Some ATC units had been formed in schools, but in 1948 these were merged into the new Combined Cadet Force, alongside the school elements of the Sea Cadets and the army's Junior Training Corps. It was thus with the CCF, rather than the ATC, that still more young people enjoyed their first - limited - taste of flight. In 1952-53, the organisation received its own gliders in the form of 115 Slingsby Grasshopper TX1s, these combining the reworked wings and tail surfaces of ex-ATC Cadet TX1s with a new, completely open fuselage based on the pre-war German-built Schneider SG 38 Schulgleiter. The fact of its being designated the Type 38 by Slingsby was, in fact, a pure coincidence. In the words of one official account, "the purpose of the Grasshopper was not to teach cadets to glide", that being the job of the Air Cadets' gliding schools, "but rather to develop a cadet's self-discipline and leadership while introducing him to RAF procedures and 'including air-mindedness'."
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