Your comment re the RBL covenant is rather out of place.
Not only out of place, but wrong, as I see that the count on page two of the RBL thread reached in excess of 7500, to plunge to barely 1000 on page three! I can’t find the up to date figure on the RBL site, without going through the signing up process again. So apologies to all for posting data that was both incorrect and out of place!
None the less, my personal experience has been to hear some pretty tough minded attitudes from some civilians, to the extent that those who volunteer for Military Service should know of the risks involved and not complain, or expect special treatment or recognition if they fall foul of them! I feel that there is a message for this thread here if one includes military airworthiness (or the lack thereof) in such “risks”. For that is surely the MOD philosophy that is in play. Personally I find it even more contemptible than the ignorant views expressed above. Perhaps some of those hard minded civilians might think otherwise if they consider that such compromised aircraft are flying over their houses, schools and hospitals as well as over AFG!
As to publicity for the RBL campaign, it was here
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6947770.stm
and here
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6953500.stm
and here
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6992430.stm
Just for starters!