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Awarded:<\/strong> March 1955<\/p>\n Blazon:<\/strong> Issuant from the upper sides of two Torches in saltire the head and shoulders of a Falcon head turning to the sinister<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> The falcon’s head turning to the sinister as in the Air Training Corps badge is to symbolise the instruction given to young officers at Detling and the torches are added to indicate learning.<\/p>\n Motto:<\/strong> Due to the wise<\/p>\n History:<\/strong> Airfield used by RNAS\/RFC\/RAF units between May 1916 and 31 October 1919. Opened as RAF Detling on 14 September 1938. Closed 1 March 1956 and airfield was disposed from Air Ministry assets on 1 October 1959.<\/p>\n Sponsored by Richard Clarkson and dedicated to all who served at RAF Detling <\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: March 1955 Blazon: Issuant from the upper sides of two Torches in saltire the head and shoulders of a Falcon head turning to the sinister Link: The falcon’s head turning to the sinister as in the Air Training Corps badge is to symbolise the instruction given to young officers at Detling and the torches […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6077"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6079,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6077\/revisions\/6079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}