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The first FLR-9 was installed at RAF Chicksands (), United Kingdom in 1962.

The first professional Air Intelligence course ( RAF Intelligence Course-RAFIC ) was run in the Air Intelligence Wing of DISS in 2000, following the School's move to Chicksands in Bedfordshire.

In 1940, after a few months of naval occupation, the RAF followed and it became known, firstly, as RAF Chicksands Priory.

Molesworth did serve as an American education and housing centre, offering military family housing for personnel assigned to RAF Alconbury, along with an elementary and junior high / high school offering grades 1-6 and 7-10 respectively, for dependents of servicemen and women from nearby bases including RAF Chicksands, RAF Chelveston and RAF Alconbury.

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.

* 1882 – Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, English officer in the Royal Air Force and commander in RAF Fighter Command ( d. 1970 )

Skyflash entered service with the Royal Air Force ( RAF ) on their Phantom FG. 1 / FGR. 2 in 1976, and later on the Tornado F3.

The Royal Air Force operates flights from RAF Mount Pleasant to RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, England, with a refuelling stop at RAF Ascension Island.

The Joint Communications Unit Falkland Islands ( JCUFI ) provides the electronic warfare and command and control systems for the Royal Navy, Army and RAF stationed there.

A Sopwith Camel at the Royal Air Force Museum | RAF Museum

Hawker Fury of 43 Squadron, Royal Air Force | RAF, a typical late inter-war biplane

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

Despite these warnings, about one vehicle each month is stranded on the causeway, requiring rescue by either Seahouses Royal National Lifeboat Institution lifeboat or RAF helicopter.

He chose the Royal Air Force ( RAF ).

* Elimination of the Royal Air Force ( RAF ).

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.

The UK would thus retain its independent deterrent force, although its control passed from the RAF largely to the Royal Navy.

" D for Dog ", which was crewed partly by Royal Air Force ( RAF ) personnel, was based at RAF Pembroke Dock, in Wales.

The term V bomber was used for the Royal Air Force ( RAF ) aircraft during the 1950s and 1960s that comprised the United Kingdom's strategic nuclear strike force known officially as the V-force or Bomber Command Main Force.

On February 8, 2007, the Royal Air Force Museum Cosford opened the National Cold War Exhibition at RAF Cosford in Shropshire to tell the story of the cold war.

The figures include Royal Navy war dead of 32, 287 The Merchant Navy war dead of 14, 661 were listed separately Figures for total RAF are included in the totals of the War Office report

The Möhne Reservoir | Möhne Dam breached following Operation Chastise, carried out by the No. 617 Squadron RAF | " Dambusters " of the Royal Air Force | RAF.

For example, RAF Brize Norton in the UK has a terminal which caters to passengers for the Royal Air Force's scheduled TriStar flights to the Falkland Islands.

" Royal Air Force ( RAF ).

The terms of the base rights granted for Bermuda also included that the airfield constructed by the US would be used jointly with the Royal Air Force ( RAF ).

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.