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This category is for Royal Air Force (RAF) station crests (used under fair use) Media in category "RAF Station crests" The following 51 files are in this category, out of 51 total.
It was set up at the beginning of the Second World War, as a basic training camp, to train new recruits for the Royal Air Force. Known as a "square bashing camp" in the vernacular, it was the very first base (after kitting out at RAF Cardington) of most personnel there during the 1940s to 1960, although the final passing out parade took place on 20 December 1957. [3]
Approval and design of badges extends to all units associated with the Royal Air Force; Regular, Reserve, Auxiliary and Air Training Corps. [27] Over 800 squadron and unit badges, carved from Welsh slate, are set into the floor of the central church of the Royal Air Force, St Clements Danes, London. [28]
The Royal Flying Corps (RFC) was the air arm of the British Army before and during the First World War until it merged with the Royal Naval Air Service on 1 April 1918 to form the Royal Air Force. During the early part of the war, the RFC supported the British Army by artillery co-operation and photographic reconnaissance .
Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm mechanics received technical training on a variety of airframes and engines. The first intake of trainees arrived in April 1939, transferred from RAF Halton . In June 1939 Sir Kingsley Wood , Secretary of State for Air , visited the camp, by which time it already had 1,700 trainees. [ 1 ]
The Royal Air Force was formed on 1 April 1918 and, as a Royal Air Force establishment, Cranwell became the headquarters of No. 12 Group for the last few months of the war. After the cessation of hostilities in November 1918, the Chief of the Air Staff , Sir Hugh Trenchard , was determined to maintain the Royal Air Force as an independent ...
The Royal Air Force Almanac 1995 said that No. 30 Maintenance Unit RAF was at the time the main unit for airborne electronic and instrument equipment. [ 4 ] No. 631 Volunteer Gliding Squadron RAF , initially operating the Slingsby T.21 "Sedbergh" glider and then, more recently, flying the Viking TMk1 conventional winch-launched glider, operated ...
RAF Yatesbury is a former Royal Air Force airfield near the village of Yatesbury, Wiltshire, England, about 4 miles (6 km) east of the town of Calne. It was an important training establishment in the First and Second World Wars and until its closure in 1965. For a time in the 1950s, part of the site became RAF Cherhill.