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A Quarterly Magazine for RAF Personnel and their Families Contents


Editor’s Words From the Director Why Should YOU Contact the Federation? Foreword by Controller RAF Benevolent Fund, Air Marshal Chris Nickols


In the News ..................................................................................................................6 Features


Cover Photograph – RAF Photographic Competition 2014. RAF Image of the Year, The Unveiling. SAC Fletcher, RAFAT.


Envoy – The magazine of the RAF Families Federation, published 4 times a year.


Editor: Maggie Fuller RAF Families Federation, 13-15 St Georges Road, Wittering, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE8 6DL 01780 781650


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The National Memorial Arboretum ................................................................................8 Red Arrows’ 50th .......................................................................................................12 Drifting Away! ...........................................................................................................16 East Lindsey District Council joins forces with Sinfonia Viva and RAF Coningsby to bring a First World War Centenary Project to the District ..........................................18 British Armed Forces Mountaineering Team attempts world-first in the Himalaya...........20 Golf Fore Recovery .....................................................................................................23 The Great War a Cranwell Perspective .........................................................................24


REGULARS Federation Quick 6 Survey Results on Pay ....................................................................................28


Covenant Community Covenant – A Local Authority point of view ..............................................32 Personnel Chief of Air Staff’s Warrant Officer (CASWO) Change Over ............................................35


Health Feeling Stressed? ........................................................................................................36


Lifestyle University discovers Armed Forces Entrepreneurs .........................................................38 Family


The Importance of Making A Will ................................................................................41 SSAFA Family Support Groups .....................................................................................42


Community RAFA Calendar Girls ...................................................................................................44 Flying High Again ......................................................................................................46


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