I apologise to you all but it’s time for my tatty old RAF log book to come out of the cupboard again. It was a sad, sad situation but for the recently promoted Flight Lieutenant Anderson, his departure from flying the Phantom on 43 Squadron was a reality that he had to face up to. Central Flying School is an august establishment that will proudly inform anyone with an interest (or not) that it is the world’s longest existing flying training school. It was to this anachronistic institution that I was bound!

The crest of the Central Flying School of the Royal Air Force

 

The Staff of the Central Flying School

 

The Red Arrows

 

The island of Anglesey

 

The Britannia Bridge

 

The BAE Systems Hawk T1

 

Flying the Hawk

 

The Great Orme and Llandudno Pier

 

Llandudno Pier

 

Images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to CFS, the RAF, the National Library of Wales, Tim Felce, Defence Imagery, Google Maps, Noel Walley and images within the Public Domain.