Collecting Badges

BP Air Spotter blue

BP Air Spotter blue

Air Spotter Scout Badge blue Printed War Time

A scout could not gain any more than 6 proficiency badges before gaining a First Class scout badge.

To earn this badge a scout must do the following 

(1) Recognise correctly from photographs or silhouettes shown for ten seconds each, 75 per cent. of the aircraft given  on a list published annually by .H.Q. 

(2) Be able to recognise and name from a list submitted by the Scout, national aircraft markings both service and civil of at least six countries, including Great Britain. 

(3) Produce a log kept by himself for a  period of not less than one month, reporting  aircraft seen, giving identity or salient features, and 3pp1'0XiI113t€  heading and altitude. 

(4) Describe the recognition features of six aircraft selected by the Examiner, in terms commonly used in aircraft identification.