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In 2012 and 2016, the RAF won the Inter-Services Rugby League Title. [11] In 2019, an RAF player died during a match against the Army at Aldershot Military Stadium following a head injury. [12] The RAF set up a women's rugby league team and some of the servicewomen who play for the RAF have been selected for international representative matches ...
No. 5 Air Observers School RAF (1939, 1941–44) became Air Navigation and Bombing School RAF [6] No. 6 Air Observers School RAF (1942–43) became No. 6 (Observers) Advanced Flying Unit RAF [6] No. 7 Air Observers School RAF (1939, 1943–44) became No. 7 (Observers) Advanced Flying Unit RAF [6]
The trophy has been competed for since 1985, when it was awarded to the "year's outstanding CCF(RAF) Section". [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Starting in 1998, the winner of the National Ground Training Competition would be awarded the trophy, marking the beginning of the modern format of the competition. [ 2 ]
The school's current incarnation began on 1 February 1989 when it became part of RAF Cranwell by redesignating the flying element of the Royal Air Force College [4] and undertook the basic flying training of some graduates from Initial Officer Training at the co-located RAF College Cranwell, other graduates going to RAF Linton-on-Ouse.
The Royal Air Forces Association, also known as RAF Association or RAFA, is a British registered charity. It provides care and support to serving and retired members of the Air Forces of the British Commonwealth , and to their dependents.
No. 1 School of Technical Training (No. 1 S of TT) is the Royal Air Force's aircraft engineering school. It was based at RAF Halton from 1919 to 1993, as the Home of the Aircraft Apprentice scheme. The Aircraft Apprentice scheme trained young men in the mechanical trades for aircraft maintenance, the graduates of which were the best trained ...
The school comprises a headquarters, No. 1 School of Technical Training and the Aerosystems Engineer and Management Training School (now No. 2 School of Technical Training), [1] all based at RAF Cosford, the Royal Naval Air Engineering and Survival Equipment School (RNAESS) at HMS Sultan, with elements also based at RAF Cranwell and MOD St ...
The 2012 RAF Aerobatic Display Team 'Red Arrows' Synchro Leader, Flt Lt Ben Plank, is also a former member. [ 2 ] Having originally been open only to members of the University of Oxford, in 1986 the Squadron was opened to members from the Oxford Polytechnic , which became Oxford Brookes University in 1993 and the University of Reading.