as a geo-political bastard-child of the Gerrymanderers ceased to exist on 1 April 1996. Although if you want to refer to it in the RAF News, this detail may well go un-noticed.

BEagle. Those Flying Reviews would make a brilliant new Thread in Aviation History and Nostalgia.

Nice to see that both cover pictures were AVROs.

Here's a tenuous link to the previous post - about 4 years ago we were waiting for the ferry from Royan across to the Gironde to Pte de Grave (of Cockleshell Heroes fame). Another UK registered car pulled up and after the usual British several minutes of ignoring each other, the other driver and I fell into conversation. They were on the way back to their house on the Haute-Medoc, and I explained that I was on the way to an RAF Association meeting near Bordeaux. "Did you ever fly Avros?" he asked. "Only once, my first flight aged 13 was in an Anson. Why do you ask?" "Only that A V Roe was my Grandfather" he replied - and was pleased that I knew it was the centenary year of A V Roe's first flight.

Have a nice Monday, all.

Digin, that's true apart from the realites.

The airport still has that name and the Prescottshire police force still straddles the river.

Who ever thought of joining together areas of land with a ruddy great river down the middle?

Fair points, well made, PN, and I can't see matters changing any time soon. The Plod are united in name alone, and while the Redcliffe-Maud report might have been a bright idea, that river has always been a bit of a problem.
I can offer no excuse for Prescott, other than that he is Welsh.

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Oh for goodness sake, if you don't like it, don't buy it or read it. Move on guys.

Buy it? Never occurred to me to buy it. I used to get it as the CRO person and admit to having read it occasionally before that, but how many people actually buy it?

I know my father-in-law, hostilities only rating, used to buy the Navy News.

Never bought it.....we have (too many) copies delivered to our section on a regular basis. They tend to sit in the crew room for a couple of weeks, then go in the recycling pile.

I occasionally flick through it out of sheer boredom! Then tend to wonder why I bothered!

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Careful 80211 this is after all the Military Aircrew a forum for the professional misanthrope, the grumpy self-righteous twats, was better in my day, God Bless Maggie, hussar for Blighty, lets get out of Europe, and the world will end if Scotland leaves the union, society for those who fly the non-civilian hardware, and the backroom boys and girls without whom nothing would leave the ground. Army, Navy and Airforces of the World, all equally tolerated (welcome) here.;)

So why bother to read it, or be a registered member...?

oh dear see your sarcasm filter is us:bored:
Or is it just in selective mode.

I started this Thread as a serious post but have been interested in the wide range of opinions generated.

Of particular interest are the comments about the apparently large number of free copies which are delivered to RAF units and sections within same.

My supplementary, therefore, is 'what are the financials associated with this newspaper'? Does RAF News remain viable from the subscription income, casual purchases and advertising revenue and are the staff costs included in that equation? Given the parlous state of the defence budget, should RAF News be subjected to the same costed appraisal as much else in Defence and if found to be not cost effective, should it be canned?

Old Duffer

O-D. good question. With my CRO hat I got my free copy from the Media Ops people. With resource accounting one would imagine that X-copies costing £Y would have been billed to MO and deducted from their budget.

Not real money of course, just a way to spend money.

At last!!! Someone with the right attitude and the correct view of the world. All is not lost.

Singing to the back of the choir there brother - hands across the water and all that :rolleyes: