About 50,000 people are expected at the annual RAF Cosford Air Show, bringing displays of aircraft including three new RAF Museum acquisitions.
The museum’s new Hawk, Reaper and Puma will be shown to the public for the first time during the show on Sunday.
Among those taking part as a glider pilot is 22-year-old Bradley Lefley-Kemp.
The aircraft mechanic technician apprentice said it was a “huge honour,” as well as a “dream come true” to fly at the show, at the base between Wolverhampton and Shifnal, Shropshire.
Currently training at RAF Cosford and flying with RAF Shawbury Gliding Club, he has worked his way from a first gliding experience that left him “instantly hooked” to achieving display authorisation standard, said organisers.
“I know it sounds very cliched but these are the things you dream of, you don’t actually think it’s going to become a reality,” he explained.
He said he hoped the display would “showcase what gliders are really capable of, to hopefully encourage, in particular, more young people into gliding”.
