We didn't have an RAF section in the school CCF, only an Army section. But I specialised in signals, which was fun...
When I won an RAF scholarship, they still wouldn't let me have a little air experience flying with an AEF. So Dad 'had a word with a friend' and instead I went for a trip with the Fleet Air Arm....in a Sea Vixen.....at the 1966 Farnborough Air Show!!
2 years later I did my PPL courtesy of Her Maj. at Bedfordshire Air Centre, Cranfield on brand new Cessna 150s...