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Happy 90th Birthday Royal Air Force and thanks for 34 of them!

Thank you, Lyneham, for the reminder of what it is all about - a pair of 130Js on overshoot from Church Fenton today! Exilerating climbing turn, right over my house - hope you did not misconstrue my wave of the garden rake :D!

Lord Trenchard called the RAF a 100 year experiment so we are but a decade away from the result. I wonder what it will be? Anyone care to speculate?

I always thought it was tomorrow (having joined on the 50th aniversary)?

I always thought it was tomorrow

So it is, but always remember that "Them what's keen gets fell in previous!"

Jack

Happy birthday indeed for tomorrow.

I guess that means today is the 90th anniversary of the demise of the RFC and RNAS.

It's interesting to reflect how in the intervening years, both the Army and the Navy redeveloped air components. Is this because their needs/wants were not "on the roadmap" for the embryonic RAF, or is it more because their needs/wants were driven by a desire to have organic air once more?

An academic question, but still, happy birthday to the Royal Air Force tomorrow.

Happy 9/10ths complete! ;)

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Endplay, "Lord Trenchard called the RAF a 100 year experiment", I hope that's not an omen following the article on Radio 4's Today programme this morning, questioning the future of the RAF?

22 yrs and still going, loved 'almost all' of it. Been proud to serve alongside some truely awsome people both officers and airmen. Thanks. Happy Birthday!

Advo

Happy Birthday, RAF. You led the way for every AF that followed.

I'm up in Edinburgh, and nearly sh*t myself about 20 mins ago, when the 90th anniversary flight tore past my house in the fading light at low-level and in full AB.

Moved enough to de-lurk. Fantastic sight - one rarely seen in the city centre!

Happy Birthday RAF
 

Wearing well for a 90 year old (but showing our age in places)

Slightly ironic that on the day before the birthday, the RAF ensign was lowered for the last time at Innsworth which from tomorrow becomes Army owned (& known as Innsworth Station)

For me its particularly poignant as tomorrow is also my birthday.

Whilst I cant claim 90 years service, I did manage to survive 37 in blue.

Happy Birthday Royal Air Force, for me you are still the best in the world.

:D

Let us raise a glass today to Trenchard and all who have worn the blue - WRAF, ground staff, NCO aircrew, VR VR(T) & ATC cadets along with the 'brylcreem boys' who made the 90 years possible (along with the a/c designers and builders)

Happy Birthday RAF
 

90 years of proving the Frogs wrong;

"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value."
- Marshal Ferdinand Foch [Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre] (circa 1911)

Happy 90th Birthday RAF. Helped you celebrate your 75th at RIAT and hope to raise a glass at your 100th :ok:

Happy Birthday Boys and Girls, thanks for my 17 years! Here's hoping you can last to the Ton.

Will all those still in at that point get a telegram/telemessage from the Queen?

When I picked my leaving date I went for the 2nd of April just in case the Boss thought I was having a laugh!

Ogre

I have a copy of my father's war time service, initially with the RNAS based at Eastchurch Naval Air Station on the Isle of Sheppy. It shows that his Naval service was terminated on 31st. March 1918 and that he was transfered to the RAF on 1st. April 1918 so he was amongst the first members of the RAF.
I later became a Fleet Air Arm pilot and undertook flying training with the RAF, had a great time with both services - Happy birthday to All

Old Jet Jockey

No he didn't.:rolleyes:

Regards to everyone, wherever you are around the world.

Incidentally, who's doing the party bags for the pongos and fish heads?

Regards,
MM

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Happy Birthday RAF. I spent 12 years in blue between 1970 and 1982 and loved every minute. The RAF set the standards and structure for many other airforces around the world to follow.

Lono
 

Civvy warning here, but sorry everyone the (well-deserved) party has already been pooped up here in Scotland - this morning's 'Hootsmon'

'Residents complain after RAF jets stage low flyover'

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/late...ets.3932592.jp

Lono, glad you enjoyed it - sadly I didn't see it, but I did love the closing comment from the plods

'A spokesman for Lothian and Borders Police, said: "We had a good number of complaints from people wondering what it was and what they could do about it." '

Hmm :ugh:

Edited to add: But it is April 1st??.....

Muppets. :ugh:

Hoping that today's formation might pass overhead on the way from Halton to Wittering, but will probably die in despair. :{