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Air Scouts are members of the international Scouting movement with a particular emphasis on an aviation themed programme and/or flying-based activities. Air Scouts follow the same basic Scouting programme as normal Scouts, but they devote certain amounts of time focused on their air activities. Air Scouts often wear a slightly different uniform from the rest of the Scouting movement and/or may have additional badges/insignia. Most air activities are ground based like visits to airports and air museums, radio controlled model flight, aero modelling and camping on airfields. Depending on age group, country and Scout group the activities can also include parachuting or flights in light aircraft, helicopters, gliders or hot air balloons. ==History== Major Baden Fletcher Smyth Baden-Powell, Robert Baden-Powell's youngest brother, was an aviator and the first who brought flying-based activities into Scouting.〔(Scout and Guide Historical Society )〕 An Airman's badge was introduced by The Boy Scouts Association of The United Kingdom in 1911. However, these did not introduce Air Scouts. Suggestions to have an Air Scout Branch were first put forward in May 1927. They were not accepted for fear the Branch might be 'led away by attractive non-essentials' and there was insufficient manpower in the Movement to maintain it. But, in the 1930s, Scout Troops in the vicinity of airfields and gliding clubs were encouraged to include air activities in their programmes and an 'Air Patrols' pamphlet was produced.〔http://members.scouts.org.uk/supportresources/188/air-scouting-introduction〕 The Boy Scouts Association of The United Kingdom introduced Air Scouts in 1941.〔http://members.scouts.org.uk/supportresources/189| retrieved 21 April 2013〕 The 4th World Scout Jamboree in 1933 was the first international gathering where Air Scouts were represented. On 9 August Robert Baden-Powell visited the air scouts, in the company of Pál Teleki Hungarian Chief Scout and László Almásy (known as The English Patient), who was a leader of the Hungarian Air Scouts.〔From the book of Dr. Kubassek János: A Szahara bűvöletében — Az "Angol beteg" igaz története Almásy László hiteles életrajza (~ ''Under the spell of Sahara Desert — The true story of "The English Patient", an authentic biography of Almásy László'') in Hungarian, Panoráma, 1999, Budapest, Hungary〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Air Scout」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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