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.

* Corsham Computer Centre, an underground British government installation near RAF Corsham and RAF Rudloe Manor in the heavily-tunneled Corsham area of Wiltshire

British International ( BRINTEL ) also operate two Sikorsky S61N helicopters, based at RAF Mount Pleasant, under contract to the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence, primarily for moving military personnel, equipment and supplies around the islands.

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.

At the British Bomber Command, Dyson and colleagues proposed ripping out two gun turrets from the RAF Lancaster bombers, to cut the catastrophic losses to German fighters in the Battle of Berlin.

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.

If British losses became severe, the RAF could simply have withdrawn northward and regrouped.

The first operational Victor squadron was No. 10 Squadron RAF The Valiant arrived in service first, equipped with nuclear weapons supplied by the U. S. under Project E that supplemented the British Blue Danube and later Red Beard.

* July 2 – 6 – British airship R34 makes the first transatlantic flight by dirigible, and the first westbound flight, from RAF East Fortune, Scotland, to Mineola, New York.

* May 30 – James Harry Lacey, British World War II RAF Fighter pilot ( b. 1917 )

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.

After more speeches, Donald Finlay of the British team ( given his RAF rank of Wing Commander ) took the Olympic Oath on behalf of all competitors.

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

* Bulldog T. 1, a British light trainer plane for the RAF flown in 1972

* Prentice T. 1, a British trainer plane for the RAF of 1941

* Short Tucano T1, a British turboprop trainer plane for the RAF of 1989

* 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 the waters around the British Isles and out into the Atlantic Ocean, operations against enemy shipping and submarines in support of the RN were mounted by RAF Coastal Command with large partol bombers and flying boats and land-based fighter-bombers.

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.

After working on The Italian Job with Noël Coward, and a solid role as RAF fighter pilot Squadron Leader Canfield in the all-star cast of Battle of Britain ( both 1969 ), Caine played the lead in Get Carter ( 1971 ), a British gangster film.

On leaving the RAF he joined BOAC in 1953 as a pilot, during which time he was an official in the British Air Line Pilots ' Association.

In four raids between 13 February and 15 February 1945, 722 heavy bombers of the British Royal Air Force ( RAF ) and 527 of the United States Army Air Force ( USAAF ) dropped more than 3, 900 tons of high-explosive bombs and incendiary devices on the city.

On 30 April, British forces at RAF Habbaniya were besieged by a numerically superior Iraqi force.

Disraeli was, according to some interpretations, a supporter of the expansion and preservation of the British Empire in the Middle East and Central Asia.

Set in 1485 at the end of the British Middle Ages, the series is written as a secret history which contends that King Richard III won the Battle of Bosworth Field, only to be mistaken for someone else and murdered, and is succeeded by Richard IV ( Brian Blessed ), one of the Princes in the Tower.

Breton is a Brythonic language, descended from the Celtic British language brought from Great Britain to Armorica by migrating Britons during the Early Middle Ages.

James Gelvin, a Middle East history professor, cites at least three reasons for why the British government chose to support Zionist aspirations.

Particularly common law is in England where it originated in the Middle Ages, and in countries that trace their legal heritage to England as former colonies of the British Empire, including India, the United States, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Canada, Malaysia, Ghana, Australia, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, Singapore, Ireland, New Zealand, Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, Cyprus, Barbados,

In recent years CND has extended its campaigns to include opposition to U. S. and British policy in the Middle East, rather as it broadened its anti-nuclear campaigns in the 1960s to include opposition to the Vietnam War.

* Frank Parkin, Middle class radicalism: The Social Bases of the British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament ( Manchester University Press: Manchester, 1968 )

In the Middle East, during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign mounted forces ( British, Indian, Ottoman, Australian, Arab and New Zealand ) retained an important strategic role both as mounted infantry and cavalry.

However, following a visit in early August to Egypt by British prime minister Winston Churchill and the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, General Alan Brooke, Alexander flew to Cairo on 8 August to replace Claude Auchinleck as the Commander-in-Chief of Middle East Command, the post responsible for the overall conduct of the campaign in the desert of North Africa.

Ribbentrop presented a proposal to Molotov where after the defeat of Britain, the Soviet Union would have India and the Middle East, Italy the Mediterranean area, Japan the British possessions in the Far East ( presuming of course that Japan would enter the war ), and Germany would take Central Africa and Britain itself.

In pursuit of his Iraq project, Ribbentrop strongly pushed for German aid to the Rashid Ali al-Gaylani government in Iraq, where he saw a great opportunity for striking a blow at British influence in the Middle East.

In June of the same year, the French reconstituted units of the Troupes Spéciales du Levant, which were then attached to the British forces in the Middle East.

British Army troops, part of Middle East Command and comprising 25th Armoured Brigade and briefly 10th Armoured Division, were still present after independence and stayed in Libya until at least 1957.

The term " Middle East " may have originated in the 1850s in the British India Office.

He labeled the area surrounding the Persian Gulf as the Middle East, and said that after the Suez Canal, it was the most important passage for Britain to control in order to keep the Russians from advancing towards British India.

The new rulers, whose dynasty continues to this day, sought protection against the Persians from the British Empire, which by that time had established its hegemony in much of the Middle East, and Manama entered a period of colonial influence.

A miniature from an early-sixteenth-century manuscript of the Middle English poem God Spede ye Plough, held at the British Museum

Menzies sent the bulk of the army to help the British in the Middle East and Singapore, and told Winston Churchill the Royal Navy should strengthen its Far Eastern forces.

The Saxons (,,, ) were a confederation of Germanic tribes on the North German plain, some of whom migrated to the British Isles during the Middle Ages and formed part of the merged group of Anglo-Saxons that would eventually carve out the first united Kingdom of England.

Nasser inspired nationalists throughout the Middle East by fighting the British and the French during the Suez Crisis of 1956, modernizing Egypt, and uniting the Arab world politically.

Encouraged by the rhetoric of President Nasser of Egypt against British colonial rule in the Middle East, pressure for the British to leave South Yemen grew.

* The creation of Israel in 1948, a Jewish state in the Middle East, by the British Mandate of Palestine fueled many regional conflicts.

Elsewhere in the Middle East, Iraq took a big step toward gaining independence from the British.