Latest Squadron News

New Squadron Website

We are putting together a new website - check this out It is still under construction but gives a flavour of the new site

Easter 2009

Yes, we intend to open on Easter Monday, 13 April 2009.

Jan 2009

Squadron promo film

What do you do with all the slides from the last few years? Well why not form them into a promo film for use at local recruiting activities. Then add some music that is free to use anywhere and you have a useful piece of film. We even got Moby to supply a track from his library - www.moby.com.

You can download the video - it is 23mb - from either the front page or on the photo's page. Don't navigate away while the download is taking place as it will be stopped. To view the film you need to have apple quick time installed on your pc.

Squadron Calendar

You told us that we didn't give you enough notice about what activities were going on at the weekends. We listened and have set up a calendar for all to see. Please make contact if you require further information about any of the activities you see on the calendar (we hope you understand that this information can only be given to current Squadron members!). The calendar is powered by Google and linked to this site via some very clever html coding. So if you can't see the calendar when you visit the page is may be that Google has a problem or one of us has turned off the 'let all view the calendar' switch!

Just let us know if we have forgotten anything - all are welcome to submit posts via any of the contact routes - only the items that we think are relevant will be selected to go into the calendar.

Squadron Blog Site

Why not visit - http://towcesteraircadetnews.blogspot.com/ and keep up to date with what is going on. Use the e-mail address above if you want to add any posts. Don't forget to add your comments to the posts on the blog site as you see fit - all items are fully moderated and open for the whole world to see - so be careful online!

Christmas Closing - 2008/09

We will have our final parade night on Thursday 18th December 2008. First parade of 2009 will be Thursday 8th January 2009.

Annual Open Evening for 2008

Thursday 4th December 2008 - From 7.30pm. Details from the Squadron Office. Use the e-mail address above for more information.

August 2008

We will only be parading on Thursdays during August.

Spring 2008

Many things have happened, Flying, Longmoor, Gliding, Examinations, Duke of Edinburgh Award activities, Greens Activities, Athletics, Sport, Aviation Day preparation, Medal Presentation and many, many more.

March 2008

The March 2008 Newsletter - available as a hard copy from the Squadron Office.

February 2008

Its back! By popular demand the £45.00 recruitment prize programme is back. Recruit your mates and be in with a chance of winning £45.00 worth of Savvy vouchers to spend as you like. Zavvi logo used without permission - oops! Click this link to bring up a copy of the entry form - it is a PDF file.

January 2008

Eight of our cadets finally achieve their Staff Cadet examination allowing them to wear the yellow lanyard. However the hard work starts here as they will now be involved in the running of the unit and ensuring all activities take place as published.

Well done to all of them.

Monday 15th of October

MRV42 Base this is MRC49 Bravo 2, This Weekend just, gone 12th to the 14th of October, 5 cadets attended a radio course at R.A.F Halton. Out of the 4 cadets three passed and one has been invited back in February 08 to try again, I went back for my second U/T instructor course and hope to go back again in February as well, if anyone else is interested in the basic course or U/T course please see me and I will email Cpl. Heal (NCO IC of Halton Radio School) and show him a list of interest to try and get as many places as possible. I ask one of the attendees to write a small article on the course and what happened, or a rough chronological order of events of one of the days and bring it to me at the squadron as I hope to get an events stories page up and running.

Flight Lieutenant Mike Stock achieves 25 years of service to the corps - well done him.

Regards Web Master

Monday 15th of October

We are back, over the past month I have been learning to use the website, if you are reading this then I have succeeded, but the main problem is there has been no news for a while so a brief over view is as follows: We have had 4 promotions as follows: CWO Capewell, CWO Dennis, Cpl Smith and Cpl Bonben. Also both CWOs have temporarily left the squadron and I am sure we all hope to see them soon. Now the website is back I ask for any feedback but please bear in mind 2 things: 1 I am new to this so if there are any faults I would be grateful if you let me know but please go easy on me as I am still new to this and 2, if you would like to see something that we don’t have already please let me know.

Regards Web Master.

Sunday the 5th August

Cadet Justen Smith and Sergeant Katie Rocker have achieved their Silver Gliding wings. Congratulations to them and we hope to see them on their jumpers in October.

Last update was on the 26/10/2009