The Royal Air Force - 100 years old today...!
 

To the The Royal Air Force and their proud traditions and history.
:Kaleun_Salute:

There will always be an England, but will there always be a Royal Air Force?

How about a Royal Space Port one hundred (100) years from now :up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqpL6dEp5D8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6c3v9iihgw

Oh, those are good.

People often assume that the bird on the badge is an eagle, when it is in fact an albatross

Those that have met me in person at the SubSim Meets will know that this is my ringtone for my various iPhones and remains so to this day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWXQUhBsUVM

^ saw this film first when i was 14, in a german cinema. Some interesting historic details that made it into the film, from those earthquake bombs, to rather killing an own spy with bombs so that he does not tell anything under torture, to the cynical final words "A squadron never dies" (of course the squ. number stays, "only the men" die).

Also George Lucas seems to have used the bomb run sequences from 633 squadron as a guide for his "Star Wars" deathstar bomb runs.

Commonly/affectionally referred to as 'the sh!tehawk' which is in fact an eagle despite previos opinions it was an albatross.

Read through The RFC/RNAS Handbook 1914-1918 by Peter G. Cooksley and I now quote "One only has to look at an R.A.F. Officers uniform to find evidence that the Royal Air Force's roots lay in both the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service;in addition,brown gloves are an echo of Army tradition,while rings indicating rank on cuffs are reminders of the royal navy.Cap badges,too have a distinctly nautical look and it is still asked whether the bird in the centre represents an eagle or an albatross.That it is the former was made clear by Admiralty Order No.2,dated June 1914,which states that for the centre piece replacing the anchor on officers' caps "The badge of an eagle will be worn by members of the RNAS".

To add to the confusion: http://historypoints.org/index.php?p...-s-former-home

https://www.aviation.ca/200605022891...ss-controversy

And finally: http://www.theheraldrysociety.com/pu...e/2005-Sep.pdf

When I was an Air Cadet at age 12-13 and wore this cap badge, we were told it was an albatross... guess I was young and still believed what the adults told me :hmmm:

https://i.imgur.com/7vodQt5.jpg My little brother and I (I reckon I was 13 here and he was 12)

I'm awaiting HK Models release of this model

http://aerodynamicmedia.com/hk-lancaster/

Expected to be released in spring 2018.

Markus

Did they give you another badge.. did you land like a real Albatross does?

Ok then, to the Royal Air Force
(insert german grumbling :O:)

:salute:

Gonna be BIG!

Looks awesome though. :yep:

Let's hope they get the canopy right, unlike Revell's newer 1:72 tooling which for me was completely ruined by a careless mistake in the shape at the front end... this probably means I'll never build it. It looks correct in this 'rendering'... but this isn't a photo of the kit