Royal Aeronautical Society 2014 Ballantyne highlights

#YouHaveControl This video shows highlights of the 2014 Ballantyne lecture. The Royal Aeronautical Society’s annual careers awareness and information event, the Ballantyne, is aimed at 14-18 year-olds and is open to youth groups, school groups and individual guests and has become an important fixture in the aerospace calendar, providing inspirational careers information and advice and…

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2014 Freedom Flying Scholarship application launches

#YouHaveControl Learning to fly is not just for the able-bodied or for the wealthy. As with most other sports, flying enthusiasts come from all walks of life. Flying also opens up new employment opportunities. Flying an aeroplane is empowering: people feel free, liberated from their disability with nothing to hold them back. There are no…

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Jez Hopkinson meets FITA | Yakovlevs team leader

FITA film crew was at the recent Flying Show at Birmingham’s NEC. We were invited by Swift Aircraft .As we wondered the hall, we bumped into Jez Hopkinson, lead pilot of the Yakovlevs display team. They have entertained some 35,000,000 people around the world. Jez Hopkinson MRAeS, is the owner of the Yakovlevs Display Team…

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