Someone needs to put this idea out of its misery

I know, I've been to the Marine Nationale museum ;)

I've nothing against the sound of Army of the Air... Just have this ingrained RAF bias of being against Air Forces modelled after armies and not, say, air forces :eek:

To my knowledge, the RAF was based around the Royal Navy, hense the ranks.
 
To my knowledge, the RAF was based around the Royal Navy, hense the ranks.

The nucleus was the Royal Naval Air Service and the Army's Royal Flying Corps. The ranks were an attempt to molify men from both these services who'd be joining the new service, as was the light blue colour. Some of the ranks are reminiscent of the Navy, while some are reminiscent of the Army. But they're all Air Force ranks (and boo to these 'we'll dress our men in light blue and give them army ranks' people :p )
 
The nucleus was the Royal Naval Air Service and the Army's Royal Flying Corps. The ranks were an attempt to molify men from both these services who'd be joining the new service, as was the light blue colour. Some of the ranks are reminiscent of the Navy, while some are reminiscent of the Army. But they're all Air Force ranks (and boo to these 'we'll dress our men in light blue and give them army ranks' people :p )

Hmph, interesting. That teaches me not to take things at face value. :p:eek:
 
Hmph, interesting. That teaches me not to take things at face value. :p:eek:

In fact, the RN had a tough time getting naval aviation back after the formation of the RAF.

The RAF also famously moved Australia, to show that V-bombers based there could target places they actually could not, in an attempt to get the RN from being given the nuclear deterrent.
 

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Yeah. I love that :D I think Ireland had a similar situation for a while... As did Canada when the forces were amalgamated, and both sailors and airmen went around in green, using army ranks :eek::D

I'm torn between a heartfelt GAH! and wondering how Susano became chief of the Canadian armed forces back then. ;)
 
No! No! No! This is not Star Wars or something similarly silly!

Mind you, for a while OTL, we had Armoured Cars run by the Royal Naval Air Service, and more recently, light tanks in the RAF Regiment. Take that you army-rank-wankers! :D
 
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