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i have it froma well informed source that Swanwick is to get a flagpole so that the RAF have something to salute when they arrive in earnest next year! Not to be outdone NATS wants its own (for ATCOs to salute?). Anyone got any ideas for the design. Fimbles stripes are of course a rebranding requirement - imagine looking at those in a strong wind.
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I heard it from an impeccable source that we were going to have something that has been proposed by the Kim Jong Il management consultants based in Pjongyang of North Korea. At Swanwick we are going to have daily military-style parades prior to going on shift where the workers can parade in front of and sing the praises of the "Dear Leader" whilst holding aloft copies of the "Pulse" staff magazine edited by Comrade Professor Pangloss. This ritual will be performed while singing the new NATS anthem "Death to the capitalist reactionary running dogs of the pension fund" culminating with a slow march past the lunchtime diners at the Swanwick canteen whilst chanting that "Some diners are more equal than others" (to paraphase George Orwells Animal Farm)
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The flagpole at Swanwick has been a long time coming. When the military at Prestwick got one NATS had to have one as well otherwise it looks like the place is owned by the military, same thing applies at Swanwick.
I'm just hoping its not a fimbles theme flag otherwise in any kind of wind epileptics might have a problem
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I'm just hoping its not a fimbles theme flag otherwise in any kind of wind epileptics might have a problem
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Or they could save money and just use a civil air ensign.
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Corporate Communications don't have 'saving money' in their vocabulary.
Have you seen their designs for Christmas cards aaand what they tink are suitable corporate seasonal gifts!
Have you seen their designs for Christmas cards aaand what they tink are suitable corporate seasonal gifts!
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The design has already been decided, it seems
Colleagues (sic),
Long live Alstom, sorry, I mean NATS
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Long live Alstom, sorry, I mean NATS
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Wouldn't worry about it - we've got 2 new flag poles up here and only the RAF use theirs.
Nothing has yet adorned the other, (that I can recall), be it an official flag day or any other day.
I suspect if we ever get such a thing it'll be the NATS logo on a white background, without stripes...
Besides, colourful striped flags mean something else, don't they...
Nothing has yet adorned the other, (that I can recall), be it an official flag day or any other day.
I suspect if we ever get such a thing it'll be the NATS logo on a white background, without stripes...
Besides, colourful striped flags mean something else, don't they...
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Spectrum House HAD one, and that fine. They want to spend(waste?) money and install one. No doubt NATS will pay well over the top prices for a piece of cr&p! Maybe management are getting it ready so that we can raise the white flag of surrender once they've shafted our pay, conditions and pension!
Comrades it's time for REVOLUTION!!!!
Comrades it's time for REVOLUTION!!!!
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No doubt NATS will go out to see whats available from industry and Supply Chain will haggle a very good deal (as they generally do).
I do wonder about the fuss. The military folks will have to wander out twice a day putting theirs up and down whilst saluting, the NATS one will just be there and its not as large as those banner things hanging over the North & South stairwells.
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Hi Beadie,
I take your point about site ownership but in truth who cares? If the MoD want to fly a flag then let them. Why should NATS have to follow them just to show that it is our piece of soil. If there were to be a sign at the gate saying "RAF Swanwick" or similar then that might be different.
On a slightly different tack, what flaggery was displayed at the RAF stations which were used by USAF. Upper Heyford for example. (and Greenham Common for those with really long memories!!)
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I take your point about site ownership but in truth who cares? If the MoD want to fly a flag then let them. Why should NATS have to follow them just to show that it is our piece of soil. If there were to be a sign at the gate saying "RAF Swanwick" or similar then that might be different.
On a slightly different tack, what flaggery was displayed at the RAF stations which were used by USAF. Upper Heyford for example. (and Greenham Common for those with really long memories!!)
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On a slightly different tack, what flaggery was displayed at the RAF stations which were used by USAF. Upper Heyford for example. (and Greenham Common for those with really long memories!!)
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As Swanwick isn't an RAF station, why do the RAF there get a flag? They wouldn't have one if they were at any MoD site...
Just tell them to salute the big propellor instead.
Just tell them to salute the big propellor instead.
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As Swanwick isn't an RAF station, why do the RAF there get a flag?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Prestwick
The RAF Ensign occupies one of the two flagpoles outside Atlantic House, (the other being presently unoccupied), and a plaque outside the section of the building occupied by the RAF states "Headquarters Royal Air Force Prestwick".
No probs at all with the arrangement here, so can't see why there might be any at Swanwick to be honest.
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The other flagpole at Prestwick had yea olde NATS flag on it, perhaps no replacement has yet been thought of but I'm sure Corporate Comms have something in the pipeline.
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Scot,
the RN has exchange posts with the RAF at Prestwick, Swanwick, and for a few more weeks, West Drayton. It is therefore not an RN establishment.
In the same way that the RN has exchanges at several other RAF bases, where the Ensign is not flown
It works both ways, there is no RAF rag flying at the naval bases which hosts exchange personnel.
the RN has exchange posts with the RAF at Prestwick, Swanwick, and for a few more weeks, West Drayton. It is therefore not an RN establishment.
In the same way that the RN has exchanges at several other RAF bases, where the Ensign is not flown
It works both ways, there is no RAF rag flying at the naval bases which hosts exchange personnel.