet appeared in the Borders Telegraph and the Southern Reporter later that week an apology was not forthcoming but the truth was out:-)
So read on and once again see what our cadets get up to and ask yourself a simple question - What will you be doing next weekend?