TOP SCHOLAR WINS FLYING EXCELLENCE TROPHY
Michael Eager has been awarded the 2010 Royal Air Force Charitable Trust Trophy for Flying Excellence.
Michael who is a member of the University of Oxford Air Squadron won the trophy whilst he was a Cadet Warrant Officer in the Air Cadet Organisation as a member of 229 (Farnham) Squadron. He was awarded with the Trophy during the recent Royal Air Force in Concert performance at the Barbican in London, by the Chairman of the Royal Air Force Charitable Trust, Air Chief Marshal Sir John Cheshire.
The Trophy, which recognises flying excellence, is awarded annually by the Trust to the top performing Air Cadet who, in the opinion of the Air Cadet Organisation has shown both outstanding flying ability and personal qualities. Michael says he was lucky to complete two 12 hour flying scholarship courses at Tayside Aviation before leaving the Air Cadets, and he has definitely been smitten by the flying bug.
Michael, from Camberley, is a former member of Farnborough Sixth Form College and is now in his third year at Oxford University where he is studying PPE. In January 2011 he will sit his selection board at RAF Cranwell to join the Royal Air Force and, if successful, he hopes he will be selected to train as a pilot.
"It is wonderful to be awarded this trophy by the Royal Air Force Charitable Trust," said Michael, "it gave me a real boost to feel I had been selected from among my peers and it was most unexpected."
