Junior Leaders - Official site for a military-style leadership course run by cadet staff. Aimed at older cadets.
616 Volunteer Gliding School - 613 VGS at RAF Henlow provides the opportunity for cadets to fly in a motor glider. This site provides details of the School's courses and other activities.
624 Volunteer Gliding School - 624 VGS at Chivenor provides the opportunity for cadets to fly in a motor glider. This site provides details of the School's courses and other activities.
NCO Resources - Resource site for cadet NCOs. Contains useful guidelines and information, plus new activities.
HQ Air Cadets - The Air Training Corps offers opportunities to young men and women to experience service life, to take part in all kinds of sporting and adventure training activities, and to fly gliders, motor gliders and powered aircraft. This official website provides details of the ATC including recruitment and contact information.
Air Cadets Reunited - Website dedicated to reuniting Air Training Corps cadets.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Air Training Corps "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Air Training Corps
I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Air Training Corps It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Air Training Corps
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Air Training Corps Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Air Training Corps
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Air Training Corps Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Air Training Corps
Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Air Training Corps Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Air Training Corps
ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Air Training Corps "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Air Training Corps
Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Air Training Corps Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Air Training Corps
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Air Training Corps "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Air Training Corps
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Air Training Corps Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Air Training Corps
The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Air Training Corps Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Air Training Corps
"To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Air Training Corps A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Air Training Corps
