Received an email with an interesting comment...
"Other photos I have of FAA pilots in the early 1930's show the use of the RN cap badge exclusively. The Senior Service was (and is) usually very ardent about the correctness of uniform, though I have a first FAA pilot badge (issued 1926) which came from the uniform of a Rear Admiral still in service in the 1960s! He was totally breaking regs wearing that wing after 1938......but he did! He was even ADC to the Queen for a while and wore it on that duty! There are obviously exceptions to every rule...."
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