It's the day after RAF's big anniversary celebration, and press reports and interviews commemorating the event keep pouring in.

• 'We were the blue-eyed boys' - Interview with Frank Blinkhorn, WWII Spitfire pilot [BBC News]
  
  
• Interview with Henry Allingham, 111-years old and the only surviving member of the RAF from its first day on April 1, 1918 [The Sun]
  
  
• Interview with Air Chief Marshal Sir Glenn Torpy, head of the RAF [BBC News]
  
  
• Reports of local celebrations:
• York [York Press]
• Cambridge [Cambridge News]
  
  
• Also, The Royal Air Force has issued a commemorative diamante-encrusted... bikini swimwear for the occasion. What they were thinking is not entirely clear to the humble writer of these words, but I guess it's as good a collectible as anything else... [The Press Association]
  
  
• Not all news were joyful this week. By rather unhappy coincidence, a cash plea for a memorial to the 55,500 RAF bomber crew killed in the Second World War has been recently rejected by the Government [people.co.uk]

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