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

Despite causing severe damage to the Royal Air Force's infrastructure and British cities during the subsequent Blitz, it failed to achieve the air superiority Hitler demanded for Operation Sea Lion.

The Royal Australian Air Force rank of Warrant Officer ( WOFF ) is the Air Force's only rank appointed by warrant and is equivalent to both the Army's WO1 and the Navy's WO ( the equivalent of the Army's WO2 is a Flight Sergeant ).

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.

After leaving school, Deighton worked as a railway clerk before performing his National Service, which he spent as a photographer for the Royal Air Force's Special Investigation Branch.

The German raids followed the Royal Air Force's bombing of the historic, German city of Lübeck in March 1942, which had caused widespread destruction ( see Bombing of Lübeck in World War II ).

He spent the remainder of the 1970s working on Hitler's War and the War Path, his two-part biography of Adolf Hitler ; The Trail of the Fox, a biography of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel ; and a series in the Sunday Express describing the Royal Air Force's famous Dam Busters raid.

However, Rafe has volunteered to serve with the Royal Air Force's Eagle Squadrons.

In the 20th century it was owned by Richard de Yarburgh-Bateson, 6th Baron Deramore, and was used as the headquarters for the Royal Air Force's No. 4 ( Bomber ) Group from 1940 – 45.

Bollington is home to a squadron ( 236 ) of the Royal Air Force's Air Training Corps, which has recently opened a new headquarters on Shrigley Road.

It is the equivalent of the Royal Australian Navy's Warrant Officer of the Navy ( WO-N ) and the Royal Australian Air Force's Warrant Officer of the Air Force ( WOFF-AF ).

Apart from the Westland Whirlwind and Welkin, built only in modest numbers, the Royal Air Force's wartime heavy fighters were all adapted from earlier bombers.

With the addition of radar, it was one of the Royal Air Force's main night fighters.

The airport is also used by the Royal Norwegian Air Force's Station Group Banak, and with the Norwegian Army's garrison at Porsangmoen, the military presence is quite heavy.

On the night of 1 October 1943, 243 Lancasters and 8 Mosquitos from the Royal Air Force's Bomber Command attacked the city.

Some military aerodromes have passenger facilities ; for example RAF Brize Norton in England has a terminal used by passengers for the Royal Air Force's flights by TriStar to the Falkland Islands.

The RLAF augmented its pilots ' ranks with four volunteer Thai pilots from the Royal Thai Air Force's 63rd Squadron, who began flying missions by mid February.

On 18 August 1964, Lieutenant Colonel Viripong, commander of the Royal Thai Air Force's 223rd Squadron, went down in an RLAF T-28 on the Plaine des Jarres while on an unauthorized mission, while another T-28 was lost in North Vietnam.

The Royal Air Force's British-produced " V bombers " were designed and designated to be able to deliver British-made nuclear bombs to targets in European Russia.

Don Mueang is a joint-use facility with the Royal Thai Air Force's Don Muang Royal Thai Air Force Base, and is the home of the RTAF 1st Air Division, which consists primarily of non-combat aircraft.

Ipswich is the site of RAAF Base Amberley, the Royal Australian Air Force's largest operational base.

Officially known as the Royal Canadian Air Force's 431 Air Demonstration Squadron, the Snowbirds are Canada's military aerobatics or air show flight demonstration team whose purpose is to " demonstrate the skill, professionalism, and teamwork of Canadian Forces personnel ".

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.

* 1919 – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during the Winnipeg General Strike.

** Winnipeg General Strike: Royal Northwest Mounted Police fire a volley of bullets into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two.

Beginning in the early 1970s he became a prolific illustrator for many anarchist, radical, alternative and mainstream publications, organisations, groups and individuals including Freedom Press, Undercurrents, Respect for Animals, BIT Newsletter, Arts Lab Newsletter, Idiot International, 1977 Firemans Strike, Libertarian Education, The Idler, Radical Community Medicine, Anarchy Magazine, Black Flag, Anarchy Comix, Common Ground, Industrial Worker, Aberlour Distillery, Country Life, Graphical Paper and Media Union, The Times Saturday Review, Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival, New Scientist, Oxford University Press, Penguin Books, Times Educational Supplement, London Anarchist Bookfair, Public and Commercial Services Union, The Sunday Times Magazine, Catholic Worker, Soil Association, The Bodleian Library, New Statesman, Cienfeugos Anarchist Review, Headline Books, The Financial Times, Resurgence, Scotland on Sunday, Town and Country Planning Association, Movement Against A Monarchy, Nursing Times, John Hegarty, The Listener, Zero, McCallan Whisky, Solidarity, New Society, News from Neasden, House & Garden, The Tablet, Radical Science Journal, Royal Mail, The Co-ops Fairs, Picador Books, Pluto Press, Working Press, Anarchismo, Insurrection, Our Generation, Ogilvy & Mather, Vogue, Radio Times, National Union of Teachers, Faber & Faber, Pimlico, Trades Union Congress, Transport and General Workers Union, Serpents Tale, Compendium Books, Poison Girls, Yale University Press, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Elephant Editions, Intelligent Life, Landworker, Zounds, Honey, New Musical Express, Knockabout Comics, Trickett and Webb, The Times, See Sharp Press, Countryside Commission, Industrial Common Ownership Movement, BBC Worldwide, Stop the War Coalition, The Folio Society, Unison, Anarchist Studies, Country Standard, Fitzrovia News, Anarchist Black Cross and many others.

* Naval Strike Wing, a unit of the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy

During the Falklands War when the islands were occupied by Argentine military forces, British aircraft were sent to disable the runway with RAF Strike Command Vulcan bombers ( Operation Black Buck ) and Royal Navy Sea Harriers.

His television acting credits include the role of Benjamin Franklin in Night Strike on Calvacade of America ( Apr 29, 1953 and Oct 19, 1954 ); and the role of Thaddeus Grimshaw in the episode Royal Carriage on My Friend Flicka ( Mar 16, 1956 ).

The General Strike of 1926 hit the Royal Docks hard, with 750, 000 frozen carcasses threatened by the docks ' electrical supply being cut off.

Seek & Strike: Sonar, anti-submarine warfare and the Royal Navy 1914-54.

Joint Strike Wing, previously known as Joint Force Harrier, was the British military formation which controlled the STOVL Harrier aircraft of the Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm.

Upon its disbandment there were two operational Joint Strike Wing squadrons, one Fleet Air Arm and one Royal Air Force, plus an RAF Operational Conversion Unit.

Originally called Joint Force 2000, it combined the Royal Navy's Sea Harrier FA2 squadrons with the RAF's Harrier GR 7 / 7A squadrons under a single command structure within RAF Strike Command.

Originally proposed in the late 1990s as a potential solution to the UK Royal Navy's need for a Future Carrier-Borne Aircraft ( FCBA ) for its new (' Queen Elizabeth ' class ) aircraft carriers, In January 2001, the UK Ministry of Defence formally discounted the option of a Navalised Eurofighter for its new aircraft carriers, in favour of the STOVL (' B ') variant of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, which ( at that time ) promised to be a capable, low cost and more stealthy aircraft that would enter into service circa 2012 – a date that tied in well with the in-service date for the new UK aircraft Carriers as it stood at that time.

Vulcan B. 2 bombers and Victor K. 2 tankers from the Royal Air Force ( RAF ) Strike Command would also travel to McCoy AFB from their home bases in the United Kingdom to participate in this multi-week competition.

No. 11 / 18 Group was a short-lived formation of Strike Command in the Royal Air Force.

* John Thomson ( RAF officer ) ( 1941 – 1994 ), one of the senior officers of the Royal Air Force, later Commander-in-Chief Strike Command

* Joint Combat Aircraft, the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force designation for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter

* Strike Fighter Squadron 27 Royal Maces

Strike was a member of the Royal Canadian Legion as well.

Strike focuses on Mike Sokolowski, a Ukrainian immigrant from Galicia who was killed by Royal Northwest Mounted Police on " Bloody Saturday ", 21 June 1919.

The space occupied by the former Lucky Strike Lanes bowling alley was quickly replaced by Dingbats and a banquet hall called Royal Gatherings, both entities owned by the Trinity Select Group.

Personnel and Training Command ( PTC ) was one of two commands of the Royal Air Force ( the other being Strike Command ) that were merged to form Air Command on 1 April 2007.

Number 3 Group ( 3 Gp ) of the Royal Air Force was an RAF group first active in 1918, again in 1923-26, part of RAF Bomber Command from 1936 to 1967, and part of RAF Strike Command from 2000 until it disbanded on 1 April 2006.

Amongst the participating aircraft spotted roosting at the dispersal area of the air base were Republic of Singapore Air Force's F-15SG Strike Eagle, Royal Air Force's Typhoon FGR4, Royal Australian Air Force's F / A-18A Hornets, Royal Malaysian Air Force's F / A-18D Hornets and Royal New Zealand Air Force's P-3K2 Orions.