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About The ATC
The "Air Cadets" provides the opportunity for members to take part in a huge and diverse range of exciting and challenging activities. Many are organized at National and Regional level, many others take place locally at Wing and Squadron levels.
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Famous Cadets
It goes without saying that many successful RAF personnel started as Air Cadets - including some of our most senior officers. But after years of fun, travel and flying with us, many people have gone on to be the top of their game in very different walks of life. From actors to astronauts, athletes to pop stars, writers to scientists, here are just a few. Who knows, in the future maybe you could be joining them!
- Richard Burton - Actor, famous for his performances in almost 100 film and theatre productions
- Geoff Capes - Olympic Shot-putter, weightlifter and two-time winner of 'The World's Strongest Man'
- Linford Christie OBE - World champion runner and the most decorated British male athlete ever
- John Conteh - World light-heavyweight champion boxer and Commonwealth Games gold medallist
- Timothy Dalton - Actor, best known for playing James Bond 007
- Len Deighton - Military historian and author of many bestselling spy novels, including The IPCRESS File
- Dr Michael Foale - NASA Astronaut, who holds the cumulative-time-in-space record for a UK citizen
- Neil 'Foxy' Fox - Capital FM radio DJ and former Pop Idol judge
- Robson Green – Actor (Casualty, Wire in the Blood) & TV presenter (Robson Green Extreme Fishing)
- Brian Jones - Record breaking balloonist who made the first successful uninterrupted circumnavigation of the world
- Sir Patrick Moore - Astronomer and author, known for his long-running TV series The Sky at Night
- Michael Nicholson OBE - Senior foreign news reporter for ITN
- Gary Numan - Musician and aviator, best known for his often-sampled number one hit single Cars
- Sir Paul Nurse - Winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his research into the life cycle of cells
- Alan Sillitoe - Author of over 40 books, including classics such as Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
- Laura Trevelyan - BBC journalist, reporting on the activity of the United Nations in New York
- Rory Underwood MBE - RAF pilot and record-breaking England rugby union player
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