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 air officer's shoulder board

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.

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.

* 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

Air Marshal Sir John Hugh Lapsley KBE, CB, DFC, AFC, RAF ( 24 September 1916 – 21 November 1995 ) was a World War II fighter pilot and, later, a senior Royal Air Force commander.

The Electronic Warfare Operational Support Element ( EWOSE-now known as the Air Warfare Centre ) moved from RAF Wyton to Waddington in March 1995.

The first RAF Waddington International Air Show was staged at RAF Waddington in 1995, after the event was moved down from RAF Finningley-an RAF station located east of Doncaster ( now Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield ) which was closed down in 1995.

* No. 100 Squadron RAF 1995 -

* JFACTSU RAF 1995 -

The RAF ordered the Chinook HC. 3, a special forces variant, in 1995.

The King's Flight moved from RAF Hendon and would stay ( renamed as the Queen's Flight after the death of King George VI ) until after the war, moving to RAF Northolt in 1995.

The last performance by Sky was at an RAF tribute concert in May 1995.

On 1 April 1995, the Queen's Flight, equipped with these BAe 146 CC. 2 aircraft, and Wessex HCC. 4 helicopters, was merged into No. 32 Squadron to become No. 32 ( The Royal ) Squadron and moved to RAF Northolt from RAF Benson.

Experience in Afghanistan lead to the realisation that TIALD was outdated, as described by an RAF Wing Commander: " was designed in the 1980s, to allow pilots to drop laser guided bombs on targets like bridges, big buildings and aircraft hangars ... TIALD as an air interdiction targeting pod is very good and has done this reasonably well over the last decade, as was proved in Deliberate Force ( 1995 ), Allied Force ( 1999 ), and Operation Telic ( 2003 ).

In 1972 HQ, 3d Air Force relocated to RAF Mildenhall and the buildings remained empty until 1995 when they were demolished.

Another major casualty of Options for Change was the UK's combined nuclear civil defence organisations — the United Kingdom Warning and Monitoring Organisation and its field force the Royal Observer Corps ( a spare time volunteer branch of the RAF ), both of which were wound down and disbanded between September 1991 and December 1995.

It transferred to RAF Mildenhall on 17 February 1995 from RAF Alconbury.

Due to needing a lot of padding to fit into Antonio's clothes, Andrew is given a RAF safety life jacket with a whistle, smoke and emergency flares — all of which cause havoc in mid-speech and marking Andrew as a natural clown.

The RAF was Britain's weapon of attrition, and flying a fighter plane was the way her sons could serve her best at this point in the war.

The British RAF in the Middle East was equipped with Rolls-Royce Armoured Cars and Morris tenders.

In September 1940 a section of the No. 2 Squadron RAF Regiment Company was detached to General Wavell ’ s ground forces during the first offensive against the Italians in Egypt.

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.

The Avro Vulcan was part of the RAF V bomber force

This new design was licensed by the British, who produced ball point pens for RAF aircrew as the Biro ; they found they worked much better than fountain pens at high altitude, the latter being prone to ink-leakage in the decreased atmospheric pressure.

Carl Meinhof was the great-uncle ( the brother of the grandfather ) of Ulrike Meinhof, a founding member of the German Red Army Faction ( RAF ), a left-wing militant group, which operated in West Germany in 1970s and 1980s.

In the early 1960s, the UK was withdrawing its military presence from the Indian Ocean area, not including the base at RAF Gan to the north of Diego Garcia in the Maldives ( which remained open until 1976 ), and agreed to permit the US to establish a Naval Communication Station on one of its island territories there.

Much of this combat was centered around the strategic bombing campaigns of the RAF and the USAAF.

Significant individual contributions to the war effort by Scots included the invention of radar by Robert Watson-Watt, which was invaluable in the Battle of Britain, as was the leadership at RAF Fighter Command of Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding.

In the Zionist movement the moderate Pro-British ( and British citizen ) Weizmann, whose son died flying in the RAF, was undermined by Britain's anti-Zionist policies.

Similarly, a bomber wing was a Kampfgeschwader ( KG ), a night fighter wing was a Nachtjagdgeschwader ( NJG ), a dive-bomber wing was a Stukageschwader ( StG ), and units equivalent to those in RAF Coastal Command, with specific responsibilities for coastal patrols and search and rescue duties, were Küstenfliegergruppen ( Kü. Fl.

It was not until the concluding months of 1943 that the only realized attempt to build a " true four engined " version of the A-series He 177, the He 177B emerged with only three airworthy prototypes produced by early 1944, some three years after the first flights of the Avro Lancaster prototypes, the most commonly encountered RAF bomber pounding Germany on strategic night raids from 1942 to the end of the war in Europe.

Deliveries of new aircraft were insufficient to meet the drain on resources ; the Luftwaffe, unlike the RAF, was failing to expand its pilot and aircraft numbers.

He was in time for the bombing of Germany, serving on the Handley Page Halifax with No. 76 Squadron RAF, initially at RAF Breighton and then at RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor.

In World War II, he volunteered for all services when the war broke out ( the RAF was his first choice owing to the influence of his father's experience ), but was initially rejected because of his father's nationality.

He went on to join Robert Atkin's Shakespearean company in Regent's Park, London, until he was called up for service in the RAF.

He was appearing in a Shakespearean play in doublet and hose in the open-air theatre in London's Hyde Park when two RAF MPs marched on stage and arrested him for desertion.