The first 52 Flight Cadets walked through the gates of the RAF Cadet College. Lord Trenchard, Chief of the Air Staff, said:‘ . . . such a College was the essential foundation of a separate Air Service. This College will have the making . . . of the future of this great Service . . . built up during the war by all gallant Pilots and Observers and other ranks who fought through it, and won a name in the air second to none in the world . . . we must ensure by every means in our power that it does so.’