THE creative aircraft sketchings of a 10-year-old dyslexia sufferer from Bradford on Avon earned him a dream Royal Air Force Brize Norton trip on October 8.

In March 2015, Freddy Jones sent a letter and his drawings of a fixed-wing aircraft and a helicopter he had designed to the RAF’s largest station – their response was unanimously positive.

What followed was a day long visit of the RAF station for the young aviator enthusiast, an experience Freddy described as the best day of his life so far.

“Freddy has been made a huge fuss of at school with the whole school sharing the letter, so I apologise if the RAF now gets hundreds more pictures,” said his mother, Teena Jones.

Flying officer, David Sinclair, praised Freddy’s designs and enclosed gifts photos, pens and pencils to further inspire his enthusiasm for the RAF and aircraft design. – at this time they didn’t know of his dyslexia.

A week later Mrs Jones, a higher level teaching assistant helping children in Bradford on Avon who have specific learning difficulties (spld), wrote a heartfelt letter explaining how Freddy suffers from dyslexia. Freddy felt he would never be able to achieve anything in life due to the condition following a school report, but The RAF’s response, according to Mrs Jones, absolutely blew Freddy away.

Flight Lieutenant Merino, who also suffers from dyslexia, was determined to show Freddy how spld are not a barrier to him in his career anymore and invited him to a day at the RAF station.

Freddy toured the Voyager Hanger, saw the RAF’s newest air transport aircraft, visited the number 47 engineering squadron and walked through the design process of aircraft design process.

After speaking to the Station’s specific learning difficulties representative about the support the RAF provides to people with spld from the outset of a career there, Mrs Jones said: “It is absolutely amazing what the RAF does for dyslexic adults within the Forces.”