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107Britain, Germany, the Middle East, Africa, Pakistan, Ceylon, Malaya and Hong Kong. Despite this busy environment, Examining Wing did not always find favour with the senior Command staff. In 1956 the CinC of Flying Training Command, Air Marshal Atcherley, maintained that %u2018examining without teaching was soul8destroying%u2019 and that CFS could not afford to keep twenty pilots separate from the instructional task. Examining Wing was disbanded and a new set up known as Directing Staff, CFS, was established. This in turn became known as Standards Wing until 1966 when it reverted to its original title of Examining Wing. The 1970s was a period of considerable upheaval for CFS. Little Rissington, long considered an inadequate airfield for flying training, was closed in 1976 and CFS moved to Cranwell, and then onwards again to Leeming. However, Leeming had already been earmarked as an air defence base, so CFS moved again in 1984 to Scampton, where it rejoined the RAF Aerobatic Team that had moved there from Kemble and for which it was still responsible. By 1987 CFS remained an organisation that was still well respected by many of the world%u2019s air forces, despite its influence having steadily diminished both at home and abroad. It was an independent formation of Group status, commanded by a one8star officer and it had the Royal cachet in the form of HRH the Queen Mother as its Commandant8in8Chief. It was well established at RAF Scampton, where all flying instructor training, apart from rotary and advanced jet, was undertaken. Examining Wing, commanded by a wing commander (a fast jet QFI), reported direct to, and was tasked by the Commandant. There were four basic QFIs, responsible for elementary and basic examining (which included checking those flying clubs that provided flying scholarships for the Air Cadets), two fast jet and one multi8engine examiner; detached at RAF Shawbury were two rotary examiners. Examining Wing%u2019s domestic task consisted of upgrading QFI categories for instructors of all three Services, undertaking quality control audits, or %u2018Trappers%u2019 visits to many Service flying units and overseeing the CFS agency scheme, whereby selected front line instructors worked as CFS representatives on their front line aircraft, providing vital feedback on operational flying to the training establishment. In addition, the Wing received invitations to visit