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* Air Vice-Marshal Kip Kemball ( 1986 )
* Air Vice-Marshal David O Crwys-Williams ( 1988 89 )
' Dutch ' Hugo, C. W. A. Scott ( winner of the MacRobertson Air Race ) who served there with No. 32 Squadron RAF from 1923 to 1926, and the British ace JE " Johnnie " Johnson, later Air Vice-Marshal, who took over the Canadian wing at Kenley in 1943.
* Ernest Clark as Air Vice-Marshal The Honourable Ralph Cochrane AFC RAF, AOC, No. 5 Group RAF
* Air Vice-Marshal Ronald Dick CB, Station Commander of RAF Honington 1978 80, and Head of British Defence Staff US 1984 8
Chief of Air Force, Air Vice-Marshal Graham Lintott, said the A109 " will provide an effective platform to train aircrew in basic helicopter operations plus the advanced skills required to operate both the Navy SH-2G Seasprite and the highly capable RNZAF NH90 helicopter that will come into service in 2010.
Purportedly, the first person to read this poem later that same day was fellow Pilot Officer Michael Le Bas ( later Air Vice-Marshal M H Le Bas, Air Officer Commanding No. 1 Group RAF ), with whom Magee had trained, in the officers ' mess.
On 30 July 1941, Collishaw handed over No. 204 Group to Air Vice-Marshal Arthur Coningham.
On 2 May, the commander at RAF Habbaniya, Air Vice-Marshal Harry George Smart, responded to the Iraqi demands by launching a pre-emptive strike against the Iraqi forces overlooking the air base.
* Hunter, Air Vice-Marshal A. F. C., CBE AFC DL, ed.
He temporarily relinquished his rank as Air Vice-Marshal ( the equivalent of Rear Admiral ) to assume the post of Staff Officer at RAF Training Command in the rank of Air Commodore.
* Air Vice-Marshal John Porter OBE
Air Vice-Marshal Ralph Cochrane, Wing Commander Guy Gibson, King George VI of the United Kingdom | George VI and Group Captain John Whitworth discussing the Dambuster Raid in May 1943.
However Air Vice-Marshal Francis Linnell at the Ministry of Aircraft Production thought the work was diverting Wallis from the development of the Windsor.
* Ronald Graham ( RAF officer ) ( 1896 1967 ), RAF Air Vice-Marshal
** Air Vice-Marshal Sir Laurence Sinclair, GC
Malta under Air Vice-Marshal Sir Keith Park operating from the island of Malta, also provided important air support.
* AVM, 15 June 1985: Promoted to Air Vice-Marshal
* Air Vice-Marshal Charles Hubert Boulby Blount ( 1893 1940 ), RAF officer and cricketer
* Arthur Lee ( aviator ) ( 1894 1975 ), Royal Air Force Air Vice-Marshal

Air and Sir
Sir Miles was instrumental in starting the Falkland Islands Government Air Service in December 1948.
Allied leaders of the Sicilian campaign in North Africa ; ( front row, left to right ) General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder | Arthur Tedder, General Sir Harold Alexander, Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope | Andrew Cunningham, ( top row, left to right ) Harold Macmillan, Major General Walter Bedell Smith, and unidentified British officers ; 1943
* 1982 Bluff Cove Air Attacks during the Falklands War: 56 British servicemen are killed by Argentine air attack on two landing ships: RFA Sir Galahad and RFA Sir Tristram.
* 1945 World War II: Ratification in Berlin-Karlshorst of the German unconditional surrender of May 8 in Rheims, France, with the signatures of Marshal Georgy Zhukov for the Soviet Union, and for the Western Headquarters Sir Arthur Tedder, British Air Marshal and Eisenhower's deputy, and for the German side of Colonel-General Hans-Jürgen Stumpff as the representative of the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as the Chief of Staff of OKW, and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine.
Air Chief Marshal Sir John Slessor believed that had the air force been forced to choose among the three British bombers under development in the late 1930s — the Avro Manchester, Short Stirling, and Handley Page Halifax — it would have chosen the wrong one.
* 19 September 1990 The Provisional Irish Republican Army tries to assassinate Air Chief Marshal Sir Peter Terry at his home near Stafford, England.
* September 19 The Provisional Irish Republican Army tries to assassinate Air Chief Marshal Sir Peter Terry at his home near Stafford, England.
** Falklands War: British RFA Sir Galahad is destroyed during the Bluff Cove Air Attacks
In 1934, the Air Ministry set up a committee chaired by Sir Henry Tizard to advance the state of the art of air defence in the UK.
* Major-General Sir Hugh Trenchard, Chief of the Air Staff
* Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, OM, KBE inventor of the jet engine
* Air Marshal Sir Robert Victor Goddard ( 1897 1987 ), British Royal Air Force officer
Colonel Sir Archibald David Stirling, DSO, OBE ( 15 November 1915 4 November 1990 ) was a Scottish laird, mountaineer, World War II British Army officer, and the founder of the Special Air Service.
* Sir Keith Park Memorial Campaign proposal to erect a statue in honour of the Battle of Britain war hero Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park
On 22 January, the RAF director of bomber operations, Air Commodore Sydney Bufton, sent a memo to the Deputy Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Sir Norman Bottomley, suggesting that what appeared to be a coordinated air attack by the RAF to aid the current Soviet offensive would have a detrimental effect on German morale.
That evening Churchill asked the Secretary of State for Air, Sir Archibald Sinclair, what plans had been drawn up to carry out these proposals.
He passed on the request to Sir Charles Portal, the Chief of the Air Staff, who answered that " We should use available effort in one big attack on Berlin and attacks on Dresden, Leipzig, and Chemnitz, or any other cities where a severe blitz will not only cause confusion in the evacuation from the East, but will also hamper the movement of troops from the West ".
Aerial operations were split into two, east of Cape Tenez in Algeria, with British aircraft under Air Marshal Sir William Welsh and west of Cape Tenez, all American aircraft under Major General Jimmy Doolittle, under the direct command of Major General Patton.

Air and Stanley
BN-2B Islander Aircraft registration | VP-FBD operated by the Falkland Islands Government Air Service, Stanley, Falkland Islands | Stanley, 1994.
* Kurtwood Smith as Major General Stanley Cooper, An Air Force general who commands ATAC and Dane's former boss
* Stanley Van Beers as David Pye CB FRS, Director of Scientific Research, Air Ministry
The airport was a base for Royal Canadian Air Force training, the crews and their families housed in a new townsite on the island, named Burkeville after Boeing president Stanley Burke.
* May 1-A Royal Air Force Avro Vulcan bomber based on Ascension Island attacks the airfield at Port Stanley on East Falkland Island.
* Stanley Goble Commanded No. 5 Squadron, ace with ten victories, was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and the Distinguished Service Cross, later to become Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal Australian Air Force
After the carrier returned to port, and due to the continuous naval bombardment of Stanley, the aircraft operated from Rio Grande, Tierra del Fuego and Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz respectively Engineers of the Argentine Air Force had added additional steel matting to extend the parking area for the Pucaras and Aermacchis that used the airfield but the main equipment to extend the runway was still on the ELMA cargo ship Cordoba which could not cross to the island due to the British submarine threat
The German government turned the invention down and the meeting at Wyvern Abbey is for a possible sale to the British, represented by Sir Stanley Digby, the Air Minister.
The BIM-5 positions around Port Stanley were bombarded, both from the sea by naval gunfire and from the air by the Royal Air Force Harriers.
future Air Commodore John Stanley Chick,
These have all but gone now, but twelve of these former mining cottages from Francis Street in the Hetton Downs area of the town were re-erected stone by stone at Beamish Open Air Museum, Stanley, near Chester-le-Street. The miners strike of 1984 brought about hardship for many of the workers.
* Winner: Kim Stanley Robinson, " Black Air "
Francis Stanley " Gabby " Gabreski ( born Franciszek Gabryszewski ; January 28, 1919 January 31, 2002 ) was the top Polish American fighter ace in Europe during World War II, a jet fighter ace in Korea, and a career officer in the United States Air Force with more than 26 years service.
* Air America as Henry Stanley ( 1998 )
However, it was fired again in anger, this time against an Argentine radar at Stanley airfield that the Royal Air Force had been unable to destroy.
* 2009: On August 25, 2009, Team Inspiration of the British Steam Car Challenge broke the long-standing record for a steam vehicle set by a Stanley Steamer in 1906, setting a new speed record of 139. 843 mph in the Edwards Air Force Base, in the Mojave Desert of California.
Williams would serve as CAS three times over seventeen years in the 1920s and 30s, alternating with Wing Commander ( later Air Vice Marshal ) Stanley Goble.
If nearly every French politician or diplomat has attended Sciences Po since its inception, the school is also well known for educating top business managers, notably six current CEOs of France's forty largest companies ( Frédéric Oudéa of banking group Societe Generale, Michel Bon of Carrefour, Jean-Cyril Spinetta of Air France, Serge Weinberg of PPR, Gérard Mestrallet of Suez, Philippe Camus of Alcatel-Lucent ), private bankers such as David René de Rothschild, the CEO of Lazard Italy, the CFO of Morgan Stanley Europe, the Director of Credit Suisse World and the Chairman of Credit Suisse Europe as well as the current head of the European Federation of Businesses, Industries and Employers and the current head of the French Businesses and Employers Union and many others.

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