Happy Birthday to the RAF

[DickDastardly40]

90 years old today!

Per Ardua Astra

 

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I'm not that damned old yet!! But at times I certainly feel it.

Thanks from the Junior to the Senior service.

It is a day of good and bad memories for me. More good than bad.

John


"Per Ardua ad Astra"

"Through Struggles to the Stars"

 

[rake60]

It makes you wonder what a Dehavilland DH9a Biplane pilot pilot would
think if you were able to show him a Typhoon F2.

I'm positive there would be at least one amongst them that would
say, "Just show me how to start it!"

Happy Birthday to the RAF!

Rick

 

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Rick,

I have always wondered that myself. They must have been a real gutsy load of chaps, ready to try anything new.

I have got in my posession an officers swagger stick, with the Royal Flying Corps emblem in silver on the knob (pre April 1st 1918). I have always wondered what happened to the bloke who owned it.

I offered to donate it to the RAF museum at RAF Cosford, but they declined to take it because it wasn't associated with the RAF. No pleasing some folks.

John

 

[rickharris]

My sister in laws father was in the horse artillery in WW1. About 90 years ago in fact. A request went round for volunteers to join a new force which became the Royal Flying Corps. He stepped up because he was sick of tending horses up to his armpits in shells mud and Horse $£^T.

A few weeks later he found himself in charge of a team of horses which were used as "tractors" to pull the new fangled aircraft out of the hangers. Oh well at least there was less mud.