Activities and Adventures
As an active Air Scout Group we offer a programme which incorporates a vast range of age appropriate activities, crafts, adventurous pursuits and day trips for our Cubs, Air Scouts and Air Explorers
Below are just a few of the things our young people have enjoyed recently:
Activities
- First Aid
- Fire lighting
- Aircraft recognition
- Meteorology
- Phonetic alphabet
- Observation exercises
- Problem solving
- Hikes and Expeditions
- Model making
Camps
- Cub District and County Camps
- Cub Medieval theme camp
- Air Scout 75th Anniversary camp, Cornwall
- Air Scout Grizzly Paw County camp
- Air Scout Gold Expedition Challenge
- Explorer NAYC Emerging Leaders course, Staffordshire
- Explorer Monopoly run, London
Adventurous pursuits
- Hovercraft flying
- Water assault courses
- Axe throwing
- Indoor surfing
- Raft building
Flying opportunities
- Powered flight – AT3, Cessna
- Micro-lights
- Indoor skydiving
- Gliding
- Parascending
- Helicopters
- Some age restrictions apply but our Young people can fly from the age of 8
Day trips
- Vintage Jet day and Midland Air Museum
- Cosford Scout Take over day
- Royal International Air Tattoo, Fairford
- Tour of Bomber Harris’ office and the underground tunnels of RAF High Wycombe
- Nuclear bunker tours
Talks and Seminars
- Rusty Waughman - WW2 Lancaster pilot
- Barry Tempest - 50 years flying displays
- Stephen Slater - Flying for fun
- Fred Thomas - the RAF years and owning vintage jets
- Geoffrey New - Vulcan bomber pilot and principals of flight
- RAF Reconnaisance
- Barry Robertson - Airlander returns to the Skies