RAF Spitalgate is now the Territorial Army Royal Logistic Corps Prince William of Gloucester Barracks, named after Prince William of Gloucester.

* Pathe Newreel, 1927, of flying display at RAF Spitalgate

The brigade was based in Lincolnshire, close to RAF Spitalgate ( Grantham ) where it trained and from which it would eventually depart for Europe after D-Day.

It was reformed post-war, receiving 18 Airco DH. 9As at RAF Spitalgate in Lincolnshire in February 1923.

The RAF School of Education moved into Hillingdon House from RAF Spitalgate on 10 November 1958, and the station was subsequently merged with No. 22 Group RAF.

The British established No. 1 Parachute Training School at RAF Ringway near Manchester, which trained all 60, 000 European paratroopers recruited by the Allies during World War II.

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.

The armed forces also fielded small breathing apparatus rescue teams ( BART ) and rescue equipment support teams ( REST ) headed by professional firefighters of the RAF and staffed by specially trained members of all three services.

During the war, the RNZAF contributed 2, 743 fully trained pilots to serve with the RAF in Europe, the Middle East, and Far East.

In 1940, before the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan was fully developed, New Zealand also trained 183 observers and 395 air gunners for the RAF.

Prior to Pearl Harbor, training centres were made available for the RAF ; by war's end, 16, 000 RAF aircrew were trained in the United States.

In this program, pilots for the RAF were trained by United States Army Air Forces instructors.

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.

Daimler trained air force mechanics in its works and its training methods became the standard for all manufacturers instructing RAF mechanics.

In 1940, a torpedo training unit was formed, which trained both RAF and Royal Navy crews.

38 Wing was a new formation and was unable to provide any aircraft or trained aircrews for the raid, meaning that No. 51 Squadron RAF under Wing Commander Percy Charles Pickard was selected to provide the aircraft and aircrew needed for the operation, although Group Captain Nigel Norman would remain in overall command.

The only unit trained and available for an airborne operation was No. 11 Special Air Service Battalion, there were very few transport aircraft available to transport an airborne force, there were few RAF flight crews with experience of parachute droppings and none with operational experience, and there were no specialized overseas facilities to cater exclusively for airborne operations.

The 10, 500 ROC volunteers were trained and administered by a small cadre of sixty nine uniformed full time professional officers under the command of a serving RAF Air Commodore.

Once trained, the majority of RNZAF aircrew served with ordinary units of the RAF or of the Fleet Air Arm.

The 490th Bombardment Group ( Heavy ) replaced the 470th and trained B-24 crews until it deployed to RAF Eye England in April 1944.

He was trained as an RAF photographer and stationed in West Africa, later serving in Britain as an intelligence officer, an experience he translated into fiction with A Season in Sinji.

Pathfinders taking part in the Allied parachute assault on Normandy, France, on 6 June 1944 were trained by the Pathfinder School at RAF North Witham of which the USAAF designation was Army Air Force Station 479.

Staffel Jagdgeschwader 26 ( 26th Fighter Wing or JG 26 ), led by Oberleutnant Joachim Müncheberg, quickly led to a sudden and marked rise in RAF losses, as the experienced, confident, tactically astute, better equipped and trained German fighter units made their presence felt.

The RAF Regiment is trained in CBRN ( Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear ) defence and equipped with advanced vehicles and detection measures.

These are intended to counter ground-based threats to the RAF and to this end are trained to move on foot or mounted in helicopters and Land Rovers to defend airfields.

The field squadrons are 171 strong making them larger than an infantry company in the British Army although not all personnel on an RAF Regiment squadron are trained gunners, rather specialist support services such as administrators and drivers etc.

This was unfortunate, as — unlike today, and unlike the civilian mountaineers of that day — RAF recovery teams were not fully trained or equipped for arduous mountain rescues or recoveries.

As the Hurricanes were assembled, the pilots were formed into a composite operational squadron, No. 232 Squadron RAF.

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 majority of the Polish soldiers and some Polish civilians who failed to evacuate from France after the German victory in 1940 as well as one Polish pilot shot down over France, one of many Polish pilots flying for RAF, did join the French Résistance.

During the German occupation, Dunkirk was largely destroyed by Allied bombings ; the artillery siege of Dunkirk was directed on the final day of the war by pilots from No. 652 Squadron RAF, and No. 665 Squadron RCAF.

This was painted on the tower after a number of pilots became confused between Heathrow and the nearby RAF Northolt which has a much shorter runway.

* Six miles west of the town centre is the Adobe Bismark, a 1: 1 scale model of the World War II German battleship Bismarck, constructed from earth, with wooden gun barrels, as an identification training aid for RAF pilots.

It was the first of six civilian flight schools in the United States dedicated to instructing British Royal Air Force ( RAF ) pilots during that war.

*" After you, Claude – no, After you Cecil " – Moving men spoken by Jack Train and Horace Percival This phrase became used by RAF pilots as they queued for attack.

In 1941, BOAC was tasked with operating a ' Return Ferry Service ' from Prestwick to Montreal to reposition ferry pilots who had flown American bombers from Canada, and they were provided with RAF Liberators with a very basic passenger conversion.

The regiment was so badly depleted that during Operation Varsity RAF pilots were used to fly many of the gliders.

BCATP / EATS remains as one of the single largest aviation training programs in history and was responsible for training nearly half the pilots, navigators, bomb aimers, air gunners, wireless operators and flight engineers who served with the Royal Air Force ( RAF ), Royal Australian Air Force ( RAAF ), Royal Canadian Air Force ( RCAF ) and Royal New Zealand Air Force ( RNZAF ) during the war.

and opened No. 6 Elementary Flying Training School at Sywell on 10 June 1935, training pilots with a fleet of 20 de Havilland Tiger Moths, and in 1937 the RAF Volunteer Reserve School was set up at Sywell with a further 16 training aircraft.

He was sent to Sydney, Australia for rehabilitation, where he met Australian ace Clive " Killer " Caldwell and delivered some lectures on operational flying to RAF pilots, newly assigned to the theater.

For instance, Anderson recalled that RAF pilots had found it difficult to counter German attacks during the Battle of Britain, since taking off from the ground meant that it took considerable time to intercept the enemy.

Serving RAF pilots from both squadrons based at Hemswell took turns flying the Lancasters during filming and found the close formation and low level flying around Derwentwater and Windermere exhilarating and a welcome change from their normal high level solo Canberra sorties.

Appropriated by USAAF pilots in France at the end of the war, it was left in Britain following the unit's return to the US, and taken on by the RAF.

New Zealanders in the RAF itself included pilots, such as the first RAF ace of the war, Flying Officer Cobber Kain, Alan Deere ( whose book Nine Lives was one of the first post war accounts of combat ) and leaders such as the World War I ace, Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park, who commanded No. 11 Group RAF in the Battle of Britain and went on to the air defence of Malta and, in the closing stages of the war, Commonwealth air units under South East Asia Command, and Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham Air Tactical Commander of D-Day.

Three RNZAF pilots were awarded the Victoria Cross while serving with the RAF.

Through accident or design, other RAF units came to be mostly manned by RNZAF pilots, including No. 243 Squadron RAF in Singapore, No. 258 Squadron RAF in the UK and several Wildcat and Hellcat units of the FAA ( leading some texts to claim these types were used by the RNZAF ).