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Successful attendance at the course is required of any person who plans to train as an officer in the RAF Regiment. A candidate will be at least 17 years and 6 months of age at entrance, will hold a British passport, will have a minimum of 5 GCSEs graded A-C and 2 A-levels, or will have achieved a certified comparable education.
Temporary Air Observer's School RAF (1938) [72] Test Pilots School RAF (1944) became Empire Test Pilots' School [37] The Officers Advanced Training School RAF (1946–62) became Junior Command and Staff School [22] Torpedo Aeroplane School RAF (1918) became No. 201 Training Depot Station RAF [37]
The Royal Air Force Officer and Aircrew Selection Centre (OASC), at Adastral Hall, RAF Cranwell, Lincolnshire, is the centre through which every potential RAF officer must go to be selected for Initial Officer Training (IOT) and through which potential non-commissioned aircrew must go to be selected for the Direct Entry Senior Non-commissioned Officer (DE-SNCO) course.
The final PT Test is the Army Physical Fitness Test (APFT). Usually, a soldier needs to score at least 60 points in each APFT category (pushups, planks, and 2 mile run) to pass, but in Basic Combat Training, only 50 points are required; the soldier will nevertheless take another APFT with a 60-point requirement at AIT.
RAF Air Cadets marching in a parade. The Royal Air Force Air Cadets (RAFAC) is the combined volunteer-military youth organisation sponsored by the Royal Air Force, which is formed by both the Air Training Corps and RAF Sections of the Combined Cadet Force. [3] The organisation is headed by a former serving RAF officer, Commandant Air Cadets.
From there selection interviews take place to pick candidates who will move forward to join the UAS. Candidates must also pass a RAF entry fitness test and medical. [7] [9] After completing the selection process successfully candidates are formally attested and mustered at the rank of Officer Cadet, [4] and their training can commence.
Under the present organisation of the RAF, the Commandant reports to Air Officer Commanding No. 22 Group [33] who has Service-wide responsibility for training. From 1920 to 1936 the College Commandant was double-hatted as the Air Officer Commanding RAF Cranwell. 1 November 1919 Air Commodore C. A. H. Longcroft (5 February 1920 appointed AOC RAF ...
A test pilot for both Rolls-Royce and for deHavilland. Member of ULAS 1950–53. Tudor Owen (judge) Notable judge and Master of the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators. Member of ULAS in 1970. Kirsty Stewart The first female pilot of the RAF Red Arrows aerobatic team Flt Lt James Turner joined the RAF in 2006, Red Arrows from 2020