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cent, so RAF authorities debated whether flying training to professional levels (pilot wings standard) should be separated from a (shorter) officer training course. Cranwell cadets were in 1950 equipped and treated as airmen, i.e. had to clean their own quarters and uniforms impeccably, while undergoing both flying training and college-level courses in engineering. By 1960 they lived and were dressed as officers, served by batmen. In the same period the
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In addition to the many British officer cadets who have passed through Cranwell, graduating cadets have come from many countries around the world, including Bahrain, Iraq, Oman, Qatar, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Trinidad and Tobago and Paraguay. RAFOTA also provides Specialist Officer Initial Training
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The postwar restoration of the College was a period of change and uncertainty. Recruiting often failed to find enough qualified candidates to fill each entry (50 pilots, two or three times a year, with 10 to 20 navigator and non-flying officers as well.) The pilot washout rate approached 50 per
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suggested the RAF would replace human pilots by guided missiles, at least for home defence of the UK. These vicissitudes are documented in Haslam's narrative and the personal memoir of a New Zealand cadet who attended the college from 1951 to 1953.
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Cranwell has had many famous graduates. As there have been many notable RAF officers who were commissioned from Cranwell, a fair and representative list would be impractical. Therefore, only those who are notable in other ways are listed below:
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In 1952 a College Memorial Chapel was established within College Hall. Ten years later it was relocated to the then new College Church, St Michael and All Angels, which is situated nearby to the south-east of College Hall.
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Cranwell became the entry point for all those who wished to become permanent officers in the RAF. Initially the course took two years, but by the 1950s this had expanded to three. Basic training was provided on
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Based at RAF Cranwell, the Band of the Royal Air Force College is one of three established Bands in the RAF. Originally formed to support the Royal Air Force College, the band is now administered by
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and it did not return to its former function until 1947. It was also in 1947 that the Equipment and Secretarial Branch cadets were admitted to the College alongside the traditional flight cadets.
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battled for a substantial College building. Architect's plans were drawn up in 1929 for the present-day College. After some disagreement between Hoare and architect
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In September 1933 the building was completed; it was built of rustic and moulded brick. Its frontage was 800 feet (240 m). In front of the Hall, orange
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who has Service-wide responsibility for training. From 1920 to 1936 the College Commandant was double-hatted as the Air Officer Commanding RAF Cranwell.
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On 20 June 1929, an aeroplane piloted by Flight Cadet C. J. Giles crashed on landing at the College and burst into flames. A fellow flight cadet,
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closed the College as an initial officer training establishment. With the need to train aircrew in large numbers it was redesignated the
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was sent to Cranwell to start a naval flying training school in order that the Royal Navy would no longer need to make use of the
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within the RAF Officer Training Academy (RAFOTA), Cranwell intakes usually take place at six week intervals throughout the year.
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The Royal Air Force was formed on 1 April 1918 and, as a Royal Air Force establishment, Cranwell became the headquarters of
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A new academic building, now known as Whittle Hall, was built to support the expanded syllabus. It was opened in 1962 by
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and just 14 per cent of officer cadets at Cranwell between 1934 and 1939 came from grammar or state schools.
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in charge of the College. Under the present organisation of the RAF, the Commandant reports to
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for the last few months of the war. After the cessation of hostilities in November 1918, the
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The dignitaries present for the founding ceremony for the new College Hall building in 1929.
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academy which provides initial training to all RAF personnel who are preparing to become
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and the commandant ceased to hold the title of Air Officer Commanding RAF Cranwell.
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Observers and Navigators And Other Non-Pilot Aircrew in the RFC, RNAS and RAF
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This article is about the Royal Air Force College. For its parent unit, see
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Graduated officers and families in the afternoon after a passing out parade
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paths lead around a roughly circular grass area ("The Orange") toward the
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28 December 1964 Air Commodore, later Air Vice-Marshal I. D. N. Lawson
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Initial officer training establishments of the British Armed Forces
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College Hall, training took place in old naval huts. In the 1920s
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The Royal Air Force College was formed on 1 November 1919 as the
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as well as a busy schedule of services and charity engagements.
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General Tadeusz Kościuszko Military University of Land Forces
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opened on 1 April 1916 at Cranwell under Paine's leadership.
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The band prepares for a graduation parade at College Hall
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based at Hastings under the command of Brigadier-General
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Royal Naval Air Service Training Establishment, Cranwell
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The College is the RAF equivalent of the Royal Navy's
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Index

No. 19 Flying Training School RAF
RAF Cranwell

Military academy
No. 22 Group
Royal Air Force
Group Captain
Cranwell
Lincolnshire
United Kingdom
The Lincolnshire Poacher
www.raf.mod.uk/our-organisation/stations/raf-college-cranwell/
Royal Air Force
commissioned officers
RAF Cranwell
Sleaford
Lincolnshire

Lord Trenchard
Royal Naval Air Service
Royal Flying Corps
Godfrey Paine
Central Flying School
John Luce
Royal Air Force
Harold Briggs
HMS Daedalus
River Medway
No. 12 Group
Chief of the Air Staff

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