This badge was approved for use in 1912, came into use in Feb 1913 and was replaced by cloth badges by Feb 1914. This wing was used with field service uniform only (and the gilded one was NOT for use with the field service uniform). The long pin bronze wing was most usually found open-backed and had the typical British simple folded wire hinge instead of the bar hinge found on the gilded wings. When they were replaced in 1914 with the woven badges, apparently many of these badges were simply thrown away as they had developed a bad reputation for tearing uniforms when snagged by belts, coats etc. They were only in use between Feb 1913 and Feb 1914 when the RFC was a very small body with a very limited number of pilots. Even photographs of these in use on field dress are exceptionally rare. "These are original RFC 1913 pilot wings for the field uniform. Click on the images to see a larger version and the back of the wing/badge
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