Where do the next genoration start?
I have a son, just turned 16, who is aviation crazy, he started about 3 years ago, working with a group of enthusiasts at Bruntingthorpe, we then purchased an old T-31B glider (which by a strange coincidence, was stored in a shed at Peter Holloway’s home), which we started to restor, and is now flying with a gliding club field in north Wales. Yes Peter, that trailer load of bits actualy made it back into the air! We now own a Jet Provost, which we maintain in taxiable condition.
This winter he has started the National Aviation Heritage Skills Initiative, and is proud to now have his first City & Guilds accreditation, which was a great help in getting a good place at a sith form college, so thanks to the BAPC for that initiative, it realy does help the yopung in particular.
He desperatly wants to work in the vintage aircraft restoration / preservation or maintenance field’s, but were does he go from here? we live in Leicestershire, and the opertunities for training and employment are just not there, and not everyone wants to work on Airbus’s or Boeing’s.
He would jump at the opertunity to learn the skills already mentioned in this thread, he knows it wont make him rich, but he does no that it would be rewarding, if only the opertunities were there.
He is efectivly learning his trade for free at the moment, working with a very good group of guys at Bruntingthorpe, but he is limited in what he can learn at an outdoor colection, one day a week.
I am sure there are many more like him, who just want a chance to get a foot in the door, but where are the doors for them?
Any ideas?
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