Bill Walker, M.P. learned to glide with the ATC in 1943 and was chief flying instructor at Edzell and a staff instructor at No. 2 Gliding Centre. he later held several other posts in the Air Cadets at progressively senior levels. As an M.P. his support resulted in improvements in the ATC fleet of gliders, and as parliamentary spokesman for the BGA he helped to preserve a prime Scottish gliding site threatened by an airway and continues to promote airsport.