Education
Royal Air Force College Cranwell.
Royal Air Force College Cranwell.
Waite joined the Royal Air Force in 1920, receiving his initial instruction as a flight cadet at the Royal Air Force College Cranwell in Lincolnshire. In 1948, whilst Waite was Head of Disbandment at the headquarters of the Allied Control Commission, he suggested that the Berlin Blockade could be broken by an airlift. Subsequently, the British and Americans started a joint operation to circumvent the Russian blockade of all overland routes.