Magic Roundabout and The RAF
The Royal Air Force's 8 Squadron's Avro Shackleton airborne early warning aircraft were named after characters from The Magic Roundabout and The Herbs:
- WL741: PC Knapweed
- WL745: Sage
- WL754: Paul
- WL756: Mr Rusty
- WL757: Brian
- WL790: Mr McHenry (later renamed Zebedee) (Now in Pima Air and Space Museum, Arizona, USA)
- WL793: Ermintrude
- WL795: Rosalie
- WR960: Dougal (Now in the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester in the UK)
- WR963: Parsley (later Ermintrude II)
- WR965: Dill (later Rosalie II) (sometimes referred to as Dylan)
- http://www.clydeshipping.co.uk/aircraft/readmessages.asp?message=795
- http://8squadron.co.uk/history_1972-1991.php
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