RAF FLIGHT JACKET
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edit... Ah Golf, still not reading the whole thread eh?
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Surely flying passengers with no pilots licence (Mr Tierney) is very considerably more serious than wearing an inappropriate jacket. Conflating the two shows a major loss of perspective?
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Best flying jacket I got was from European Air Transport (DHL), made in Paris, black leather with a zipped in quilted liner for cold weather and sporting a fur collar.
Luxury. When I think of my old RAF Aircrew Clothing (prior to such innovations as GoreTex), it wicked more liquid than Pampers do . . .
That jacket looks like something you'd buy in Miller Brothers . . .
Luxury. When I think of my old RAF Aircrew Clothing (prior to such innovations as GoreTex), it wicked more liquid than Pampers do . . .
That jacket looks like something you'd buy in Miller Brothers . . .
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Is there a useful comparator here in rugby shirts? Do the fifteen (or so) chaps who trot out at Twickenham take umbrage at the thousands of folk wearing ‘their’ strip when only they have ‘earned it’.
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I understand the umbrage. Aren’t these lot the ones that come up with hideous flying Scotsman clocks etc.
But aviation has always attracted Walts. The funniest I’ve encountered in the last few years was a passenger who said he brought a 737 for fun flying .....that’s an oxymoron surely.
However if anyone’s got a typhoon hat I’ll have it as that thing rocks...
But aviation has always attracted Walts. The funniest I’ve encountered in the last few years was a passenger who said he brought a 737 for fun flying .....that’s an oxymoron surely.
However if anyone’s got a typhoon hat I’ll have it as that thing rocks...
I understand the umbrage. Aren’t these lot the ones that come up with hideous flying Scotsman clocks etc.
But aviation has always attracted Walts. The funniest I’ve encountered in the last few years was a passenger who said he brought a 737 for fun flying .....that’s an oxymoron surely.
However if anyone’s got a typhoon hat I’ll have it as that thing rocks...
But aviation has always attracted Walts. The funniest I’ve encountered in the last few years was a passenger who said he brought a 737 for fun flying .....that’s an oxymoron surely.
However if anyone’s got a typhoon hat I’ll have it as that thing rocks...
A snip at £149.95. https://www.bradford.co.uk/dambusterssculptclock.html
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It also depends how it is worn. As TTN said, some are clearly Walts. Some re-reactors are both realistic and credible, other ludicrous. I saw a MRAF in the wrong jacket and modern rank ribbon.
As Tartare said, he wears a selection of badges in the wrong place.
The problem arises when one is credible and in the right place. When you talk to them though you soon find they are fake.
As Tartare said, he wears a selection of badges in the wrong place.
The problem arises when one is credible and in the right place. When you talk to them though you soon find they are fake.
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No mid upper turret, after all it is a Dambuster aircraft, at least they got that fact right, Airfix didn't, they issued the Dambuster kit with an upper turret then had to send out turretless fuselages to buyers 
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The outrage about wrongly worn badges also extends to submariners in the Royal Navy. The 'dolphin' badge awarded to those who have qualified as such is highly regarded in the RN, as its a long and arduous process to earn one. Some, though not all, get quite upset when its worn as by those not entitled, even as jewellery. However, I am told that, in real life, the RN does sell extra ones to any submariner, and many of which end up being worn by wives and girlfriends, as they are quite decorative. I seem to remember the Duchess of Cambridge has been seen wearing one.
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Corporal Clott, I fear you are wrong. The stamp in my first Royal Air Force Pilots Flying Log Book is, "THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT W.W.YVERN IS QUALIFIED TO WEAR THE ROYAL AIR FORCE FLYING BADGE w.e.f. 14th DECEMBER 1959". Yes, it was in capitals.
Mine says "...has qualified as a navigator...". No mention of a flying badge (1970). Nicely handwritten in script, I think the wording must have been a local choice.
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