As with all things in this mans Air Farce, the wheel has turned once more, with many people not being kept in the loop.... AR has actually be tried, tested and abandoned - believe it or not - it is back to AAR.... All this after the Stn Cdr at a secret Oxfordshire airbase had the welcome to the Stn sign altered to read Air Refuelling..... Marvellous...
What was wrong with AAR to begin with? Or perhaps I should ask what was wrong with AAR that meant it had to be changed to AR? Presuming AR was trialled at Boscombe, run by the Dress Policy Committee and then released as an AL to everything (including signs), what was the post-trials problem with AR? Moreover, what has been done to AAR to make it apparently good enough to use again? Couldn't we have hired some consultants to come up with ARA or something?