Anyone got an afcad for RNAS Hal Far in Malta?

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A bit closer...

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And here is the complete insignia:





Is it close Peter?

Worth doing a repaint with higher resolution in a better colour scheme? :think:

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I added the new Vampire cockpit:





Was there very much difference between the two?

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Hal Far over the starboard wing

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Combining 2 themes:

Lone RAF Venom FB4 prepares to return to Wunstorf AB from Hal Far

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Thanks for your post Peter. I've just spent most of the last hour looking at your website. I hope you don't mind me saying that I feel the whole nation owes the Airforce and Navy pilots of the Fifties a huge thank you. You were the true unsung hereos of the Cold War, often paying the ultimate price for your heroism.
Pete

There is a very interesting book that contains narratives by FAA aircrew of the post WW2 period from the late 1940s to the nineteen nineties, Manning, Charles. (Ed.) (2000) ‘Fly Navy The View from the Cockpit 1945-2000’. Leo Cooper, Pen & Sword, Barnsley. England. ISBN 085052 732 5.

I wrote a brief review of this book for a journal and tabulated the fatalities quantified for each decadal period:

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Flight Safety sort of crept in over that period and was emphasised and talked about in the monthly mags like "Flight Comment"...Rules were changed and tightened up and the old "Gung-Ho" attitude strongly discouraged.

'Gung-Ho' as in flying a Hunter through Tower Bridge. I think that the name of the Hunter pilot concerned would have lent itself to an easy, and unfortunate, sobriquet.

In my day I recall reading interesting and/or sobering articles in 'Air Clues' (RAF) and 'Cockpit' (FAA).