it did not cause you offence before but does now?

Because it’s only just come to my attention – didn’t know there was a time-limit on pointing out bad taste (at best)

The community that made the posting is full of ex-RAF types…….perhaps we’re not all that keen on the concept art as it’s in bad taste?

the RAF charities that benefit from the money raised are to date somewhere near £90k better off for having had these events on.

Great, but could only be achieved by use of tasteless advertising?

Plus it doesn’t take too much digging online to see that the events are run, adjudicated, and managed by an external company to RAFM.

So either the RAFM approved the montage or no ‘grown-up’ saw it before it was released to do a ‘sanity check’ – impressive

And judging by the ‘fella’ leaning in the door way, it looks like a publicity shot staged for the press.

That’s Arnold, and tea’s up!

I can see a D

The American voice followed by the Airfix Hurricane wobbling as it’s hit…….

Was she one of the F2s that were amalgimated into bent F3 frames that Airwork had ********-up?

……….how about a mysterious outbreak of disappearing air-frames? Worked, I mean is alleged to have worked for

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_Technical_Museum,_Peenem%C3%BCnde

In 1990 as the East German Air Force was dissolving JG9 at Peenemunde were told to get rid of the historic air-frames they held and that all their Floggers were going to be scraped. Very mysteriously just before they were due to be binned a Fished, Flogger and Faggot (and perhaps a Farmer) vanished over the course of the week. In totally unconnected news an unknown group of people were alleged to have access to a large former electricity generating plant with a freight lift large enough to take huge cargoes……some say it was big enough to take a fully assembled Flogger….

The Luftwaffe rolled-up to make sure the demolitions had been carried-out, but shock horror, no one could find four aircraft……the Luftwaffe searched the airfield with the expected German level of thoughtfulness but found nothing, and there were no witnesses. Ah well, probably been stolen for scrap, who was that bothered about a pile of obsolete aluminium anyway? Case closed, Molder and Skully not available.

Totally unrelated fact, a while after the Luftwaffe had give up and written off the air-frames aircraft that couldn’t possibly have been the missing ones were found and donated to the museum. The case had been closed, the paperwork was done, the station was closed no-one in the Luftwaffe was interested.

Perhaps history might repeat itself again? If not with the Mystere perhaps the F100, all it would take is some disreputable ex-RAF types, a foggy night, a convenient shed/HAS and a case of Schultheiss……..Everyone’s happy, the Museum’s lost an eyesore, The Americans no longer have to count something that’s ‘missing’ and can be written-off the books and a totally unrelated air-frame mysteriously appears somewhere it can be loved and appreciated

Go further back and have a look at the losses for the early 1950’s, ridiculous loss of life and aircraft – flight safety was clearly not ‘a thing’ then

https://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?43847-RAF-Losses-1952