‘To Reach for the Sky’ with The Douglas Bader Foundation [2015]

#YouHaveControl | Team FITA, & Team Bader, fly from Elstree EGTR to White Waltham EGLM. Freedom in the Air (FITA) is delighted to announce that our founder, Gautam Lewis, has accepted an invitation from The Douglas Bader Foundation (DBF) to become one of the Charities Ambassadors. Student pilots at FITA try and emulate the unbreakable…

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RAeS Ballantyne 2014 | Gautam Lewis lecture

#YouHaveControl – With such a fantastic programme of speakers and supporters, The Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) produced an in-depth Diversity-themed Ballantyne lecture. The day began with an introduction from RAeS President Jenny Body about her own career at Airbus, highlighting the variety of roles that she was involved in, from developing cutting-edge fly-by-wire systems to…

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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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