Well put NB, but do take into account the palaver that this forum supports. Next someone will post the photo of the Virgin Blue captain and F/O that appeared in their magazine Voyeur recently with both young pretty boys sitting in the wheelhouse of the 737, in their underpants. Don't ask what they were promoting.
Can think of at least one of the old school who would turn in his grave, if he had one, but hasn't. This man, a pukka sahib, kept his every uniform in mothballs from that of the RFC , ANA (1930-32), a Second World War ferry command and the Sandringham/Solent outfit he was with 1950-54. The very model of a tailor's flying dummy was Bill, but Christ, could he navigate.
Then there was a so-called idiot savant, an implacable republican, who filed the crown off his wings and picked it from his cap badge. And another, bordering on the dork, whose strange foreign wife would insist he put his on to go out and do the shopping. And push the wire pram too.