She is the RAF's first female fast jet pilot.

For example, for the controls of the RAF's Avro Vulcan jet bomber and the RCAF's Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow supersonic interceptor ( both 1950s-era designs ), the required force feedback was achieved by a spring device.

The Washingtons were on loan by the RAF from the USAF as an interim nuclear bomber pending the arrival of the RAF's own jet bomber, the Canberra.

A white paper produced by the Royal Air Force for the British government in 1961 claimed that the RAF's nuclear force was capable of destroying key Soviet cities such as Moscow and Kiev before bomber aircraft from the United States ' Strategic Air Command had entered Soviet airspace, " taking into account Bomber Command ’ s ability to be on target in the first wave several hours in advance of the main SAC force operating from bases in the United States .".

The development of the tactical innovation of the bomber stream by the RAF to overwhelm the German aerial defenses of the Kammhuber Line during World War II would have increased the RAF's concentration in time over the target, but after the lessons learned during the Blitz, the concentration of dropping bombs over the target in the shortest time possible became standard tactic of the RAF because it was known to be more effective than spreading the raid over a longer time period.

The smaller and shorter ranged Bristol Blenheim, the RAF's most-used bomber, was defended by only one hydraulically operated machine-gun turret, and whilst this appeared sufficient, it was soon revealed that the turret was a pathetic defence against squadrons of German fighter planes.

It was Shorts work on the Sunderland that also won it the contract for the Short Stirling, the RAF's first four-engine bomber.

RAF Bomber Command controlled the RAF's bomber forces from 1936 to 1968.

From 1958 Lyneham became one of the 18 Stations designated as dispersal airfields for the RAF's nuclear deterrent V bomber Force.

Unfortunately, flak jackets proved to be too bulky for wear within the confines of the RAF's standard bomber aircraft, the Avro Lancaster.

I began in 1958, initially to provide protection for the RAF's V bomber bases.

Aldergrove was designated as a dispersal airfield for the RAF's V bomber force in the 1950s and was included in a reduced list of 26 airfields in 1962.

Three years later, RAF Mildenhall opened on 16 October 1934, as one of the RAF's largest bomber stations.

In 1968, the airfield became the UK base for the RAF's Hawker Siddeley ( Blackburn ) Buccaneer bomber.

In the 1950s, a later variant, H2S Mk. 9, formed part of the Navigation and Bombing System ( NBS ) installed in the RAF's V bomber force, comprising the Vickers Valiant, Avro Vulcan and Handley Page Victor aircraft.

Unfortunately, flak jackets proved to be too bulky for wear within the confines of the RAF's standard bomber aircraft, the Avro Lancaster.

Retirement was short though, because on 14 August 1950 the squadron was reformed as the RAF's first Boeing Washington bomber unit, moving to RAF Coningsby in October of that year.

The most distinguished Old Boy was Group Captain James Brian Tait, one of the RAF's most highly decorated bomber pilots, who led the attack which sank the German battleship Tirpitz in 1944.

It was formed from the RAF's World War II bomber squadron, No. 75 Squadron, which had been initially equipped by the New Zealand government and was largely manned by New Zealanders.

North Witham was designed as a bomber airfield as part of the RAF's rapid expansion during World War II in the Air Ministry No. 7 Group area.

The American Martin B-10 all-metal monocoque monoplane bomber introduced turret-mounted defensive armament within the United States Army Air Corps, almost simultaneously with the RAF's Overstrand biplane bomber design.

No. 3 Group was initially equipped with the ungainly Vickers Virginia and Handley Page Heyford, which was the RAF's last biplane heavy bomber.

The UK followed with similar weapons, notably the RAF's Bristol Bloodhound in 1958, and the Army's English Electric Thunderbird in 1959.

The oldest flight training school still in existence is the Royal Air Force's ( RAF's ) Central Flying School formed in May 1912 at Upavon, United Kingdom.

On 23 May 2001 the RAF's first C-17 arrived at Brize Norton, one of six to be delivered to 99 Squadron.

The dam was destroyed by British Avro Lancaster bombers of the RAF's 617 Squadron on 17 May 1943 ( Operation Chastise ).

In addition to the roles they were designed for, all three V-Bombers served as air-to-air refuelling tankers at one time or another ; the Valiant was the RAF's first large scale tanker.

The British Army's Anti-Aircraft Command was disbanded in March 1955, but during the 1960s and 1970s the RAF's Fighter Command operated long-range air-defence missiles to protect key areas in the UK.

However, part of the RAF's fleet of ageing Avro Lincolns had been mothballed at Hemswell prior to being broken up and several of these static aircraft appeared in background shots during filming, doubling for additional No 617 Squadron Lancasters.

It was here that Beatrice Shilling invented the Miss Shilling's orifice for RAF's Hurricane and Spitfire fighters during the Battle of Britain.

He finished his active fighter career in 1941 with 27 kills destroyed, 7 shared destroyed and 2 unconfirmed, 3 probables and 16 damaged, at the time the RAF's leading ace, and one of the highest scoring pilots to have served wholly with Fighter Command during World War II.

Losses during the ill-fated raid were again heavy, partly because of the superiority of the new German fighter, the Focke-Wulf Fw 190, over RAF's Spitfire Mark Vs.

The museum, which is open daily except Sundays, commemorates the RAF's presence in Lincolnshire during the Second World War, with airfields such as RAF Scampton being located in the flat Lincolnshire countryside.

The Reservoir was used by the RAF's 617 Squadron (" The Dam Busters ") for practice runs for the bombing of the German dams in the Ruhr during World War II.

The war precipitated research to find better resolution, more portability, and more features for radar, including complementary navigation systems like Oboe used by the RAF's Pathfinder.

During the closing weeks of the war, he served on the staff of the RAF's Independent Air Force at its headquarters in Nancy, France.

* 6 September-Just days after the start of the war, in what was dubbed the Battle of Barking Creek, three RAF Spitfires from 74 Squadron shot down two Hurricanes from the RAF's 56 Squadron, killing one of the pilots.

After the war, the RAF's Avro Lincoln bombers were also equipped with H2S.

During the war he had also flown with some of the most famous names including Wing Commander Douglas Bader, top European war Ace Johnnie Johnson ( 38 victories ) as part of the RAF's Tangmere Wing and Paul Tibbets, ( pilot of the ' Enola Gay ', B29 Bomber ) who dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

Between 1941 and 1945 Pembrey was host to the RAF's Air Gunnery School, after which its activities relaxed a little and it became an air crew holding unit for war weary crews being demobbed.

After the RAF's bombing of Dresden on the night of 13 February and the early hours of 14 February, his questions in the House about the act, were in part responsible for the reappraisal of the Government's bombing policy in the last month of the war in Europe.

During the war, Raymond edited the RAF's official magazine and from that period comes Chase's unusual short story The Mirror in Room 22, in which he tried his hand outside the crime genre.