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The Inter-Service Training and Development Centre (ISTDC) was a department under the British Chiefs of Staff set up prior to World War II for the purpose of developing methods and equipment to use in Combined Operations. Combined Operations badge. The ISTDC came under the command of Combined Operations Headquarters in June 1940.
Air Historical Branch, Royal Air Force (1997). The Royal Air Force builds for war: a history of design and construction in the RAF, 1935-1945. London, England: Stationery Office. ISBN 0117724696. Downey, Gordon (1987). Ministry of Defence: Service Hospitals (PDF). nao.org.uk (Report). National Audit Office (through the House of Commons)
The Air Force also supplied several PT-17 Stearmans and a few P-40 Warhawks. Spartan furnished instructors, training sites and facilities, aircraft maintenance, quarters, and mess halls. [4] Students from the Royal Air Force entered the school on June 7, 1941. The U. S. Army Air Forces officially designated Spartan as a British Refresher School ...
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]
166 Officer Cadet Training Unit was at Colchester from 1939 and later at Douglas, Isle of Man, where it was lent to the Royal Air Force to train officers of the RAF Regiment. 168 Officer Cadet Training Unit was at Aldershot; The Royal Armoured Corps Officer Cadet Training Unit was at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from 1944 to 1945
Number 51 Squadron is a squadron of the Royal Air Force. Since 2014 it has operated the Boeing RC-135W Airseeker R.1, more commonly referred to as the Rivet Joint, from RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire. It had previously flown the Hawker Siddeley Nimrod R.1 from 1974 until 2011. [2]
The report, which comes on the heels of several high-profile incidents this year, says there is a training bottleneck at Oklahoma City's FAA Academy. Report says changes needed at FAA's air ...
No. 21 Group RAF was transferred to Flying Training Command on 27 May 1940, responsible for the RAF College and the Service Flight Training Schools from the Midlands northwards. Nos 50, 51, and 54 Groups were flying training formations transferred from Reserve Command to Flying Training Command when it was formed.