I don't know who bumped you off the RAF book, Tim, or why, but you're obviously riled about it sufficiently to want to wash the dirty laundry here, and you have my sympathies, for what little that's worth.
But I would have some confidence that the bloke who took it on after you will have done a pretty good job. Better than you or I would have done in some areas, I'd venture, perhaps not in others.
I don't think that slinging mud at previous 'sponsored' books (like Dibbsy's, for example) is all that helpful or fair - since none of them deserve the kind of criticism being levelled at the most recent issue of RAFN, which I really must look out for......