So Dunkirk doesn’t have the correct demographic. The writer of that Guardian article seems OK (by omission) that the film also featured a Yak dressed as a Spitfire.
So some omissions and concessions for the sake of sanity are OK but not others? All of which goes to show that some people will find something to whinge about on any subject.
Meanwhile I still think the RAFM is losing the plot. I too was pleased to see Baron Jean de Selys Longchamps on that list. Having been intrigued by his exploits and visited his grave I feel that I also have a ‘personal’ link. But he is no more worthy than anyone else and there must be thousands more with far less interesting stories who should be remembered just as much. And he’s famous for being a Typhoon jockey surely? So why ‘The People’s Spitfire Pilot’ exactly? Best way to dumb it down?
I guess “The People’s Rigger” or “The People’s Storeman” doesn’t have quite the same ring, but as Milton so aptly observed, “They also serve who only stand and wait”.
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