On 25 July, a graduation ceremony for 49 Aerosystems Course was held in the Officers’ Mess at RAF Boscombe Down, Salisbury.
Past-President, Norman Bonnor, stood-in for our President, Prof Terry Moore, to present the Royal Institute of Navigation Trophy.
Norman Bonnor, himself a graduate of the course, reports:
Yes, you read correctly - the Course is now resident within the Air Warfare Centre enclave at Boscombe Down, having moved from RAF Cranwell last year. The course length is 42 weeks, and of the 16 students who joined last September, 13 graduated with an MSc awarded by Kingston University; another should graduate in November after re-submitting his dissertation. Graduates included 4 from the RN, 6 from the RAF and 3 from Australian forces.
The RIN Trophy is awarded to the student who achieves the highest overall standard in the Navigation module. The winner on 49 Course was Lt James Clark RN, who is posted to 744 Naval Air Squadron, which was re-commissioned at Boscombe Down in October last year to introduce the RN’s ‘Crowsnest’ radar on the Merlin helicopter and upgrades to the RAF’s Chinooks.
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