Royal Flight 100 years
 

100 years of Royal flight celebrated with poignant images | Daily Mail Online

Som nice photos for your perusal.

Dodgy captionning here and there - such as a tendency to refer to the wife of King George VI as the Queen Mother which was her later status.
For example "The Queen Mother leads a young Princess Elizabeth off a BOAC Comet during a 1949 Royal tour" which also has to be one of the aviation bludners as the Comet wasn't available for tours in 1949 having flown first on 27 July that year and getting its CofA on 22 Jan 1952

A good selection of de Havilland types served in the King's/Queen's Flight and some nice photos of most of 'em.

Well, it was in the Daily Mail, so accuracy not always the highest priority ;-) The photos were nice and quite numerous.

I did a Royal Flight for Qantas in 1977 around Australia et al. Any pics ?

Anyone recall the "personalised" call signs used by members of The Royal Family when piloting aircraft.
I think one was unicorn ?
Any others ?
Be lucky
David

Very good, I used to do the Royals on the VC10's, it is a shame that the Royal helicopter these days is no longer a military item, especially as they have the union flag on the wrong way round on the Stb side, a rather sad indictment of how far this Country has lost its pride in doing things correctly.

Call signs used were "Kitty Hawk", "Kitty", "Rainbow" & "Unicorn" - depending on who was on board.

Anyone recall whose was which ?
Thanks for that reply.
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David

I recall hearing Kitty Rainbow a few times - I think that was Duke of Edinburgh?

IIRC "Kitty" was a Royal Flight aircraft without royals, "Kittyhawk" with royals, "Rainbow" was Duke of Edinburgh, and "Unicorn" the Prince of Wales

I thought the "flagpole" convention only applied when a flag was painted on the nose of an aircraft and not, as in this case, on the tail.

Edit: No, I'm wrong.

Flying Flags in the Unitd Kingdom (see P9)

ref 6, the flag may appear to be back to front, it is actually "the other side" of the flag on the other side of the aircraft.

SIA does the same on their Aircraft, or at least they did

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No, the OP's point is that the flag on the starboard side should indeed appear "back-to-front", but it doesn't - photos of the aircraft show that in fact it's identical to the flag on the port side, which is wrong.

Yes, it should appear back-to-front. The way I was taught it, the assumption is that the flagpole is towards the nose of the aircraft.