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55cadet system was designed to mould selected public school boys, and some apprentices, for future leadership roles. It strengths were its inculcation of Service ethos and the creation of a network of likeminded professionals. Its fatal weakness was its inability to continue to provide pilot training to wings standard as an integral part of the course and, at the same time, provide a degree-level education. Notes: 1 Note on sources. A fuller account of the Flight Cadet era is contained in E B Haslam%u2019s book The History of Royal Air Force Cranwell, HMSO, London, 1982 (hereafter referred to as %u2018Haslam%u2019). The main sources for this paper are the RAF College Journals, the Air Force Lists and the various cadet records all held in the RAF College Library. Only direct quotations or other official sources will therefore be cited in this paper. The author wishes to thank the RAF College Library staff for the unstinting help and copious quantities of tea they provided him with during the research for this paper. 2 Cmd 467, Permanent Organization of the Royal Air Force, HMSO, London, 1919, p2. 3 RAF College Journal, Cranwell, Vol I, No 1, 1921, p5. 4 TNA AIR10/1848. AP121, Regulations for admission to the Royal Air Force College, Cranwell, 13th Edition, June 1936. 5 Ibid, p9. 6 AP121, August 1923, pp16-17. 7 RAF College Journal, Cranwell, Vol II, No 2, December 1922, pp8-9. 8 C46619/51/DTF cited in Haslam, Ch 10. 9 Haslam, p86. 10 RAF College Journal, Cranwell, Vol XXXV, No 2, Summer 1963, pp145-149. 11 Cmnd 2154, Higher Education, HMSO, London, October 1963. 12 This decision remains extant. 13 RAF College Journal, Cranwell, Vol XX, No 1, Winter 1947-48, pp46-47. 14 Only substantive ranks considered. 15 Jefford, Wing Commander C G; Observers and Navigators, Grub Street, London, 2014, p331.