Today, as on every Remembrance Sunday, we laid a wreath on the RAF Gransden Lodge airfield memorial by the windmill in Great Gransden. The inscription reads: Recognising the sacrifice of the 447 members of the Royal Air Force and Royal Canadian Air Force who lost their lives in operations from RAF Gransden Lodge 1942-1945 fighting …
Ten No 1 Sector RAF Air cadets visited Cambridge Gliding Club at Gransden Lodge Airfield the last year on the Evening of 12th Sep. They took part in STEM activities around how lift works on an aircraft wing, looked at the gliders in the hangar, listened to instructors talk about civilian gliding and best of …
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I originally learnt to fly as an Air Cadet aged 17 in a Slingsby Sedbergh TX Mk.1. This was at RAF Debden now carver barracks. I did 3 solos and got my A&B BGA licence. Excluding a week’s long course with Herefordshire gliding club at Shobden airfield and a bit of flying in RAF chipmunks …
