Royal Air Force kilts on BBC Television

[cessna152towser]

BBC Scotland news tonight ran a short feature on a group of Air Training Corps Cadets who were researching the family history of Polish airmen who had been based at Grangemouth during World War II and are commemorated on the War Memorial there. At least three of the cadets were wearing RAF kilts and included a clip of them playing bagpipes at Grangemouth War Memorial.

[PiobBear]

What did they play?

[Riverkilt]

Very cool, don't know if it'll still be on BBC America but it can't hurt to check it out. Thanks for the tip!

Ron

[cessna152towser]

What did they play?

Can't remember now, other than it was something appropriate for playing at a War Memorial. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find a video recording of the programme, but I found the story line here.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/...al/6214341.stm
Unfortunately the kilts aren't featured in the text.

[Raftartan]

The ATC are increasing their intake of the Royal Air Force tartan largely limited by raising funds.The Dunfermline ATC pipe band works with the RAF pipe band as you saw at the Leuchars air show.
The spread of Tartan continues with a number of serving officers from Scotland, England and Cyprus have ordered kilts for Burns night. I met an officer from RAF Lossiemouth and hopefully will visit the airbase shortly to further publicise the tartan. Your help in this process is greatly appreciated.

[Raftartan]

Just a quick comment I have added a presentation accessible from the home page of www.kamrafa.co.uk created by Arthur Mackie and Roger Unsworth which is being shown widely within the Air Force as many serving personnel thought it was only the pipeband that could wear the tartan.

[Fearnest]

BBC Scotland news tonight ran a short feature on a group of Air Training Corps Cadets who were researching the family history of Polish airmen who had been based at Grangemouth during World War II and are commemorated on the War Memorial there. At least three of the cadets were wearing RAF kilts and included a clip of them playing bagpipes at Grangemouth War Memorial.

Thanks for letting us know - we'll hope for a screening on BBC America!

[cessna152towser]

An update on this. I have received the following e-mail from the bandmaster regarding the Grangemouth Cadets' tartan which was in fact Murray of Atholl.

Hi, Neil Clark here.

I was googling our cadet pipe band, and saw you had posted a link in a forum, saying you had seen us on the BBC after the Poland Project back in June this year.
If you or the other forum users are interested, we are
1333 (Grangemouth) Sqdn ATC, based in Grangemouth, the tartan was in fact Murray of Atholl, no one, unfortunately was wearing RAF tartan, the sole reason being its too expensive for us, as we are self funding.
However, I've been tasked with establishing the Scotland and Northern Ireland Region ATC Pipe Band, and 25 cadets will be wearing RAF tartan. This should be up and running after May this year.
The history project is ongoing at the squadron, many nationalities are involved, in fact we hope to be visiting Washington in 2009.
I run another pipe band, the Glasgow and lanarkshire army cadet force, and my day job consists in part of playing with Strathclyde police pipe band, where I'm lucky enough to be helped with time for all these cadet bands.
Piping in the Air Training Corps has had a chequered history, and we are now attempting to set things right. I work very closely with the Army cadets, in particular Captain Jim Stout, oic cadet piping and drumming, who is a great help.

Hope this is of some use to you and your fellow forum members, who knows, we may see u next year.

Neil Clark

[SportBilly]

Oooh, my family tartan I've been looking for the best example of it and never seem to see quite the same hues from one tartan supplier to another.

[graham_s]

That RAF tartan is quite interesting, I might get a kilt in that (when funds allow) I served for 15 years in the RAF.