Your starter for 10,

http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=188451

Flt Sgt, Listed as an observer rather than a Nav (EDIT – Because he was a RADAR Op…….doooh!)

I’ve just had a flash-back to that episode of Dad’s Army where Captain Mainwaring had a hissy-fit when the Warminster-on-Sea platoon rushed out of the cinema instead of standing for the National Anthem…….

Mind-you, we used to do that in the Astra and Jeboa cinemas in Berlin….. 🙂

Talking about scrap hardly worth attention in a modern, relevant, forward-looking museum, what became of Hendon’s RR Vulture engine?

Didn’t the Canberra gold-fish bowl have a habit if misting up during rapid altitude changes? Would make sense to have a small DV panel ‘just in case’

Click on your chosen image three times, firstly you’ll get a small windowed version, click again and you’ll get a bigger image, click a third time and Bob’s your uncle

I can only offer the view that it seems vaguely 0/400 or Vimy stylee wind generator

As I understand it, the design work was done for free by the agency – Apparently they then showed the logo to a focus group of their target audience who liked it. BUT, and this is the problem, they didn’t like it AND connect it to the RAF, they just liked the design – as a design. Without that connection, explanation and meaning it could be the new logo for Group 4 security

Got another reply from Hendon today…..she’s a bit grumpy

“As mentioned in my first email, the green yellow and blue logo is the dynamic roundel, which is being used by all RAF Charities to mark RAF100, following the RAF’s brand guidelines.

If you have any further questions about the branding of RAF100 you should contact the RAF’s Marketing department directly.”

In other words, “I don’t know, and don’t care, go away and bother someone else”

I have contacted them directly – the silence is deafening…..

Meanwhile a couple of ex-RAF forums I belong to have everyone asking WTF? A serving officer is going to have a word with Media Ops – don’t expect anything good. I mean, OK, it’s to celibate (somehow) the RAF, but how? What’s the connection? What’s wrong with Red, white and blue? I feel a FOI coming on….