As of 2011 Air Seychelles operates the RAF air link, using Boeing 767s.

Additionally Britain's use of radar and the advantages of fighting above Britain's home territory allowed the RAF to deny Germany air superiority, saving the British Isles from German invasion and dealing the Axis their first major defeat of the Second World War.

Meanwhile, the Royal Air Force ( RAF ) made heavy air attacks on the Axis units.

It is built on the land formerly occupied by the RAF Luqa air base.

The RAF loses nine aircraft and 53 air crew.

Beginning in August 1940, the German Luftwaffe began a series of concentrated aerial attacks ( designated Unternehmen Adlerangriff or Operation Eagle Attack ) on targets throughout the United Kingdom in an attempt to destroy the RAF ( Royal Air Force ) and establish air superiority over Great Britain.

Others argue the Luftwaffe achieved little in the air battle and the RAF was not on the verge of collapse, as often claimed.

In the 1980s, the UK's air traffic control radar processing was conducted on a PDP 11 / 34 system known as PRDS-Processed Radar Display System at RAF West Drayton.

Several RAF bases were also established at Sullom Voe and several lighthouses suffered enemy air attacks.

As the cold war started, the Soviets found themselves facing massive USAF and RAF bomber fleets they could not hope to counter in the air.

RAF Bomber Command attrition attacks against air defense targets in Warsaw Pact and European Russia alone by the V-Force ( in prosecuting their initial attacks upon the Soviet Union ) would be decisive in ensuring that NATO and SAC follow-on forces attacks would be successful in achieving the destruction of Soviet and Warsaw Pact targets.

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.

* No. 151 Wing RAF another Western air squadron operating on the Eastern Front.

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.

Hostilities between the Iraqi and British forces began on 2 May 1941, with heavy fighting at the RAF air base in Habbaniyah.

During the Second World War, the RAF and the United States Army Air Force constructed many air bases in East Anglia for the heavy bomber fleets of the Combined Bomber Offensive against Nazi-occupied Europe.

* Royal Observer Corps, branch of the RAF and British air raid warning organisation ( 1926 to 1957 ), nuclear burst and fallout warning organisation ( 1957 – 1995 ), now disbanded

In 1936 Lewis, David John Williams and Lewis Valentine attacked and set fire to the newly constructed RAF Penyberth air base on the Llŷn Peninsula in Gwynedd in protest at its siting in the Welsh-speaking heartland.

It was used extensively by the RAF and Commonwealth air forces and by the USAAF.

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.

Bahraini, RAF, and USAF pilots flew air strikes in Iraq from the Sheik Isa Air Base, while coalition navies operated out of Manama, the capital.

The fair includes many things for visitors to watch, including a vintage car show, horse driving, pipe bands, highland dancing, many cooking demonstrations by renowned chefs, and a display by the famous RAF Aerobatic Team, the Red Arrows The fair also has several ' Have a go ' things to do, including clay pigeon shooting, a. 22 rifle range, laser clay pigeon shooting, archery, fly-fishing, an air rifle range and a large children's fairground containing a vintage ferris wheel, helter-skelter and chair-o-planes.

These RAF commandos accompanied the Allied invasion forces in all theatres ; their main role was to allow the forward operation of friendly fighters by servicing and arming them from captured air fields.

An air base, RAF Grimsetter ( which later became HMS Robin ), was built and commissioned in 1940.

Houston House, the former officer's mess at RAF Calshot.

Group captains are the first rank in the RAF hierarchy to wear gold braid on the peak of their cap, informally known as ' scrambled egg '; however, they still wear the standard RAF officer's cap badge.

For marshals of the RAF, the embellished shoulder boards display the air officer's eagle and wreath, two crossed marshal's batons and, since the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, the St Edward's Crown representing royal authority.

Lord Garvagh moved to Keswick at the beginning of World War 2, and by 1942 various fighter squadrons at RAF Digby had taken over Ashby Hall as their officer's mess.

File: UK-Air-OF1B. svg | An RAF acting pilot officer's sleeve / shoulder insignia

File: File-UK-Air-OF1B-mess-insignia. svg | An RAF acting pilot officer's sleeve mess insignia

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An RAF Air Commodore's sleeve / shoulder insignia

An RAF Air Vice-Marshal's sleeve / shoulder insignia

On ceremonial occasions many RAF air officers are entitled to wear embellished shoulder boards and the gold and blue sash.

With the exception of marshals of the RAF, the embellished shoulder boards feature the golden air officers ' eagle and wreath device surmounted by a lion standant guardant.

* Aiguillettes ( 1st Class or Royal ) are of gold-wire cord and are worn on the right shoulder by, among others, admirals of the fleet, field marshals and marshals of the RAF ; honorary physicians, honorary chaplains, honorary surgeons and aides-de-camp to the Sovereign ; equerries to members of the royal family.

* Aiguillettes ( 2nd Class or Board ) are of gold and dark blue, crimson or light blue depending if worn by Royal Navy, Army or RAF officers and are worn on the right shoulder by, among others, military members of the Defence Board and each Service Board and the personal staff of governors.

He selected Blackpool as his next club as he still lived in the area following his service in the RAF ; the Stoke board sanctioned the move on the condition that the deal was to remain a secret until the end of the season, so as to not disrupt the club's title bid.

" President Roosevelt when confronted with this mass exodus, ordered that Americans going to Canada to join the RCAF or RAF, would be granted exemption by the US draft board.

She eventually defected and was helped by an OSS agent to board the Taurus Express from Ankara to Istanbul, but alighting before the city, she was taken to an air base that the RAF was then building in Turkey.

* July 6 – A Handley Page Hastings C1A of the Royal Air Forces No. 36 Squadron crashes at Little Baldon, Oxfordshire, England, juts after takeoff from RAF Abingdon, killing all 41 men on board.

* June 2 – In the Royal Air Forces worst peacetime aviation disaster, an RAF Boeing Chinook helicopter crashes on the Mull of Kintyre in Scotland, klling all 29 people on board.

The 1994 Scotland RAF Chinook crash occurred on 2 June 1994 at about 18: 00 hours when a Royal Air Force ( RAF ) Chinook helicopter ( serial number ZD576, callsign F4J40 ) crashed on the Mull of Kintyre, Scotland, killing all twenty-five passengers and four crew on board.

An RAF board of inquiry in 1995 ruled that the cause was pilot error ; on 13 July 2011 a new report cleared both pilots.

The original map was repaired and returned to the table by the RAF Cartography unit, and the board detailing the readiness and activities of each sector squadron was rebuilt to resemble its status on 15 September 1940.

A score board recording the claims for enemy aircraft destroyed by No. 80 Wing RAF from July – November 1918, including 54 Squadron

On the night of 7-8 June, the Glorious, under the command of Captain Guy D ' Oyly-Hughes ( who was a submarine specialist and had only 10 months experience in aircraft carrier operations ), took on board 10 Gloster Gladiators and eight Hawker Hurricanes from No. 46 Squadron RAF and No. 263 Squadron Royal Air Force, the first landing of modern aircraft without arrestor hooks on a carrier.

The airfields were ready by June, and Thawee was tasked to return to Thailand on board the first RAF C-47 to fly into the country.