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The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. [7] It was formed towards the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918, on the merger of the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS). [8]
Bruce Barrymore Halpenny-British military historian and Author, served Royal Air Force Police; Tony Hancock – Comic actor (RAF Regiment) Rex Harrison – Actor, reached the rank of Flight Lieutenant; Rollo Hayman – Rhodesian farmer and politician; Godfrey Hounsfield – Nobel laureate and co-inventor of Computed tomography.
Royal Air Force Reserve: 16 August 2024 [74] Victoria Caroline McPhaden: Assistant Chief of Staff Personnel Policy: CBE: 29 August 2024 [11] C. H. O′Grady: Deputy Air Officer Commanding No. 2 Group RAF: ADC: 30 August 2024 [11] D. Allen Lewis: Commandant Air Cadets, RAF Cramwell: Engineer Royal Air Force Reserve: 2 September 2024 [74] N. R ...
Air Command was formed as a merger of Strike Command, and Personnel and Training Command to administer the majority of operational units within the RAF.. Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton KCB serves as the Chief of the Air Staff, the professional head of the Royal Air Force, alongside Air Marshal Paul Lloyd CBE, the Deputy Chief of the Air Staff.
At Armistice Day in 1918, the fledgling Royal Air Force consisted of a combined personnel of 291,170, which was expected to be reduced to 60,000 by 1 October 1919. [4] In fact, by October 1919, the numbers had dropped to 58,000, increasing fears within the Royal Air Force that it would cease to be an independent air force, and be subsumed into ...
Royal Air Force recipients of the Victoria Cross (28 P) Royal Air Force rugby union players (34 P, 1 F) W. Women in the Royal Air Force (6 C, 25 P)
This is a list of Royal Air Force commands, both past and present. [1] Although the concept of a command dates back to the foundation of the Royal Air Force, the term command (as the name of a formation) was first used in purely RAF-context in 1936 when Bomber Command, Fighter Command, Coastal Command and Training Command were formed.
Robinson was commissioned into the Royal Air Force on 7 May 1992 as an acting pilot officer; [1] he was regraded to pilot officer on 7 May 1993. [2] He was promoted to flying officer on 7 May 1994, [3] and to flight lieutenant on 7 November 1997.