Britain Trains Her New Airborne Army -- Airborne Trainees jump 700 feet from a balloon at the upper Heyford training school, near Oxford. Though the glories of Arnhem have gone of brighten history's pages and most members of the war-time airborne forces have scattered to their civilian jobs, parachutists and other airborne troops will have a foremost place in Britain's army of the future.At the Airborne Forces Depot, Aldershot, and the Royal Air Force Parachute and glider Training school at Upper Heyford (Oxfordshire), volunteers are under strict training for the airborne units of the Regular and Territorial Army. May 26, 1948.