The Royal Air Force had but a single light anti-aircraft squadron and two balloon units available.

International and domestic services are maintained by TAAG Angola Airlines, Aeroflot, British Airways, Brussels Airlines, Lufthansa, Air France, Air Namibia, Cubana, Ethiopian Airlines, Emirates, Delta Air Lines, Royal Air Maroc, Iberia, Hainan Airlines, Kenya Airways, South African Airways, TAP Air Portugal and several regional carriers.

* 1918 – The Royal Air Force is created by the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.

* 1924 – The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.

* 1972 – In an unsuccessful coup d ' état attempt, the Royal Moroccan Air Force fires upon Hassan II of Morocco's plane while he is traveling back to Rabat.

* 1943 – World War II: The Royal Air Force begins Operation Hydra, the first air raid of the Operation Crossbow strategic bombing campaign against Germany's V-weapon program.

* 1954 – A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair Harvard collided with a Trans-Canada Airlines Canadair North Star over Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, killing 37 people.

* John Morgan-Canadian comedian best known for his roles on Royal Canadian Air Farce.

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

Royal Australian Air Force | RAAF General Dynamics F-111 | F-111 performing a Fuel dumping # Dump-and-burn | dump-and-burn Fuel dumping | fuel dump at the Australian International Airshow

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

* Royal Australian Air Force

* Royal Bahraini Air Force

* Royal Canadian Air Force

* Royal Jordanian Air Force

* Royal Moroccan Air Force

* In 1982 14 men of the Royal Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force were deployed to Grenada during the Operation Urgent Fury.

* In 1995 members of the Royal Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force were deployed in Haiti as a part of Operation Uphold Democracy.

it: Royal Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force

The Australian Defence Force Academy ( ADFA ) and the Royal Military College, Duntroon ( RMC ) are in the suburb of Campbell in Canberra's inner northeast.

; Royal Malaysian Air Force

* Royal Netherlands Air Force

* Royal Norwegian Air Force

* Royal Air Force of Oman ( RAFO )

* Royal Saudi Air Force

Official War Office policy was to purchase only aircraft designed by the Royal Aircraft Establishment, and Bristol had already built a number of their B. E. 2 two-seater reconnaissance aircraft.

Utilizing flash spotting, sound ranging and aerial reconnaissance from No. 16 Squadron, and Balloon Company of the Royal Flying Corps in the week before the battle, the counter battery artillery under command of Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew McNaughton fired 125, 900 shells, harassing an estimated 83 % of the German gun positions.

An observer of the Royal Flying Corps in a reconnaissance aircraft

Despite the losses suffered by the Royal Flying Corps, the Imperial German Army Air Service failed to prevent the Royal Flying Corps from carrying out its prime objective, namely the continued support of the army throughout the Arras Offensive with up-to-date aerial photographs and reconnaissance information.

The Royal Armoured Corps is divided into those regiments that operate main battle tanks ( armoured regiments ) and those that operate reconnaissance tanks ( formation reconnaissance regiments ).

The Royal Armoured Corps will also see a shift from half its regiments operating as armoured regiments with main battle tanks and half as formation reconnaissance regiments.

* 1 January 1915-Lieutenant The Honourable Julian Henry Francis Grenfell, 1st ( Royal ) Dragoons is appointed a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order in recognition of service with the Expeditionary Force-On 17 November he succeeded in reaching a point behind the enemy's trenches and making an excellent reconnaissance, furnishing early information of a pending attack by the enemy.

The Royal Air Force also conducted a large number of combined reconnaissance and propaganda leaflet flights over Germany.

Regiments of line cavalry and the Royal Tank Regiment together form the Royal Armoured Corps which has units equipped with either main battle tanks or with light armour for formation reconnaissance.

During March 1937 he flew aerial reconnaissance flights of the harbor at Benghazi, North Africa, taking photographs which were later used by the Royal Air Force during World War II.

Soon afterwards the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars — the division's armoured reconnaissance regiment — began to reconnoitre the route the brigade would take ; the rest of the division departed from the village of Trungy at around 16: 00.

From 1962 to 1975, Air America inserted and extracted U. S. personnel, provided logistical support to the Royal Lao Army, Hmong army under command of Royal Lao Army Major General Vang Pao, and combatant Thai " volunteer " forces, transported refugees, and flew photo reconnaissance missions that provided valuable intelligence on NLF activities.

The guns of the Nieuport 11 and Nieuport 17 fighters, especially in British service, and the Royal Aircraft Factory S. E. 5a were often used in this way, to attack enemy bomber or reconnaissance aircraft from the " blind spot " below the tail.

A time traveller on a reconnaissance mission from the distant future became stranded in England of the late 1800s, and his technology came into the hands of the Royal Society led by Baron Fortesque ( based upon Charles Babbage ), a grand inventor.

The Royal Swedish Air Force were participating with eight JAS 39 Gripen jets for reconnaissance.

The Royal Navy also made extensive use of the Bermuda sloop, both as a cruiser against French privateers, slavers, and smugglers, and also as its standard advice vessels, carrying communications, vital persons and materials, and performing reconnaissance duties for the fleets.

The Royal Navy regained its own air service in 1937, when the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Air Force ( covering carrier borne aircraft, but not the seaplanes and maritime reconnaissance aircraft of Coastal Command ) was returned to Admiralty control and renamed the Naval Air Branch.

The territorial units of the Royal Armoured Corps were also reduced in number to nine armoured regiments and eleven reconnaissance regiments.

Shorts built the Short Sperrin, a backup jet engine bomber design in case the V bomber projects failed, and the Short Seamew, a cheap to produce anti-submarine reconnaissance and attack aircraft intended for the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve squadrons, but the Sperrin was not needed and the RNVR squadrons disbanded.

The Clearance Diving Teams ( CDT ) of the Royal Australian Navy ( RAN ) also act as commando frogmen: they consist of naval personnel who are qualified in diving, demolitions, underwater repairs, and reconnaissance.