"Ah, sigh. Darbouy is old enough to remember when we had a proper RAF and none of this pretend Army Bllx.
Ray,
Can you really remember the days before RAF aircraft marks were designated like this? Right back in WWII, we had Spitfire F.VIII, LF.IX, PR.XIX, Lancaster B.I, Mosquito NF.II, FB.VI etc"
No Sir, sorry, snotwot I meant, and 'twasn't me that put that meaning on it; but if
you can, I doff my titfer to you.
One is remembering when the the RAF was an actual Air Force and not reduced to pretending to be Army clones. We really are not the same
However, Darbouy is certainly old enough to have been hanging around aircraft long enough to have seen things like Ansons, Pembrokes, Javelins and Hunters in service.
One also remembers life as a scaly brat; Darbouys Dear Departed Dad dragging him around various Sqns Venoms, Vampires, Javelins, Sycamores, Austers and the odd Lincoln back from bombing and straffing up in the Radfan, and etc. Anyone else pax'd in a Pembroke, Hastings trooper, or a York?
