An upgraded version with active radar seeker, called Active Sky Flash was proposed by BAe and Thomson-CSF, but did not receive funding because the RAF opted for other missiles.

An additional four non-nuclear rounds were produced for various RAF requirements, and there were 16 other unspecified training rounds.

Although better-known, the RAF conducted fewer attacks than the Revolutionary Cells ( German: Revolutionäre Zellen, RZ ), which is held responsible for 296 bomb attacks, arson and other attacks between 1973 and 1995.

This became clear when, on 27 February 1975, Peter Lorenz, the CDU candidate for mayor of Berlin, was kidnapped by the Movement 2 June ( allied to the RAF ) as part of pressure to secure the release of several other detainees.

SAC bomber, tanker and reconnaissance aircraft flew numerous conventional bombing, aerial refueling and reconnaissance missions over and near Iraq from RAF Fairford and other bases in Great Britain, Turkey, Akrotiri, Cyprus, Diego Garcia, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.

After some initial trials, the machine was adopted by the RAF, the Army and other governmental departments.

Initially the internees were housed, with different paramilitary groups separated from each other, in Nissen huts at a disused RAF airfield that became the Long Kesh Detention Centre.

The regiment is notable for being one of only two air combat units from an Allied western European country to participate on the Eastern Front during World War II, the other being the British No. 151 Wing RAF, and the only one to fight together with the Soviets until the end of the war in Europe.

These joined two other air stations already operating on Bermuda, the pre-war civil airport on Darrell's Island, which had been taken over by the RAF, and the Fleet Air Arm's Royal Naval Air Station, HMS Malabar, on Boaz Island.

In 1934, Hawker Siddeley was given the contract to build an aircraft for </ br > the Royal Airforce ( RAF ). Hawker Siddeley went on to produce many other aircraft for the war effort.

She and other RAF members attempted to kidnap her children so that they could be sent to a camp for Palestinian orphans and educated there according to her desires ; however, the twins were intercepted in Sicily and returned to their father, in part due to the intervention of Stefan Aust.

It was later discovered that she had become increasingly isolated from other RAF prisoners.

The official findings were not accepted by many in the RAF and other militant organisations, and there are still some who doubt their accuracy and believe that she was murdered by the authorities.

German propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and other high-ranking officials of the Third Reich frequently described attacks made on Germany by the Royal Air Force ( RAF ) and the United States Army Air Force ( USAAF ) during their strategic bombing campaigns as terrorangriffe-terror attacks.

The Allied governments usually described their bombing of cities with other euphemisms such as area bombing ( RAF ) or precision bombing ( USAAF ), and for most of World War II the Allied news media did the same.

American jeeps, which were able to deal with the harsh desert terrain better than other transport, were cut down, adapted and fitted with obsolete RAF machine guns.

However, a second source, while acknowledging the possibility, cites other RAF crew members flying the same mission who stated that the drop area was in the North Sea.

This panel arrangement was incorporated into every RAF aircraft, from the light single engined Tiger Moth trainer, to the 4-engined Avro Lancaster heavy bomber, and minimized the type-conversion difficulties associated with Blind Flying, since a pilot trained on one aircraft could quickly become accustomed to any other if the instruments were identical.

Based on this account, British RAF Wing Commander John Foden and four other RAF officers travelled to Greece in 1982 on an official expedition to test whether it was possible to cover the nearly 250 kilometres in a day and a half.

The failure of the RAF to do so started a power struggle between the Air Ministry on one side and the Admiralty and War Office on the other.

By October it was 214 sorties ( other RAF Commands were also flying in supplies ).

However, in practice — and technically in contravention of Article XV — most personnel from other Commonwealth countries, while they were under RAF operational control, were assigned to British units.

The sole RAF strategic bombing during World War II against Ulm occurred on December 17, 1944, against the 2 large lorry factories of Magirus-Deutz and Kässbohrer, as well as other industries, barracks, and depots in Ulm.

Many other New Zealanders were serving in the RAF.

It was also during this time that the new RAF officer ranks were decided upon, despite some opposition from members of the Army Council.

* RAF enlisted ranks

The rank of Major would imply an American USAF commission — which would be odd for a European-based expedition — but it might be noted that continental writers have often given Army ranks to officers of the British RAF regardless of the fact that it does not use such a system.

In response to the proposal that the RAF should use its own rank titles, it was suggested that the RAF might use the Royal Navy's officer ranks, with the word " air " inserted before the naval rank title.

Although the Admiralty objected to this simple modification of their rank titles, it was agreed that the RAF might base many of its officer rank titles on naval officer ranks with differing pre-modifying terms.

Air commodore ( Air Cdre in the RAF and IAF, AIRCDRE in the RNZAF and RAAF, formerly A / C in the RCAF ) is a one-star rank and the most junior of the air-officer ranks which originated in and continues to be used by the Royal Air Force .< ref >

It claimed 26 aerial victories, and had two flying aces, future Air Marshal Sir Gerald Gibbs ( RAF officer ) and Gilbert W. M. Green, within its ranks.

* RAF enlisted ranks

In the RAF, Flight Sergeant ranks above Chief Technician and below Warrant Officer.

* RAF Other ranks

* RAF enlisted ranks

In the RAF it ranks equal to Senior Aircraftman Technician ( SAC ( T )), above Senior Aircraftman ( SAC ) and below Corporal and has a NATO rank code of OR-2.

* RAF enlisted ranks

* RAF enlisted ranks

In the RAF, there are three main ranks of Aircraftmen.

* RAF enlisted ranks

However, in 1919 when the RAF introduced its air officer ranks, the equivalent army rank was brigadier-general, which was a general officer rank until its abolition in 1922.

An RN sub-lieutenant ranks above an Army second lieutenant or an RAF pilot officer.

Before its abolition, the rank of acting sub-lieutenant in the Royal Navy corresponded with, but was junior to, the ranks of lieutenant ( Army ) and flying officer ( RAF ).

The RAF installed concrete runways, hangars, a full range of administrative buildings and several estates of married quarter housing for officers and other ranks.

The station was unusual within the RAF as there were no other ranks or NCOs stationed at RAF Carlisle, only a small cadre of 12-15 RAF Supply Branch officers who controlled a civilian workforce of storekeepers and warehousemen.